As an executive, your goal is to accelerate growth and drive value. Software is one of your company’s most valuable assets. Whether created for customers, clients, or in-house users, optimizing the software development process and lowering costs means accelerating time-to-market and competitive advantage.

Stable growth requires finding new sources of revenue and maintaining your reputation for excellence. Seizing new opportunities becomes easier when your company is better prepared than the competition. Dominate your markets with solid performance, maximum flexibility, and wise management.

How can you raise the standard while lowering costs?

• Accelerate Code Reuse. The most efficient and cost-effective way to boost software development productivity is managed code reuse. Flexible and powerful, well-managed code reuse secures your company’s leadership position by speeding deployment, improving quality control, and reducing service costs.

• Execute an Open Source Policy. More and more software today is derived to some extent from reused open source code, freely available on the Web. Yet most companies have not adapted. They lack policies and processes to manage this collaborative innovation.

• Mitigate Risk and Secure Supply-Chain Visibility. Sustained flexibility and high performance demand integrity. Ensure accountability, especially from supply-chain outsourcers, both offshore and closer to home. The security of your software assets requires compliance and transparent scrutiny.

With clear policies and automated code approval and reuse management, it’s easy to determine precise code origins, which keeps your infrastructure, data, and software assets safe.

Black Duck Software offers products and services that help people manage code reuse and mitigate hidden software risks. Black Duck solutions can integrate with your existing software development platform and rapidly provide a bill of materials for code coming in from third parties. Find out how Black Duck keeps your management and legal teams in control of your company’s software assets without slowing down your engineers.

How can you find out more information?

• Read about the protexIP/development platform which automates component approval within your software development, promoting code reuse, accelerating development and  increasing the quality of your software.

• Learn how to make all parties involved in technology M&A's aware of the importance of software component management by reading the whitepaper, The New Due Diligence Assessing the Protecting Your Software Asset Value in Mergers, Acquisitions and Financing Rounds

• Find out how software compliance systems are helping to unlock the potential of modular, collaborative development to significantly enhance profitability, reliability and ROI. Read the whitepaper, Software Compliance Management: Automating License Compliance in the New, Mixed-IP Development World.

• View the online presentation, Know Your Code: Software Compliance Management, which discusses the concept of software compliance management, what it is and why companies need it.