Atlassian has announced it will buy DX, a leading engineering intelligence platform, to help make it a leading player in artificial intelligence (AI).
The Australian software company said the acquisition for an unspecified price addressed a growing concern among its engineering teams about whether its investment in AI helped them deliver better software faster.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Mike Cannon-Brookes said the deal represented a big step forward for Atlassian products by letting customers understand whether their AI investments were worthwhile.
“Using AI is easy, creating value is harder. Today’s announcement is about helping our 300,000-plus customers understand if they’re making the right investments to win in the AI era,” he said.
Atlassian said it had spent two decades building tools that helped teams do their best work.
By integrating DX into Atlassian’s System of Work alongside tools like Jira, Bitbucket, Compass, and Rovo Dev, it was giving customers the intelligence they needed to optimise team performance and AI spend.
This continues Atlassian’s acquisition spree after it bought The Browser company for US$610 million.
DX provides data-driven insights that help more than 350 enterprise customers, including Pfizer, Pinterest, and Xero, track and improve developer productivity.
The acquisition marks a strategic step in Atlassian’s mission to help tech-driven organisations turn software development into a competitive advantage by aligning data, tools, and teams across the enterprise.
