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Gain visibility & improve engineering effectiveness

Haystack and Swarmia appear pretty similar on the surface, but they have a few fundamental differences. Most importantly, while Haystack is a reporting platform, Swarmia is purpose-built to help teams drive change in practice.
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Swarmia is trusted by great software organizations from startups to enterprises
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Bolt
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TrueLayer
Aiven
Cleo
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Swarmia guides you on a path of continuous improvement across three key areas

Drive planned business outcomes
CTOs, VPEs, and engineering directors use Swarmia to make decisions that move the business in the right direction.

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Investment balance
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Initiatives
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Software capitalization
Systematically improve developer productivity
Engineering directors and managers use Swarmia to identify and eliminate software delivery bottlenecks.

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Engineering metrics
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Work log
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Developer overview
Create better developer experience
Give your software teams the tools they need to improve the experience of shipping software.

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Working agreements
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Slack notifications
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CI insights
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Developer experience surveys
“We’re using Swarmia to improve anything and everything we can within our software development lifecycle. The end-to-end visibility means that we’re not limited in what we can improve.”
Dan Gaskin
Engineering Manager, SKUTOPIA

Why leading engineering teams choose Swarmia over Haystack

Improve developer experience with engineering surveys
Swarmia helps you combine system metrics and developer feedback so you know exactly what to improve and how.

Correlate engineering metrics with qualitative feedback from your developers.

Effortlessly run developer surveys and turn the insights you collect into concrete action points.
Understand and balance engineering investments
Swarmia’s investment balance provides a high-level overview of how your organization and teams divide time between key initiatives, projects, and OKRs.

The investment categories are fully configurable, allowing you to track any type of work you want. After setting basic rules for categorizing issues and PRs, Swarmia automatically splits them.

Compared to Haystack, Swarmia also offers a lot more leadership views.
Use working agreements to improve as a team
Both Swarmia and Haystack integrate with Slack to send real-time notifications. However, Swarmia also lets you set team-wide working agreements to align with key priorities.

Whether you want to follow industry best practices or set numeric targets, Swarmia has a working agreement for that.
“With visibility into the right metrics in Swarmia, we were able to set the right ways of working, which significantly improved our lead time.”
Adam Kupcewicz
Director of Engineering, Hostaway
Swarmia is how the best engineering teams get better. Request a demo today.
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