Case Study: Linde Engineering achieves daily continuous deployments and higher-quality releases with Copado

How Linde Improves Development, Speed & Quality with Copado

Linde, a global industrial gases and engineering company serving more than 100 countries with roughly 80,000 employees, struggled after rolling out Salesforce to over 10,000 users and deploying 30+ custom Force.com apps. With a small ops team and multiple external partners, releases were slow and error‑prone—teams were limited to quarterly releases, manually merging XML, resolving frequent code conflicts and spending time firefighting instead of innovating. To address this, Linde selected Copado’s native DevOps for Salesforce to modernize its release process.

Copado implemented an end‑to‑end, Salesforce‑native continuous delivery pipeline and ran a tailored hands‑on workshop to onboard Linde’s team to features like branch management and promotions. The result: releases moved from quarterly to monthly and then to daily deployments, full visibility and governance with quality gates, far fewer manual merges and conflicts, seamless Azure integration, and many developer hours freed to focus on innovation—accelerating Linde’s DevOps maturity and improving release quality and speed.

Linde Engineering

Timo Schmitt

Head of Salesforce Platform