What challenges did DANA face before AI implementation?

Increase developer productivity and reduce coding effort across software development teams. Support DANA’s broader financial inclusion and digital finance ambitions by improving the speed and quality of software delivery.

What was the impact of the AI solution?

Developers wrote code up to 55% faster. Almost 300 developers adopted GitHub Copilot into daily workflows. About 70% of developers reported better understanding of new and legacy code.

Source

MicrosoftEvidence: Medium50/100

DANA accelerates developer productivity with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft AI

Use case typeDeveloper productivityUpdated Apr 24, 2024

DANA, an Indonesian technology financial company, integrated GitHub Copilot into daily workflows for nearly 300 developers across back-end, front-end, QA, and site reliability teams. The company also used Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Azure OpenAI Service as part of an AI Everywhere initiative to improve software development, operations, workforce productivity, and customer service.

Organization: DANA
Industry: Finance
Location: Indonesia
Published: April 2024

Reported outcomes

+55%

coding speedTime & speed

300 developersdeveloper adoption70%code understanding

Strategic outcomes

Ecosystem & partnershipsImproved developer collaboration and problem solvingEmployee experienceHelped new engineers ramp up fasterOther strategic outcomeAdvanced DANA’s financial inclusion mission

Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks

Normalized claim

Coding speed: 55% increase

Microsoft News CenterApr 24, 2024News articleExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

developers writing code up to 55% faster

Normalized claim

Developer adoption: 300 developers

Microsoft News CenterApr 24, 2024News articleInferred claimMedium evidence strength

almost 300 developers from back-end, front-end, quality assurance and site reliability of DANA have incorporated GitHub Copilot into their daily workflows

Normalized claim

Code understanding: 70%

Microsoft News CenterApr 24, 2024News articleExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

approximately 70% of developers have noted an enhanced understanding of both new and legacy code

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: DANA
Provider: Microsoft
Maturity: Unknown
Linked source: Microsoft News Center

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

Primary read

Use case focus

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1Developer productivity
2Coding assistants
3Employee productivity

Increase developer productivity and reduce coding effort across software development teams.
Support DANA’s broader financial inclusion and digital finance ambitions by improving the speed and quality of software delivery.

DANA integrated GitHub Copilot into developer daily workflows for code suggestions, chat assistance, code understanding, and unit test creation.
The company planned to expand to GitHub Copilot Enterprise and complemented the rollout with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service in its AI Everywhere initiative.

Technologies

GitHub Copilot Copilot Chat Microsoft 365 Copilot Azure OpenAI

Developers wrote code up to 55% faster.
Almost 300 developers adopted GitHub Copilot into daily workflows.
About 70% of developers reported better understanding of new and legacy code.

Architecture

DANA rolled out GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat across software development teams and complemented the developer tooling with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service in a broader AI Everywhere initiative.

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength