Novell & Black Duck

Market Start Program

Meet the Partner

Black Duck Software is the leading supplier of software compliance management solutions for developers, lawyers, and business decision-makers. The company's protexIP™ suite lets businesses identify, plan and manage software license obligations for their software and IP assets. With protexIP, organizations can safely and productively use open source software, code obtained from outsourcers, and their own re-usable code components without compromising their valuable intellectual property.

Our protexIP solution lets development and legal teams manage software projects in an efficient and collaborative process. By verifying license compliance, finding and mitigating issues early in the development cycle and/or preparing for a due diligence event, Black Duck Software helps companies stay on track with their business objectives.

Resources

• protexIP/development: The protexIP/development system, the core of Black Duck's protexIP software compliance management suite, helps companies accelerate software development by enabling the more effective use of licensed software assets. It helps companies reduce business risk, avoid costly product delays, efficiently identify and resolve software intellectual property issues, and support company policies.
• protexIP/OnDemand Solution: OnDemand provides assess to Black Duck's world class software compliance management solution in a hosted ASP environment. This solution is designed for single users that wish to conduct source code analysis on a single project over a specified period.
• Whitepapers and Data Sheets: Black Duck Software has complied a series of whitepapers on a variety of subjects on software compliance management. Topics include: Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World; The New Due Diligence Assessing and Protecting Your Software Asset Value in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Financing Rounds; Software Compliance Management; as well as, Automating License Compliance in the New, Mixed-IP Development World.

Company Information

Black Duck Software, Inc.
100 Beaver St.
Waltham, MA 02453
Tel: +1 781.891.5100
Fax: +1 781.891.5145
www.blackducksoftware.com