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GitHub: The Complete Developer Platform

GitHub is the industry’s leading developer platform—uniting AI-powered coding, automated workflows, built-in security, and team collaboration to accelerate software delivery. From your first line of code to global-scale deployment, GitHub helps teams build, ship, and secure applications faster, with measurable gains in productivity, quality, and time-to-market.

The Foundation of Secure, Collaborative, Fast Development

GitHub is a cloud-based developer platform that centralizes how teams store code, track changes, and collaborate at scale. Built on Git—the industry-standard version control system—GitHub intelligently manages updates across branches, ensuring every contributor works safely and efficiently without overwriting each other’s progress. Teams can create repositories, review code, open pull requests, and merge changes with confidence, all while maintaining a secure, governed history of every decision.

Whether working directly in the browser or synchronizing local development through tools like GitHub Desktop, teams benefit from streamlined workflows that accelerate development and reduce integration friction. GitHub unifies planning, coding, testing, and review, creating a single collaborative ecosystem designed for modern, high-velocity software engineering.

Key Features & Capabilities

GitHub brings together AI-powered development, automated workflows, and built-in security to streamline how teams plan, code, ship, and scale software.

  • Collaborative Coding: Accelerate innovation with shared repositories, pull requests, and protected branches. Tools like Codespaces, Discussions, and advanced code search help teams review changes, resolve issues, and collaborate securely from any device.

  • Automation & CI/CD: Standardize and scale best practices with GitHub Actions. Automate tests, builds, deployments, onboarding, approvals, and project workflows. Extend functionality through APIs, Marketplace integrations, workflow templates, and both cloud-hosted and self-hosted runners.

  • Application Security: Strengthen your SDLC with GitHub Advanced Security. Detect and fix vulnerabilities using CodeQL scanning, Dependabot updates, secret scanning, and Copilot Autofix—resolving 90% of alert types across major languages.

  • Project Management & Insights: Plan and track work with GitHub Projects, Issues, and Milestones. Leverage charts, insights, and dependency intelligence to visualize progress and drive data-backed decisions.

Business Benefits

GitHub delivers measurable gains in productivity, security, and scalability—helping organizations build and ship software faster while reducing both risk and operational overhead. Its AI-powered tools and streamlined workflows eliminate friction across the development lifecycle, enabling teams to focus on innovation rather than manual tasks.

Organizations experience significant efficiency improvements, including 55% faster coding with GitHub Copilot, an 80% reduction in developer onboarding time, and 75% less effort spent managing tools and infrastructure. These optimizations translate into real financial impact, with companies saving $3.2M through automation and streamlined workflows. GitHub also scales effortlessly across enterprises, supporting teams of any size and earning the trust of 150M+ developers, 4M+ organizations, and 90% of the Fortune 100.

Built-in security further strengthens the platform’s business value. GitHub offers 3× faster remediation with Copilot Autofix, an average of 28 minutes from detection to fix, and prevented 4.4M secrets from leaking in 2024. With integrated code scanning, secret protection, and supply chain security, GitHub ensures every application is built on a foundation of safety, reliability, and continuous governance.

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With GitHub, organizations achieve an 80% reduction in developer onboarding time to accelerate productivity.

GitHub Use Cases Across Industries

Organizations use GitHub to modernize development, improve security, and accelerate AI adoption at enterprise scale.

  • Professional Services: EY unified Azure DevOps and GitHub to streamline global DevSecOps, adopting GitHub Copilot to generate 1.2M+ AI-written lines of code and integrating Advanced Security to prevent vulnerabilities earlier in the SDLC.

  • Engineering & Technology: Trimble transformed developer productivity by using GitHub Copilot and Actions, saving 1,000 hours a day, reducing repetitive work, and enabling engineers to focus on high-impact systems.

  • Automotive Manufacturing: Ford unified 22,000+ developers on GitHub Enterprise, replacing legacy workflows with standardized practices that improved collaboration, code reuse, and onboarding speed across global engineering teams.

  • Aviation: Cathay modernized fragmented toolchains with an AI-powered GitHub platform, achieving a 63% faster remediation rate and a 40% improvement in tech debt fixes while improving developer satisfaction.

  • Consumer Reviews: Trustpilot scaled from 10 to 130 engineers by centralizing development on GitHub Team, automating deployments, and streamlining collaboration—powering 300 releases per week and supporting a global platform built on 71M+ customer reviews.

Integrations & Compatibility

GitHub integrates seamlessly with the tools enterprises rely on—extending workflows and enabling teams to collaborate from anywhere. Through GitHub Marketplace, organizations can connect editor extensions, project management platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and communication tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams. These integrations automate tasks, surface real-time updates, and link issues, code, and discussions across systems. Whether reviewing pull requests in VS Code, synchronizing commits to Jira, or triggering workflows from chat, GitHub unifies development activity and ensures teams stay aligned, productive, and secure.

brs + GitHub = Software Development

brs leverages GitHub as a core element of our modern engineering stack—bringing AI-powered development, automated workflows, and built-in security to every project. By combining GitHub with our expertise in data, cloud, and DevSecOps, we help organizations streamline collaboration, accelerate delivery, and adopt secure, scalable software practices that drive measurable business impact.

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With GitHub and brs, organizations across Canada and North America streamline development, strengthen security, and accelerate innovation with AI-powered workflows.

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