Gain Competitive Advantage. Speed Development. Reduce Costs

As an outsource provider, or systems integrator, your top concerns are producing high quality software and adhering to your customers schedules. You would also like to distinguish your offerings in this highly competitive market. As you move to enhance delivery performance, profitability and competitiveness taking advantage of the trend to use open source software is a natural progression.

Open source has become a major force in the industry and a basis for enhancing developer productivity through collaboration and software reuse. Increasingly, however, clients are asking for validation of the origins and obligations associated with outsourced work as part of the final acceptance criteria.

• How can you accurately validate your open source use and license compliance level for client projects?
• Can code management help you reuse more code, resulting in reduced costs and accelerated development?
• How can you distinguish yourself from your competition?

Use an Automated Software Code Evaluation System in House

The days when an engineer could eyeball the code and tell you what is in it and what licenses applies to all the components are long gone. The complexity of software projects has expanded exponentially, as they often contain components from a variety of sources and may have a number of licenses which apply. An automated system will give you an inventory of the code along with the applicable licenses and any potential conflicts. This report can be provided to your clients.

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.

Mitigate Risk and Enhance Visibility

Share the information with your customers; provide a complete inventory of the components in your software. Providing this transparency will allow you to take advantage of the benefits of code reuse, and satisfy customer demands for protection of their intellectual property. You can deliver higher quality, more feature rich software, quickly and proactively answer client questions.

Black Duck Software offers products and services that provide information about the code in your software projects and their associated licensing. If you Know You Code, you can take advantage of open source software and code reuse when building your projects.

How can you find out more information?

• Read more about the protexIP/development platform which automates component approval within your software development. protexIP/development identifies potential license conflicts, highlights discrepancies between business policies and intellectual property usage, and provides a framework for tracking issue resolution.

• Discover how Software Outsourcing Vendor - EPAM uses protexIP to meet contractual obligations for open source and third party software use within their software development.

• Learn a set of Best Practices that companies can use to avoid the risks and gain the benefits of this promising new approach to software development. Read the whitepaper entitled Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World.

• 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.