SAP selects Black Duck Suite to help developers

WALTHAM, USA: Black Duck Software, provider of products and services for software development through the managed use of open source software, has announced that 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 said a press release.

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,” added Francis.

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.

He further added, 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.