Blue Canvas - Git based DevOps for Salesforce

Fast & easy to use for a small team

We've been using Blue Canvas for deployments and also the CPQ app for the last 6 months. We're a team of two (an advanced admin & a senior developer). We're using it with Visual Code and Slack for communicating all the deployments, errors, etc in an automated way. My experience couldn't be better (and I've used other release management apps before). My scoring: - Features: All we need for our deployments in Sales Cloud and Salesforce CPQ at a fast pace. - Support from Blue Canvas: quick & direct conversation with the developers who built it - Price & value: it saves us time & effort on a daily basis, so it's worth the price

The personal DevOps touch

I’ve known the BlueCanvas team for several years but only recently had a chance to use the product for a real client. It’s been a valuable tool for comparing sandboxes with multiple changes happening in parallel. Using BlueCanvas I gained full metadata versioning without doing more than an initial login. I was then able to track and resolve merge conflicts and find versions specific to individual change requests that all hit the same page layouts and apex code. I was even able to pull changes from production back down to update stale sandboxes where I didn’t want to refresh them yet. I recommend for any team using change sets or metadata api to sign up for a trial ASAP!

Best CPQ & DevOps tool I have used

These guys are so awesome! They are helpful and the tool is easy. I found them due to their CPQ deployer which made a complete deployment a lot easier. When I ran into issues they quickly dedicated time to help me until my deployment was successful. I know they are working on a Salesforce Billing deployment tool and I CANNOT wait.

Best DevOps tool in the market

Had the pleasure to use this tool for an year and was blown away with the features. Useful for Developers & Admins.

Best in Class

I've been working with Blue Canvas for years. It's one of the first things I set up when I begin working with a new client. Once you get used to things like real-time change tracking of your production org, auto-detecting of changes between orgs, git-powered resolution of merge conflicts and line-level code reviews, it's pretty difficult to go back. Deployment Change Sets seem like ancient technology in comparison. BlueCanvas is hands down the easiest to use SFDC DevOps tool with an all-in-one streamlined UX. I would (and often do) recommend it for any team, large or small.

Useful platform, incredible Sales and Support teams

We deployed Blue Canvas's stand-alone solution at a Bank I worked at and we were fully adopted onto the platform within 30 days. Jack, our Account rep, guided us through the onboarding process with multiple trainings aimed at users and deployment managers to make sure we had what we needed to be successful right out of the gate. As our users explored the platform and became experts themselves, our suggestions for improvements were documented and acted on, some coming to fruition in the soonest release cycle. Whenever we had settings that needed to be toggled or questions about different use cases, the support team was prompt and effective at resolving issues or providing documentation. The platform works to get a better handle on Salesforce deployments which can be clunky with changeset technology. The ability to send a deployment to multiple orgs at once was a game-changer to save time with a complex set of sandbox environments.

Intuitive DevOps Tool

Our team has been using the Blue Canvas utility for multiple years and, overall, the experience has been overwhelmingly positive. The core DevOps features, such as adding sandbox and production orgs, comparing changes across orgs, creating and reviewing deployments, and preparing releases are very easy to use and responsive. Also of note is that the utility has improved considerably over the past couple of years and their team has been very responsive any time that questions have arisen, indicating the Blue Canvas team's dedication to their customers. All in all, this utility comes highly recommended for any team looking for an intuitive yet powerful means for non-developers and developers alike to compare changes across orgs and create/manage releases.

Great Tool!

Blue Canvas is such a great and easy to use tool by providing deployment history, low-code and Lightning based UX solution. Every Salesforce org needs Blue Canvas to enhance their deployment lifecycle and to accelerate the process.

Easy to Use DevOps for Everyone

Every salesforce org needs a DevOps strategy. Blue Canvas is a great tool for each team member to start and embrace the process. It is accelerating most of the deployment struggles and helps us to keep each sandbox in sync.

Great Tool: Easy to Use and Navigate

We've been using Blue Canvas for just over a year and we find it very intuitive. It is very easy to learn, navigate, and deployments are very quick. I like the fact that it maintains version control and tracks metadata changes across the various sandboxes and production. Should something go wrong, we can easily rollback our changes which provides peace of mind. The customer service is excellent and our account rep has gotten back to us within 24 hours with clarity on any questions I've had. The only reason I cannot give this a 5 is because the tool does not allow you to preschedule a deployment for a certain time and there are a few features that do not migrate as part of the deployment where I have to either migrate them manually or update these as post deployment steps. Even so, the vendor has taken my observations into consideration as improvements within the near future.