Case Study: SVB (Sociale Verzekeringsbank) achieves reliable, 5× faster releases — weeks to under 2 days — with Digital.ai (XebiaLabs) DevOps Platform

Designing a DevOps Delivery System with Digital.ai

SVB, the Dutch government organization that pays benefits to 5.5 million citizens, faced slow, error‑prone release processes and the fallout of a prior big‑bang delivery failure. With budget cuts and rising demand, SVB needed a DevOps delivery system to deliver software reliably, on time, and with full visibility. They chose XebiaLabs (now part of Digital.ai) — including XL Release and XL Deploy — to unify and automate their release pipeline.

Digital.ai implemented the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform to orchestrate and automate SVB’s deployments, provide real‑time visibility, and enable self‑service for teams. The impact: releases that once took weeks now move from development to production in less than two days; deployment velocity improved 5×; DTAP setup dropped from 4 hours to 1 hour; WebSphere migrations from 3 days to 2 hours; .NET lead time from 4 hours to 2 minutes; failure rates fell nearly 100%. Over 250 SVB staff now use the platform and multiple release processes were consolidated into one per application, improving quality and accountability.

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David Engberts

Agile Coach