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8/6/2025
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Why Pipeline Visibility Is Key to Successful Salesforce DevOps Transformation

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Team Copado
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With around 70% of digital transformation initiatives failing, one thing is clear: Even the best strategy can’t overcome slow, inefficient execution.

For Salesforce teams, the main challenge is managing complex, fragmented release pipelines that slow down delivery, increase risk, and create frustration. Without visibility into deployments and development activity, scaling DevOps becomes nearly impossible.

Salesforce low-code approach accelerates development, but its release pipelines are often slides and hard to manage. This complexity in source control and release management created blockages as client demand and deployment frequency increase.

That's where Copado comes in, offering purpose-built tools like Pipeline Builder and Pipeline Manager to streamline and scale Salesforce release management.

Continue reading to discover how specialized tooling can help you enhance IT delivery, making it faster, more quality-focused, and more secure. 

Why Pipeline Strategy Is a Transformation Strategy

Legacy release processes with manual handoffs carry risks and compliance gaps, slowing down your digital transformation without enough visibility, control, and orchestration.

Visibility is critical to Salesforce teams who often struggle with fragmented pipelines, imprecise statuses, and fragile handoffs.

While companies may have high-level insight across departments, they often lack the detailed Salesforce visibility they need to answer questions like:

  • How many components have been backed up?
  • What's the status of unit testing?
  • Do we have visibility into apex code scanning or testing?


You might approach Salesforce pipeline visibility challenges with high expectations and then urge delivery teams to boost velocity. However, it’s critical to identify bottlenecks in your software development pipeline and gain insights into how the process affects deployment.

Considering these Salesforce release challenges, begin your journey to DevOps adoption by following these stages: Plan, Build, Test, Release, and Operate. Naturally, you need to empower this transformation with the right tools.

Quick wins, such as version-controlled code, automated release management, and small-scale automations, will help you quickly see the value of DevOps. A well-designed orchestration solution will streamline the process for your team, making it easier and faster.

However, many of the currently available Salesforce DevOps orchestration platforms offer semi-automated, black-box solutions that lack key advantages such as scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

This is why you need an enterprise-grade solution designed specifically for Salesforce teams.

The Copado Approach to Pipeline Visibility

This DORA report demonstrates how robust DevOps processes result in 973 times more frequent software releases with fewer deployment failures. Selecting the right tooling is essential to reap these benefits.

Here are the key capabilities of an enterprise-grade DevOps solution designed for Salesforce teams: Copado’s Pipeline Manager and Pipeline Builder.

Pipeline Manager: Gaining real-time pipeline visibility

Hidden blockers and fragmented pipelines often slow down Salesforce DevOps processes. Copado’s Pipeline Manager fixes this issue by: 

  • Giving teams a live view of every environment in the release pipeline.
  • Showing where changes are and what’s blocking promotion.
  • Displaying health indicators and story counts for each branch.
  • Helping teams spot delays and bottlenecks before they derail delivery.

Pipeline Builder: Scaling Pipelines In Line With Governance

Creating new Salesforce DevOps pipelines often takes time and requires manual effort. Copado’s Pipeline Builder solves this challenge by: 

  • Enabling rapid creation of pipelines that follow governance rules.
  • Centralizing pipeline design, maintenance, and environment setup.
  • Connecting pipelines, projects, and repos in one place.
  • Reducing manual steps in pipeline creation.

Together: Unmatched Pipeline Visibility + Control

When used together, Pipeline Builder and Manager create a complete, unified release system for Salesforce DevOps teams to:

  • Align around a shared pipeline.
  • Replace fragmented processes with one consistent flow.
  • Scale DevOps across teams without sacrificing governance.
  • Answer key questions like “Where are my changes?” and “Why can’t I promote?”

Intuitive rules reduce onboarding time and prevent setup inconsistencies while surfacing all automation logic and quality checks in one spot. This feature eliminates the need for teams to link configuration details across tools manually.

While Pipeline Builder streamlines setup, making it faster, more reliable, and reproducible across teams and projects, Pipeline Manager offers total visibility and intelligent control. This functionality enables quicker, safer, and smarter deployments at scale, allowing your teams to move fast without compromising stability.

Real Business Impact of Pipeline Visibility

Real-life implementations of DevOps tools, such as Pipeline Builder and Pipeline Manager, increase release speed by 50%, reduce risk by 75%, and significantly improve team morale.

Other benefits include faster innovation, stronger compliance, and better collaboration within and across teams.

Here are two case studies that illustrate the value of Copado Pipeline Builder and Pipeline Manager to Salesforce teams.

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) lacked a clearly defined DevOps process.

Development teams managed key projects, including routine improvements to existing Salesforce systems, building a B2B site for European customers, and developing a mobile app for field support representatives.

The high demand for development work resulted in long wait times for new features, and the deployment of conflicting software versions led to issues.

Since building a DevOps solution in-house would be expensive and time-consuming, the company turned to Copado. Implementing it enabled CCEP to perform tests and static code analysis at each stage of the release process and automatically resolve conflicts. This prevents components from being overwritten and effectively removes essential mistakes.

As a result, the rate of release has increased: Two team members, rather than four, now deliver more than 100 user stories every month.

Copado also helps CCEP communicate the development team's capacity and timetables to external stakeholders. The team created workflows and reporting metrics that enable anyone to quickly track requests, user stories, and approvals.

Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric began using Salesforce to support its digital transformation plan, but DevOps bottlenecks soon prevented the team from fully leveraging the platform's capabilities.

Merge disputes, a lack of version controls, and the inability to maintain sandboxes in sync made it impossible for team members to collaborate efficiently. These gaps also made it challenging to deliver new features on time.

The company needed a DevOps process to reduce delivery disruptions, enhance the developer experience, and ensure seamless releases. This is where Copado came in.

Schneider Electric reduced errors by utilizing Copado as a code repository, version control system, and user story association tool. Copado also enables users to easily sync and deploy to multiple settings, as well as integrate with Cheetah, a digital marketing tool. By highlighting merging conflicts, Copado saved the teams a lot of time and effort.

Currently, the Salesforce team can release updates every three weeks by following its standard sprint cycle. The team can now create 100 user stories in a few hours and deploy them within three to four hours the next day

The Path To Pipeline Visibility

The pace and success of digital transformation depend on its execution, and delivery is its crucial part.

Simplifying Salesforce release cycles is key, as it enables shorter feedback loops and faster adaptability to change, thereby fostering innovation and a competitive advantage.

By decreasing complexity and streamlining processes, your team can respond more effectively to market demands and customer needs, enjoying more productivity and a smoother transition experience.

Equip your Salesforce DevOps team with the tooling it needs to make release management smoother. Simplify Your Next Release Cycle Now.

FAQ: Pipeline Visibility in Salesforce DevOps

1. What challenges do Salesforce DevOps teams face without a strong pipeline strategy?

Without a consistent DevOps approach, Salesforce teams often struggle with fragmented pipelines, manual handoffs, version control issues, and inconsistent deployments. All these issues slow down delivery, increasing the risk of errors, and making it more challenging to keep up with business demands.


2. How does pipeline visibility support the 5-stage Salesforce DevOps process?

Pipeline visibility enables Salesforce teams to see exactly where changes are in the release process, spot bottlenecks, and reduce errors.

Pipeline visibility ties into every stage of the Salesforce DevOps cycle–Plan, Build, Test, Release, and Operate–by providing teams with more transparency. As a result, your DevOps teams can spot blockers early, coordinate work across environments, and deliver high-quality releases faster and with less risk.

3. How does Copado improve pipeline visibility and control?

Copado Pipeline Manager gives DevOps leaders real-time visibility into pipeline health, deployment status, and bottlenecks. Pipeline Builder empowers teams to build repeatable, scalable, and governed pipelines. Together, they help Salesforce teams manage environments, automate promotions, and ensure consistency and security in every release.

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