Ensuring Market-Ready Software Compliance

Vendors using Black Duck’s Software IP Assessment Service to proactively check for open source and third party code in to-be-released software products can rapidly address intellectual property issues before they threaten a product launch schedule. As one customer states, Black Duck’s solution helps move the possibility of noncompliant code, “off the table as an area of concern.”

Using Black Duck’s Software IP Assessment Service benefits the product release process because it:

• Detects open source code before product release, enabling timely corrective action if needed;
• Lowers legal and business risks by detecting problems before products reach the market;
• Enables software vendors to satisfy customers’ requirements for a verified list of included open source and third party software;
• Allows software vendors to know what is in the code, preventing unpleasant “surprises” in the future;
• Helps developers understand and comply with corporate policies for the use of open source and third party software;
• Frees software vendors from capital, labor, time, and expertise requirements to do the analysis in house; and
• Protects product release schedules.

For more information, please download the Software IP Assessment Service’s brochure.