Black Duck integrated Ohloh's functionality with their existing products to advance the site into a major resource for FOSS development.

[15] Those global statistics across all projects in Black Duck Open Hub have also been used to identify those with the most extensive continuous revision control histories.

[16] Contributor statistics are also available, measuring open-source developers' experience as observable in code committed to revision control repositories.

[17] The idea of measuring open-source developers' skills and productivity on the basis of commit statistics or mutual rating has received mixed reactions in technology blogs.

On 22 August 2007, a public beta of a web-service API was announced, exposing Black Duck Open Hub's data and reports to promote the development of third-party applications.

[22] On 6 April 2016, the team announced Hub 3.0, which streamlined continuous integration and DevOps processes through policy management and rapid scanning capabilities.