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Sonatype and SVA join forces to help companies develop better, more secure software

It’s no secret that we understand the power of community and partnership at Sonatype. It’s why we’re in business – open source components, or reusable, community developed software parts, allow companies to save time and money, improve quality, deliver business agility, and mitigate (some) business risk. Plain and simple you’re often better together. 

It’s many of these same reasons that we’re thrilled to announce a partnership with System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH (SVA, one of Germany’s leading system integrators. We at Sonatype, know we’re better “by standing on the shoulders of giants,” and SVA is one of those giants we’re excited to get to work with to extend the Nexus Platform. Through this new partnership, we’re expanding our global reach and helping even more organizations build vital open source security and software composition analysis programs, ultimately protecting their software supply chains from known open source vulnerabilities from the beginning through production. 

“With 23 offices operating in Germany, SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH achieves optimal solutions for our customers by only combining high-quality IT products and over 20 years of IT best practice and experience,” says Stefan Gärtner, Head of Competence Center CI/CD at SVA. “The goal of being able to deliver quickly in the future leads our customers to continuously increasing automation. Both security and application lifecycle management must meet this demand. Sonatype’s products paired with SVA’s know-how support our customers in accelerating and streamlining the delivery of high-quality software products.  Key features of Sonatype include a comprehensive database for vulnerability analysis, open source licence commitments and provides continuous updates on licence changes or additions to meet governance guidelines.”

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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Sonatype Blog authored by Stephen Bryans. Read the original post at: https://blog.sonatype.com/sonatype-and-sva-join-forces-to-help-companies-develop-better-more-secure-software