Our easy-to-use assessment tool, in combination with a free, confidential telephone consultation with one of our open source management and process experts can accelerate your organization’s knowledge and understanding of open source management by weeks or months. We send you an easy-to-use assessment tool that enables you to quickly evaluate your organizations capability with respect to the seven keys of open source readiness and management:

1. Open source discovery
2. Review and selection
3. Code management
4. Maintenance and support
5. Compliance program
6. Community interaction
7. Executive oversight

Free and open source software (FOSS) has been widely adopted. Gartner reports that 85% of organizations use open source, and 87% of users say open source meets or exceeded their expectations. However fewer than 40% of organizations have some sort of open source policy and even fewer have tools and controls for managing it or ensuring compliance with its licenses.

Olliance Group now offers a quick and easy way for organizations to assess their ability to make effective and compliant use of open source software, identity and analyze gaps in policy, process and tools, and recommend improvements to capture the rich set of compelling benefits.

• It’s a quick, easy, free and confidential way to benchmark your organization against industry best practices for open source code management.
• Discover the approaches employed by industry leading companies to get the most from open source while managing the risks.
• Accelerate your compliance program development schedule by weeks or months by leveraging the experience and know-how of industry experts

The assessment service spans several areas of responsibility. We recommend that managers responsible for software development, QA and legal participate in answering the questionnaire.

1. Fill out the form below.
2. Olliance will contact you for further information and to schedule an introductory call if needed, and email a self-assessment form to you.
3. You complete the self-assessment and send it back to Olliance. Completing the assessment survey in preparation for your consultation should take one or two hours depending on the number of individuals involved.
4. A one hour conference call is then set up with an Olliance IP management and process expert who will discuss and evaluate your assessment across these seven key areas.
   You receive a report summary, a scorecard assessing your organization’s competencies in each area, and a set of recommendations after the conference call.
5. Each report is strictly confidential and is customized based on your organization’s situation.