Case Study: Societe Generale achieves 100,000+ annual deployments and faster, error-free releases with XebiaLabs (XL Deploy)

With XebiaLabs, Societe Generale Achieved Strong Value and Powerful Benefits for IT and Business Lines

Societe Generale’s Global Banking and Investor Solutions (GBIS) division — a large international arm of the bank managing 1,500+ applications — needed to move away from mostly manual, in-house deployment processes that were slow, error-prone and hard to scale across follow-the-sun operations. The IT team’s goal was to accelerate and standardize deployments so developers could stop maintaining custom tools and focus on delivering business value.

They adopted XebiaLabs’ XL Deploy to automate and orchestrate deployments, integrating with tools like Jenkins and Puppet. The platform scaled GBIS from 10 pilot apps to 200+ applications (over 100,000 deployments per year), shortened release cycles from weeks to days, reduced development costs, improved DevOps coordination, enabled error-free, predictable rollouts, and freed developers to focus on higher‑value work — helping earn GBIS recognition for Continuous Delivery.

Societe Generale

Amir Jaballah

Global Head of Continuous Delivery Platform