Increase Agility.  Speed Velocity of Innovation.  Reduce Software Costs.

As an Enterprise Architect, you need to find new ways to increase 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 uses internal, external, and open source components can help, but most IT organizations have done little to gear up for the challenges of multi-source development with open source -- finding good code, controlling how components are brought in and deployed, assessing code quality, flagging unapproved code, managing components across the application lifecycle, reducing operational and security risk, and ensuring compliance.

When you need to improve agility, flexibility, and innovation while cutting costs and mitigating risks, would it help if you could automatically facilitate, manage and control the use of open source across the enterprise? Black Duck can help —

• Increase development agility, flexibility, and velocity of innovation. Take advantage of billions of lines of the latest open source code that is readily available to developers. Focus scarce resources on developing code that offers true innovation and business value.  Support the modular nature of agile methods with 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 your management platform.  Automate the monitoring, validation and control of approved code.  Certify that every build complies with your policies.  Provide audit trails and traceability.

Know Your Code™. With comprehensive open source management, you can confidently facilitate, monitor and control the use of open source code across your enterprise.  Black Duck Software is helping enterprise architects gain unprecedented visibility into software code to drive increased agility and speed of innovation, mitigate operational, security, and compliance risks, and cut costs at every point in the application development lifecycle.

How can you find out more information?

• Learn how the Black Duck (TM) Suite unifies the Black Duck Code Center, Export. Protex, and Code Search products with the Black Duck KnowledgeBase and Professional Services to provide an enterprise framework for realizing the benefits of open source while managing and controlling the risks.

• Read the whitepaper (PDF), 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, the issues and risks that must be managed, and the benefits organizations can receive by leveraging open source components.