quality_assurance · healthcare · workflow
AstraZeneca accelerates drug development with GitHub Enterprise, Actions, and Copilot—achieving 40% developer velocity increase
AstraZeneca's software organization was fragmented across Bitbucket and other satellite systems, making collaboration difficult, deployments inconsistent and error-prone, and onboarding slow for a diverse user base of around 3,000 people.
How it works
Common implementation structure
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Stage 1 · Platform consolidation decision
AstraZeneca decided to consolidate approximately 3,000 users and 20,000 repositories from Bitbucket and other satellite systems onto GitHub.
Tools used
GitHub EnterpriseGitHub ActionsGitHub CopilotGitHub Issues
Outcome
AstraZeneca consolidated nearly 99% of developers and source code on GitHub, grew CI/CD automation events by 100%, and through GitHub Copilot achieved a 40% developer velocity increase with engineers reporting 9-10 hours of extra output per week.
Results
Time savedover 1,600
Volume40%
Cost replacedexponentially reduced remediation costs—often tens or hundreds of times more cost-effective
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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