Case Study: Sysco achieves 90% faster Salesforce deployments with Blue Canvas

How Sysco's team of 40+ developers and admins support a complex Salesforce release flow with Blue Canvas

Sysco, a massive food distribution company, relied on Salesforce to support a large and highly customized org used by 40+ admins, developers, BAs, and release managers. As their DevOps process grew, they struggled with expensive Jenkins maintenance, limited rollback and audit capabilities for SOX compliance, and slow, manual release coordination that could take more than 2 hours even for small changes. To address these issues, Sysco turned to Blue Canvas for an admin-friendly continuous integration and Git solution.

Blue Canvas implemented a simpler Salesforce DevOps workflow with native Git integration and on-site support, including a new “Bulk Releases” feature to bundle changes for release managers. The result was a 90% reduction in deployment time, from more than 2 hours to under 10 minutes, 100% Git adoption for rollbacks and audits, and a shift from monthly releases to a two-week Agile sprint cycle. Blue Canvas also helped Sysco reduce maintenance costs by replacing their internal Jenkins setup.

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Brandon Mikeska

Principal Enterprise Architect