Nemetschek Group’s partnership with GitHub is reshaping how it innovates, collaborates and delivers value to customers, writes Arkadiy Golyaev
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.
From fragmentation to a single pane of glass
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 emphasises 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 standardise 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 artefact management into the new platform strategy. Different brands had historically used various artefact repositories and homegrown distribution mechanisms, each with its 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 artefact solutions, required careful governance, migration planning and change management with product teams.
Enablement over access: A new approach to AI
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 programme, spending more on education than on the licences themselves in Q4 2025. Through over 50 specialised training sessions, a highly successful “Champion’s Programme” 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 programme, 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.
Quantifiable success and a brighter future
The impact on our organisation 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 organisational capacity, which is now being reinvested into what matters most: innovation, architectural improvements and wellbeing.
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 organisation, 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.
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