Build vs Buy: Making the Right Choice for Your Salesforce DevOps Solution

Discover why building a Salesforce DevOps solution in-house is a resource-intensive option that can take anywhere from 6 months to 2 years, including 2 to 5 engineers.

Learn why a Salesforce DevOps Platform allows you to release 80% faster, leveraging your existing team and tools.

The Common Pitfalls of Built Solutions

Scalability

As your business expands, your DevOps team may find themselves constantly dealing with issues instead of focusing on delivering products. Your designated experts can unintentionally become a bottleneck, causing delays in new projects, builds, and releases.

Security

Plugins can introduce vulnerabilities, making it challenging to guarantee their quality and security levels. To prevent security incidents, it becomes necessary to allocate additional resources towards implementing an effective authorization strategy.

Visibility

Jenkins is often the default choice for developing a Salesforce DevOps Solution. However, this choice can limit the visibility of your team's work and increase reliance on a few individuals to share insights into performance.

This Build vs Buy Guide Includes

A side-by-side comparison of DevOps platforms and custom-built solutions for Salesforce DevOps.

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A comprehensive breakdown of scalability, visibility and security capabilities.

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How Opsera Salesforce DevOps Platform allows you to release 80% faster, leveraging your existing team and tools.

Uber

"Our global business diversity and growth adds up to highly distributed engineering teams, complex processes and compliance challenges. Efficient delivery of new features and process standardization is tough. Opsera’s vision for CI/CD enablement and compliance has powerful applications at Uber."

Ben Booth
Ben Booth
Ben Booth, Engineering Leader, Uber

"Opsera’s approach of no code addition of security gates and thresholds into every stage of the pipelines by out of the box integration to a choice of security tools greatly improves the proactive security posture for software delivery. Unified real time security insights is very useful for security managers and adds to the value proposition."

Abhay Salpekar
Abhay Salpekar
Abhay Salpekar, Director of Engineering, Snowflake

NortonLifeLock

"Opsera DevOps continuous orchestration delivers easy automation of release management across the enterprise applications. Comprehensive visibility from the platform helped us decommission legacy release management tools helping reduce the Opex."

Dayakar Duwuru
Dayakar Duwuru
Dayakar Duwuru, Sr. Director of Enterpris applications, NortonLifeLock

"With this automated solution, the productivity of our engineers improved by 25%. Now, I can see the development and quality metrics of individual contributors."

Kishore Gandham
Kishore Gandham
Founder & CEO KeyWest Networks

"We had built our own pipelines and tooling over a two year period... the Opsera team built the integration in two days. I feel like the holistic approach that the Opsera is taking to solve the Orchestrating problems is a key step in the evolution of DevOps."

Kevin Railsback
Kevin Railsback
Senior Director of Technical Operations, Reflektion

"Centralized automation and orchestration across the software delivery lifecycle are crucial to gain the velocity and visibility DevOps teams need to meet business goals. Opsera offers a no-code, intelligent DevOps solution that’s been missing from the marketplace."

Eric Robertson
Eric Robertson
Industry Evangelist, Value Stream Management

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