Damien Charlemagne, Group Product Manager - Cast Software

1. Software Intelligence for Digital Leaders

2. • CAST & Software Intelligence
• Imaging System product with Neo4j

3. Software
Health
Software Benchmarks
Software
Flaws
Software
Blueprints
Software Intelligence is insight into complex software structure.
It consists of…
Software
Size

4. • $155 million R&D investments
• 25 years and counting
• Global presence
US–EU–INDIA–CHINA

6. Spring MVC / JPA Back-endReactJS Front-end

8. • CAST & Software Intelligence
• Imaging System product with Neo4j

9. Legacy
Applications
Modernization
Programs
System
Integrators
Change of
Ownership
Mergers and
Acquisitions

10. −Time Consuming
oManually intensive
−Rarely Maintained
oBecome outdated
quickly
−Inconsistent
oApp teams organize and
define their architecture
different than another

11. The OLDER the Application
The more COMPLEX
The more this INTELLIGENCE is necessary

12. Software Structure Discovery
and Visualization Platform
Navigate application
architectures layer by layer
Think Google Earth
Logical Architecture Technology Stack
Software Blueprints

13. • Collaborate
− Software architectural reviews
− Application integration strategies
− Visualize use of application frameworks
• Modernize
− Insight into decoupling strategies
− Migrate subsystems of multiple apps to cloud
− Break monoliths into microservices
− Replatform, refactor, migrate databases
• Discover
− Expedite transition/change of ownership
− Accelerate learning curve/ramp up

14. • https://imaging.castsoftware.com/imaging/login

15. • CAST Imaging is Built on World-Class Technology
• CAST – the leader in Software Intelligence
• Neo4j - Cutting edge graph database
• LINKURIOUS – state of the art graphics platform and
UI
• Interactive and intuitive UI
• Multi-dimensional view and drill down
• No information overload
• Highly scalable, easily deployed
• Requires little to no training
• Browser based

16. • Our challenge
− Customers Applications/software/systems loaded into CAST
from few to thousands
− Technology supported : more than 50
− Application size : from 10K to 50M locs
− data : about Million component &
million of relationship between these components
− Data properties aggregation/calculation/modeling

17. • Project Background
− 2017 - Prototype started with CAST Labs
o Graph Database Benchmark
▪ JanusGraph, DataStax Enterprise/Cassandra,
▪ Cypher versus Gremlin
o Architecture and interaction with CAST AIP data
o UI benchmark
− 2018 - Product implementation
o Team size : 5 + architect
o Neo4j configuration & installation – Docker/Linux & Windows
o ETL part – CAST extract and Neo4J import
o Neo4j modeling & cypher queries manipulation

18. • Packaged
• Good performance based on our graph's specificity
• Cypher capability and simplicity
• Modeling capability
• project
• Maturity on the graph database market, worldwide company
− Ex: community detection algorithm
• Excellent reactivity, relationship, technical skills

19. Software Intelligence for Digital Leaders