GitHub Copilot

Code Completion

Context-aware suggestions and automatically completed code snippets as developers type.

IDE Integration

Integrates with integrated development environments (IDEs) and provides plugins or extensions for widely used IDEs like Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, IntelliJ.

Summarization & Explanation

Ability to summarize specific sections of code. This can be in the form of a Q&A session between the developer and their code base.

Natural Language Generation

Ability to generate code from natural language prompts, including code snippets or entire modules.

Commenting

Ability to generate comments and insert them into the code base for better readability and explainability.

Multi-Language Support

Send or translate alerts in multiple languages and refers to both computer languages and spoken languages.

Unit Tests

Ability to generate unit tests for selected sections of code.

Refactoring

Suggestions for optimizing code for performance, efficiency, or improvements/automatically refactor code to adhere to best practices and coding standards.

Bug Detection

Will detect issues in your code and suggest a fix all in one seamless editor.

Ease of Implementation

Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created

Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness

End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features

Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features

Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration

Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training

Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration

This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Customization

Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support

The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.