How the #1 DevOps Platform Accelerates Your Development Cycle

Businesses are at a turning point: it’s either transform with AI, or get left behind. While the answer seems straightforward — organizations need to start using AI in order to keep up — there’s more to the story. While expectations are sky-high, many teams are stuck with legacy systems, siloed data, and tight resources that are causing them to miss nearly 1 in 3  project deadlines.

The good news? The most successful teams have already found the solution. The Agentforce 360 Platform (previously known as the Salesforce Platform) has been ranked  as a Leader for DevOps Platforms by G2, proving that when you combine the right tools with the right platform, speed and security don’t have to be at odds.

What’s Killing Developer Speed

The “need for speed” has created a dangerous paradox. Teams are pressured to move faster, but traditional development processes and challenges are slowing them down. It’s no longer a question of team capability, but team capacity.

Before we talk about solutions, let’s identify the real culprits behind development slowdown.

• The struggle is manual. Manually pushing code from one environment to another is more than just tedious. Human error creeps in, leading to detrimental mistakes. On top of that, valuable time is lost — developers are stuck doing repetitive tasks when they could have been building innovative solutions.
• Lack of collaboration leads to collision. When teams work in silos, the consequences are costly. Developers could be coding on top of each other. These uncoordinated updates to code or metadata leads to version conflicts and compounding technical debt. Without a single source of truth, teams operate in the dark, stepping on each other’s toes and watching their productivity plummet.
• Testing bottlenecks create expensive fixes. Waiting until the very end of a development cycle to test means bugs are not only harder to find, but exponentially more difficult and expensive to fix. Late-stage testing creates bottlenecks that delay releases, frustrate stakeholders, and put unnecessary pressure on already-stretched teams.
• AI implementation cannot outpace security readiness. IT teams face a balancing act. The pressure to build and deploy is met with the need to ensure security throughout the process. For many teams, security and compliance has traditionally been treated as a checkbox at the end of their development process. This approach, however, can lead to vulnerabilities slipping through the cracks. 

Now, let’s dive into Salesforce’s approach to our DevOps Platform, and how can help your development team address these challenges.

4 Ways DevOps Moves You to the Fast Lane

DevOps is a combination of “development” (Dev) and “operations” (Ops), with the goal of speeding up the software development lifecycle (SDLC) through a set of automated tools and integration practices.

Salesforce’s approach takes this methodology and goes beyond to help teams not only solve these challenges, but transform them into competitive advantages. Here’s how:

1. Instant Code Promotions That Eliminate Deployment Complexity

DevOps Center gives teams the flexibility to promote changes across environments with clicks or code. Developers no longer need to perform complex or repetitive tasks for deployment — DevOps Center handles everything behind the scenes.

Your teams have options: use a combination of DevOps Center and the Salesforce CLI, or do everything via the DevOps Center UI. Everything stays in sync, whether you’re deploying through clicks or code.

2. Transparent Collaboration That Keeps Everyone Aligned

Transparency and visibility go hand-in-hand with fostering a collaborative team. DevOps Center centralizes work items into a visual pipeline, so everyone on the team can see the status of project work. In turn, team members can have quick insights and remain accountable for their work.

By promoting transparency and clarity, issues can be avoided early — mitigating downtime and technical fees down the line. DevOps Center allows each developer to work in their own dedicated space, ensuring their changes won’t be overwritten. These dedicated environments foster accountability, team ownership, and the kind of collaboration that moves projects forward.

3. Instant, automated Continuous Integration (CI) 

Say goodbye to manual tracking. Changes are tracked automatically as you make them in development environments. DevOps Center picks up on these actions and reflects them in real-time, providing instant visibility to your project and creating more efficient workflows.

Moving from manual clicks to automated pipelines means code is validated instantly. Whether your admins and developers are working natively in DevOps Center or with VS Code, everything stays in sync. This hybrid development model gives you the best of both worlds: modern tooling using modern technologies, through the interface of your choice.

4. Shift-left methodology to accelerate delivery and security

Salesforce’s approach goes beyond DevOps, and instead empowers teams with DevSecOps strategy. Including “security” is more than just an upgrade to DevOps. By bringing development, security, and operations together from the start, it ensures that a safety net is built into every stage of the SDLC — a practice called “shifting left.”

DevOps Center also pairs directly with Sandboxes, giving your team the flexibility to make changes safely and securely in isolated environments. This security-focused approach means testing happens early and often throughout the development cycle, not just at the end. Now, instead of scrambling to patch security gaps late in the game, teams catch and fix issues early, when they’re faster, easier, and cheaper to resolve.

Accelerate your SDLC with the Agentforce 360 Platform

AI is rapidly becoming a core element of how businesses grow and operate. The pressure on IT teams to deliver AI agents and applications is unprecedented, but speed without a foundation of security, privacy, and trust is a risk no company can afford.

The most successful businesses aren’t just tackling their IT backlog — they’re fundamentally transforming how they approach development. It’s a strategic shift to how they think about the future of their business. 

And with a G2 Leader in DevOps Platforms, the Agentforce 360 Platform gives teams the tools they need to make that transformation real.