Raynet, global software vendor with market-leading solutions and managed service provider in the field of Enterprise Software Management, announces its partnership with the German Open Source Business Alliance and its support for digital sovereignty with end-to-end management of open source software. Raynet’s entire portfolio of Enterprise Software Management solutions, from IT Visibility, Data Management, Software Asset Management and Enterprise Software Packaging to Unified Endpoint Management, provides options for fully automated control and management of open-source software whether on-premises or in the cloud.

The European Union’s push toward digital sovereignty includes promoting the adoption and development of open source hardware and software to improve agility and customization as well as to ensure version & release management and cybersecurity. The Open Source Business Alliance and its over 200 member companies are committed to ensuring public awareness for the critical importance of open source software and open standards for a digitally sovereign society, and they advocate establish open source as the standard in public procurement such as federal, state, and local governments.

Raynet has joined the Open Source Business Alliance because of its commitment to their mission. Raynet’s Software Lifecycle Management solutions are designed to fully support the demands of managing open source software, whether in software license management, software discovery and inventory, packaging, patching, endpoint management End-of-Life and End-of Support management, as well as cybersecurity and vulnerability management. The German software vendor’s solutions provide companies with expert and efficient control over their IT infrastructures. Furthermore, Raynet quickly and easily identifies open source software alternatives for software products already in use through an extensive technology catalog, and it supports organizations in their transformation to digital sovereignty.

 “We see that the IT market is changing,” says CEO Ragip Aydin. “Along with the European Union, Germany has committed itself to ‘digital sovereignty’ and the initiative to ‘strategically increase the use of open source products’. By engineering our solutions to handle the needs of open source software management, we help customers increase flexibility and agility, improve data and information security, ensure compliance with national and EU laws and regulations. This allows customers to optimize and reduce costs. Businesses want to become independent from large software providers.”