Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of software governance solutions, today announced the addition of three new European partners. Purple Scout, Software Quality Systems (SQS) and Sourcesense join existing Black Duck partner CM-Logic in servicing European organizations. Together the partners substantially broaden Black Duck’s global reach and help it address demand for software governance solutions, including the protexIP™ platform—the industry’s gold standard for managing use of software assets governed by open source and other third-party licenses.

Also today, Black Duck announced that it has selected Amsterdam as the center of its European operations and added personnel to its London office (see “Black Duck Software Establishes European Headquarters and Expands U.K. Presence”).

The strength of Black Duck’s channel relationships has been a strategic asset for the company over the past two years and has helped bring protexIP, the first product of its kind on the market, to organizations around the world. Today more than 300 companies, including enterprises, software development outsourcing companies and government agencies, use Black Duck’s products to better understand the contents of their software code.

In addition to Black Duck’s new partners—which help the company reach Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Finland and the U.K.—Black Duck has existing relationships in the U.K., Japan, Korea, India and Australia. Black Duck is the only provider of software compliance management solutions with a global presence.

“Software today is typically assembled from existing components, which may have been written internally or may be open source,” said Douglas Levin, president and CEO of Black Duck Software. “Managing components and their associated licenses in a distributed software development environment is acutely important to companies’ customers, partners and investors—but is an increasingly complex task. Working with partners such as Purple Scout, Sourcesense and SQS, Black Duck helps customers streamline compliance and ultimately bring their own products to market faster.”

Expanded Presence and Growing Channel Serve Europe
Sourcesense is a pan-European systems integrator and service provider specializing in open source. Sourcesense helps its clients realize the full benefits of open source by either providing knowledge and expertise, or undertaking complete project work, including first line support and maintenance. The company is based in the U.K., Italy and the Netherlands. More information is online at www.sourcesense.com.

“More and more mainstream businesses are recognizing the advantages of open source and deploying it within their own organization,” said Gianugo Rabellino, CEO of Sourcesense. “Black Duck’s protexIP helps these companies be assured that the open source components they are using conform with the licenses; Sourcesense are using protexIP as a key component of our overall consultancy and strategy service. We’re very pleased to partner with Black Duck to meet strong demand in the European markets.”

SQS, Europe’s largest independent provider of software testing and quality management services, will offer Black Duck products across Europe. More information on the company and its services is available at www.sqs.de or www.sqs-group.com.  

Jörg Kleinz, managing partner at SQS, commented: “Software development today is an inherently global activity and SQS offers a breadth of experience working with customers throughout Europe and around the world. We believe the depth of Black Duck’s protexIP platform and the company’s focus on continued innovation will deliver clear benefits to our mutual customers across Europe.”

Purple Scout, based in Sweden and also serving Finland through holding group Sesca on behalf of Black Duck, helps customers simplify the transition to using open source software development tools. The firm’s core competency is embedded systems. For additional information, see www.purplescout.se.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software™ is the leading provider of software compliance management solutions that help companies govern how software assets are created and managed. Black Duck’s offerings help businesses take maximum advantage of open source software while at the same time ensure that they satisfy the obligations associated with the code they use. Black Duck’s customer base includes enterprises, product developers, outsourcers, law firms and other organizations worldwide that are concerned with protection of software intellectual property. For more information about Black Duck, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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