Case Study: University of Surrey achieves better collaboration and workflow management with GitLab

The University of Surrey achieves top marks for collaboration and workflow management with GitLab

The University of Surrey, a leading research university in the UK, needed a better way to support researchers and academics managing code across a growing team. Its existing mix of Subversion, file folders, and on-premise storage made collaboration, visibility, and modern DevOps workflows difficult, while strict data regulations required a reliable on-premise solution. The university adopted GitLab Ultimate to provide a stable, easy-to-use code repository and a single platform for collaboration.

With GitLab, the University of Surrey improved collaboration, streamlined workflow management, and strengthened testing through branches, merge requests, CI/CD, protected branches, and approvals. GitLab also made it easier for non-expert users to adopt version control, and the university now manages more than 2,300 projects and 110,000 builds with better code quality and faster delivery. GitLab helped the team reduce syntax and linting errors, catch logical errors earlier, and create a more efficient DevOps model.

University of Surrey

Kosta Polyzos

Senior Systems Administrator