Case Study: The University of San Francisco (USF) achieves mission-critical data protection and faster sandbox seeding with OwnBackup

The University of San Francisco (USF) discovers you can do so much more with a backup tool than just backup your data

The University of San Francisco (USF), a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, built a student hub on Salesforce to give students a 360-degree view of the campus experience. Protecting confidential student data and meeting federal compliance exposed limits in Salesforce’s native tools: manual backups were time-consuming, restores for large volumes were difficult, and seeding sandboxes with complex HEDA and community data was slow and error-prone.

USF implemented OwnBackup for automated daily backups, investigative tools, smart notifications, and Enhanced Sandbox Seeding, enabling quick restores, proactive detection of data/metadata changes, and safe, anonymized sandbox copies. As a result, IT regained control over data integrity, cut hours of manual work, accelerated testing and development cycles, and improved responsiveness to campus needs.

The University of San Francisco (USF)

Luke Ifland

Salesforce Business Systems Analyst