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BBC Studios Achieves 30% Faster Deployments

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Our client, BBC Studios creates, develops, produces, distributes, broadcasts, finances and sells content around the world, returning around £200 million to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) annually in dividends and content investment.

The team at BBC Studios was initially using three different tools for their development and deployment processes: Bitbucket for repository management, Jira for repository team management, and Octopus for deployment. This multi-tool approach led to inefficiencies and challenges, especially as the team grew. Additionally, BBC Studios has a separate org instance for News, Content, and Advertising. For all three organizations, separate licenses are not needed. The deployment of all organizations is handled in one Flosum org, giving BBC Studios more visibility.

Challenges

  1. Manual Interventions: Frequent need for manual configurations and changes, leading to errors and delays.
  2. Scalability Issues: Difficulty in handling increased workload as the team expanded.
  3. Inefficient Merging: Problems with merging components, especially in large projects.
  4. Lack of Seamless Integration: No unified environment for managing multiple organizations and sandboxes.

Solution

After evaluating several options, the BBC Studios team chose Flosum, a comprehensive DevOps platform designed specifically for Salesforce development. This shift provided an integrated solution that addressed their pain points effectively.

  1. Unified Platform: Flosum offered an environment where the client could connect multiple organizations without restrictions, eliminating the need for separate installations.
  2. Conflict Resolution: Flosum's advanced merging capabilities allowed for easy conflict resolution, displaying line-by-line differences and facilitating smoother merges.
  3. Profile Management: Enhanced profile management features, such as system permission handling and profile deployment, streamlined the deployment process.
  4. Version Control: Native version control within Flosum helped maintain consistency and recover previous versions easily after sandbox refreshes.
  5. Quality Scans: Integrated Flosum Scan ensured code quality and compliance, providing immediate feedback to developers.

Business Benefits

  1. Faster Deployments: Deployment speed increased by 30%, enabling more frequent and reliable releases.
  2. Improved Productivity: The team’s productivity improved as they no longer had to juggle multiple tools. They could focus more on development rather than tool management.
  3. Enhanced Quality Control: The introduction of Flosum Scan ensured higher code quality, reducing post-deployment issues.
  4. Seamless Onboarding: The onboarding process for new team members became smoother, with most developers becoming proficient within a month.
  5. Cost Savings: The ability to manage multiple environments within a single platform reduced costs significantly. Significant reduction in licensing and operational costs due to the consolidated toolset.

"The UI of Flosum is intuitive and user-friendly, making our work much easier compared to other tools. Flosum's customization capabilities within Salesforce are incredibly useful. We can tailor the platform to meet our specific needs seamlessly. The support from the Flosum team has been excellent, always providing timely and effective assistance." - Pallavi Sharma, BBC Studios.

Conclusion

The implementation of Flosum transformed our client - BBC Studios' development and deployment processes, leading to faster releases, improved productivity, and significant cost savings. Flosum's robust features and seamless integration capabilities provided a comprehensive solution that addressed all the challenges faced by the client, making it an invaluable tool for their Salesforce development needs.

For organizations facing similar challenges, Flosum offers a proven solution to streamline development and deployment and enhance code.

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Pallavi Sharma

BBC

"The UI of Flosum is intuitive and user-friendly, making our work much easier compared to other tools. Flosum's customization capabilities within Salesforce are incredibly useful. We can tailor the platform to meet our specific needs seamlessly. The support from the Flosum team has been excellent, always providing timely and effective assistance."

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