In virtually all industries software now plays a critical role in an organization’s success. Whether you develop software for sale as a product or for internal use within your organization, the ability to rapidly deliver high-quality, secure software is critical to success.

Many development teams have found that they can accelerate their development process by including components of open source and third party code as part of their overall solution. The use of open source and third party code creates licensing and security issues of its own. Unmanaged use of externally sourced code can compromise intellectual property rights, create unknown royalty obligations, and introduce hidden security risks.

Depending on your need, your role or your industry, the way you view code component management is different.

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By Need

You manage software development, sell or export software products, or prepare to sell or buy companies with software assets, and determining code origin is critical to your success. You can’t afford to be wrong about where your code originated and what licensing obligations it carries; you need the facts—fast.
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By Role

You are responsible for assuring that software meets business requirements, so you need to have all the facts. This is increasingly difficult because, whether you know it or not, your software probably contains open source or third-party code components from around the world. With Black Duck, people in positions like yours know the sources of their code.
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By Industry

In a broad range of industries the need to rapidly deploy cost-effective software solutions has outstripped the capacity of traditional software development. To meet business goals, developers increasingly assemble software solutions by reusing open source and third party code. Black Duck solutions help organizations detect, track and manage the use of mixed-origin code.
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