Case Study: SVB achieves rapid, reliable releases (weeks to under 2 days) with XebiaLabs DevOps Platform

Designing a DevOps Delivery System with XebiaLabs

Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) is the Dutch government agency that pays pensions and child benefits to 5.5 million citizens. After a highly publicized €40M failure using a big‑bang waterfall approach, SVB’s manual, error‑prone release processes and looming budget cuts made it clear they needed to adopt DevOps and Continuous Delivery to deliver reliable, timely, high‑quality software.

SVB deployed the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform to automate and orchestrate releases, give end‑to‑end visibility, and build a culture of accountability. The result was a single unified release process used across teams, releases that moved from weeks to under two days, 5× faster deployments, near‑elimination of deployment errors, huge reductions in environment setup and migration times, and self‑sufficient teams able to sustain continuous delivery.

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David Engberts

Agile Coach