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DROP

DROP is the fully automated DevOps Release Management solution for the Salesforce platform

Independent and on demand deployment of features is crucial for any agile business environment. DROP optimizes flexibility, speed and quality while reducing costs for releasing features. Work agile and use DevOps workflows on the Salesforce platform with DROP.

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Why DROP?

Speed at every moment
DROP enables an automated continuous deployment cycle.

Flexibility & quality first
No need to plan ahead, deploy features at any time.

Managed releases
Let DROP manage your releases while you develop features.

Fraction of costs
By plugging into the DROP solution, CI/CD will be offered without any investment and at a fraction of running costs.

Benefits

Up to 70% manual deployment reduction

Automated pipeline lowers the need for manual deployment.

50% less costs

Automated test processes make for optimal test costs with quality assurance.

5-6 releases per day

Release multiple times per day and bring any feature to the end user fast and independent of other teams.

DROP explained

The DROP environment

Instant deployments

Unlike the old times where deployments took hours & days to complete, DROP deploys within a fraction of time. Whether it is a sprint release, feature deployment or a high priority bug fix, DROP enables the teams to do it swiftly and without compromising on the quality. This not only ensures faster time to market but also improves the productivity of the DevOps teams.

Test automation

DROP’s integrated test automation feature enables teams to release quickly and interdependently to production. Feedback can be received instantly and teams have the option to work with fully automated testing in any sandbox. Utilizing the dashboarding and reporting options, you can focus on test strategy and scripting instead of manual testing.

Monitoring system

DROP provides the opportunity to proactively monitor the Salesforce platform. This includes the platforms’ limits and usage, custom logs, processed jobs and endpoint availability & performance. You can also configure alerts to inform stakeholders when thresholds have been breached, meaning teams can effectively keep track of the current situation.

Easy committing

DROP facilitates the committing of Salesforce metadata for functional consultants in order to easily manage changes in known Change Set UI’s. You can seamlessly integrate these changes with a Version Control system and deploy based on a centralized source of truth. Teams can easily push changes from the Salesforce environment to Version Control and eventually to the next set of environments.

Salesforce Releases

DROP facilitates unlimited amount of sprint/feature releases as per the needs of the client. The deployments are fully automated, require little to no manual intervention and always maintain the right quality standards. All the operational issues are handled by the team of expert release engineers who work relentlessly to provide a well-rounded release management experience to the clients.

DROP in action

Speed up your releases

Large consumer client streamlines Salesforce release management with DROP, leading to improved time to market and reduction of costs.

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Support your transformation

British University leaps forward in Salesforce transformation with DROP and fully automates, ramps up and matures their release management processes.

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Quality at the heart

International bank transforms Salesforce release management while maintaining GDPR compliancy, ensuring data security and massively upgrades the release processes.

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An agile release process in four steps

Enabling your business a mature and modern release process is easier than is thought. With DROP as a managed service, many elements are out of your hands. This empowers you to focus on what you know best: developing the right features for your end users.

Step 1: Manage set-up and operation of the CI/CD pipeline

DROP’s release engineers manage the set-up and operation of the CI/CD pipeline including sandboxes and refreshes, supporting your agile teams in their needs.

Step 2: Monitor and manage automated deployments and tests

The automated deployment and unit test runs are monitored and managed by DROP’s experts. They communicate back to the agile teams to take action when needed.

Step 3: Solve technical deployment issues

Do any unexpected technical issues occur in the deployment process? DROP’s release engineers got it covered, enabling agile teams to focus on the development of new business features.

Step 4: Release engineers to support teams

As the CI/CD pipeline might be unknown to the agile teams, a team of experienced release engineers stand ready to support them with any release or deployment questions.

 

 

Time to setup

Minimal set up time

DROP is set-up in no time. You just have to build the code in Salesforce and we do the rest. While connected to the client repository, DROP takes care of the build orchestrated by DROP agents controlled by the CI/CD Docker Image repository and the Pipeline Library.

Cloud based adaptable solution

DROP is cloud based and securely hosted within the Deloitte IT ecosystem. While the infrastructure sits on Deloitte side, DROP connects to all GIT based repositories. The DROP release pipelines can be configured and scaled up within just a few clicks to match seamlessly with your IT environment.

High end release management

Release management shouldn’t be a burden. We understand that time to market is crucial for optimal client relationships. Our mission with DROP is to make features available to clients in hours instead of weeks or months.

 

 

DROP4Mule

Interested in DROP4Mule?

A comprehensive solution aimed at streamlining the process of API (Application Programming Interface) deployment. DROP4Mule is built on the principle of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). To meet business needs and respond quickly in an ever-changing environment, DROP4Mule is your partner for efficient and cost-effective CI/CD.

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Theo Slaats

Partner
+31882882531

Jasper Stoop

Director
+31882887169

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