Survey: DevOps Growing Pains in Salesforce Environments
IT organizations that have adopted software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platforms from Salesforce in part to jumpstart their digital business transformation initiatives are experiencing some DevOps growing pains. A survey published this week of 230 executives, managers, and members of Salesforce delivery teams conducted by Beagle Research on behalf of Copado, a DevOps platform for IT teams […]
Groove Launches the First Sales Engagement Platform for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
New platform enables banks and wealth management advisors to strengthen customer relationships and accelerate sales productivity post COVID-19 December 7, 2020 – San Francisco, CA – Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced general availability of their first industry-specific product, Groove for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. The new sales engagement […]
Copado Adds Value Stream Management to Salesforce DevOps Platform
Copado, a provider of a DevOps platform for building applications that extend software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications from Salesforce, this week announced it has added value stream management capabilities. Andrew Leigh, chief marketing officer for Copado, said providing a platform that accelerates the development and deployment of application code is no longer sufficient. The winter 2021 release […]
The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy
While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams that have been employing Slack to collaborate for years is significant. Salesforce owns both Heroku and Force.com in addition to providing developers with […]
New Low-Code Innovations for Building the Apps You Need, Fast
N The digital imperative has accelerated for every CIO. Organizations must build apps fast to respond to ever-evolving business and economic changes. This is where the power of the Salesforce Platform shines, empowering everyone to innovate fast and scale with confidence using low-code builders. Drag, drop and deliver modern apps that increase employee productivity with […]
Copado Launches DevOps COVID-19 Initiative
Copado, a provider of a DevOps platform building and deploying applications on top of Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, will make its platform available for free to anyone working on applications to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Copado has launched a virtual DevOps training center and opened its DevOps community to anyone in the […]
Why Salesforce?
Over the past 20 years, Salesforce has become the fastest growing enterprise software platform, and a market leader in sales, service, marketing, integration and custom application development among other areas. Although there are many reasons why a company might adopt or consider using Salesforce, the overriding value proposition is that it provides tons of capabilities […]
DevOps Chats: Demystifying Spinnaker VM Baking, with Salesforce
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: As you use an open source tool like Spinnaker, the more you develop best practices and learnings. These are useful to share with others internal to the enterprise and other open source users. Jing Vergara, principal software engineer at Salesforce, joins DevOps Chats to share a preview of her upcoming talk […]
DevOps Chats: Debugging Spinnaker Apps, With Salesforce
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Debugging production issues in any environment can be challenging, and Spinnaker has its production learning curve. Problems aren’t always replicable in a smaller environment, and debug messages can be verbose and confusing to triage what’s happening. Our DevOps Chat guest Chuck Lane, Salesforce lead software engineer, is giving a talk on […]
The Accelerating Cloud Wars
Enterprises have embraced cloud computing at a phenomenal clip, according to newly-released report, A for Adoption, from cloud access security broker provider Bitglass. Over the past five years, the report found cloud penetration grew from 24% (in 2014) to 86% of organizations today. Last year, that adoption rate was 81%. Yet, while cloud has helped […]
Crossing the Ecosystem Boundaries: How ServiceNow, Salesforce and Atlassian Work Together
Although these platforms were originally designed to serve different functional roles—Atlassian’s help desk, ServiceNow’s IT service management and Salesforces’ sales and CRM—from the outset, they all addressed the evolving mega-management and leadership issue: collaboration across teams and business units. Independent action, siloed organizations and disconnected thinking was increasingly giving way to more agile, interdependent, collaborative […]
Report: More Salesforce Customers Adopting DevOps
A survey of 201 executives who work in organizations that have adopted the Salesforce Lightning platform finds a surprising number are employing DevOps practices to customize Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Conducted by Beagle Research Group on behalf of Copado, a provider of a commercial continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce SaaS environments, the survey […]
ICE Controversy May Lead to IT Contract Chaos
For as long as most IT professionals remember, the only political issues any IT organization considered were largely internal. However, that appears to have changed in 2019 as more IT professionals begin to question whether they want to do business with IT vendors that support an organization they staunchly oppose on moral grounds. This week […]
Acquisitions to Fuel Programmable Analytics
Now that Tableau Software has agreed to be acquired by Salesforce and Looker is set to become a part of Google, the rate at which analytics will be embedded within almost every application is about to accelerate. Tableau today is relied on by more than 86,000 organizations to surface business intelligence via data visualizations created […]
Salesforce Details Integration Plan Post-MuleSoft Acquisition
Salesforce this week announced it will plunk down $6.5 billion to acquire MuleSoft, a provider of application integration software currently used by more than 1,200 organizations. Once the deal is complete, MuleSoft will continue to operate as a unit of Salesforce with current MuleSoft Greg Schott continuing as CEO. However, there will be two integration […]
How AI Impacts DevOps Pipelines
The rise of machine- and deep-learning algorithms is about to create some interesting data-gravity challenges for IT operations teams. Over most of the last decade IT operations teams have been caught up in a public- versus private-cloud computing debate that has mostly been species. The truth is that most organizations wind up employing both. But […]
Salesforce Moves Compliance to the DevOps Left
Compliance is one of those tasks that trips up developers multiple times over. More times than anyone cares to admit developers finish an application only to discover there are any number of compliance controls that were overlooked. Sometimes, bringing that application into compliance is trivial. Other times, it can delay the rollout of the application […]
IT Leadership Still Struggles to Satisfy the Business, Deliver Innovation
If a recently published report by Salesforce is to be believed, the rest of IT leadership is starting to catch up with what IT leaders have long known: Business technology needs to be customer experience-driven. This year’s report, Salesforce’s second annual broad look at the state of enterprise IT found that the line continues to […]