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Palamida and OGIS Form Partnership to Deliver Intellectual Property Management Solutions Throughout Japan
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Japanese Distributor to Launch Services Practice Addressing Open Source and Intellectual Property Compliance
SAN FRANCISCO and TOKYO, Sept. 17 / / -- Palamida(TM), and Osaka Gas Information System Research Institute (OGIS-RI), formed a joint partnership on September 12, focused on delivering open source management solutions for intellectual property (IP) compliance to the Japanese market. OGIS' strength in providing leading-edge technology and services coupled with Palamida's software risk management solutions enables customers to respond in real-time to IP violations related to the unknown misuse of open source software components inside enterprise applications.
"The partnership with OGIS-RI is a milestone for Palamida, and marks our first authorized reseller relationship in Asia," said Mark Tolliver, CEO of Palamida, "The Japanese software industry continues to grow rapidly, driven by the increased dependence on software for advanced features in consumer and industrial products. Our experience clearly suggests that Japanese organizations recognize both the benefits and risks associated with use of open source. We are very pleased to have the opportunity to work closely with a market leader such as OGIS-RI in building an open source management and compliance practice that extends our domain expertise to this large and fast-moving market."
The importance of managing open source use, license challenges, and intellectual property violations is critical to the Japanese market. Open source can be found in the majority of consumer and industrial products (such as toys and electronic goods), as well as mission critical applications throughout Japanese organizations.
"It is a great pleasure for us to have Palamida as a partner in intellectual property IP management," said Asanobu Yamasaki, Director of OGIS-RI. "Our customers rely on OGIS for best practices in software development. Our company has a strong reputation for being the first to bring leading technology to the Japanese market, such as Rational, Objectivity and VisiBroker. The addition of Palamida's comprehensive open source software risk management solutions to our portfolio ensures that our clients now have access to the tools and processes they need to use open source productively, with minimal business risk."
Industry analyst firm Gartner has predicted that open source software use will continue to grow in Asia, with 60 percent of large and mid-size government agencies using it in their core business processes by 2010, compared to less than 15 percent in late 2004. The government shift to an open source model is rapidly underway. In July 2007, the Japanese government issued an edict making open source adoption a priority for all government IT procurements. The central government of Japan says it plans to spend around $1.25 trillion yen, or US $10.4 billion, on IT over the next year alone. IDC also stresses the importance of managing open source, "As open source adoption expands internationally, it is critical that organizations bring in effective management, including both automated tools to manage IP combined with strong organizational and process strategies," said Melinda Ballou, program director for IDC's Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) Service, "Partnerships between automated tools vendors and service providers are key to success for open source adoption."
The increased interest in intellectual property and management stems from the continued growth of the embedded systems market. Japanese market data shows that nearly 40% of large scale embedded systems utilize open source software. According to a recent study released by the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), software development costs for embedded systems reached 3.27 trillion yen, or US $28 billion in 2005, a 19.8% increase over 2004, with ongoing growth predicted to continue 20% year over year.
About Palamida
Palamida enables organizations to manage the growing complexity of multi-source development environments by answering the question, "What's in your code?" Through detailed analysis of the code base customers gain insight into their code inventory -- a critical component of quality control, risk mitigation, and vulnerability assessment.
Palamida was founded in 2003, offering market leading solutions and services that accelerate the adoption of open source within the enterprise environment by eliminating legal and vulnerability concerns associated with its use. Customers include Avaya, Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, among others. Read Palamida's blog at www.palamida.com/blog or for more information visit http://www.palamida.com/.
About OGIS-RI
OGIS-RI; Osaka Gas Information System Research Institute is a leading IT-solutions provider. The company began as a systems division of Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.; the second largest supplier of energy in Japan, serving 6.7 million customers in the Kansai Region.
OGIS-RI was founded in 1983, to focus on providing professional IT services. In 1988 OGIS-RI significantly expanded their business to include an Object Oriented approach to system designs and implementation. As a pioneer and a leader of Model Based Development, and the first to introduce of Unified Modeling Language (UML) in Japan, OGIS-RI's services and solutions have consistently contributed to upgrading the software quality in both the enterprise and embedded systems markets. OGIS-RI currently employs over 1,100 people and provides IT consulting, systems integration, network construction, systems support and other valuable services. Visit; www.ogis-ri.jp/corporate_e/n-00.html or http://www.ogis-ri.co.jp/
Source: Palamida
CONTACT: Palamida Press, Melisa Bleasdale, +1-415-777-9400, ext.140, cell, +1-408-219-1969; or OGIS-RI Press, Sales & Marketing Department,
+81-3-5440-4771, info@ogis-ri.co.jp
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