Open source software: 5 steps for enabling standardisation

Overview

Despite the advantages, leaving open source software unsupervised can lead to many problems. The solution: enabling the standardisation of code and components, however this can be difficult. This paper highlights 5 steps for enabling standardisation and thus maximising productivity. In driving standardisation, businesses can reap the rewards through inceased productivity, reduced maintainance and support costs, decreased risk and better share knowledge and information across the organisation.