Accelerate digital transformation with Salesforce DevOps
Enterprises worldwide are adopting Salesforce DevOps to increase release velocity, minimize organizational risk and streamline operational spend. In 2022, 85% of companies who implemented DevOps saw increased Salesforce return on investment.
For large organizations wanting to drive success, recent Gartner® research revealed that the best approach to adopting DevOps is an iterative one.
“Just 9% of elite teams adopted DevOps with a ‘big bang’ approach.”
State of DevOps, DORA
Successful implementations start with knowing your successes and challenges. Start your DevOps adoption with an assessment across two key areas:
Assess current processes and challenges across:
Gather any information you already have or delegate this task to your team leads.
Veolia UK & IRE kicked off their DevOps journey with a self assessment of team capabilities:
We wanted to align our capabilities with the ambitions of the organization and the expectations of our customers, industry, partners and competitors.
Head of Digital Products at Veolia UK & IRE
Start exploring:
Find existing DevOps expertise to accelerate adoption for your teams.
As far as customer support goes, it’s always been great. Your team has always been super responsive.
DevOps Architect, McKesson
Version control is fundamental to DevOps. It enables you to:
Create a ‘single source of truth’ for teams
Optimize efficiency and team collaboration
Maintain an audit trail for every development cycle stage
Our deployments were getting more complicated and we wanted to get the release management capabilities back to the teams, so we could deploy more often.
DevOps Architect, McKesson
Market-leading providers include:
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
You’ll also need a DevOps platform with the capability and flexibility to support your process as you scale. It should be:
Gearset is definitely a good return on investment and worth every cent.
Sage
Every major IT project has dependencies that require looking at several elements to assess their impact on each other, and DevOps is no different.
Gartner, Data-Driven DevOps: How to Rethink the Measurement Approach, Published 29 March 2023, Cameron Haight and George Spafford.
Learn how to align the measurement of your DevOps initiative to the objectives and key results that matter to stakeholders.
A cohesive DevOps culture can be the differentiator that puts you at the forefront of commercial growth.
DevOps Advocate, Gearset
DevOps is about more than tools — it’s about people and processes too. In The State of Salesforce DevOps 2022, 93% of Salesforce DevOps teams cited collaboration as one of the most valuable benefits of implementing DevOps, enabling:
Use free training resources to foster collaboration and upskill your teams.
Once you’ve established a strong DevOps foundation with version control, you can take iterative steps towards DevOps maturity, with an automated, source-driven release pipeline.
Automate repeatable tasks and focus teams where they add most value
Add in testing, backups and security to mimimize organizational risk
Set up alerts and monitoring for visibility across release cycles
Determine the organization’s readiness to support the DevOps initiative by identifying the maturity and independence of the key people—, process—, technology— and information—enabling capabilities necessary to support the desired business outcomes.
Gartner, Data-Driven DevOps: How to Rethink the Measurement Approach, Published 29 March 2023, Cameron Haight and George Spafford.
Review your DevOps progress regularly to assess progress and identify improvements:
Veolia UK & IRE forecast at least 500% ROI from their first year after implementing Gearset’s DevOps solution
Gearset has helped us take control of our platform, our releases, our products and ultimately enabled us to keep in line with the demands of our customers and stakeholders at a much reduced cost.
Head of Digital Products, Veolia UK & IRE
Learn how to align the measurement of your DevOps initiative to the objectives and key results that matter to stakeholders.
Gartner, Data-Driven DevOps: How to Rethink the Measurement Approach, Published 29 March 2023, Cameron Haight and George Spafford. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
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