eXplain

eXplain

PKS Software
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About

By scanning the source code of your applications, CAST Highlight instantly maps your software, generating the insights to understand, improve, and transform it. CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects use CAST to: - Get the true view of all technologies and frameworks - Quantify technical debt and the ways to pay it down - See what’s going to break next, and how best to fix it - Drive cloud adoption faster, knowing what to move and optimize - Prove progress to the board with facts and industry benchmarks Businesses move faster using CAST technology to understand, improve, and transform their software.

About

eXplain is a specialized code-analysis and legacy-system evaluation tool from PKS Software GmbH, designed to deeply analyze, map, document, and assess legacy applications, especially on mainframe platforms such as IBM i (AS/400) and IBM Z, so organizations can understand what lives in their software, how it’s structured, and what parts are worth keeping, refactoring or retiring. It imports existing source code into an independent “eXplain server”, no need to install anything on the host system, then uses advanced parsers to examine languages like COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Natural, RPG, JCL, and others, along with data about databases (Db2, Adabas, IMS), job-schedulers, transaction monitors, and more. eXplain builds a central repository that becomes a knowledge hub; from there, it generates cross-language dependency graphs, data-flow maps, interface analyses, clusterings of related modules, and detailed object-and-resource usage reports.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

CAST Highlight is built for CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, modernization leaders, and M&A teams who need fast, portfolio-wide intelligence to prioritize transformation and reduce risk

Audience

IT organizations, architects, and software-maintenance teams seeking a tool to modernize, refactor, or safely retire legacy systems

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$6.8K per year
Annual Pricing by size of application portfolio (number of applications) for unlimited users
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

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Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

CAST
Founded: 1990
United States
www.castsoftware.com/highlight

Company Information

PKS Software
Founded: 1991
Germany
www.pks.de/en/kompetenzen/software-analyse-explain

Alternatives

Alternatives

HelpXplain

HelpXplain

Help+Manual
SMART TS XL

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Understand

Understand

SciTools

Categories

Categories

Enterprise Architecture Features

Application Portfolio Management
Architecture Governance
Capability Mapping
Diagramming
Idea Management
Modeling & Simulation
Project Management
Risk Assessment
Transformation Roadmapping
Version Control

Integrations

Bitbucket
Bizzdesign
C
C++
CAST Imaging
CAST SBOM Manager
COBOL
Docker
GitHub
IBM Db2
IBM Z
IBM i
Java
Jira
KeyedIn
PostgreSQL
Rexx Systems
SAP LeanIX
ServiceNow
Tidal Migrations

Integrations

Bitbucket
Bizzdesign
C
C++
CAST Imaging
CAST SBOM Manager
COBOL
Docker
GitHub
IBM Db2
IBM Z
IBM i
Java
Jira
KeyedIn
PostgreSQL
Rexx Systems
SAP LeanIX
ServiceNow
Tidal Migrations
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