Black Duck partners with companies that provide auditing, open source strategy, and best practices management consulting or other related services. Our technology allows these firms to offer code analysis capabilities and establish best practices policies for open source software license compliance, allowing their clients to efficiently evaluate and govern open source code usage and within their companies.

Navica is a leading open source management consulting firm helping clients take advantage of the disruptive technology wave that open source software represents. Located in Silicon Valley, Navica consults to enterprises, ISVs, and venture capital firms throughout the world. Representative clients include Red Hat, Emulex, Pentaho, OpenLogic, and CMEA Ventures.

Navica consults on a broad range of open source issues, including technology assessment, risk mitigation, corporate open source policy, and open source market opportunity, offering its clients a blend of real-world experience and prescient insight.

Navica is led by Bernard Golden, a recognized authority on open source software. Called “a renowned open source expert” (IT Business Edge) and “an open source guru” (SearchCRM.com), he is regularly featured in magazines like Computerworld, InformationWeek, and Inc. Magazine. His blog, “The Open Source,” is one of the most popular features of CIO Magazine's website. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences like LinuxWorld, the Open Source Business Conference, and the Red Hat Summit. He is the author of “Succeeding with Open Source,” (Addison-Wesley, 2005, published in four languages), which is used in over a dozen University open source programs throughout the world.

Navica and Black Duck Software partner to offer companies a full portfolio of open source policy and compliance services. The partnership provides companies complete assurance that they have processes in place to ensure they respect all open source license requirements while also taking full advantage of the cost and time-to-market advantages open source provides.

Olliance Group is the premier independent open source management consulting firm, offering a comprehensive set of business strategy, technology planning, risk management, and investment services. Olliance Group's blend of industry veterans and open source experts enables organizations to leverage open source for competitive advantage and economic gain.

Black Duck is working with Olliance Group to help accelerate the adoption of open source software by business. The companies work together to help clients develop and implement strategies to deal with the business, technical, and risk management issues posed by open source software. The partnership promotes more rapid, broad and confident use of open source, capitalizing on Olliance Group's deep experience in open source business and strategy consulting and Black Duck's protexIPTM automated software compliance management solutions through a variety of joint activities including the bundling of services, co-marketing programs, joint sales activities and cooperative conference presentations.

UpStreme, Inc. is a business and technology management consulting firm providing services for the alignment and optimized implementation of leading edge technologies. Each of UpStreme's primary practices in Management Services and Software Engineering provide centers-of-excellence focused on Open Source capabilities. The company provides services to organizations ranging from Fortune 500 to seed and early-stage startups, as well as non-profits and governmental agencies at the state and Federal level. The company is headquartered in the Philadelphia metro area and has offices in Annapolis MD.