Create Value. Improve Efficiency. Lower Costs.

Financial Services and Insurance organizations need to lower completed transaction costs and reduce back office vulnerability. To compete aggressively in an increasingly global market, you can’t afford to ignore innovative technology cost savings your competition may already have captured. Optimizing software development and mitigating risks while processing massive numbers of complex transactions requires sophisticated solutions.

How can your organization maximize its return on investment (ROI) in software infrastructure?

• Standardize Software Development. To lower the costs of developing customized software, many organizations now maximize code reuse. Well-managed reuse of the best proprietary, open source, and third party code speeds creation of robust software while lowering both initial investment and long-term support costs. Encourage standardization of code components to avoid the expense of supporting multiple versions that perform equivalent operations. Provide IT developers with a helpful reuse approval process integrated into existing software development platforms.

• Streamline Back Office Software. Make sure your IT organization optimizes transaction functions with the least amount of code. Deploy automated code certification solutions, tailored to include explicit organizational policies. Such solutions make it easy to identify which code components reside in each software module.

• Reduce Risks. Increase software security assurance by detecting unauthorized code throughout the organization—all the way from back office operations and distributed business units to networked, point-of-service transaction devices. Employ best practices, including using an automated process that guarantees conformity with code approval policies and produces a comprehensive code component inventory report.

Use intelligent technology to manage complex infrastructure. Know Your Code™.

Black Duck Software is the proven leader offering products and services that help financial and insurance industry enterprises reduce completed transaction costs by lowering software infrastructure development and support costs. We can help you develop and deploy effective software component reuse processes. Then, we can help you establish enterprise-wide component reuse management, and third-party software validation—all integrated with existing processes and customized to your policies. We also offer automated encryption detection and characterization. Make software better, faster, and safer at lower costs with Black Duck!

How can you find out more information?

• Discover a set of Best Practices that companies can use to avoid the risks and gain the benefits of this promising new approach to software development. Read the whitepaper entitled Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World.

• Learn the five phase process which provides companies a way to implement their own open source policy. Read the whitepaper, Creating and Implementing An Open Source Policy: Five Steps to Success, by Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica.