Sonatype Unveils Sonatype Insight to Deliver Efficiency for Open Source Usage

Sonatype, a software development company, announced the launch of Sonatype Insight, a new suite of software products and information services to ensure the integrity of open-source components in the software supply chain and enterprise.

Leveraging Sonatype Insight, organizations can benefit from economic and development efficiencies of open source without quality, security or licensing risks.

The new suite offers visibility and control of open-source component usage by development teams without disrupting software development processes.

Moreover, Sonatype Insight combines organizational consumption awareness, real-time component change data and a vast library of quality, security and licensing information.

“We have brought to market a truly unique product suite to meet an increasingly important function of application development and enterprise IT – software composition analysis – one that has direct consequences to the security, quality, business risk and compliance of an organization,” said Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sonatype, in a statement.

“As the pervasiveness of open source continues, the market opportunity for Insight is tremendous and should appeal to all Java software developers and any company in the world that has used open-source components at any point during the development of mission-critical applications,” Jackson added.

Sonatype Insight leverages the Central Repository for open-source software components that are used by more than 40,000 organizations and containing more than 300,000 Java components from major open-source projects.

“Without a governance program and an accompanying management policy, the IT organization cannot hope to manage, audit or track open-source assets that come into or leave the enterprise, and it cannot measure the appropriate use of open-source assets within the broader IT portfolio,” said Mark Driver, research vice president of Gartner.

Recently, Sonatype announced that it will add Red Hat's JBoss Community project components to the Central Repository. JBoss Community projects serve as the foundation for JBoss Enterprise products by Red Hat (News - Alert), a provider of open source software.