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"Open Source is the most significant all-encompassing and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980's."

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Black Duck: governance and compliance in source code

Sourcesense has entered a strategic partnership with Black Duck Software as the logical complement to our extended Open Source strategic consulting services. IP protection and compliance is among the major issues organizations have to face when considering how to adopt Open Source with proper oversight: as software development evolves, the productivity boost coming from usage of third parties libraries and components needs to be properly governed and managed to ensure compliance with key business and legal requirements that might put software assets at risk.

Sourcesense consultants are able to provide crucial advice in adapting existing processes and policies to leverage the Open Source advantages, understand new challenges and avoid pitfalls. Black Duck's ProtexIP is a major tool when it comes to monitoring enforcing proper copyright and licensing management of third party tools, libraries and code. Sourcesense provides key services around the Black Duck platform such as:

  • Consultancy and assistance in evaluation, assessment and proof of concept
  • Integration of ProtexIP with the existing software development tool chain and processes
  • Definition and revision of new and existing software adoption processes, taking into account specific Open Source benefits and risks

  • Training, mentoring and coaching
  • Localised support
About Black Duck Software

Black Duck offers software compliance management solutions that help companies govern how software assets are created, managed, and licensed. The company was founded in late 2002 to apply advanced technology to this challenge, a challenge addressed today by manual, expensive, and error-prone approaches. Black Duck's offerings enable companies that develop software using third party and open source components to catch and resolve intellectual property and compliance issues as they occur during development, instead of in the marketpla ce.

For more information, please check the Black Duck Software website.

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To learn how your organization can benefit from Black Duck Software and what Sourcesense can do for you, just send email to info@sourcesense.com or click here to get in touch!