Case Study: Global 20 Bank reduces release time from 6 weeks to 34 minutes with XebiaLabs' XL Release

Global 20 Bank - Customer Case Study

Global 20 Bank’s Lease IT team — part of a bank serving 33 million customers across 40+ countries — was struggling with slow, manual and error-prone release processes that offered no visibility, few metrics and difficulty meeting compliance and security requirements. Releases from test to production took weeks, produced frequent incidents, and blocked the team from delivering fast, country-specific changes.

The team implemented XebiaLabs XL Release to automate and orchestrate the end-to-end pipeline (integrating tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Maven, Sonar, Fortify and Docker), giving visibility, control and an audit trail. The result: test-to-production time fell from six weeks to 34 minutes, developers deploy twice a day for fast feedback, releases became predictable (one incident in eight months), and compliance, productivity and time-to-market all improved.