IAG accelerates platform consolidation with
GitHub Enterprise Cloud

"The IAG team is gaining valuable learnings from the self-service migration tool and making strong progress in extending it." 
-- Scrum Master, IAG

​The Customer

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IAG (Insurance Australia Group) is Australia and New Zealand’s largest general insurer, with brands including NRMA, CGU, and AMI under its umbrella.  Serving millions of customers and underwriting over $16 billion in premiums annually, IAG employs more than 15,000 people and is listed on the ASX.

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​The Challenge

IAG’s source code was distributed across multiple platforms - Bitbucket Server, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Enterprise Server.  This fragmentation hindered scalability, slowed delivery, and complicated security and compliance.

With 1,800+ users and over 7,500 repositories in Bitbucket Server alone, IAG required a clear path to consolidate into GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Enterprise Managed Users (GHEMU). The challenge extended beyond the initial migration: IAG wanted a repeatable, secure model that would reduce reliance on external vendors and enable internal teams to manage migrations independently.

Solution / Approach​​

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Furō was engaged to provide targeted GitHub advisory and engineering expertise to guide IAG’s platform consolidation.  What began as targeted advisory evolved into the design of a robust self-service migration framework, custom-built for IAG's needs to give them control and repeatability across its business units.

The solution leveraged GitHub-native capabilities - including GitHub Issues, GitHub Actions, and reusable workflows - to empower engineering teams to independently run secure, validated migrations at scale.  By embedding capability through training and best practices, IAG gained both the tools and the knowledge to sustain migrations across business units.

Key elements included:

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• Deployment of GitHub Enterprise Managed Users (GHEMU) for secure identity and access management.

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• An MVP migration solution focused on history preservation and validation, enabling teams to self-manage migrations with scalability for GEI and multi-SCM support.

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• Automation via GitHub Actions to enable consistency, repeatability, and speed.

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• GitHub Enterprise Managed Users Administration Training to build long-term internal capability.
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Outcomes Delivered

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IAG’s migration to GitHub Enterprise Cloud was a strategic step aligned with its cloud-first modernisation agenda. With Furō’s framework in place, IAG can now execute migrations across business units with speed, confidence, and independence.

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• 7,850 repositories can now be migrated securely and consistently.

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• Migration cycle times cut by 80% from 3-6 months to just 3-6 weeks.

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• 50-75% uplift in operational efficiency via reusable GitHub Actions workflows.

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• 2,000-4,500 hours in projected time savings through automation and self-service.​

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• Repeatable, scalable, self-service migration model for ongoing platform adoption without external dependency.

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By combining strategic advisory with engineering execution, Furō has enabled IAG to achieve in weeks what would traditionally takes months. The result: a future-proof migration model, aligned with IAG’s cloud-first modernisation, that empowers internal teams to deliver at speed and scale.