Unlocking 5x Faster Releases and 5x More Productivity for Standard Bank
by the Numbers
161-year-old
Bank
20
African Countries Served
$5.95
Billion in Revenue
54,767
Global Employees
About the company
Standard Bank Group Limited is Africa's largest bank that offers its services across banking, insurance and asset management to individuals and businesses within and outside Africa.
Its presence is spread over 20 sub-Saharan countries, 4 global centers, 2 offshore hubs, and more than 500 branches.
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Standard Bank needed to scale their innovation in order to deliver financial services to its customers across the continent. However, the financial institution struggled with manual deployments, team overrides, and lack of consistency across siloed development teams.
With endorsement from Salesforce, Standard Bank implemented Copado to build a DevOps practice and drive return of investment for the business through automation.
SBG Salesforce Group COE & Platform Owner, Standard Bank
Results with Copado
Implemented
10X Faster
DevOps Best Practices Within 6 Months
5x
9X Faster
Faster Releases Across 3 Orgs
500
User Stories Published in a Month
24/7
Services Uptime Without Compromising Security
The Challenge
Before adopting Copado, Standard Bank didn’t have a DevOps team in place. Everybody in the company was doing manual deployments and developers were overriding each other's codes.
There was no consistency in terms of development. The developer team didn’t have testing automation in place and people worked in silos not knowing what other teams were up to. It was really difficult.
Standard Bank realized that they needed to think significantly differently about innovation and empowering everyone within the organization to achieve that goal.
Key Challenges
The Solution
Within six months of adopting Copado, Standard Bank moved from releasing once a month to implementing best practices, design, architecture, and releasing twice a week.
The two releases a week are across 50 feature teams. On average, Standard Bank now deploys over 500 user stories in a month.
With Copado, there are no gray areas in Salesforce releases. And if there is a gray area, Copado Quality Gates helps the Standard Bank’s developers recognize the errors before they get into production.
The Future
Copado has allowed everybody in the Standard Bank’s IT team to have visibility around the errors and collaborate closely to keep the errors under check. They appreciate Copado for making the DevOps infrastructure available for the team to use at all times.
Copado offers so much visibility that developers simply don’t have an excuse to put bad quality stuff into production. Copado has helped Standard Bank change its mindset around how they can apply best practices, evolve constantly, and push themselves to think and work smarter.
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