Increase Flexibility and Innovation, Improve Open Source Governance Across the Software Lifecycle

As an enterprise architect, you need to find new ways to increase the agility, flexibility and velocity of innovation in IT, while managing and controlling risks and cutting costs. You know that implementing a multi-source strategy that combines internal, external and open source code can help, but you may have questions like:

• With hundreds of thousands of open source projects on the Internet to choose from, how do you find and evaluate the best components?
• If your developers are sourcing dozens or hundreds of open source components, how do you control what is acquired and deployed, assess code quality and prevent the use of unapproved code?
• How can you implement open source license management and open source governance across the application lifecycle while ensuring compliance with corporate policies?

Black Duck helps you achieve your goals – improving flexibility, and innovation – with tools that automate the governance and control of open source distributed across organizations and the development lifecycle. Our solutions:

Increase development agility, flexibility, and velocity of innovation. Access billions of lines of the latest open source code readily available to developers. Focus your scarce resources on developing code that offers true innovation and business value rather than reinventing the wheel. Support the modular nature of agile methods with readily available open source components.

Reduce development, maintenance, and support costs. Create a catalog of approved components. Decrease the amount of new and redundant code developers must write. Flag and fix problems before software is released.

Manage operational, security, and compliance risks. Control how code is approved and deployed. Automatically discover and monitor security vulnerabilities. Rapidly identify and fix all occurrences of bugs and defects.

Ensure compliance. Integrate your policies and standards into management platforms. Automate the monitoring, validation and control of approved code. Certify that every build complies with your policies. Provide audit trails and traceability.

Find out more:

• Learn how the Black Duck® Suite automates key processes related to open source code management over the application development life cycle.
• Read our white papers, The Enterprise IT Guide to Open Source Software Management and How to Increase Velocity and Value with Agile Development using Open Source, to learn about the advantages of reusing open source components in projects implemented by agile development teams.
• Learn how SAP uses Black Duck to manage open source.
• Review our webinar, Takin' it to the Cloud: Using Open Source to Re-Architect Applications for Cloud Deployment.
• Contact us for more information about open source license management and open source compliance solutions that will enable greater agility, flexibility and innovation that’s in compliance with your company’s open source policy.