Virtual Forge´s CodeProfiler protects The Linde Group
The Linde Group has been a Virtual Forge customer since 2010. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, the company is a world leading supplier of industrial, specialty and medicinal gases. In addition, Linde offers planning, project development and construction of turnkey industrial plants, as well as logistics services.
Linde uses a broad portfolio of SAP applications. For application customizing and custom ABAP developments, the company mainly works with third party developers. Linde has created its own guidelines for system development (coding). “For Linde, it is not sufficient to merely fulfill the common business and data protection requirements”, explains Wolf Paravincini, team lead for SAP application development at Linde. “As a supplier of medicinal gases, we have to adhere to the procedural regulations established by agencies such as the European Medicines Agency. This is why we consider it crucial to ensure secure coding in our ABAP development – from the ground up.” Using the ABAP guidelines provided by Virtual Forge, Linde has refined its development standards even more. Automated code checks help the company maintain full control over its code and the related security risks.
With the help of CodeProfiler, Linde can now ensure the highest quality standards when working with external ABAP developers. Says Dr. Markus Schumacher, CEO of Virtual Forge: „With CodeProfiler, Linde can run automated compliance tests that meet the company's requirements and process standards. Quality is now integrated into the process itself, and not just the result of arbitrary events“. Stephan Sachs, Manager for Application Security at Linde, is highly satisfied with CodeProfiler: “We can easily integrate CodeProfiler into all of our development processes, it delivers quick results, and it minimizes the risks related to malicious code. Ever since we’ve been using the tool, the developers have become more aware and are delivering better quality code.”
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