Speed Development. Reduce Costs. Gain Competitive Advantage

As an Independent Software Vendor your top concerns are producing high quality software and getting your product to market as quickly as possible. You want to deliver the best product with the most competitive features at the right price. As you move to enhance delivery performance, profitability and competitiveness taking advantage of the trend to use cost-effective, reliable open source software is a natural progression.

Open source has become a major force in the industry and a basis for enhancing developer productivity through collaboration and software reuse. Increasingly, however, customers, partners, and your own business team are asking for validation of the origins and obligations associated with open source code as part of the final acceptance criteria.

• How can you accurately validate your open source use and license compliance level for client projects?

• Can code management help you reuse more code, resulting in reduced costs and accelerated development?

• How can you distinguish yourself from your competition?

Use an automated software code evaluation system in house.

The days when an engineer could read through the code and tell you what is in it and what licenses applies to all the components are long gone. The complexity of software projects has expanded exponentially, software projects now contain components from a variety of sources and may have a number of licenses which apply. An automated system will give you an inventory of the code along with the applicable licenses and any potential conflicts. This report can be provided to all of the stakeholders.

Accelerate Code Reuse

The most efficient and cost-effective way to boost software development productivity is managed code reuse. Flexible and powerful, well-managed code reuse improves your company’s leadership position by speeding deployment improving quality control, and reducing service costs.

Mitigate Risk and Enhance Collaboration

By instituting policies and providing an automated method to follow them, everyone will understand what they need to know and what they need to provide. Engineering will be able to communicate more effectively with the legal department, and the business decision makers, will have what they need to guide the business. You can deliver higher quality, more feature-rich software, quickly and streamline your business processes.

Black Duck Software offers products and services that provide information about the code in your software projects and their associated licensing. If you Know Your Code™, you can take advantage of open source software and code reuse when building your products.

How can you find out more information?

• Read more about the Black Duck™ Protex platform which automates component approval within your software development. Black Duck Protex identifies potential license conflicts, highlights discrepancies between business policies and intellectual property usage, and provides a framework for tracking issue resolution.

• Learn 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.

• Find out how Black Duck Software helped a Microsoft Windows software vendor raise $10 million in funding from Fidelity Ventures by enabling the vendor to document and properly license open source and third party software in its products. Read the case study.