{"meta":{"title":"Enterprise onboarding","intro":"Onboard your company to GitHub Enterprise Cloud by following our recommended plan. You will set up teams with the access they need, create a policy framework to ensure compliance, and automate processes securely throughout your enterprise.","product":"Enterprise administrators","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin","title":"Enterprise administrators"},{"href":"/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/enterprise-onboarding","title":"Enterprise onboarding"}],"documentType":"article"},"body":"# Enterprise onboarding\n\nOnboard your company to GitHub Enterprise Cloud by following our recommended plan. You will set up teams with the access they need, create a policy framework to ensure compliance, and automate processes securely throughout your enterprise.\n\n## Links\n\n### Getting started with your enterprise\n\n* [Choosing an enterprise type for GitHub Enterprise Cloud](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/concepts/enterprise-fundamentals/choose-an-enterprise-type)\n\n  Understand the types of enterprises available in GitHub Enterprise Cloud and decide whether Enterprise Managed Users is right for you by asking yourself some questions.\n\n* [Setting up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/overview/setting-up-a-trial-of-github-enterprise-cloud)\n\n  Learn how to set up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud, what is included in the trial, and what happens when the trial ends.\n\n* [Adding users to your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-users-in-your-enterprise/add-users)\n\n  You can add people directly to your enterprise.\n\n* [Billing for GitHub Enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/billing/concepts/enterprise-billing/billing-for-enterprises)\n\n  Understand what makes up your enterprise bill so you can better forecast and manage costs.\n\n* [Planning your migration to GitHub](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/migrations/overview/planning-your-migration-to-github)\n\n  Plan and execute a successful migration to GitHub or between GitHub products.\n\n### Setting up organizations and teams in your enterprise\n\n* [Best practices for organizing work in your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/concepts/enterprise-best-practices/organize-work)\n\n  Promote collaboration and manage resources at scale by following GitHub-recommended practices for managing organizations and teams.\n\n* [Adding organizations to your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-organizations-in-your-enterprise/adding-organizations-to-your-enterprise)\n\n  Add organizations to your enterprise using three different methods.\n\n* [Roles in an enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/concepts/enterprise-fundamentals/roles-in-an-enterprise)\n\n  Learn how roles allow you to control people's access to your enterprise's settings and resources.\n\n* [Identifying the roles required by your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-roles-in-your-enterprise/identify-role-requirements)\n\n  Plan which roles your teams need to stay productive and secure.\n\n* [Creating custom roles in an enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-roles-in-your-enterprise/create-custom-roles)\n\n  Create roles with fine-grained permissions for consistent access to settings and resources.\n\n* [Teams in an enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/concepts/enterprise-fundamentals/teams-in-an-enterprise)\n\n  Simplify administration of user access, licensing, and communication with teams.\n\n* [Creating enterprise teams](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-users-in-your-enterprise/create-enterprise-teams)\n\n  Organize users into teams to simplify license management.\n\n* [Assigning roles to people in an enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-roles-in-your-enterprise/assign-roles)\n\n  Govern what people can do in your enterprise by assigning roles to users and teams.\n\n* [Using innersource in your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/concepts/enterprise-best-practices/use-innersource)\n\n  Help dispersed teams to collaborate by setting up open source–style workflows in your enterprise, without compromising on security.\n\n### Governing people and repositories\n\n* [Enterprise policies](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/concepts/security-and-compliance/enterprise-policies)\n\n  With enterprise policies, you can manage the policies for all the organizations owned by your enterprise.\n\n* [Managing custom properties for repositories in your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-repositories-in-your-enterprise/managing-custom-properties-for-repositories-in-your-enterprise)\n\n  Create custom properties to give organizations a consistent way to categorize repositories.\n\n* [Governing how people use repositories in your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-repositories-in-your-enterprise/governing-how-people-use-repositories-in-your-enterprise)\n\n  Create a repository policy to control who can do things like create and delete repositories.\n\n* [Enforcing code governance in your enterprise with rulesets](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/enforcing-policies/enforcing-policies-for-your-enterprise/enforcing-policies-for-code-governance)\n\n  You can create a ruleset to target multiple repositories in your enterprise.\n\n* [Audit log for an enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/concepts/security-and-compliance/audit-log-for-an-enterprise)\n\n  To support debugging and internal and external compliance, GitHub provides logs of audited user, organization, and repository events.\n\n### Automating processes with GitHub Apps\n\n* [Automations in your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/concepts/enterprise-fundamentals/automations-in-your-enterprise)\n\n  Learn how GitHub Apps, external services, and GitHub Actions work together to automate processes in your enterprise.\n\n* [Creating GitHub Apps for your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-github-apps-for-your-enterprise/creating-github-apps-for-your-enterprise)\n\n  Learn how to create a GitHub App for your enterprise.\n\n* [Installing a GitHub App on your enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/apps/using-github-apps/installing-a-github-app-on-your-enterprise)\n\n  You can install GitHub Apps on your enterprise to manage your enterprise account and perform enterprise-level operations."}