We were spending too much time and budget procuring and supporting our toolchain, which had grown to 12 tools. We needed to minimize toolchain maintenance and support as much as possible so our teams could focus on actually creating new feature delivery and not just taking care of all these different tools. Indirectly, it's a benefit for the whole business. That's what it's all about, really — how to be as efficient as possible to get features out to customers.”

Mark Portofe, Director of Platform Engineering, CARFAX

AI should help developers accomplish all of their software development and deployment tasks, not just create faster code. While a quarter of developer's time is spent coding, fully 75% is spent on all other tasks like testing, securing, and analyzing software.

- The State of AI in Software Development

Privacy matters. 95% of executive respondents said privacy and protection of intellectual property are important when evaluating an AI tool or feature. 79% of respondents said they are concerned about AI tools having access to private information or intellectual property.

- The State of AI in Software Development

HackerOne's engineering team saved four to five hours a day per engineer by consolidating the work previously spent on deployment testing.

Dunelm needed a platform that could build pipelines seamlessly, and had security built in from the onset. By using GitLab to improve security processes throughout the software development lifecycle, Dunelm accelerated deployments by 7 times.

Compliance is a critical issue for Lockheed Martin. Using GitLab's compliance framework to enforce software quality and automation to make releases and dependency management more efficient has led to 80x faster pipeline builds, with 90% less time spent on system maintenance.

NatWest Group is adopting GitLab Dedicated to enable our engineers to use a common cloud engineering platform; delivering new customer outcomes rapidly, frequently and securely with high quality, automated testing, on demand infrastructure and straight-through deployment. This will significantly enhance collaboration, improve developer productivity and unleash creativity via a 'single-pane-of-glass' for software development.”

Adam Leggett, Platform Lead - Engineering Platforms, NatWest Group

The team at Chorus credits GitLab for helping them improve their feature cycle analytics. By having test results, security reviews, performance tests, the code climate, and everything in the merge requests, Chorus has been able to move quickly.

Iron Mountain sees GitLab as an important part of Enterprise Architecture and Platforms' enablement of agile methods and helpful to the company's evolution to DevOps. GitLab Ultimate SaaS does the maintenance, so developers can focus on development, reducing 20 hours of onboarding time per project and around $150,000 in cost savings per year.

GitLab has provided us with the foundation and platform to enable our scaled agile framework. We are able to collaborate within our Enterprise IT teams and our key stakeholders.”

Hayelom Tadesse, Vice President of Enterprise Technology, Iron Mountain

With GitLab, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has embraced cloud technology and has automated manual processes. In migrating to GitLab, the team moved 1,500 projects, over 30 organizations, 500 users, and 50GB of data in less than four weeks.

GitLab helps us with multi-cloud deployments. We can deploy runners in any infrastructure, and we're currently using them to deploy to AWS and GCP. Deploying to the cloud has been simple, and in the year we've been using GitLab, we're in a good position to meet our goal of moving to the cloud.”

Caio Trevisan, Head of DevOps Enablement, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

In an open source model, every time there was a gap, or an issue, or something we just needed your help with, we could reach out to GitLab and say, 'Can we work on this together? Is there a way to improve this?' That's the value, and that's one of the reasons we went with GitLab.”

Rick Carey, Group Chief Technology Officer, UBS