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Given that open source use is on the rise, along with the imposed operational risks and growing need for transparency and an SBOM, the adoption of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools is expected to steadily go up. SCA identifies open source components and provides warnings regarding license terms and security vulnerability exposures—helping organizations to shore up potential blind spots in their software supply chain.

A new report based on data from more than 100 open source audit projects conducted in 2021 finds that companies are only aware of 17 percent of the open source components they use, an increase of just four percent in the past year.

The software industry’s reliance on open source along with a sharp increase in open source software (OSS) dependencies helped to make supply chains a major security target. 64% of organizations were impacted by a software supply chain attack in the last year according to a recent report.

MSIX, Microsoft’s packaging format, is gaining acceptance and wider adoption because of its benefits for software installations: security, reliability and ease of use. Venkat Ram Donga, senior product manager at Revenera, provides best practices for using MSIX to streamline and strengthen the application installation experience.

"The software supply chain is increasingly under attack. No matter where your company stands in the software supply chain, you must take the necessary steps to ensure the safe use of the components. In this article, Alex Rybak, director of product management, Revenera, discusses a few questions you should ask yourself to evaluate and secure your organization’s use of open source."

Nicole Segerer, vice president of product management & marketing at Revenera, illustrates how software companies can ensure that strategy and tooling support current and future needs as they move toward SaaS applications.

Revenera’s Scott Niemann explains how to close the significant gap that often develops between continuous deployment of applications and accurate entitlement management—particularly as software producers shift to microservices that are delivered in containerized environments.

"Revenera says that simply collecting data isn’t enough. Leading companies automate the process and access to the data to get the best possible results out of their usage insights."

"More than half of the companies in the software industry are planning on moving to subscription models in the next year or so."

“A study by Revenera showed that 51% of businesses use subscription or perpetual licensing. It was also stated that subscription and usage-based models will record the strongest growth in the next 18 months. Many organizations are looking to change their models in order to access new markets as well as create a recurring revenue stream.”

"Part of an annual series, this report identifies best practices for collecting and analyzing software usage data, as demonstrated by the 26 percent of respondents who report the ability to collect this very well (a number that jumps to 38 percent for suppliers using a commercial software usage analytics solution).”

"FlexNet Code Aware by Revenera can find security threats and intellectual property (IP) compliance issues in open source code. It scans Java, NuGet, and NPM packages. In addition, the company offers a full enterprise platform for open source security and license compliance, with support for all major software languages. It has more than 70 extensions, and a knowledge base with more than 14 million open source components."

"By the time we reach 2023, more than half of companies will have moved to a subscription-based model for their software products."

"More than half of companies are planning to move to subscription models in the next 18 months, according to a report from Revenera, but at the same time, a one-size-fits-all approach to either monetization or deployment strategy isn’t sufficient to keep pace with varied customer needs."

"A survey released today by Revenera finds that although software companies are moving to SaaS offerings and recurring revenue, end-user customers are not moving at the same pace. The result is a robust mix of monetization and delivery models."

"Developers currently employ the Revenera platform to monetize millions of entitlements and downloads of software. The Software Container Delivery service now extends that capability to container images to enable developers to maximize revenue opportunities."

As a Wind River Studio Marketplace ecosystem partner, Revenera supports the most recent release of Wind River Studio with software composition analysis (SCA), including a complete software bill of materials (SBOM).

“Revenera’s Software Container Delivery accelerates and automates revenue recognition for software producers by ensuring entitlement-based delivery to end customers. With more producers moving to cloud-native deployment models, there is a big market need to cover the full process—from provisioning to customer delivery —in a seamless process, making sure that software is only delivered to paying customers and revenue gets recognized in seconds."

With the latest release of Wind River Studio—a cloud native platform for the development, deployment, operations, and servicing of mission-critical intelligent systems from devices to cloud—Wind River integrates "Software composition analysis [SCA] from Revenera to securely manage the use of open source components by providing a complete software bill of materials [SBOM] for more transparency in the software supply chain and continuous monitoring of open source license compliance and vulnerabilities, as well as supporting steps for remediation.”

When Solibri, which provides services and solutions for construction companies, needed insights into how users engaged with its model checking software for building information modeling (BIM), it turned to Usage Intelligence from Revenera.