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1. ANT MIGRATION TOOL FOR SALESFORCE CHANGE CONTROL FULL
2. ANT MIGRATION TOOL FOR SALESFORCE CHANGE CONTROL SOFTWARE

It promised new types of orgs called Scratch Orgs which would be light weight environments that could be spun up quickly almost like virtual environments or virtual machines.Īnd it offered a new Salesforce CLI which was meant to be a modern interpretation of the Java based Ant Migration tool and the more sophisticated Salesforce developer teams have been using. It preached “ source driven development” and encouraged teams to think of source control as the source of truth* rather than the Salesforce org itself. MUCH LIKE GITHUB PUTTING A NICE USER INTERFACE ON TOP OF GIT, BLUE CANVAS HAS THE SIMPLE MISSION OF MAKING SALESFORCE DX AND DEVOPS AVAILABLE TO SALESFORCE TEAMS.

ANT MIGRATION TOOL FOR SALESFORCE CHANGE CONTROL SOFTWARE

The idea was to bring modern DevOps tooling to the Salesforce platform in order to modernize the way Salesforce teams did software development. In 2016, the company announced “Salesforce DX” which stands for Developer Experience.

Salesforce won the ignominy of being called the Worst Developer Platform in 20 (2nd worst in 2014). It also lays out how you can get the benefits of modern DevOps tooling and Git through tools like Blue Canvas. This white paper explains why Git Flow with Jenkins (the traditional way software teams use Git) and Salesforce DX (Salesforce’s approach to solving their developer experience problem) do not work well for Salesforce teams. WE’VE WORKED WITH LARGE SALESFORCE ORGS WHO CAME OVER TO BLUE CANVAS BECAUSE THEY WERE HAVING TO SPEND TOO MANY HOURS MAINTAINING THEIR JENKINS IMPLEMENTATION FOR SALESFORCE TO THE TUNE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN SALARY PER YEAR. Which ultimately means that your Salesforce teams are not as protected as your other development teams from issues like bugs (and needing to roll them back), and they are not working as effectively as they could be.

ANT MIGRATION TOOL FOR SALESFORCE CHANGE CONTROL FULL

Your Salesforce team may have a Git repository somewhere, odds are they are not getting the full benefits of source control.

Well, all except one that is: your Salesforce development and admin team. Today, there are probably very few software development teams in your organization who are not effectively using source control in some fashion, and most are probably using Git in some form.