Black Duck Software Announces Black Duck Suite 6

Black Duck Software announced the availability of the Black Duck® Software Suite 6.  This latest release of enterprise-class management and governance platform increases developer productivity and speeds time to results by up to 10 times.  
Now more than ever, you’ll want to consider Black Duck as you research strategy, product and services solutions to fully realize the compelling benefits of free and open source software (FOSS) in your software development organization.

Manage Open Source Software

Businesses need to accelerate software development by cutting budgets, reducing schedule risk and improving time-to-market by strategically using downloadable open source code.
Senior executives or managers responsible for software development and/or compliance, now use open source as an integral part of the software development operation, by addressing business risks and compliance issues.

Application development professionals who use Open Source Software (OSS) are conscious of the need for even more cost-saving alternatives, amid the current economic climate. However, when you need to lower costs but still maintain or even boost productivity, it definitely helps if everyone responsible for developing and approving software is reading from the same page.

OSS is of course free, but it is not without obligations or challenges.

Heads of Business and senior IT management are fully aware of the major challenges related to open source code usage. However, there are still software developers who are simply unaware of compliance issues, legal obligations and security vulnerabilities related to software.

Then there are the software developers, who practice a “what they don’t know won’t hurt them” approach to OSS usage.

The Solution

A successful and approved method of managing IP is to create a concise OSS policy, re-engineering the software acquisition process, and adding control points to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes and tools.

The project manager’s articulation of a project’s OSS dependencies should be backed up with an automatic detection of OSS code, scanning the enterprise source code for potential dependencies, highlighting violations.

The Black Duck enterprise management solution uses the most comprehensive Knowledgebase of open source code, scanning source code and binary files to discover unknown and unapproved software.

Automatically comparing code base to the known universe of open source code and report any matches.

The Knowledgebase contains hundreds of thousands of components representing tens of billions of lines of code.

The solution provides a capability for code to be searched at both a string matching level and at a pattern matching level to identify code that has come from an environment where the code is licensed. It can then flag up all these pieces of code ensuring the developer or legal department is aware that this may raise issues.

CM-Logic is an approved supplier of Third Party IP Solutions