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DX and Spotify announced a partnership to help engineering organizations achieve higher returns on investment and business impact from their Spotify Portal for Backstage implementation.
Engineering organizations using Spotify Portal for Backstage—Spotify’s full-featured, opinionated SaaS solution for Backstage—will get access to DX’s developer productivity measurement and benchmarking platform, equipping leaders with data insights to understand, improve, and showcase their impact on organizational goals.
Spotify Portal for Backstage helps engineering teams of any size get their IDP up and running quickly, maximizing its value from day one. Built with platform engineering best practices directly into the platform, it includes access to premium plugins, and now, DX measurement capabilities, including:
- Developer Experience Index (DXI): A single view of key engineering performance drivers linked to real business impact—developed on years of accumulated quantitative and qualitative research from over 40,000 developers.
- DX Core 4 benchmarking: Review and compare benchmark data for the DX Core 4—covering DORA, SPACE, and DevEx—by leveraging over 4M industry data points.
- Real-time experience sampling: Gather and respond to real-time developer feedback on your IDP with PlatformX, providing detailed sentiment and behavioral analytics.
“Our research shows that over 80% of enterprises are choosing Backstage as their IDP solution. To be able to partner with the creators of Backstage on their full-featured, opinionated configuration is exciting,” said Abi Noda, CEO and Co-founder of DX. “Through DX’s measurement capabilities, teams setting up Spotify Portal will have access to an unparalleled level of data and insight that will drive more value from their investment.”
“We introduced Spotify Portal for Backstage to help developers get up and running with an IDP from day one,” said Pia Nilsson, Platform Developer Experience lead at Spotify. “By bringing DX’s industry-leading measurement capabilities to Spotify Portal for Backstage, platforms teams get increased access to data that can help them measure and identify the highest-impact areas to solve. Our partnership will allow users to prioritize developer needs and unlock greater value from their portals.”
With DX, Spotify Portal for Backstage users now have access to the insights that will help justify business cases, shape roadmaps, and increase developer productivity.
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