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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 powers modern software organizations from startups to enterprises
Miro
Docker
Webflow
WeTransfer
Pleo
Matillion
Factorial
TrueLayer
Aiven
Gorgias
Trustpilot
Choco

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
Haystack is a reporting platform but it doesn’t give us the micro feedback loops Swarmia does. We tried to operationalize the insights from Haystack but we quickly realized that we could automate some of that with Swarmia and take a lot of the work off our EMs’ plates.
Vignesh Rathika
Senior Technical Program Manager at Choco

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 Swarmia, we’ve been able to highlight problem areas, set target levels, and drive continuous improvement. In two months, we’ve decreased our teams' cycle time by 40%.
Alex Plugaru
Co-Founder & CTO at Gorgias
Swarmia is how the best engineering teams get better. Request a demo today.
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