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About GitHub for enterprises

Learn about {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}'s enterprise products and deployment options for {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}.

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Enterprise

Fundamentals

Why should my business choose {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}?

Provide a platform developers already know. Adopting {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} can help you reduce onboarding time, attract talent, and leverage a large open source community by using tools already familiar to more than 100 million developers.
Consolidate tools in the cloud. {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} is a complete developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Adopting {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} can help companies consolidate their DevOps tools or move away from on-premises solutions that can be difficult to maintain.
Benefit from modern features. {% data variables.product.company_short %} consistently releases new features and updates. Our platform includes well-known tools like {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} and {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %}.

How enterprises use {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}

Businesses use {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} products to support the entire software development lifecycle, increasing development velocity and improving code quality.

With {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}, your business can plan work, increase productivity, automate processes, and keep code secure.

Collaboration

Your developers can:

Track work and communicate in issues and discussions
Plan and review work cycles with projects
Review each other's work in pull requests

Productivity

Your developers can:

Benefit from AI-powered code suggestions with {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %}, the most widely adopted AI developer tool
Get started with new projects quickly with {% data variables.product.prodname_github_codespaces %}, a cloud-hosted development environment
Integrate with {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} from their local development environment using {% data variables.product.prodname_cli %} and {% data variables.product.prodname_desktop %}

Automation

Your business can:

Automate your build, test, and deployment pipeline with {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %}
Host software packages with {% data variables.product.prodname_registry %}
Build tooling with REST and GraphQL APIs, {% data variables.product.prodname_github_apps %}, and webhooks

Security

Your business can:

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Automate detection and remediation of vulnerabilities in code and dependencies using {% data variables.product.prodname_GH_code_security %}
Block users from leaking secrets and identify and remediate historic leaks using {% data variables.product.prodname_GH_secret_protection %}{% else %}
Be alerted to leaked secrets or vulnerable code patterns using {% data variables.product.prodname_GHAS %} tools{% endif %}
Keep software dependencies up to date with {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot %}
Monitor the security landscape across your repositories with security overview

Benefits of the {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} plan

{% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} is our most comprehensive plan. In addition to the features included with a {% data variables.product.prodname_free_team %} or {% data variables.product.prodname_team %} plan for organizations, the plan includes:

Additional features such as SAML authentication and internal repositories. For a detailed list, see {% data variables.product.pricing_link %}.
Extra allowances for usage-based products such as {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %}.
An enterprise account, which provides a single place to manage billing and settings, enforce policies, and audit the people with access to your enterprise.
The option to add {% ifversion ghas-products %}{% else %}{% data variables.product.prodname_GHAS %}, {% endif %}{% data variables.contact.premium_support %}, and {% data variables.copilot.copilot_enterprise %}.

When businesses adopt {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}, their return on investment (ROI) is high. For example, their developers save 45 minutes per day, and onboarding and training time is reduced by 40%. See The Total Economic Impact of {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}.

About deployment options

{% data reusables.enterprise.ghe-includes-ghec-and-ghes %} You can choose to use one or both of these deployment options.

With {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %}:

Your repositories and other resources are hosted by {% data variables.product.company_short %}, and you'll automatically have access to the latest features and bugfixes.
You can choose for your enterprise to be hosted on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %} or, for more control over where your company's code and data reside, on your own subdomain of {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}.
To access your resources, members of your enterprise can use their personal account or, if you use {% data variables.product.prodname_emus %}, you will provision accounts for users using an external system.

With {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %}:

You run your own {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} instance, either on-premises or on a public cloud service.
You create accounts for users, and authenticate users using either built-in authentication or an external system.
You can enable {% data variables.product.prodname_github_connect %} to benefit from features that rely on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}, such as {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %} and actions hosted on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}.

Next steps

Learn more about {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}.
- AUTOTITLE{% ifversion ghes %} in the {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} documentation{% endif %}
- [AUTOTITLE]({% ifversion ghec %}/enterprise-server@latest{% endif %}/admin/overview/about-github-enterprise-server){% ifversion ghec %} in the {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} documentation.{% else %}.{% endif %}
Set up a trial.
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