Software Supply Chain Automation

Once you start adopting a repository manager as a central point of storage and exchange for all components, expand its use in your efforts to automate and manage the software supply chain throughout your software development life-cycle.

Modern software development practices have shifted dramatically from large efforts of writing new code to the usage of components to assemble applications. This approach limits the amount of code authorship to the business-specific aspects of your software.

A large number of open source components in the form of libraries, reusable widgets, whole applications, or application servers are now available featuring very high levels of quality and feature sets that could not be implemented as a side effect of your business application development. For example, creating a new web application framework and business workflow system just to create a website with a publishing workflow would be extremely inefficient.

Development starts with the selection of suitable components for your projects based on comprehensive information about the components and their characteristics. Nexus Repository Manager Pro includes features, such as the display of security vulnerabilities as well as license analysis results within search results and the Repository Health Check reports for a proxy repository.

Software supply chain automation progresses through your daily development efforts, your continuous integration builds and your release processes all the way to your applications deployed in production environments at your clients or your own infrastructure.

Nexus IQ Server provides a number of tools to improve your component usage in your software supply chain allowing you to automate your processes to ensure high quality output, while increasing your development speed towards continuous deployment procedures. These include:

Nexus IQ Server enables you to ensure the integrity of the modern software supply chain, amplifying the benefits of modern development facilitating component usage, while reducing associated risks.