These firms provide expert advise on application development and/or open source governance. The services they offer augment Black Duck products and professional service offerings. Many of our reseller partners also provide training, implementation and other consulting services.

Accenture

Accenture offers a range of services to help clients manage their use of open source. Harnessing Accenture’s innovation, skills, solutions, network of vendors and expert communities, the Innovation Center for Open Source offers clients an environment in which to see how open source solutions—assessed and tested by the center—can work in simulated environments. The center also hosts workshops to help clients create innovative solutions to business problems using open source technologies.

Accenture works with and demonstrates the full Black Duck Suite in the Innovation Center.

BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy operated and owned by its Partners throughout Europe. Serving commercial, financial and public services clients, BearingPoint focuses on offering its clients the best possible value in terms of tangible and measurable results. BearingPoint delivers Business Consulting with Management & Technology capabilities and provides a full range of Open Source Software Management consulting services, including policy and strategy development, process definition and automation, assessment and baselining support as well as training. BearingPoint’s Open Source Management Maturity Model provides guidance for organizations wishing to reduce costs by deploying Open Source Software in a compliant and efficient way.

BearingPoint helps customers enable and automate their Open Source Software Management with Black Duck products.

credativ is an industry leader in the provision of services for free software. Their technical team is one of the largest among independent open source support companies with more than 40 open source consultants; many of these are Debian and PostgreSQL developers and actively involved in contributing to free software projects worldwide. They have experience in both large scale projects and niche implementations. They support all major projects and Linux distributions and offer a full range of services including consulting, technical advice, qualified training and personalized support.

credativ and Black Duck are allied to bring customers the full ranges of products and services that companies need to manage their use of open source software.

LINAGORA is a software vendor and professional services provider focused on Open Source Software. With more than 160 employees, offices in France, the US and in Belgium, the company is among major players of Open Source Software. LINAGORA develops its own Open Source software (LINAGORA Global Software) and provide organizations with reliable and efficient support (LINAGORA Run Services) and professional services (LINAGORA Professional Services). One of the leading pioneers of the Open Source movement in Europe, LINAGORA has strong expertise and offerings in Open Source technologies.

Olliance Group, a Black Duck company, is the leading open source strategy consulting firm bringing unparalleled experience and thought leadership to create practical recommendations that ensure client success. Olliance offers a range of consulting services to help you assess, plan and implement open source strategies for your business.

While a part of the Black Duck family, Olliance operates as an independent entity.

The Semaphore Technology Diligence practice independently reviews and assesses an organization’s people, processes, strategy, markets and technology. This level of diligence identifies deficiencies in those areas and provides recommendations for remediation. The tried and proven methodology of Independent Verification and Validation (IVV) has been adapted to provide the necessary standards based approach to the analysis of corporate operations and needs.

Semaphore has substantial experience employing Black Duck products in M&A due diligence activities .

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