Case Study: Twist Bioscience accelerates development cycles and safeguards critical business data with OwnBackup

Twist Bioscience Accelerates Development Cycles and Safeguards Critical Business Data with OwnBackup

Twist Bioscience, a San Francisco–based biotechnology company that manufactures high‑throughput, silicon‑based synthetic DNA, relied heavily on Salesforce to manage critical sales and operational data. As they accelerated development of custom Apex, Visualforce and Lightning components, they needed a release-management solution that worked with Salesforce to create clean, anonymized test datasets, speed sandbox replication, and prevent bugs from being deployed to production.

Twist implemented OwnBackup’s platform—using Sandbox Seeding to populate sandboxes, Compare to detect validation-rule conflicts, Smart Alerts for unexpected data changes, and automatic backup and quick recovery—while OwnBackup reconfigured replication to meet their needs. The result was significantly shorter development cycles, faster replication times, reliable bug reproduction and resolution, fewer deployment failures, and stronger protection of business‑critical data, freeing the team to focus on productivity and core research.

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