With intentional processes and Salesforce testing tools, community and regional banks can see huge returns, even with small DevOps teams.
Why It Matters: Customers have the same expectations of regional banks compared to larger institutions. The challenge becomes how to provide an intuitive and functional IT environment with limited resources.
- The financial industry has some of the most stringent data regulations while also being among the most highly targeted by data security threats.
- Reducing manual DevOps processes eliminates costly mistakes while expediting release cycles.
Here are six ways regional banks can drastically increase their Salesforce DevOps output:
1. Automated Testing Tools Free Up Developers
When it comes to expanding the capacity of your team members, automation is your best friend. Time-consuming, manual tasks are not only prone to errors, but they also occupy your team’s time when they could be addressing more pressing concerns.
Salesforce testing tools like static code analysis and CI/CD tools expedite monotonous reviews so nothing slips between the cracks.
Speeding up these processes increases release velocity and your team’s potential for productivity.
2. Version Control Aligns Efforts
Confusion leads to wasted time. And when it comes to working on a multi-developer team, code integrations can get messy. Overwrites and incongruous lines of code can lead to errors that need to be walked back and fixed.
Version control tools make it much easier to find, flag, and fix errors without the need to dig through the entire update.
Aligning developer efforts streamlines the productivity of small DevOps teams.
3. Deployment Automation Increases Success Rates
Financial organizations need to be able to rely on their applications and updates. Buggy releases not only impact the user experience, but they also have the capacity to create data security vulnerabilities, which can have catastrophic consequences.
Deployment automation enables small teams to maintain a structured release process with deep metadata control and the ability to roll back updates if errors are found.
It’s important for small teams to get it right the first time—avoiding wasted time reworking existing code.
4. Repeated Backups Reduce Downtime
A comprehensive data security plan accounts for all scenarios. Regional banks need to be prepared to return to operations as quickly as possible after an outage to avoid costly losses in service. And the best way to do this is with a recent backup snapshot.
Automate repeated backup snapshots and have recovery processes in place to enable your team to quickly get back to work after an outage.
This will also help regional banks avoid falling out of compliance with data security regulations.
5. nCino Is Built for Banks of All Sizes
The platform you use to accomplish banking functions has a huge impact on your ability to meet customer demands. nCino offers the leading cloud-based banking platform that helps regional banks streamline critical functions and provide the services their customers need.
nCino provides banks with real-time insights and automated workflows to avoid manual errors, accelerate processing times, and ensure regulatory compliance.
AutoRABIT helps regional banks get even more from their nCino platform with CI/CD, backup, and static code analysis capabilities. Learn more here.
6. A Complete DevSecOps Approach Scales Operations
The goal of every Salesforce DevOps strategy is to expand services and grow. This might seem difficult with a small team, but regional banks can utilize a DevSecOps platform to automate critical functions and increase output.
Leveraging a complete DevSecOps platform will increase productivity without sacrificing security considerations and empower community and regional banks to scale operations.
Intentionality in your choice of automated tools and close attention to optimizing processes will expand your capacity for innovation.
Next Step…
Getting the most from a small team requires using the tools at your disposal to their full potential. And when it comes to the finance industry, the nCino platform is an indispensable tool.
Check out our blog with 7 Things Banks Can Do Today to Streamline nCino Deployments to learn more about getting the most value from your nCino platform.