What is GitHub Copilot Business, and what administrative controls are available for enterprise administrators?
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Copilot Business gives admins the knobs: who gets seats, whether public-code suggestions are allowed, and data privacy controls. It's AI coding assistance with enterprise governance wrapped around it.
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GitHub Copilot Business is the enterprise tier of GitHub's AI coding assistant. Administrative controls available include: (1) Seat management — assign or remove Copilot access for individual users or entire teams. (2) Policy settings — enable/disable Copilot at the organization or enterprise level. (3) Suggestions matching public code — control whether Copilot can suggest code that matches publicly available code (relevant for IP and license compliance). (4) Editor integration policies — control which editors Copilot can be used in. (5) Data handling — Copilot Business promises not to use business code as training data. Enterprise admins can also view seat usage reports to track license consumption. Copilot Business is an IDE extension (not a standalone product) and is specifically an AI coding assistant, not a code review bot.