While the need to address the growing reliance on data among knowledge workers has added a great deal of complexity to corporate software projects, analytics also hold the key to solving many of the more fundamental issues that often hold back development work in the enterprise. At least according to Seerene GmbH, which raised $5 million in seed funding from Berlin-based Earlybird Venture Capital and several other unnamed backers this week to provide engineering teams with the deep visibility needed to verify that every single component of an application meets expected quality standards.

The sheer scope of the typical mission-critical software project has historically made quality assurance difficult for organizations, delaying the release date by weeks and sometimes even months while the code is painstakingly combed for flaws And even then reliability is hardly guaranteed, exposing users to the risk of bugs that can hamper their productivity and potential security vulnerabilities. Seerene promises to address the challenge by visualizing makeup of an application in a so-called software map that offers transparency into any bugs and inefficiencies that might hide beneath the surface.

Its platform provides additional context about technical problems using built-in algorithms that measure metrics like the amount of time developers spends on different parts of an application to help identify productivity bottlenecks. Seerene also enables companies to correlate internal team performance with anonymized data collected from other users in same market segment to understand how they compare against the competition.  The technology is already finding use with several dozen of Germany’s largest corporations, including Adidas AG, the Volkswagen Group and SAP SA.

Seerene will use the new funding to extend its customer base to Asia, which doesn’t have as much competition as the U.S. but presents a similarly valuable growth opportunity. India is home to a multi-billion-dollar outsourcing industry with a strong interest in achieving the productivity benefits that its solution promises to deliver, while other regional leaders such as as Japan, South Korea and Singapore boast robust technology-driven economies where software plays an equally important part.

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