At an Operational Insights and Development Recommendation (OIDR) system, development artifacts from a central artifacts repository are received. At the OIDR system, statistical data from a central data analysis infrastructure is received. The statistical data is retrieved from application systems running software created from the development artifacts, and the statistical data is correlated with the development artifacts. Data insights and recommendations based on the correlated statistical data and development artifacts are provided by the OIDR system to an enhanced integrated development environment (IDE). Recommendations are derived using an analysis algorithm.