A $24B+ publicly-traded retail company sought to streamline its software development process by migrating from a variety of disparate tools, including Azure DevOps, to GitHub's comprehensive product suite. This transition was crucial for enhancing cross-team collaboration, boosting efficiency, and increasing productivity for the whole team.
The Challenge
The company faced the complex task of migrating data, information, and functionality from multiple platforms to GitHub's industry-leading software development and deployment suite. They sought a hands-on partner capable of leading the migration with expert guidance and ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to critical business operations.
Key challenges included:
- Migrating from Azure DevOps while ensuring compatibility with existing systems.
- Implementing and configuring GitHub's Advanced Security features, including secret scanning and dependency review.
- Maintaining the functionality of existing tools and processes, such as the code query tool on GHAzDO and ADO Pipelines.
- Integrating third-party DLLs and static libraries into GitHub's product automation suite.
- Ensuring continued Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance.
- Completing the migration before system-critical software releases.
The Solution
The Results
Coveros's expertise and dedication resulted in a highly successful migration as well as:
- Early Completion: The migration was completed 6 months ahead of the original deadline, allowing the company to execute planned releases from GitHub's product without delay.
- Improved Collaboration: As the company's Director of Architecture & Engineering stated: "We would not have been able to migrate to GitHub this year without Coveros and the Coveros team's work and assistance. This has directly led to Enhanced Efficiency: much greater cross-team collaboration due specifically to the ability to use the GitHub Projects tool as a part of our flow."
- Enhanced Efficiency: The migration to GitHub's product suite streamlined the company's workflows, leading to increased efficiency and productivity.
- High Satisfaction: The company rated Coveros's service as excellent, demonstrating their high level of satisfaction.
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