Case Study: McKesson achieves faster, automated Salesforce deployments with Gearset

Faster release cycles and a sophisticated CI process with the help of Gearset

McKesson, a Fortune 5 healthcare company, faced slow, error-prone Salesforce deployments managed by a complex homegrown process that relied on spreadsheets and a single release manager. To regain control, reduce merge conflicts, and speed up release cadence, McKesson adopted Gearset for Salesforce deployment automation, org comparisons, CI and metadata backup capabilities.

Gearset replaced manual change tracking with an intuitive, automated pipeline—providing org diffs, scheduled CI jobs, and easy deployments—so admins can make declarative changes outside prod and developers can push releases more often. With Gearset the team moved from painful 6–12 hour preparations to a fast, automated process (including CI jobs that run every 4 hours), reduced overwrite risks, eliminated the single point of failure, and significantly sped up their release cycles.

McKesson

Monica Thornton

Salesforce Admin