CAST announced that they will report Q1, 2013 sales/trading statement results on Apr 30, 2013

CAST announced that Gregg Blatt has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. In this role, Blatt will be responsible for integrating CAST's managed services, consulting and software organizations to maximize the value CAST provides to businesses, IT organizations, and development teams. Before joining CAST, Blatt was EVP at iRise. At iRise, Blatt led a successful go-to-market strategy that expanded the company's market in Europe and Asia, which now delivers over 30% of the company's revenue. Blatt also successfully led the development of iRise's global reseller channel with SAP. Prior to that, Blatt was VP of Global Sales at Keane, a $1.2 billion global business and IT services firm. Before Keane, Blatt was with Headstrong Inc., a global business consulting and IT solutions firm, where he served as VP of global sales and the executive leader for the strategic account team, global account strategies, and alliance and partner program.

CAST announced support for the Object Management Group (OMG) Automated Function Point (AFP) Standard which provides a standard for automating function point measurement as an output of software development. The OMG specification provides detailed guidance on the design and deployment of an automated function point sizing system for transaction-oriented applications. Adopting this standard, CAST AIP replicates the IFPUG process by detecting data and transaction functions, and distinguishing internal and external logical files to calculate real function points.