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FOSSA Overview

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What is FOSSA?

Open source is a critical part of your software. In the average modern software product, over 80% of the source code shipped is derived from open source. Each component can have cascading legal, security, and quality implications for your customers, making it one of the most important things to manage correctly. FOSSA helps you manage your open source components. We plug into your development workflow to help your team automatically track, manage, and remediate issues with the open source you use to: - Stay compliant with software licenses and generate required attribution documents - Enforce usage and licensing policies throughout your CI/CD workflow - Monitor and remediate security vulnerabilities - Flag code quality issues and outdated components proactively By enabling open source, we help development teams increase development velocity and decrease risk.

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FOSSA is a open source solution designed to provide developers with tools to analyze code automatically to help developers with open source license management.

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FOSSA
Year Founded
2015
HQ Location
San Francisco, California
Twitter
@getfossa
773 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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72 employees on LinkedIn®
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Elvis M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
""The FOSSA Experience""
The product is effective and efficient and it has aspects that enable automated scans of emails and licenses which are quite amazing. The product ...
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Yatur N.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The FOSSA Effect."
This product is easy and simple to use and integrates very well with other applications like Gitlab. I like how effective and efficient with multip...
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Karan S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Ensuring Legal Compliance with FOSSA!"
Their evaluations are highly comprehensive and detailed, and they provide information promptly as required.
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FOSSA Media

FOSSA Demo - Get Visibility Into Your Software
FOSSA natively supports complicated workflows including multiple branches, tags and release channels. This allows you to compare releases, see what changed and integrate with code review to preview patches before they bring in issues.
FOSSA Demo - Manage Open Source Standards
FOSSA runs on top of your code to continuously analyze not just the libraries included by your developers, but also indirect ones from an unlimited depth.
FOSSA Demo - Resolve & Prioritize Issues
Intelligent tools to review and fix issues, integrated into your favorite tools like JIRA and Slack.
FOSSA Demo - Developer Integrations
- Developer friendly is a requirement - CLI, Build Systems, API etc.
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What do you like best about FOSSA?

Helped a sister company of ours understand and mitigate risk assessment for an IPO. By using FOSSA, among other tools, we were able to have a smooth IPO launch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FOSSA?

We found that some of the real time tools were somewhat slow, but they were not a detriment to overall performance and still kept everything up to speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped tremendously with OSS tasks and uses. As we were going live, we wanted to alleviate risk and FOSSA allowed us to keep security of our code at bay. Not to mention it checked for quality and quality from an outside view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FOSSA?

I have used FOSSA for vulnerability testing in my previous organization. FOSSA can be integrated with multiple build systems and it's vulnerability scan is also effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FOSSA?

It is difficult for new users to understand how FOSSA works and how to generate the results. It also needs the training to understand the vulnerability scan and improve code quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you?

FOSSA was used for vulnerability testing, and it generated a scan result that can be used to find the loopholes. The engineering team can use it to improve the code quality of the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FOSSA?

FOSSA was easy to set up and integrate with our GitHub repositories. Once connected it made it easy to audit the FOSS licenses of the components we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FOSSA?

Pricing is based on per-developer licensing, which is ok at the beginning but expensive to scale up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you?

We always need to ensure that we aren't accidentally violating the licenses of components and dependencies we use. It took a long time to complete those audits manually. FOSSA quickly scanned all our components and provided a simple report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FOSSA?

I used FOSSA to scan the licenses of software I use. Set up of tool and speed of scanning is great. I also like automated email with reports feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FOSSA?

Nothing to dislike as of now. Everything seems fine to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It's very reliable and time saving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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