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BlueOptima provides a SaaS technology that objectively measures software development efficiency. Our core metrics for productivity and code maintainability allow executives to make data-driven decisions related to talent optimization, vendor management, location strategy, and more.
Organisations continue to heavily invest in software development; however, those investments are a gamble without a reliable means to assess the productivity of software engineering teams. Traditionally, IT executives have had to make strategic decisions based on inaccurate or subjective metrics like counting LoC, Function Points, and Story Points. Most importantly, these metrics have not been able to provide a transparent view into the complex, diversified software estates many executives govern.
BlueOptima objectively understands your software estate metrics and outputs to optimize the velocity, quality, and cost of your software estate. We provide transparent data that enables executives to optimize efficiency by understanding which business areas and transformational changes are yielding the best results and where improvements can be made.
First started in 2001, BlueOptima was born from research at Cambridge University. The company has since evolved to become one of the largest benchmarking databases in the world for software developers.
We work across many industries, such as financial institutions, telecommunications, healthcare, and automotive companies, along with many more.
BlueOptima has developed tools that provide objective metrics across an array of languages to accurately inform and support our clients.
Productivity is measured through Actual Coding Effort (ACE), which is the intellectual effort a developer applies when making source code changes.
We measure maintainability through a metric called Analysis of Relative Thresholds (ART).
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