success factors of foss adoption

Success Factors for

Open Source Adoption

Claus von Riegen

Program Director Industry Standards and Open Source

SAP AG

Andrew Aitken

GM & SVP, Olliance Group

A Black Duck Software company

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Open Source and Innovation

Andrew Aitken

GM & SVP, Olliance Group,

A Black Duck Software company

Open Source Strategy: Our Experience, Your Success

– The industry’s leading open source business consultancy

– Over 600 engagements to date

– A Trusted Advisor to leading Fortune 2000 companies


Open Source and Innovation

Open Source

developing, licensing, distributing and consuming software

Open Source Drivers

collaboration, transparency, meritocracy and licensing model

Open Source Innovation

The collaborative and transparent creation or improvement of products,

technologies or ideas.

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Innovation By Industry


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Today’s Speaker

Claus von Riegen

Program Director Industry Standards and Open Source

SAP AG

Claus von Riegen, Vice President Industry Standards and Open Source

SAP AG

February 14th, 2012

Success Factors for Open Source Adoption

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Innovation Can Come From Anywhere

INNOVATION SAP Employees

Academic Partners Customers

Industry Partners

Research Labs

Development Labs

SAP Innovation Programs


SAP and Open Source

100s Open Source

Usages

>50 Open Source

Contributions


What Our Customers Say

“NetWeaver's support for common standards and Open

Source is very important to Siemens because it helps to

protect investments, reduce costs, and increase flexibility

for both ourselves and our customers. For example, due to

SAP's usage of technologies like Eclipse as well as SAP’s

support for SOA standards, users of the Siemens Energy

Management Suite can reuse their existing Java EE, SOA

and Eclipse skills.”

Jens Neuhaus

Solution Architect, Siemens AG


Why It Is Not A Good Idea Trying To Prevent Open Source


But You Better Know What You Are Doing

Customer expectations

Functional scope

Usability

Quality

Reliability

Security

… and more

Open source quality

Software is not necessarily good just

because it is open source!

Like with any third-party product, all usage of open source software should

be managed


And now?

What are the success

factors of open source

adoption?


Three Stages Of Open Source Adoption In The Enterprise

Select

Functional /

non-functional fit

Future-proof

License

Manage

Reuse

Security

Maintenance /

Support

Engage

Roadmap

Investment

protection

Standardization


Open Source Selection Criteria

Software

Fit with functional and non-functional requirements

Fit with product architecture / product strategy

License

Freedoms / constraints and obligations

Community

Contributors, users, and service providers

Usage Scenario

Product that make use of the open source software

Type of integration (embedded, linked, etc.)

Modification / enhancement / contribution requirements

Software distribution channel

Community

License

Software

Usage Scenario


Legal Risks


Open Source Licenses 101

Proprietary licenses Permissive licenses “Copyleft” licenses

Apache

MIT

BSD

Eclipse

Mozilla

Affero

GPL

LGPL GPL Commercial license

Open source license constraints need to be understood in the context of

deployment model, integration scenario and need for adaptation/modification

Less freedom


Open Source is NOT for free


Best Practices For Open Source Selection

Define

Establish corporate open source policy1

Know

Obtain information about available open source software

Check maturity – select robust and well-adopted open source technologies

Build or buy legal practice for open source licensing

Govern

Define and run open source governance process

Establish cost/benefit metrics

Include relevant stakeholders (product units, CTO office, legal/IP teams, etc.)

Inform & Educate

Train product owners / architects about need for balanced due diligence

Inform decision makers about their role in governance process

Capture corporate intelligence (what – where – why)

1 See, for example, A Practical Guide to Leveraging Open Source in Business, Heather J. Meeker, John Wiley & Sons, 2008


Open Source Management – Key Challenges

Security

How do we find and manage security

vulnerabilities that may exist?

Long-Term Support

How can we ensure dedicated long-term

support ?

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Release Plans

How can we align release strategies and plans between

open source technologies and own products?

Reuse

How can we avoid the proliferation of different

technologies for the same requirement?

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SAP

Customer


Synchronisation of release plans can be challenging

Quality

Globalization

Security

...

Product Standards


SAP products are supported for at least 9 years


Best Practices For Open Source

Management

Reuse

Establish corporate open source standards

Security

Apply same scrutiny for open source products as for in-house development

Monitor open source project for available patches

In case vulnerabilities are detected

Fix immediately

Provide patch for own customers

Contribute solution to open source project

Support

Option 1: open source product is very mature – no dedicated support needed

Option 2: develop skills internally

Option 3: establish maintenance activity as part of open source community

Option 4: procure third-party support services


Reasons For Community Engagement

Contribute to existing open source projects

New requirements

Bug fixes

Enhancements / extensions

Initiate new open source projects

Depends on business goals

Scenarios Benefits

Influence future direction

Increase productivity

Share cost of development

Solicit early feedback

Motivate external contributions

Create industry standards


Sometimes pulling in different directions

Protect Intellectual Property


Best Practices For Open Source

Engagement

Beginners

Identify non-critical project and try it out

Intermediates

Understand how open source projects work

Don’t underestimate soft skills (negotiation, consensus-building, patience, etc.)

Gradually increase commitment

Regularly check cost/benefit equation

Professionals

Appoint contribution manager per project

One voice

Scope of contribution

Interactions with legal / intellectual property team


Summary

Open Source Has Distinct Benefits

It is there – and growing

Utilize external innovation

Increased productivity

Short time-to-value

Reuse of skills

Open Source Needs To Be Managed

Quality

License

Direction

Participate!

Start small & build an open source practice

Thank You!

Contact information:

Claus von Riegen

Vice President Industry Standards and Open Source

SAP AG, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, 69190 Walldorf, Germany

+49 6227 742589


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