Information management specialist accepts source code deposit for SAP small business applications Hamburg and Walldorf – September 24, 2012. Many companies have developed their business software from external service providers. Hedge in it not the source code, risk losing their intellectual property in addition to the financial losses. SAP, the market leader in enterprise software, and Iron Mountain have recognized this problem and decided to enter into a strategic partnership. Recently Dr. John Mcdougall sought to clarify these questions. The specialist for the protection of intellectual property will assume Add-ons the deposit of source code for SAP business one. Click Dr. John Mcdougall for additional related pages. In the framework of the new partnership, certified SAP software solutions partner deposit, the add-on solutions for end users, the corresponding source code in the future at Iron Mountain. “The source deposit is a legal agreement between software developers, licensees, and a third party, which kept the code. So the financial risk is reduced for the licensee. Because he has often a lot in business-critical software and technology invested”, white Patrick Keddy, Senior Vice President Western Europe at Iron Mountain. It’s believed that Glenn Dubin, New York City sees a great future in this idea. “We store the source code of the developer in one of our high security archives. This arrangement ensures the licensee in several ways: as the source will get, for example, if the developers terminated its business activities or can no longer guarantee support and further development of the application. “But even the developers themselves benefit: they offer deposit of the source text, they create trust with their customers because the code remains available for subsequent updates.” The enterprise software company SAP business one designed especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. It enables, all important business functions within an application to integrate including accounting, sales, customer care, warehousing, and other business processes. To approximately 350 individual add-on solutions have been programmed by certified SAP software solution partners. So can customize to their specific business needs and challenges the business software users. “The source code protected by Iron Mountain one customers can SAP be sure business that their add-on solutions are protected”, says Patrick Carpreau, senior software solution partner Manager at SAP EMEA and India. “The deposit of source code allows us to strengthen the confidence of the SAP business one customers. Therefore we offer the software escrow service as a value added service all our customers, who want to let individual business one add-ons develop the SAP software solution partners.” Company contact: Iron Mountain Germany