Continuous Delivery & Release Automation

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Continuous Delivery & Release AutomationFor Every Business Across Industries

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R elease management is essential for managing, planning, scheduling, and controlling software delivery throughout the release lifecycle. In the current era

of the digital business economy, there’s an increasing need to deliver continuously to stay ahead of the competition. For today’s organizations, agile and flexible modern development practices should be at the center of business transformation. What does it mean to the CXOs responsible for today’s enterprise-scale releases?

With IT organizations leaning towards DevOps and CD, is there a place for traditional release management? Release automation across the software delivery pipeline drives velocity with quality. Structured and automated releases are the keys to success.

AutoRABIT is an end-to-end Salesforce release management suite. It resolves various challenges of Salesforce application development, ensures smooth releases, and provides a better bottom line for its customers.

This eBook introduces you to 7 of our clients from different industries with varied business needs. Nonetheless, there’s one commonality among them – they achieved remarkable business results by utilizing AutoRABIT.

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Successful Large-Scale Data Migration For Big Beverage Company

01

CHALLENGES

1. A single large production instance with millions of records

2. Multiple and geographically distributed teams

3. Large-scale data migration

4. Complex parent-child relationships involving self-reference and circular reference

SOLUTION OFFERED

› Incremental data migration to migrate newly-generated data in the source sandbox, while concurrently transferring old data

› Data filters to identify the records belonging to a specific application with minimal manual efforts

› Advanced Data Loader Pro solved data reconciliation and data migration from third-party tools

› Solutions and services for migration challenges of huge attachments

VALUE DELIVERED

› Reduction of data migration cycle from hundreds of hours to 20–30 hours

› Decreased data migration time from 7-10 days to 1-2 days

› Improved developer productivity by 400%

› 360-degree view of sales and data analytics to understand consumer trends

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02

CHALLENGES

1. Multiple concurrent releases

2. Geographically distributed teams

3. Overwritten code

VALUE DELIVERED

› Seamless Org Synchronization across multiple geographies

› Reduction in execution times and accelerated release velocity

› Enabled source-driven release process automation in two weeks

› Data Migration with parent-child relationship saved 50% time in setting up an environmentthird-party tools

› Solutions and services for migration challenges of huge attachments

SOLUTION OFFERED

› Services built around maturity mapping to understand the current state and desired state

› Phased implementation approach for release management with Version Control

› Set up GIT repository with a CI-driven release automation flow

› Designed Data Loader jobs to set up data for various environments that are fully automated analytics to understand consumer trends


Agile Transformation for A Large Energy Management Company

4. Multiple Sandboxes

5. Long lead times for moving to Production

6. High metadata volumes

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03

CHALLENGES

1. Manual release process

2. Release delays due to accumulation in pre-prod/QA

3. Queuing of stories leading to sync issues

4. Additional resources required to manage the release process

VALUE DELIVERED

› Reduced deployment efforts by 300 hours per release

› Faster release cycles

› Cost savings of $100K per annum

› More output in terms of accommodating a few more stories for each sprint

SOLUTION OFFERED

› EZ Commits to be re-used and deployed across multiple sandboxes

› Release automation as an integral part of the development

› Sandbox management to check-in relevant code for the stories into Version Control System

› CI Jobs for automated deployments


Seamless Release Automation for A Media Giant

““Fantastic tool, addresses every major pain point commonly encountered with multiple environments and development streams on Salesforce.”

ERNESTO VALDES

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04

CHALLENGES

1. Open-source automation tool for building, testing, and deployment

2. Significant human efforts

3. No Version Control System adopted

4. Lack of Org Synchronization between multiple environments

VALUE DELIVERED

› Accomplished efficient implementation of Agile and DevOps practices

› Faster and frequent release cycles with minimal manual efforts

› Simplified environment management

› Achieved CI and CD of customized CRM

SOLUTION OFFERED

› Version Control for easy tracking, traceability

› EZ Commits for simplified code commits from Orgs to VCS

› CI Jobs and scheduled deployments

› Selective deployments to cherry pick metadata components and deploy them from one SF Org to another


DevOps Maturity forA Financial Services Company

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““““““““AutoRABIT is a rock-solid product for release management of Salesforce Applications. Helped us to reach our goal of continuous deployments from Dev to Prod.”

NAVEEN REDDY


05

CHALLENGES

1. Significant manual effort and time in deploying numerous metadata members

2. Extremely challenging deployment of profiles and permission sets

3. Difficulty in comparing code-level metadata to get the differences between environments

4. A painstaking task of deploying Lightning components

VALUE DELIVERED

› Achieved Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

› Reduced time and efforts for each release cycle by 70%

› Realized frequent release cycles with 40% reduction in deployment efforts

› Decreased defects by 45% with an early-warning system in place

SOLUTION OFFERED

› CI Jobs for the creation of package.xml automatically, with zero manual effort

› Selective Deployments for seamless deployment of profiles and permission sets

› Org Synchronization for visibility into high-level metadata differences between two Orgs

› Rollback, Redeploy, and Org Management to roll back the deployments and promote the same deployment bundle to other SF Org


Improved Developer Productivity for An Information & Communications Technology (ICT) company

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06

CHALLENGES

1. Prolonged release schedules due to the challenges in maintaining Development Sandboxes in sync with Production Orgs

2. An arduous task of deploying profiles and permission sets

3. Lack of version control system to avoid overwritten code and data loss

4. Required a powerful Salesforce Release Management Solution

VALUE DELIVERED

› Accelerated release velocity by 400%

› Reduced deployment preparation effort by 300% and time by 450%

› Decreased defects by 100% with regression testing

› Increased developer productivity & average ROI by 200%

SOLUTION OFFERED

› Profile Manager simplified deployment of complex profiles and permission sets

› CI Jobs reduced manual efforts required for deployments significantly

› Sandbox Management enabled synchronization between their Development sandbox and Production environment

› EZ-Commits allowed them to commit code changes to the Version Control branch easily


Accelerated Release Velocity for A Salesforce Implementation Partner

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07

CHALLENGES

1. Manual selection of all the fields, profiles and permission sets to deploy the field-level accessibility settings to higher Orgs

2. Significant scripting efforts to create builds on the Force.com migration tool

3. Tedious deployments of metadata changes across environments by creating Changesets

4. Difficulty in managing code conflicts due to lack of proper validation and testing

VALUE DELIVERED

› Improved developers’ productivity

› Enhanced security and reduced defects

› Auditability and traceability of the code changes, and visibility into project’s progress

› Faster time-to-market by 60% and higher ROI by 45%

SOLUTION OFFERED

› EZ-Commit and release labels to commit all the field-level accessibility settings and securities

› Selective deployments to cherry-pick the metadata members, fetch changes and deploy them to the multiple destination Orgs without the need for creating Changesets

› Gated check-ins to validate metadata members against Production/UAT Org

› CI Jobs for automated deployments into production Org every 3 hour


Continuous Delivery at Speed for A Cloud-based Software Solutions Provider


Our Customers’ Success is Our Success

“This is definitely a great tool to achieve your CI / CD objectives. It addresses all the major pain points of the deployment cycle. Great

time saver and user-friendly interface.”

VINAY PATHAK

“AutoRABIT reduced our release cycles from two months to a fortnight. We also witnessed a significant reduction in our regression test

rates with AutoRABIT.”

CHAD SHAFAGHI

“AutoRABIT helped us realize our release management goals. We also like their easy-commits feature where without

additional tooling, our development team is able to check-in to GITHub through

AutoRABIT itself.”

CHAITANYA KADEM

“The best tool for CI-CD Process. Easy to use, the complex task done by a button

click. Highly satisfied with the features and Enhancements provided. Best solution for

release management teams.”

PRATAP PERICHERLA

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AutoRABIT, the Continuous Delivery suite for SaaS platforms, automates & accelerates entire application

development and release process. It enables continuous integration and delivery by providing fast, simple,

and secure end-to-end automation across all Salesforce implementations. It helps enterprises achieve higher

release velocity (days instead of weeks/months), and faster time-to-market.

AutoRABIT provides automated Metadata Deployment, Version Controlling, Advanced Data Loading,

Orgs and Sandbox management, Test Automation, and Reporting. It complements & extends

Salesforce DX. ARVault, AutoRABIT’s backup and recovery solution, streamlines Salesforce

data, simplifies data backup challenges, offers disaster recovery and endpoint data

protection on Cloud.

CONTACT US AT

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AutoRABIT, the Continuous Delivery suite for SaaS platforms, automates & accelerates entire application

development and release process. It enables continuous integration and delivery by providing fast, simple,

and secure end-to-end automation across all Salesforce implementations. It helps enterprises achieve higher

release velocity (days instead of weeks/months), and faster time-to-market.

AutoRABIT provides automated Metadata Deployment, Version Controlling, Advanced Data Loading,

Orgs and Sandbox management, Test Automation, and Reporting. It complements & extends

Salesforce DX. ARVault, AutoRABIT’s backup and recovery solution, streamlines Salesforce

data, simplifies data backup challenges, offers disaster recovery and endpoint data

protection on Cloud.

CONTACT US AT

[email protected]

ABOUT


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