Automated Salesforce development process from Development, through Test and QA to Production

Modernize your Salesforce CI/CD process

Get insight and control over your Salesforce development and deployment processes

Salesforce development lifecycle automation and devops toolchain orchestration

CI/CD for Salesforce using IKAN ALM

Salesforce is a vital part of today's software ecosystem, alongside mobile -and web applications. The digital world expects agility, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. IKAN ALM for Salesforce brings agility to Salesforce implementations.

  • Contemporary versioning safeguards your code and makes parallel development and the use of modern Salesforce IDE's possible
  • Automated Build scripts are generated. We run the script and collect all objects in an archive.
  • Automated Promote scripts are generated.
 
Salesforce development lifecycle automation and devops toolchain orchestration

Orchestrate your Salesforce toolchain

IKAN ALM for Salesforce use standardized scripts to automate your existing tools, there's no need to change anything. The only difference is that you will be using IKAN ALM to launch Build (CI) and Promote (CD) actions.

Every step is logged, including Build and Promote, to be consulted at any time.

All you need to do is enter the related ticket (identifier) from your favorite requirements or issue tracking tool when commiting code.

IKAN ALM to JIRA or other will commence the process flow, update the ticket in your requirement or issue tracking tool, and inform you about which builds and deploys the ticket is part of.

Source code can be written in any Salesforce IDE. The code is stored in a VCR and then get scanned to generate a script following your standards and naming conventions.

The generated script is started and when finished, the results are retrieved by IKAN ALM and collected in an archive. Every step of this process is logged.

As part of the process you can deploy code to test environments or you can write a script to run the SalesForce testing tool of your choice.

Packaging is done during the Build process and creates an archive. Archives are then used by the deploy process as “source”.

The generated script is started for Deployment. This entire process is logged.

Leading you from idea to implementation in 3 simple steps

Discovery

Together we analyze your current development and release process and define the optimal Salesforce DevOps solution for your company. We clearly draw the roadmap on how to get there.

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Pilot (POC)

Next we proof that the proposed solution works, by example. It takes only one week to deliver our proof-of-concept!

Go!

After the POC is finished we have your business case ready, give you a commercial proposal and begin implementing the solution.

Faster Salesforce development

A Salesforce build result

A detailed overview of a Salesforce build, including the ability to download the result.

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A history of Salesforce builds

View the history of build level request and where the current build is active.

 
The deploy phase logs

The phase logs of a successful deployment request.

 
Detailed info on the phase properties

The details of a specific phase including all the parameters it uses.

 

What our customers are saying

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    Antonio Motta - ICT infrastructure manager, RMA (Italy)

    "Our goal was to have one product, that managed the whole build and deploy process for all the platforms we used to deliver our IT services. We saved more than 2/3 on the software maintenance cost."

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    Jim McGrath - Data Warehouse Manager, Constellation Brands (USA)

    "My internal team was excited about the possibilities your software offers and is anxious to hear next steps. Additionally, you should know that I have ensured my team knows the level of effort and support your team has provided.

    It is hands down the best support I have seen from any vendor I’ve worked with."

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    Willy Mutsaerts - Technology Architect and Software asset management, P&V (Belgium)

    "IKAN allowed us to modernize our mainframe development as we wanted to use an eclipse based development environment and needed to have a compatible life cycle management solution to replace our current mainframe only version control software.

    And IKAN allowed us to interface with the mainframe and has extensive customization possibilities."

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    Jerome Rouil - IT Team Manager, GMF COVEA group (France)

    "We did a POC to verify if IKAN could support our different ways of deploying (on different types of platforms), our current way of doing development and the build and deploy scripts we were currently using.

    IKAN allows us to work from everywhere, and to reuse existing scripts. We could use our existing security system (LDAP), SMTP for messaging and notifications.

    We use IKAN for all our JAVA applications and SAS reporting that are deployed to 30 different locations"

Already using Jenkins or Cloudbees as your automation server?

All of our solutions (for z/OS, SAP, ODI and Salesforce) are also available as commercial Jenkins Plugins.

IKAN ALM for zOS, SAP, ODI and Salesforce also available as Jenkins Plugins

  • Out-of-the-box experience and well documented
  • Includes support and maintenance plans

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People are choosing DevOps because they want

Higher quality

As developers will version their code and as parallel development is supported you will have a more sound code base. Managing the many different releases and hot fixes becomes fast, transparent and reliable.

More frequent deploys

A complete and automated process (build, deploy, approval and notification) is triggered once a developer commits his code to the version control repository. This process is reliable, repeatable and auditable so you can you can deploy more frequently.

Lower development costs

More frequent and qualitative deploys means happy business people since they'll have their desired functionality available faster. The automated process eliminates human mistakes and allows people to do more interesting work. A true win/win.

These companies already use our solutions

A list of our clients: Vivium, Reale Mutua, GMF and Constellation Brands