Black Duck Code Center allows organizations to efficiently leverage open source and third-party code. With Black Duck Code Center, component-based software development is faster and more cost-effective, workflow is optimized, and security and policy integrity are standardized enterprise-wide.

Black Duck Code Center is your organization's place to find and track reusable open source code. Black Duck streamlines the search, selection, approval and tracking of software components, even across geographically dispersed development organizations. It facilitates role-based interaction to speed development and manage open source code reuse choices.

Productivity gains accelerate over time as Black Duck Code Center enables companies to create and internally publish a catalogue of approved open source code, encouraging standardization, capturing critical expertise and efficiently supporting open source approval criteria.

Black Duck Code Center features:

• Increasingly valuable catalogue of open source software components, approved for reuse, created collaboratively by the developer community
• Fast search by component description within the catalogue and optional expanded search within the extensive Black Duck KnowledgeBase of open source and other third party code
• Collaboration between developers and members of policy approval boards designated within the organization
• E-mail notifications and alerts, including vulnerability alerts
• Discussion forums
• Browser-based user interface
• Dashboard and detailed reporting
• Authentication and access control for individual enterprise users
• Flexible assignment of user roles and responsibilities
• Alignment and integration with existing development tool chains
• Comprehensive software Bill-of-Materials (BOM) reporting, including per-project code component tracking

How can Black Duck Code Center help your organization?

Black Duck Code Center safely accelerates software development. It helps you manage open source and third party code in alignment with policies. By encouraging open source adoption and other third-party code reuse, you gain the cost savings, flexibility and robust quality of mature code adoption.