Exercise Control. Increase Profits. Improve Quality.

Enterprise IT organizations need to standardize and integrate widely dispersed software systems development and support while managing rapid growth and outperforming the competition. Centralized control of decentralized deployment requires sophisticated management technology to ensure coordination, empower communication, and make everyone’s job easier.

How can you accelerate software deployment while improving validation and security?

• Accelerate Software Delivery. Give engineers the rapid search-and-deploy abilities and straightforward approval process they want. Provide an automated code reuse management system with a centralized repository of approved components. By adding such a system to normal build platforms throughout the enterprise, it is possible to have faster and safer software development.

• Assure Software Security. Prevent unauthorized code from entering the code base during development and procurement by using a consistent, automated, enterprise-wide code approval platform. This approach will enable developers to use only approved versions of open source code components, rather than downloading multiple versions or potentially suspect code. Such a system will also provide a validated bill of materials for all incoming software from offshore resources and third-party supply chains.

• Reduce Support Costs. Provide your software support organizations with the ability to track multiple versions and revisions, including legacy software. With automated identification of code components and metadata, support engineers know what is in use, where, and can track how to support installations throughout the organization.

• Standardize Platforms. During post-merger consolidation, use assessment technology to identify all incoming software and report any licensing remediation needed while reporting any revisions needed to align the incoming software components with the enterprise validation process. This will enable new teams to quickly adopt the enterprise’s consistent development standards and reduce the legal and IT costs of consolidation.

Employ technology to manage technology. Know your code™.

Black Duck Software is the proven leader offering products and services to help enterprise IT establish enterprise-wide component reuse management, unauthorized code detection, and incoming software validation. Black Duck solutions are readily integrated with existing development platforms and customized to express your corporate software policies. We can help you develop and deploy software component and licensing approval processes that bridge communication gaps between different departments. We also offer asset valuation support for corporate development both before and during mergers. For global operations, we provide encryption detection for both import assurance and export regulation compliance.

How can you find out more information?

• Find out how software compliance systems are helping to unlock the potential of modular, collaborative development to significantly enhance profitability, reliability and ROI. Read the whitepaper Software Compliance Management: Automating License Compliance in the New, Mixed-IP Development World.

• View the online presentation Know Your Code: Software Compliance Management, which discusses the concept of software compliance management, what it is and why companies need it.