Partnering with GitHub: From Fragmentation to Platform, Scaling Innovation Across Nemetschek

At the Nemetschek Group, our strength has always been our diverse and powerful portfolio of industry-leading brands. For decades, we have empowered professionals in the AEC/O industry to design, build, and manage the world around us. This growth, often through strategic acquisitions, has cemented our position as a global leader. However, it also presented a unique opportunity: to transform a fragmented technology landscape into a unified powerhouse of innovation.

Today, we are not just unifying our brands; we are building a truly collaborative, AI-first future on a single, integrated platform: GitHub Enterprise. This is more than a technical migration; it is a cultural transformation that is reshaping how we innovate, collaborate, and deliver value to our customers.

Previously, our development teams operated in silos, each with its own set of tools, workflows, and repositories. This made cross-brand collaboration and knowledge sharing a challenge. We envisioned a future where our 4,000+ employees could seamlessly share code, insights, and innovations. The answer was a strategic move to GitHub Enterprise, creating a "single pane of glass" that integrates everything from code management and CI/CD with GitHub Actions to security and AI-assisted development.

Security was paramount. With decades of proprietary code and valuable intellectual property, we needed absolute assurance that our data would remain protected. GitHub Enterprise provides the enterprise-grade governance and protection we require, ensuring our code is never used to train public AI models. This powerful, end-to-end platform has become the foundation for the next chapter of our growth.

Sergei Gukasov is a Cloud Infrastructure PMO, one of his responsibilities is the implementation of the GitHub platform across Nemetschek Group. He describes the company’s situation as it stood 18 months ago. As Arkadiy and Sergei explain: “Some of our codebases are twice as old as we are. Each brand was using different tools and different workflows. Cross-brand teams had limited ways to collaborate, and knowledge sharing was not where it needed to be. AI implementation possibilities were very limited, and it was impossible to measure ROI." As Sergei emphasizes from an infrastructure and tooling perspective: “For us, consolidating on a unified GitHub Enterprise platform is not just a tooling change, it is the backbone for reliable and secure cloud delivery across all brands, and the only way to standardize best practices, control costs, and accelerate innovation at group level”.  The strategic response to this challenge

The major complexity in this journey was the integration of artifact management into the new platform strategy. Different brands had historically used various artifact repositories and homegrown distribution mechanisms, each with their own retention policies, access models, and compliance requirements. Aligning these into a coherent, group-wide approach, while deciding when to use GitHub and when to rely on existing/new artifact solutions, required careful governance, migration planning, and change management with product teams.

In parallel with our platform unification, we have embraced the transformative power of AI with a full-scale rollout of GitHub Copilot to over 1,200 developers. Our philosophy was clear from the start: "Enablement over Access." We understood that simply providing a tool is not enough. True transformation comes from investing in our people.

We dedicated significant resources to an intensive training program, spending more on education than on the licenses themselves in Q4 2025. Through over 50 specialized training sessions, a highly successful "Champions Program," and a thriving internal community led by Copilot ambassadors, we empowered our developers to become masters of AI-assisted development.

The results have been nothing short of remarkable. After launching the training program, our average Copilot code acceptance rate skyrocketed from 10-15% to over 30-35% and continues to climb. This demonstrates a fundamental shift in how our developers approach their work, using AI not just as a tool, but as a true collaborative partner.

The impact on our organization is clear and measurable. Developer satisfaction, our most important KPI, has soared, with 80% of our developers stating they would be disappointed if Copilot were taken away. A remarkable 72% report feeling significantly more productive.

This boost in morale is backed by hard data. Self-reported time savings in 10 months have doubled from 70 to approximately 160 minutes per developer per week. For a team of over 1,200, this unlocks a massive amount of organizational capacity, which is now being reinvested into what matters most: innovation, architectural improvements, and well-being. Quality remains our top priority, and all AI-generated code is rigorously validated through our established "trust but verify" review and testing processes.

Looking ahead, our journey is just beginning. We are actively exploring agentic AI workflows, where AI agents can autonomously handle tasks like bug fixing and refactoring under developer supervision. Our vision is a truly AI-first R&D organization, where AI is embedded in every stage of the software development lifecycle. By connecting everything on the GitHub platform, we can accelerate delivery from months to weeks, or even days.

By unifying our brands on GitHub and investing deeply in our people, the Nemetschek Group is not just building software; we are building a more connected, innovative, and efficient future for our employees and our customers.