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Developer Velocity

Drive innovation and business performance by empowering your developer teams.

Outperform the market. Increase innovation.

Software development is at the core of how organizations run. Increasing Developer Velocity is critical to driving business performance. It's about creating the right environment and removing points of friction for developers to innovate.

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Power up your developer teams to drive your business forward

Build productively

Ensure that your developers have the right tools and the right skills for the job.

Collaborate globally and securely

Create an environment where developers collaborate and contribute to software development securely.

Scale innovation

Support the changing needs of your business—including expanding to new geographies and responding to spikes in customer demand.

Organizations with Developer Velocity in the top quartile achieve:1

4–5 times

faster revenue growth

4-5 times faster revenue growth

55 percent

higher innovation

55 percent higher innovation
[1] McKinsey & Company: Driving business outcomes through Developer Velocity 2020 and McKinsey Developer Velocity Survey, Expert Interview.

Get the tools to accelerate Developer Velocity

Ensure that your development teams have the comprehensive developer toolkit and platform they need to build productively, collaborate globally and securely, and scale innovation.

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  • [1] Forrester: The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Development and Infrastructure Platforms, North America, Q1 2020.
  • [2] Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2019.
  • [3] 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms.
  • Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

See how customers are empowering developers to achieve more

"With a rich toolset, maintaining the company's web presence will be much easier moving forward. Visual Studio Code provides great productivity—it loads quickly, runs smoothly on Windows computers and Macs, and lets us use the same IDE across different platforms. The Visual Studio Code community has also proven its worth, providing access to number of extensions that make coding even easier."

Mike Smith, Lead Software Developer

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"GitHub has allowed us to build out our services at speed and in a methodical way, on a platform which 99 percent of our developers are familiar with from either personal development projects or previous roles. One of the drivers of GitHub is developer familiarity. You know that anyone you hire will know GitHub."

Matthew Seaborn, Architecture Director

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"What we are doing in partnership with Microsoft is completely unique in our industry. We've made a significant step forward in the fintech innovation space and our team is energized and inspired to discover what's next."

Félix Grévy, Global Head of Product Management

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"Power Apps gives us new capabilities and ways to adapt quickly and efficiently. The apps are easy to create, easy to deploy, and they give us an incredibly fast way to innovate. There are creative people in all of our business units, and there was pent-up demand for something that allows them to create the way Power Apps does. They're not just creating applications, they're really solving the little problems that, added together, are a big problem to solve."

Chris Ingalls, Business and Solution Architect

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