Advanced Scripting Environment and Automated Analysis Provide In-Depth Code
Inventory and Streamlined IP Compliance
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Gartner SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo --
Palamida(TM), the leader in software intellectual property management
solutions and audit services, today announced the next generation of IP
Amplifier, a robust code audit solution that enables in-depth evaluation
and comprehensive protection of critical software assets.
Today's software development environment is constrained by resources
and time and driven by pressures to deliver product to market as rapidly
and cost- effectively as possible. The resulting software is a mixture of
homegrown, commercial and open source code -- a combination that fuels
development speed, innovation, and growth. The reality of mixed code is
that it introduces new complexities to the software development lifecycle.
In fact, most organizations are currently unaware of what their software is
made of -- an oversight that can lead to legal, financial and business
risk.
Know your IP Ingredients
Vetting application ingredients is a time-consuming and error-prone
process that makes IP compliance, code vulnerability detection, and license
management extremely difficult to manage.
With IP Amplifier, organizations can automate the code audit process to
quickly and easily identify, prioritize and report on open source and
third- party content in the code base. Clear, concise inventory reports and
a multi- user access help companies determine compliance with internal use
policies and highlight any potential legal or development risks.
"Combining mixed code resources is a great strategy for accelerating
growth but it brings a level of complexity to the software development
lifecycle that, left unmanaged, can have serious implications for the
business," said Mark Tolliver, CEO of Palamida. "A number of high profile
cases involving copyright and intellectual property infringement point to
the importance of having a solution in place that proactively identifies
such concerns before they become an issue. IP Amplifier enables developers
to find and remediate areas of concern as soon as they find them -- a
strategy that both ensures software quality and mitigates business risk."
Integration, Automation and Innovation
Drawing on the industry's largest and most comprehensive library of its
type, IP Amplifier provides detailed information on 3 Terabytes worth of
content. The compliance library contains over 140,000 OSS projects, 780,000
versions, 7 billion source code snippets, 10 million Java namespaces, 500
million binary file IDs, and Java, C/C++, Perl, Python, PHP, C#, and VB
signatures, among other components.
IP Amplifier's Advanced Scripting Environment gives it the flexibility
to adapt to any existing environment. Based on Groovy, Palamida's custom
scripting enables it to plug into all major build systems, including but
not limited to: ANT, Maven, Borland Gauntlet, and pulse. In addition,
customers can further customize the solution to meet their individual
integration, reporting, and detection threshold requirements.
Automated analysis keeps headcount costs low by providing accurate,
prioritized reports that eliminate a large percentage of the manual review
necessary. With Auto Inventory and multi-type, multi-stage detection, IP
Amplifier significantly minimizes false positives, saving hundreds of man
hours previously spent reviewing thousands of unqualified code matches.
"Every time the development team runs a build, they run a number of
tests to vet their work, including test coverage analysis, code style
checking, and static memory leak analysis. Running an IP compliance test is
a natural next step in ensuring that the build is free of security and
legal risks," adds Tolliver. "Code level risk mitigation should be an
organic part of IP management, not a new business process that requires
additional headcount and exhaustive resources."
About the Company
Palamida enables organizations to manage the growing complexity of
multi- source development environments by answering the question, "What's
in your code?" Through detailed analysis of the code base customers gain
insight into their code inventory -- a critical component of quality
control, risk mitigation, and vulnerability assessment.
Palamida was founded in 2003, offering market leading solutions and
services that accelerate the adoption of open source within the enterprise
environment by eliminating legal and vulnerability concerns associated with
its use. Customers include Avaya, Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft and Sun
Microsystems, among others. Read Palamida's blog at http://www.palamida.com/blog
or for more information visit http://www.palamida.com.
SOURCE Palamida
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http://www.gartner.com/it/sym/2007/spg9/spg9.jsp
CONTACT:
Melisa Bleasdale of Palamida, +1-415-777-9400
x140, or cell, +1-408-219-1969
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