a coordinated, formalized corporate strategy or road map(s) • Open source consumption policy needs to work alongside FIGURE 7 presents, this year’s survey shows is important. As tooling, education, guidelines, and more to be effective. that 43% of respondents strongly agree, and 36% somewhat • Organizations have a surprising level of confidence in the agree that their organization's contribution to open source quality of the open source components they consume. would increase if it focused on the value proposition that open source holds for their organization. • Open source is used widely for a great variety of purposes. However, for the largest of organizations, its use Organizational Consumption in AI/ML and data and analytics, is most prominent. In this section, we focus on the consumption of open source • There is a wide range of motivating factors for increasing within organizations. This means the use or incorporation of open source consumption, which suggests that OSPOs open source code, components, and tools in the creation and and open source leaders need to exhibit equal breadth in operation of an organization’s digital products or services. their leadership. Here we find that: ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY ON • A total of 48% of respondents work in organizations that OPEN SOURCE CONSUMPTION openly encourage open source consumption, which is a The software industry has generally embraced open source, FIGURE 8 significant improvement (+21%) over last year. See with multiple reports indicating that open source has become below. 8 a dominant force. The recent Census II report from Linux FIGURE 7 Education as an influencing factor for increased contribution to OSS My organization's contribution to OSS would increase if it focused investment or effort on organization-wide education on the value proposition. 3% 3% 15% 36% 43% Strongly disagree Somewhat disagree Neither agree nor disagree Somewhat agree Strongly agree 2022 FINOS STATE OF OSS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES SURVEY, Q28, SAMPLE SIZE = 191, DKNS EXCLUDED THE 2022 STATE OF OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES 16
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