Accelerate Development via Open Source Reuse. Automate Policy Management.

As a technical manager, CTO or Executive, you know that accelerating software development yields significant competitive advantage. In today’s competitive marketplace, industry leaders don’t reinvent the wheel – they strategically leverage open source to improve time-to-market. Your role is to stimulate productivity by providing an automated framework that encourages open source reuse within a well-managed and legally appropriate framework.

When you need to boost productivity and lower costs, would it help if everyone responsible for developing and approving software was on the same page? Black Duck can help -

• Automate open source processes. Safely and efficiently leverage open source code within an enterprise-wide framework that automates the discovery of policy violations within code. Put systems in place to promote collaboration between developers and open source policy administrators.

• Mitigate development risks. Manage the legal and business risks inherent in open source reuse—even across distributed teams and with 3rd party contributors. Ensure policy adherence by vetting licensing, security, quality, and other code issues with development leaders and policy administrators.

Know Your Code™. Accelerate development by using open source while skillfully managing attendant legal, security and other risks. Black Duck helps you perform automated daily scans to discover code that violates policies. Publish an internal catalog of approved open source components encouraging standardization and reuse. Automate the approval processes linking developers with policy administrators in a role-based workflow. Track security vulnerabilities and component usage across the enterprise.

How can you find out more information?

• Read about Black Duck™ Protex, which automatically analyzes code to discover legal, security, version control and other open source reuse issues.

• Explore how Black Duck™ Code Center improves open source component search, selection and policy management—helping everyone responsible for software development and approval do their jobs better.