Open Source Strategy Consulting

While development organizations worldwide are making increasing use of open source software — Gartner reports that 85% of development organizations use open source — few have explicit strategies or policies in place to govern its use, ensure compliance and maximize its significant benefits. Olliance Group, a Black Duck company, is the leading open source strategy consulting firm bringing unparalleled experience and thought leadership to create practical recommendations that ensure client success.

Sign up for a free Open Source Management Assessment – this is a quick and easy way for your organization to benchmark its ability to make effective and compliant use of open source software against industry best practices.

Olliance offers a range of consulting services to help you assess, plan and implement open source strategies for your business.

The services include:

• Strategy Development and Assessment - assess, plan and implement highly effective open source strategies to accomplish your business objectives.
• Community Development - build successful and sustainable open source, technical and information communities with a focus on strategy, planning, and implementation.
• Business Development - develop and monetize emerging, new, and complex open source-based business relationships.
• Mobile Ecosystem – develop a strategy, assess license and compliance issues, and evaluate marketing approaches for achieving success in the complex open source mobile ecosystem.
• IP Management- evaluate and manage open source software with minimum legal risk and overhead, and assist in selecting licenses to support your strategy and business models.
• Mergers and Acquisitions - assess proprietary acquisition targets’ open source assets and liabilities, including open source communities, and develop plans for integrating open source businesses and products into existing operations.