Case Study: Cognizant achieves faster cloud migration planning with CAST Highlight

Cognizant assesses 633 applications in less than 12 weeks with CAST

Cognizant, a leading professional services company, faced a challenge when a client needed to rapidly assess a portfolio of 633 applications for a massive cloud migration to AWS. The client needed to modernize apps to optimize cloud costs and required a complete assessment with specific recommendations in under three months. Cognizant used CAST Highlight to speed up this cloud migration planning process.

The solution implemented by CAST enabled Cognizant to automatically analyze the source code of each application for cloud readiness, technical debt, and open source risks. By blending this objective data with qualitative insights, Cognizant segmented the entire portfolio and provided specific modernization recommendations. As a result, CAST enabled Cognizant to complete the assessment in less than 12 weeks, twice as fast as it would have taken otherwise, and identified significant cost-saving opportunities by targeting apps for retirement or replacement.

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