Company Overview
Founded in 2002, Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities and version proliferation.
Black Duck Software is the market leader with over 500 customers in more than 20 countries, including Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens, SAP and Wachovia. Black Duck products and services were used for due diligence of M&A transactions with a total value exceeding $30B.
The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world. Black Duck Software is a privately held company funded by Fidelity Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Focus Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Intel Capital, Red Hat, and SAP Ventures.
Our Vision
Application development has evolved into a process of assembly. As developers are writing their code, they capitalize on software reuse by finding software components already written that enhance their projects. Such development techniques are legal—the reused components are available within open source applications and libraries, or developers use third-party components that have been purchased by their employers. At the same time, the assembly model of software development requires a method to manage requirements governing how the code can be assembled, deployed or sold. Today’s software assembly model has significant advantages, among them faster product development and better resulting applications that meet business needs.
At the same time, the new development model requires oversight from many corporate audiences, such as legal counsel and executive management that set policies regarding reuse of code based on the requirements governing the components. Black Duck’s software compliance management solutions are a fundamental part of today’s application development models. Black Duck’s products incorporate multiple audiences into software development. They ensure that application development is in synch with the licensing requirements and encryption rules governing the code and corporate policies toward code reuse.
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