While most of the conversations around software discovery, inventorying, packaging, deployment, and management focus on the large vendors of proprietary software, open source software of the modern digital environment.

And its influence is growing. Security gaps, vendor lock-in, skyrocketing costs, and data protection are some of the challenges driving calls to adopt more open source solutions.

National governments are leading the charge for Digital Sovereignty, giving them more control over the solutions and technology they use as well as ensuring stronger data protection and privacy for citizens.

Open source solutions provide organizations with more flexibility, more control over data and data privacy, more transparency into IT infrastructures, and thus more security and ability to comply with local and national security and privacy regulations.