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Scaling Salesforce DevOps for Enterprise-Level Projects

In today's dynamic business landscape, the buzz around Salesforce DevOps is hard to ignore. As a forward-thinking leader, you're not merely considering this trend; you're strategically exploring how to leverage Salesforce DevOps to propel your enterprise to new heights. The decisions you make not only shape your company's technology landscape but also directly impact its competitiveness and success.

So, why invest in Salesforce DevOps, and what concrete business benefits can you expect as you scale up for enterprise-level projects? DevOps aligns the application development process with business values and vision. Integrating DevOps deployment tools alongside Salesforce backup tools and Salesforce DX leads to improved deployments, automated testing, and faster time-to-market. With Salesforce DevOps adoption, a noteworthy 98% of business teams report a return on investment, and the majority of these teams see a significant monthly return of $10,000.(source)

In this blog, you will understand how DevOps enhances your Salesforce CRM, what transformational benefits it offers, the popular Salesforce DevOps tools, and how Jade Global can help your organization excel with Salesforce DevOps.

Why Businesses Invest in Salesforce DevOps: Transformational Advantages

  • Accelerated CRM Deployments: Salesforce DevOps seamlessly integrates development and operations, ensuring faster CRM deployments and quick responses to ever-evolving market needs.

  • Streamlined Salesforce Operations: Implementing DevOps in Salesforce can address challenges like managing frequent releases, automating workflows, and reducing security vulnerabilities and errors.

  • Optimized Resource Utilization: Efficient DevOps practices mean resource optimization, cost savings, and streamlined CRM operations, aligning perfectly with your responsibility to manage IT budgets efficiently.

  • Elevated Customer Satisfaction: Rigorous testing and validation with DevOps translate into a higher-quality CRM system with fewer glitches, directly enhancing customer satisfaction and bolstering your brand reputation.

  • Mitigated Risks and Compliance: DevOps provides better control and visibility, making risk management and compliance adherence smoother, critical aspects of overseeing enterprise-scale projects.

  • Revenue Growth through Enhanced CRM: Swift development cycles and rapid bug fixes equate to improved customer experiences, translating into higher loyalty, repeat business, and increased revenue for your enterprise.

Investing in Salesforce DevOps is a strategic imperative for scaling your CRM capabilities to meet the demands of enterprise-level projects.

Popular DevOps for Salesforce

Copado
Copado is a widely used, end-to-end DevOps for Salesforce. It covers everything from planning and building to testing and deploying Salesforce changes. With Copado, it’s easy to set up a deployment pipeline for your project, including all sandboxes and production orgs. The pipeline manager simplifies user story tracking and org synchronization, making it easy to select and deploy changes to the intended org.

Copado uses custom objects like "user stories" and metadata containers to organize and release changes efficiently. It also supports parallel project management, reducing problem resolution time and enhancing overall productivity.

Flosum
Flosum is another leading release management application designed for the Salesforce platform. It offers a flexible, robust, and user-friendly solution for release management. With Flosum, you can avoid dealing with cumbersome changesets, Ant scripts, or metadata API management. The application is hosted outside the production org ensuring the application's security and reliability for your project, where all your sandboxes and production orgs are registered.

A notable feature of Flosum is its snapshot capability, allowing you to create snapshots of deployed components. It is entirely built on the Salesforce platform, making it highly configurable and extendable to meet your specific requirements.

AutoRabbit
AutoRabbit stands as an invaluable DevOps tool tailored explicitly for Salesforce environments, streamlining the intricate processes of deployment and release management. Its core objective revolves around simplifying the complexities often associated with deploying applications within the Salesforce ecosystem. AutoRabbit achieves this by providing a suite of automation features that significantly reduce manual intervention, enhance collaboration among teams, and ensure the precision and reliability of deployments.

By automating tasks such as version control, continuous integration, and testing, AutoRabbit empowers development teams to focus more on innovation and less on the nuances of deployment, thereby accelerating the release cycle and enabling a more agile and efficient development process for Salesforce applications.

How Jade Global is Scaling Salesforce DevOps for Enterprises

In the competitive landscape of enterprise-level projects, time-to-market can be a critical factor in success. Jade Global understands the imperative need for efficiency and agility. Leveraging Copado, a trusted DevOps solution for Salesforce, Jade Global empowers organizations to automate their development activities and accelerate the delivery of Salesforce solutions.

How Jade Global Helps Enterprises Excel:

  • Evaluation of Copado DevOps Practices: Jade Global conducts a thorough assessment of your Copado DevOps procedures, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.

  • Gap Identification: We pinpoint gaps in your Copado DevOps process, highlighting areas needing enhancement, automation, or better testing.

  • Strategic Enhancement: Leveraging our insights, we collaborate to create a customized improvement strategy. This includes implementing best practices, optimizing deployment pipelines, and integrating automated testing for streamlined workflows.

Jade Global and Copado have teamed up to create Salesforce DevOps solutions for leading enterprises. Jade Global also won the Copado Partner Innovation Award 2023.

Watch the on-demand webinar to understand how Jade Global can help you optimize Salesforce leveraging Copado DevOps.

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