Speed Development. Reduce Costs.

As a software outsourcer or systems integrator, you know how to provide complex solutions in a hurry. You also know software supply chains are now more complex than ever and that using open source code often makes the best sense. Increasingly, however, clients request validation of software origins and obligations as part of the final acceptance criteria. Operating in highly competitive markets, you are always ready to improve delivery and profitability. Your role is to meet your customers’ requirements completely and on time.

When you need to deliver against strict requirements would it help to be able to accurately validate your open source use and license compliance for client projects? Let Black Duck help you —

• Mitigate risks. Use an automated system that can inventory code origins and licenses, compare these with client requirements, and recommend changes to ensure legal compliance. Confident that code meets requirements, provide a complete bill of materials to your clients.

• Accelerate code reuse. Secure your company’s leadership position by managing code reuse, even across highly distributed resources. Practice and encourage managed code reuse to accelerate time-to-market, improve quality control, mitigate legal and business risks, and reduce service costs.

• Distinguish your offerings. Quickly and proactively answer client questions by providing unprecedented transparency. Take advantage of open source and third-party code while satisfying customer demands for protection of their intellectual property. Manage multiple projects with different code origins and licensing obligations.

Know Your Code™. When you know your code, you can deliver what your clients want with complete assurance. Black Duck helps you manage code reuse to boost your organization’s agility and mitigate business, security and legal risks. With Black Duck, you build client confidence by offering fully validated software, according to their specifications.

How can you find out more information?

• Read about Black Duck™ Protex, which analyzes a code base of any size and reports code component origins, licensing 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, procurement and approval do their jobs better.