Black Duck Announces SAP's Selection of Its Black Duck Suite to Help Developers Manage Increasing Use of Open Source Software

Planned worldwide implementation to automate management and use of open source software; validate and improve developer efficiency

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Jul 27, 2010, 07:48 ET

WALTHAM, Mass., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Duck Software, a leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced that SAP (NYSE: SAP) has selected to implement the Black Duck™ Suite. The comprehensive suite provides a platform for managing the use of open source software in a multi-source development process. It will help development teams at SAP improve productivity by further automating the company's open source approval processes. SAP is the world's leading provider of business software(*).

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SAP, which previously used complex, time-consuming and partly manual processes for handling open source approvals and the legal compliance aspects of open source use, sought a scalable, enterprise-strength platform to further automate the management, compliance, and integration of open source software into its development life cycle. After researching available tools and platforms, SAP chose the Black Duck Suite to support SAP developers worldwide with the suite's automated, developer-oriented, multi-function platform, which supports scanning, early detection and management of open source used in software development.

"When we established the open source approval process at SAP in 2001, we assumed we'd receive only a few open source requests per month," said Francis Ip, head of SAP Global Technology Legal Compliance. "However, with the continuously increasing importance of open source globally and SAP's recent strategic change towards systematically utilizing benefits that come with open source, it was necessary for us to scale our open source process through further automation. We conducted an exhaustive search of applications on the market, and the Black Duck Suite was the best solution we tested. The Black Duck Suite will help us further automate and scale our open source process in order to support our open source strategy."

"Using the Black Duck Suite will help SAP developers reduce the amount of code that needs to be developed while increasing the velocity of development," said Peter Vescuso, executive vice president, Black Duck Software. "Automating the use and management of open source software also will yield the benefits of compliance with software license obligations, reducing risk and improving developer efficiency."

For more information on the Black Duck Suite visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

(*) SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning and related applications.

About Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. The use of Black Duck™ solutions enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry's leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, Calif., London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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