Case Study: Fortune 1000 Financial Services Company achieves $500K annual cost savings and $4.2M additional revenue with XebiaLabs' XL Release

XL Release Cuts Costs and Boosts Revenue at Major Financial Services Company

A Fortune 1000 financial services company with $6.2B in assets and 10,800 employees was hamstrung by a slow, error-prone release process—releases occurred only four times a year, developers worked in long cycles, planning relied on divergent Excel spreadsheets, handovers were manual, and there was no reliable data to pinpoint or prioritize bottlenecks, limiting time-to-market and increasing release failures.

The company deployed XebiaLabs XL Release to visualize and orchestrate the end-to-end pipeline, replace spreadsheets with automated tasks, and enable data-driven continuous improvement. The move cut manual overhead by about $500K annually, accelerated releases to roughly twice per week, generated approximately $4.2M in additional revenue, and significantly improved release predictability and speed.