Saxo Bank Developers Use GitHub Copilot in Almost Every New Application
Saxo Bank· DenmarkGitHub Copilot · Azure OpenAI · Microsoft 365 Copilot +1
Danish broker Saxo Bank rolled out GitHub Copilot to more than 400 of its 700+ platform developers, who now use it to generate code, debug errors and write test code in almost all new application development, with an overall code-acceptance rate of around 30%. Saxo also built a client-facing chatbot on Azure OpenAI with controlled responses limited to approved help content, and sent engineers to Microsoft's AI Co-Innovation Lab in Munich to prototype a news recommendation engine using large language models.
Overview
Danish broker Saxo Bank rolled out GitHub Copilot to more than 400 of its 700+ platform developers, who now use it to generate code, debug errors and write test code in almost all new application development, with an overall code-acceptance rate of around 30%. Saxo also built a client-facing chatbot on Azure OpenAI with controlled responses limited to approved help content, and sent engineers to Microsoft's AI Co-Innovation Lab in Munich to prototype a news recommendation engine using large language models.
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Inspect the highlighted sourceThe challenge
Saxo Bank's team of more than 700 developers needed faster, more efficient ways to write and debug code, including languages and frameworks they were not familiar with.
The solution
Saxo introduced GitHub Copilot in February 2023; more than 400 of its 700+ developers now use it to generate short lines of code for review, debug issues, write test code, create boilerplate, and work with unfamiliar languages and frameworks.
Reported business value
GitHub Copilot speeds up development by unblocking developers, with an overall code acceptance rate of around 30%, and has made coding more accessible to non-developer staff such as infrastructure engineers.
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