Developers in an IBM Rational environment

As someone that works with the Rational Software Deployment Platform, you are accustomed to the best solutions to help you deliver the best software. The pressures you face range from time-to-market, corporate policies, competitive pressures and customer requests. You need the ability to accelerate development, satisfy legal requirements and still meet the market needs.

The Black Duck Protex software compliance management suite expands the Rational Software Deployment Platform to help development organizations mitigate business risk by validating proper use of open source and proprietary software licenses within their IP assets. This joint solution brings together developers, managers, lawyers, and business decision-makers within an automated environment that supports both the accelerated pace of development and the heightened sensitivity to licenses and controls required by enterprises that build or maintain software applications.

How can you best take on these challenges with a joint solution from IBM and Black Duck Software?

Implement an Open Source Policy

In order to implement code reuse, you need to evolve your polices and processes to manage this collaborative innovation. With policies in place the advantages of code reuse are realized. Developers can select the code they need according to already determined criteria- providing faster development. The company can take advantage of the wide range of open source code to provide more features to the market faster, and each stakeholder on the team from legal, to development, to the business decision makers will know that their particular requirements are being met.

Manage 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.

Enhance Communication With Distributed Workgroups

Sustained flexibility and high performance teams demand integrity. Ensure consistency and accountability, particularly with distributed workgroups. By providing a system to encourage code reuse, and the policies that surround it, you have the framework in which a distributed team can work. No matter where the team is located, they will have a process to follow for reusing or incorporating code components, other teams will be able to see what has been incorporated, and departments outside development will have transparency into the code contents. The security of your software assets requires communication and transparency.

Joint features, benefits and value with Black Duck Software and IBM:

• The integration of Black Duck Protex with Rational Application Developer, allows each developer, at the desktop to make informed choices, guided by predefined corporate rules, on what components may be used in projects. This can reduce risk and time-to–market issues.
• Integration between Black Duck Protex and Rational ClearCase allows customers to perform automated source and binary code intellectual property analysis by project or portfolio within their development environments as part of regularly scheduled builds or within the Quality Assurance process.
• By empowering customers with the ability to discover licensing issues early in the development process rather than at product release, protexIP reduces time to market and costly rework.
• Integration with IBM Rational Portfolio Manager closes the loop on business driven development governance through management reporting of IP risk to the in light of the total business portfolio.

Black Duck Software offers products and services that help people manage code reuse and mitigate hidden software risks. Black Duck solutions integrated with IBM solutions provide a complete platform for software management.

These solutions are supported by experienced IBM Rational and Black Duck services professionals who can assist you with solution assessment, planning, configuration and installation worldwide.

How can you find out more information?

• Download the IBM Rational Use Case

• Learn more about how Black Duck provides an integrated solution for SOA compliance and IP governance on the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform.

• Read how IBM Rational Team Concert helps teams meet the challenges of software and systems delivery by allowing them to collaborate more effectively in the context of their current activities.