Bitergia - Software analytics for your peace of mind

In previous posts, MetricsGrimoire and FLOSSMetrics were presented to show how already existing Free/Open Source Software Projects already exist in order to obtain metrics and try to evaluate the Quality and State of the Art of software for a particular project, whether it is FLOSS or not.

However, these tools, that are focused on retrieval and storage of the projects on a Database in order to created structured data, do not focus on the analysis, presentation or exploitation of the data.
 For this reason, the company Bitergia, has created a set of tools that enable, on the one hand, an analysis framework, written in GNU-R, called VizGrimoireR, and, on the other hand, a Dashboard-like web presentation of the metrics analysed, through the VizGrimoireJS library. A demo can be observed on this link.

These tools, together with MetricsGrimoire, help on making the circle narrower in order to generate complete reports to help on diagnosing, analysing and improving software projects (Free/Open Source preferably, but not necessarily).

Examples of the kind of reports being generated are, for example:

Mediawiki: http://bitergia.com/public/previews/2012_11_mediawiki/
Webkit: http://bitergia.com/public/reports/webkit/2013_01/index.html
FusionForge: http://bitergia.com/public/previews/2012_11_fusionforge/
OpenStack (Havana Release): http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/10/17/the-openstack-havana-release/
LifeRay: http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/10/23/liferay-and-its-growth-during-the-last-years/

This company, which has still a long way to go, above all in the Private Companies environment, rather than Open Source Projects, is also a good example on how to provide services through Free/Open Source Software, justifying that business models around Open Source are possible to implement.