This month Omnext presented their solutions for controlled outsourced development at the Gartner IT Expo 2007 in Cannes.

"The dynamics of today’s world demand a quicker and better reaction from organizations to internal and external developments.
This can be taken care of with, among other things, “Agile” system development.

Furthermore, outsourcing and offshoring have now become a permanent part of IT.
All of this needs to come off in accordance with the diverse regulations in the field of governance, compliance, and control. This relates to, amongst others, Sarbanes Oxley, SAS70, and ISO20000.

These trends are, primarily, in the domain of EDP auditing."

The solutions include products like Source2VALUE to quantify your (existing) software, Source2UML to document existing software and Source2WIKI to create a WIKI based documentation environment for your application. These solutions are all cross platform and work on a multitude of languages like C#, T-SQL, VB.NET, Java, Delphi, Cobol and Powerbuilder.

Omnext teamed with Gartner to produce an excellent whitepaper on governance.