Case Studies

Adaptec – Storage Solution Vendor

Black Duck™ Protex enables storage solution vendor Adaptec to document, manage, and properly license open source and third party software incorporated into its products. These capabilities support Adaptec’s software development efforts, while protecting the firm from legal risk and ensuring its standing as a good citizen of the open source community.

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EPAM Systems – Software Outsourcing Provider

Black Duck Software provides EPAM Systems, a leading software outsourcing provider, competitive advantage by enabling it to audit and document the originality of its work products. EPAM uses Black Duck Protex to ensure that the software it creates meets contractual obligations for open source and third party software use.


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Intel Corporation – Software & Hardware Manufacturer

Find out how Intel Corporation, a leader in semiconductor manufacturing and software development, reduces software rework and mitigates business risk by using Black Duck Protex to validate that open source, 3rd party and internal software usage strictly adheres to Intel's software licensing policies.


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LogMeIn – Remote PC Access Service Provider

Remote PC access service provider LogMeIn used Black Duck Software to check for open source and third party components within code it obtained through a corporate acquisition. Black Duck™ Transact (formerly OnDemand) enabled LogMeIn to complete an in-depth code review in less than one day, saving two-months of effort that would have been required for a manual review.

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Messaging Software Vendor

Black Duck Software enabled a software vendor to close a multi-million dollar deal by satisfying its partner’s requirement for a verified list of included open source and third party components. By using Protex, Black Duck also helped improve the vendor’s software development process, and facilitated the company’s acquisition within a fraction of the expected time.


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Microsoft Windows Software Vendor

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. The company plans to use Black Duck Protex to protect new product releases from the risk of inadvertently incorporating open source and third party software into its code.


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A week in the Life of a Black Duck Protex-enabled Enterprise (Use Case)

Although each enterprise is unique, there are underlying similarities in how companies effectively use the software Bill of Materials and licensing information that Black Duck Protex provides. To help companies plot their course, Black Duck has created a primer that incorporates the varied experiences of many of our customers into the story of one theoretical company.


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Creating a Culture for Code Reuse: Boosting Development Productivity by Leveraging Third Party Software (Use Case)

The key to successful external software reuse is collaboration. To help you supercharge your code development through collaboration, we have created a use case describing how a hypothetical company has overcame a host of challenges to efficiently use external components within a software development environment.


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 Managing Software Intellectual Property Compliance (A Use Case for IBM Rational Customers)

Black Duck Software has created the following use case as a vignette to show how a Rational-enabled company defines and implements a process for managing open source and third party components within its software development environment. This serves as a useful primer for how you can integrate Black Duck Protex and the Rational product suite into your daily operations.

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