The Total Economic Impact™ of Sourcegraph code intelligence platform
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sourcegraph
Key findings
Relying on customer interviews, data collection, and financial analysis, Forrester Consulting concluded that Sourcegraph can provide customers:
251%
Return on investment
<6 months
Break-even point
$9.37M
Net present value
Incremental profit for customers derives from:
Eliminating other search tools and solutions
Reduced developer labor cost for typical search and understanding activities
Labor savings for additional use cases
How Sourcegraph achieves this impact
Sourcegraph is a code intelligence platform
Sourcegraph understands various developer search use cases and effectively facilitates their application, be it debugging, seeking broad understanding, code reuse, code health analysis, or quality improvements.
Sourcegraph is a multiplier of developer productivity
- Used daily for code search and intelligence needs, saving on average 2-3 hours per week per developer
- Boosts productivity through faster, and more tailored code search and intelligence capabilities. Facilitates a deeper understanding of code, code reuse, best practices, accelerating debugging code, and developer collaboration
- Considered a necessary tool by developers in internal satisfaction surveys
“Sourcegraph helps developers understand things more quickly. They code more effectively and quickly because they understand their surroundings, they understand their requirements, they find code to reuse, etc.”
– Development tools engineering manager, online ticketing
Sourcegraph meaningfully improves developer workflows
Before Sourcegraph:
Ineffective homegrown, open-source, or native code host solutions for code search
Lacking capabilities: Certain query requests were not obtainable, results were in a cumbersome format, and the means to obtain a full understanding was often neither possible nor obvious
Unable to load all repositories
Unacceptable response times ranging from seconds to minutes
Inaccurate results frequently suspect or known to be incorrect or incomplete
After Sourcegraph:
Sourcegraph replaced all existing search tools
Developers found Sourcegraph easy to use, with capabilities aligned to their needs, useful for developing a basic understanding to code, debugging applications, and identifying best practices and code reuse opportunities
Enables search and navigation for the developer org's entire codebase without limits
Split-second response times
Accurate results
Sourcegraph also provides real-time code insights and incident response capabilities
Beyond code search and understanding, Sourcegraph caters to these use cases:
- Provides real-time code analysis for the entire codebase (with Code Insights)
- Provides incident responses to application outages or other issues requiring rapid resolution (with Batch Changes)
“We have used Sourcegraph’s batch changes utility to retire some internal libraries, upgrade library versions, and even changing our URLs that were getting flagged as spam when used in emails. Planning is easier and shorter, communications are improved, and execution is a lot better.”
– Senior manager of developer experience, online software company
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