Spotify and DX team up to help companies build smarter IDPs

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Spotify Portal for Backstage + DX

tl;dr Now when you get the Spotify Portal beta, you also get access to DX’s developer intelligence platform. By combining our SaaS solution for Backstage with DX’s research and insights, you can quickly get started with an internal developer portal (IDP) today and customize it to fit your org’s evolving needs. To learn more about how Spotify and DX can help you reach your developer experience goals, both today and tomorrow, register for our live webinar on June 4.

The IDP platform of choice

More and more companies are recognizing the need for an IDP. But not all IDP solutions are created equal. When having to decide which one to invest in, engineering orgs face the eternal conundrum of whether to build, buy, or do something in-between. DX recently surveyed 180 companies to understand how they were approaching that decision.

Internal Developer Portals - Market Share from DX. Backstage: 67%, Homegrown 13%, No solution: 11%, SaaS: 9% DX’s survey of 180 companies

Breaking down the survey data in his newsletter, Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO of DX, notes that the “results are pretty striking”:

Backstage is dominating the IDP market, holding an impressive 89% market share compared to SaaS competitors and achieving a remarkable 67% overall market penetration.

Why has Backstage become the IDP platform of choice for so many companies, regardless of size, industry, and whether they are a digital native or not? We believe the diversity of adopters is actually the answer to the question: Backstage is the preferred platform because it’s the most flexible and extensible. Since Backstage is an open source framework and anyone can build for it, it can fit the needs of almost any company.

But what if you don’t have the time or resources to build your own Backstage IDP from scratch? And with so much flexibility, how do you know where to even begin building? Build what, exactly? That’s where Spotify Portal and DX come in.

Market-leading IDP meets industry-leading intelligence

Spotify Portal is a full-featured, cloud-based IDP that’s easy to set up and maintain — just log in and you have an IDP. With DX, Portal adopters get access to industry-leading data and insights for understanding the needs of their developers and measuring developer productivity. Combined, Portal and DX help you deliver higher return on investment and business impact from your IDP. Here’s what you get get when you apply for the Portal beta with DX:

Spotify Portal: It’s Backstage in a box

Spotify Portal is Spotify’s opinionated version of Backstage, built and designed by our platform experts. By taking the best of the open source Backstage framework and combining it with the ease of SaaS, Portal is the fastest way to get up and running with a Backstage IDP of your own. It includes everything you need to get started with an IDP, including:

  • Quickstart tools: With the built-in Setup Guide and Catalog Wizard, you’ll be up and running with an IDP in minutes, no coding required.

  • Core features: Portal includes core Backstage features built-in, including the Software Catalog, Software Templates, TechDocs, and more.

  • Powerful plugins: Spotify’s premium plugins are automatically included — including Soundcheck, our scorecard solution for improving tech health. You can also easily install third-party and custom-built plugins using the Config Manager.

With Spotify Portal for Backstage, you have everything you need to promote ownership, improve discoverability, and banish the chaos that can come with managing software. Add now with DX, you also get access to crucial metrics to understand IDP usage to help drive internal adoption.

DX: The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers

Spotify for Backstage customers are eligible to receive limited free access to the DX platform, including:

  • Developer experience benchmarking to help develop your IDP roadmap and business case:

    • DX Core 4 Benchmarks: Review and compare benchmark data across key measures of developer productivity from 500+ companies.

    • Developer Experience Index (DXI): Gain a single view of key engineering performance drivers that are linked to financial impact — developed on years of accumulated quantitative and qualitative research from over 40,000 developers.

  • Free 90-day access to the full DX platform for real-time developer feedback and software delivery metrics:

    • Analytics for DORA, SPACE, and more: Expert-designed metrics and reporting for a complete view of engineering processes and performance across the development lifecycle.

    • Data Studio: Build your own custom dashboards and metrics, powered by SQL and AI.

    • PlatformX: Gather and respond to real-time feedback on your IDP, with detailed sentiment and behavior analysis.

While we make Spotify Portal easy to get up and running with an IDP, driving measurable, ongoing business impact from your IDP means truly understanding and responding to how it’s being used.

Gathering data, analyzing sentiment, identifying use cases or hurdles — DX’s platform powers this crucial work which acts as a foundation for successful IDP deployments. We’re excited to see how access to these insights will empower Spotify Portal users to get even greater value from their dev portals.

Apply for the Spotify Portal with limited free access to DX

Want to try out Spotify Portal for Backstage and gain access to the DX platform? Head over to the sign-up page for the beta and unlock five weeks of Spotify Portal for Backstage for free and 90 days of free access to the full DX platform. Apply to get the Spotify Portal beta with access to DX here.

Want to learn more about how Spotify Portal and DX work together? Join our live webinar on June 4. Learn how to build something your teams will love to use and that will lead to a measurable impact on both developer productivity and your business goals, today and in the future.