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As a Corporate Development Officer (CDO), your growth strategy includes screening and targeting companies in the technology space for potential acquisition. Such opportunities signal significant transactions, bearing equally significant risks. In this hypercompetitive arena, time is rarely on your side. Your role is to exercise insight and discipline to cover your portfolio of businesses by weighing added value against competitive vulnerabilities.

When your target’s key assets include software, how can you assure accurate valuation? Let Black Duck help you —

• Understand the value and risks. To lower costs and accelerate delivery, software development companies and embedded systems manufacturers often use open source and third-party components along with offshore outsourcers. Properly managed, this approach tends to add value. Poorly managed, code origins become murky.

• Obtain inclusive analysis. During due diligence, evaluate whether the target company can contribute value as advertised. Make sure proprietary software assets are not compromised by open source licensing issues. Meanwhile, your target acquisition wants to protect their sensitive information.

• Use technology to assess technology. A comprehensive assessment is necessary to ensure the assets to be acquired are not compromised by hidden vulnerabilities. Expertly designed assessment technology can thoroughly examine even vast software assets quickly, accurately, and non-intrusively.

Know Your Code™. Before executing any strategic acquisitions in the technology space, demand comprehensive assurance. Black Duck Software offers products and professional assessment services that provide the highest level of assurance during M&A due diligence. Black Duck delivers a complete bill of materials for software components and their associated licenses along with recommendations for specific mitigation actions. In addition, Black Duck solutions help standardize IT management of open source and third-party code across corporate divisions—in both existing and new acquisitions. Let Black Duck help you reduce risks and assure value both before and after you deploy capital to acquire strategic software technology assets.

How can you find out more information?

• Consult professionals with experience. Find out why Black Duck Professional Services has a strong reputation for providing confidential, accurate, thorough code assessments on short notice. Black Duck has been involved in over $30 billion in M&A transactions.

• Read about Black Duck™ Transact, a hosted solution that provides an effective method for identifying open source and other third party code within your software code base. It is the most expedient, accurate and cost effective way to Know Your Code prior to a transaction or merger and acquisition.

• Find out what all parties involved in technology M&A's need to know about software component management by reading the whitepaper, The New Due Diligence Assessing the Protecting Your Software Asset Value in Mergers, Acquisitions and Financing Rounds.

• Download and read a case study detailing how the Remote PC Access Service Provider - LogMeIn used Black Duck Transact to complete an in-depth code review for a corporate acquisition in less than one day, saving two-months of effort.