target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Dec 2020 - Document type: IDC Perspective - Doc Document number: # US47087920
Establishing Open Source Software Management and Leverage: Media Company Exemplifies OSS Strategy and Benefits
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Abstract
This IDC Perspective provides an excellent example of a major multinational information and media company that began its OSS journey around 12 years ago originally (in 2008) and has progressed to consistent organizational process and automation adoption to achieve significant OSS governance, leverage, and efficiencies of scale.
The adoption and use of OSS across organizations is commonplace increasingly. The efficiencies of scale enabled by OSS, the leverage of components within organizations to speed time to market, the use of OSS standards to enable market emergence, and the use of OSS tools for development as an alternative (such as Git and Selenium) have created a culture of acceptance, if not downright complacency. Younger engineers coming into the workplace have grown up in a culture of open source engagement. Significant segments of the long-term developer population are passionate about OSS usage and opportunities as well.
So establishment and consistent enforcement of strong OSS policies, governance, and automation to be able to have visibility into component use, creation, compliance, and risk are critical.
"Effective OSS policy creation, adoption, and automation have evolved from aspirational to actual for many," said Melinda Ballou, research director for IDC's Agile ALM, Quality, and Portfolio Strategies service. "A number of organizations are investing as needed to create foundational OSS programs, while others are putting themselves and their organizations at risk and dramatically increasing their level of technical debt by not taking serious steps for proactive OSS management, effective practices, and governance. Investment in these areas as we move into 2021–2022 with our 'new normal' — along with demand for increased efficiency, security, and OSS leverage — is all the more vital to sustain adaptive DevOps approaches."