Case Study: Siemens Healthineers achieves faster feature delivery and reduced maintenance overhead with GitLab

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Siemens Healthineers relied on GitLab to manage its development workflows but faced the challenge of getting product changes implemented without maintaining local forks or patches. To follow an upstream-first strategy, Siemens Healthineers supported internal contributors — including Alexis Reigel — to work directly with GitLab to add features and fixes required by the organization.

GitLab collaborated with Siemens Healthineers contributors to accept upstream contributions; for example, Alexis’ first merged MR added a custom branded header logo in emails (created Feb 7, 2017 and merged Feb 22, 2017). By submitting minimal viable changes and engaging with the GitLab community, Siemens Healthineers got needed functionality merged upstream, reduced the need to maintain local patches, and created an ongoing contributor relationship that streamlines feature delivery and lowers internal maintenance overhead.

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