NEWTOWN, PA — EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has unveiled OSPulse™, an enterprise-level analytics dashboard. The innovative platform is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of a company’s open source engagement, offering valuable insights for informed decision-making.
The Pennsylvania-based software engineering and IT consulting firm launched the intuitive, cloud-based dashboard to track an organization’s open source contributions across various platforms, solutions, and projects. Christopher Howard, Head of the Open Source Program Office at EPAM, explained that OSPulse’s goal is to offer a “holistic view” of both individual and company-wide open source engagements.
The new tool gathers real-time data about contributors, contribution frequency, repositories, licenses, programming languages, retention, and more. This data can be filtered and sorted to reveal trends, focus areas, and skills, making it an invaluable resource for senior executives, HR professionals, engineers, and project managers alike.
OSPulse also allows for the creation of customizable reports, offering exceptional data visualization capabilities. This feature makes it easier to understand an organization’s evolving open source footprint and measure its impact.
Moreover, the platform can aid in making data-driven decisions by providing insights into an organization’s strengths and weaknesses. It can identify repositories of interest, detect anomalies or shifts within a project, and help mitigate risks. These data-driven insights are crucial as businesses increasingly rely on open source software to drive innovation and maintain competitiveness.
Recognizing and rewarding contributors is another key feature of OSPulse. By quantifying and visualizing an employee’s engagements, successes, and areas of interest, organizations can identify rising stars and potential areas for upskilling. In addition, the platform can be instrumental in talent acquisition, helping to pinpoint needed skills and narrow the search for candidates with relevant experience.
The dashboard integrates seamlessly with HR and industry analytics platforms, eliminating the need for manual reporting. This feature makes OSPulse a versatile tool for organizations of all sizes, from startups to global enterprises.
OSPulse is part of EPAM’s broader initiative to promote open source engagement. With more than 140,000 commits in the public domain, the company is a major contributor to open source software. In 2019, EPAM launched the Open Source Contributor Index (OSCI) to measure and recognize commercial organizations worldwide that contribute to the open source community.
“With OSPulse, we aim to funnel hard-to-define activities into meaningful metrics,” said Howard. “This tool provides the actionable insights needed to quickly quantify open source contributions, make smart hiring decisions, and identify employees’ skills.”
With the launch of OSPulse, EPAM aims to provide transparency and visibility into the open source contributions made by its employees. This not only benefits the company, but also the larger open source community as a whole.
As organizations increasingly turn to open source software to drive growth and innovation, tools like OSPulse will become increasingly crucial in tracking contributions, recognizing talent, and guiding strategic decisions.
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