Your audit trail for deployments is split. It's easier for your team to have fewer tools to learn. It's inefficient having multiple tools for one job - in this case, deployments. You have to run extra deployments for Vlocity DataPacks in addition to your metadata deployments, which takes up more of your time. The downside of using either Vlocity Build or IDX Workbench is that you now have two separate deployment tools - one for metadata and one for Vlocity. Vlocity Build can be used for running deployments from the CLI, while Vlocity's IDX Workbench is a UI-based tool. Salesforce provides two tools specifically for Vlocity deployments. For this reason Vlocity DataPacks cannot be deployed using Salesforce's Metadata API or change sets. There's a key difference between Vlocity and most other Salesforce customizations: Vlocity configuration is described with data, not metadata. That means changes need to be made in a developer environment first, tested properly and deployed along a release pipeline to production. Just like any other changes made to Salesforce, Vlocity customizations should be developed and released as part of your DevOps workflow. In broad strokes, these solutions meet the typical requirements companies have in particular sectors, and then Salesforce teams can adjust the fine details for further customization. But most companies in any given sector will have broadly similar requirements, and so Vlocity offers sector-specific solutions as packages that companies can install into Salesforce. The two names are still used interchangeably - for the sake of ease, I'll use 'Vlocity' in the rest of this post.Ĭompanies choose Salesforce as their CRM because it's easy to customize for particular business requirements. Vlocity was acquired by Salesforce in February 2020 and rebranded as Salesforce Industries. The beauty of Gearset's new Vlocity deployment tool is that you can deploy your Vlocity items alongside Salesforce metadata. Before our new release, deploying Vlocity meant you had to use a dedicated deployment tool and a separate workflow to your normal Salesforce deployments - not an ideal solution.
Gearset now supports Vlocity deployments with new purpose-built tooling! Vlocity packages are becoming increasingly popular as a way to extend Salesforce quickly with sector-specific solutions.
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