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.
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
55 percent
higher innovation
Assess your Developer Velocity—then improve it
Discover where your organization is on the Developer Velocity maturity scale and benchmark your Developer Velocity relative to your peers with a comprehensive assessment. Then, get actionable guidance for how to drive better business outcomes for your organization.
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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GitHub
65 million developers
Securely deliver software faster with tools and practices used by the largest developer community.
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Visual Studio
Number one developer tool2
Increase productivity by enabling developers to code in any language, debug and edit on any OS, and deploy to any platform.
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Power Apps
A Leader in enterprise low-code application platforms3
Accelerate the delivery of applications with low-code tools that enable everyone to be a developer in your organization.
- [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
"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
"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
"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
