Best Software Development Analytics Tools for Startups

Jellyfish, the leading Software Engineering Intelligence Platform, enables engineering, finance and business leaders to build more effective R&D organizations by uncovering actionable insights on team health and performance, investment allocations, and delivery. Jellyfish offers solutions aimed at improving developer experience, simplifying software capitalization and understanding the impact of AI coding tools. More than 500 organizations including Clari, Hootsuite, Priceline and PagerDuty trust Jellyfish to optimize their engineering operations so their teams can focus on what matters most. Learn more at jellyfish.co.

Velocity provides in-depth, contextual analytics that equip engineering leaders to support stuck team members, address team roadblocks, and streamline engineering processes. Actionable metrics for engineering leaders. Velocity turns data from commits and pull requests into the insights you need to make lasting improvements to your team’s productivity. Quality: Automated code review for test coverage, maintainability and more so that you can save time and merge with confidence. Receive automated code review comments on your pull requests. Our 10-point technical debt assessment provides real-time feedback, so you can save time and focus on what matters in your code review discussions. Get test coverage right, every time. See coverage line by line within diffs. Never merge code without sufficient tests again. At a glance, identify frequently changed files that have inadequate coverage and maintainability issues. Track your progress against measurable goals, day-by-day.

Tara AI is a platform designed to help modern software teams manage and deliver across their product development lifecycle. Tara AI is reinventing the slow, antiquated and completely manual product development process that causes enterprises to lose billions of dollars annually through inefficiencies in project scoping. F500 companies have significant data in their project management systems, git version control and workforce directories. Tara AI connects to this data via an API, and using ML models, predicts how to build their software (technical tasks), how long projects should take (timeline) and who will execute (team) when starting a new project.

Faros AI connects the dots between your engineering data sources – ticketing, source control, CI/CD, and more – giving unprecedented visibility and insight into your engineering processes. Be amazed at what you can achieve with Faros AI. With Faros AI, engineering leaders can scale their operations in a more data-informed way — using data to identify bottlenecks, measure progress towards organizational goals, better support teams with the right resources, and accurately assess the impact of interventions over time. DORA Metrics come standard in Faros AI, and the platform is extensible to allow organizations to build their own custom dashboards and metrics so they can get deep insights into their engineering operations and take intelligent action in a data-driven manner. Leading organizations including Box, Coursera, GoFundMe, Astronomer, Salesforce, etc. trust Faros AI as their engops platform of choice.

Pluralsight Flow optimizes software delivery with actionable insights from your code repos and agile tools. Increase your team's product delivery speed by identifying and mitigating developer friction and building healthy development patterns. Flow gives you unmatched visibility into your team’s workflow patterns so you can identify bottlenecks, compare trends and help your team be as effective as possible.

Plandek is an intelligent analytics platform that empowers software engineering teams and leaders to deliver value faster and more predictably. Celebrated by Gartner and Forrester as a 'leading global vendor', Plandek mines data from delivery teams’ toolsets and gives them the opportunity to optimise their delivery process using both intelligent insights and predictive analytics. Co-founded in 2017 by Dan Lee (founder of Globrix) and Charlie Ponsonby (founder of Simplifydigital), Plandek is based in London and currently services the UK, Europe, the Middle East and North America.