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Flexera’s business sits at the nexus between the world’s software producers and buyers – repairing the broken software supply chain, which is the most dysfunctional supply chain in all of business today. That dysfunction manifests as risk and cost – to both the producers of software and the enterprises that buy software – as they solve the complex, time consuming, and expensive problems of ensuring licensing compliance and security from vulnerabilities.

Open source software is used extensively by virtually all software developers – whether they are commercial software vendors, intelligent device and Internet of Things (IoT) manufacturers, or developers within other types of enterprises or government agencies that build their own proprietary applications for use in-house or for the benefit of their customers. Despite its ubiquity, open source software is largely unmanaged. Software developers frequently do not know or track what specific open source components have been incorporated into their software, whether that open source software is in compliance with licensing terms, and whether it contains any software vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers.

Palamida’s Products & Synergies with Flexera Solutions

Palamida products include Enterprise Edition, which helps organisations desiring to establish an end-to-end solution to approve, scan and track open source and other third party code in their development projects and to stay current on license, vulnerability and other information about the software they use. Standard Edition, designed for organisations focusing first on analysis of code content, contains the scanning and analysis features of Enterprise Edition. And Governance Edition, designed for organisations starting their compliance program with a focus on developer disclosure, contains the request and approval workflow features of Enterprise Edition.

Palamida’s products are highly synergistic with Flexera’s solutions. For example, Flexera’s Installation solutions are used by most software developers around the world for creating professional and reliable installation packages. Palamida’s solutions will create tremendous additional value by enabling those developers to identify open source software and any license compliance and security risks it may contain – at the time they’re packaging up their software into an installation – before distributing it to their customers or internal users.

In addition, Flexera builds and maintains the world’s most comprehensive software vulnerability intelligence database to power its market-leading Software Vulnerability Management solutions. That database can be extended to Palamida’s products, extending their current vulnerability management capabilities to make them the most comprehensive Software Composition Analysis solutions in the world for detecting open source security vulnerabilities. Additional synergies are also being explored as Flexera continues to push boundaries in transforming Software Asset Management and Software License Optimisation.