# Gearset DevOps Reviews **Vendor:** Gearset **Category:** [DevOps Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/devops-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 292 ## About Gearset DevOps Gearset is the global leader in Salesforce DevOps. It’s a DevOps platform that helps organizations manage, automate, and govern the full Salesforce development lifecycle, from planning and deployment to testing, data management, and compliance. The platform is designed for Salesforce teams that need reliable, scalable DevOps processes across complex org environments. Gearset is used by mid-market and enterprise organizations across regulated and non-regulated industries, including healthcare, financial services, insurance, and technology. Typical users include Salesforce administrators, developers, DevOps engineers, release managers, and platform owners responsible for maintaining deployment quality, security, and operational consistency. The platform supports a wide range of Salesforce use cases, including metadata and CPQ deployments, CI/CD automation, code review workflows, sandbox seeding, test automation, and monitoring. As well as deployment automation, Gearset includes tools for Salesforce data protection and long-term data management, such as automated backups, data restore, and archiving. Observability and Org Intelligence features provide insight into org health, deployment risk, and system changes over time. Gearset also includes governance and compliance capabilities designed for enterprise environments. These features help teams maintain audit readiness and enforce access controls while supporting compliance frameworks such as SOX, ISO, HIPAA, and GDPR. The platform is delivered as a managed service and integrates with Salesforce environments without requiring complex local infrastructure. Key features and capabilities include: - Salesforce metadata, CPQ, and data deployments with CI/CD automation and version control integration - Code review, test automation, and release validation to support quality and consistency - Automated Salesforce backups, restore, and data archiving for data protection and retention - Sandbox seeding, observability, and Org Intelligence to support environment management and visibility - Governance features including audit trails, role-based access controls, and compliance support Gearset is a Salesforce Partner and has supported Salesforce teams globally since 2015. The platform is used by organizations managing multiple orgs (across regions), frequent releases, and complex compliance requirements, helping teams reduce deployment risk, improve operational visibility, and maintain control over Salesforce change management processes. ## Gearset DevOps Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** in Gearset DevOps, appreciating its intuitive interface and smooth deployment processes. (25 reviews) - Users value the **smooth deployment process** of Gearset DevOps, enhancing efficiency and minimizing human error significantly. (21 reviews) - Users value the **easy deployment** process with Gearset, enabling efficient release cycles and minimal troubleshooting. (17 reviews) - Users commend the **fast and efficient customer support** from Gearset, ensuring quick resolutions to any issues encountered. (16 reviews) - Users appreciate the **deployment ease** of Gearset DevOps, enabling smooth and reliable Salesforce releases without hassle. (15 reviews) - Reliability (12 reviews) - Users commend the **dedicated support team** at Gearset for maximizing their platform experience and aiding deployment processes. (11 reviews) - Integrations (10 reviews) - Time-saving (10 reviews) - Easy Integrations (9 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **deployment issues** with missing translations and unclear timelines, hindering effective release planning. (6 reviews) - Users find the **complexity in data migrations** and CI/CD setups to be a significant hurdle in using Gearset DevOps. (4 reviews) - Users face **limitations in data management** with Gearset, including inadequate support and complex metadata transfer issues. (4 reviews) - Users note that the **high cost** of Gearset poses challenges for approvals but is ultimately deemed worthwhile. (4 reviews) - Users frequently encounter **missing features** in Gearset DevOps, particularly with translation deployments and limited metadata support. (4 reviews) - Difficult Navigation (3 reviews) - Users occasionally face **merge conflict limitations** that restrict options, impacting their workflow in certain scenarios. (3 reviews) - Users find Gearset to be **pricey for larger teams** , affecting overall accessibility and budget considerations. (3 reviews) - Users note the **lack of community support** for Gearset, making assistance hard to find when needed. (2 reviews) - Complex Setup (2 reviews) ## Gearset DevOps Reviews ### 1. Must Have Tool for Salesforce Deployment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Easy to Use and Excellent Support. Gearset design from Salesforce's user's point of view. Easy to understand pricing structure. Org Monitor CI to back promote from Prod to Sandboxes. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** None. This is a good tool to use. Nothing I do not like. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connect Jira - Github - Salesforce and streamline the release management workflow. Benefit: Clear CI pipeline ### 2. Gearset is one of the best Salesforce lifecycle management tools in the market. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohan S. | Software Engineer (Salesforce Developer), Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** It really takes care of the whole integration and deployment activities required in Salesforce. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Nothing as such. I'm happy with how it is now. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Salesforce lifecycle management ### 3. Impressed by customer support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** real-time chat support, wide range of features **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** lots of other salesforce tools use a Kanban/pipeline mental model for deployments - within gearset there's no such storyboard feature (as far as I know). **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Metadata comparison & basic deployment with rollback and nightly backups to git are how we use gearset right now. We're looking forward to expanding into the CI space. ### 4. An absolute time saver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patricia E. | Application Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset saves me time and shows me all changes so that I don't forget to deploy anything associated with my change/addition in Salesforce. I also like that my deployment packages are saved so that I can move things through the sandbox orgs up to production without having to build the package again. One of the best features is that you can actually see the differences between orgs by viewing XMLs of them side by side so that you know without question what the effects of your deployment will be. For picklist changes you can literally see the additions and removals side by side, as well as the field dependencies. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** If I have to give downside it would be that at times it is a little slow to pull the metadata to compare, and the metadata comparison filter could be a bit easier to use. Sometimes I have to add more filters than I really need because I am not sure if I am going to capture everything in the comparison. But for the most part there is not a lot to dislike about Gearset. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** You have the option of a free 30 day trial. Take advantage of it. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the things that has always been a pain point with Salesforce is its deployment process. As a developer of both ServiceNow and Salesforce, I have always preferred the way ServiceNow allows be to capture changes in update sets compared with Salesforce, which has you build the change set after you do the work, possibly resulting in something not being captured. The biggest benefit of Gearset is the time it saves building change sets in Salesforce, which is clunky and can result in missing important elements for a successful deployment. We actually have a right of passage for new Salesforce developers where they are required to deploy their first change using Salesforce change sets so that they can appreciate the ease with which Gearset handles their later deployments. It is definitely an eye-opening experience. Gearset also allows me to spend time on development that would otherwise be taken up with the mundane chores of preparing to move my changes through the orgs. Addtionally, it makes it very easy for me to deploy the changes of my colleagues, since as a best practice we do not deploy our own, and to see exactly what they are deploying. The ability to add a friendly name to the deployment also allow us to associate it with a change request number for the benefit of those doing the deployment and for record-keeping purposes. Another benefit for an organization like ours that has multiple Salesforce developers is that it helps us to avoid overwriting each others changes. Because it is so easy to see the comparisons between orgs we can be certain that whatever we are changing does not impact the work of a colleague that may not have been deployed up to production yet. It fosters conversation and coordination between developers. ### 5. The Interface and Process for Change Sets that Salesforce should have built years ago **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Building change sets, and deployment packages is so much easier, and streamlined. Being able to filter on who made the modification, see the modification dates, and filter on metadata types is crucial. The data backup and deployment is quite well thought out, and helps make better use of our sandboxes. Ease of taking a complete metadata backup before large changes. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Occasionally have gotten some surprising errors in deployment of larger change sets. Some quirks around permissions, for example, if you have a permission set that only has permissions to one object in it, but include all custom objects in your comparison it appears that Gearset may add explicit "no access" to every object, and every field, rather than just not including them. Metadata type dependencies I wouldn't expect, and weren't included in the filter. however, having to do multiple metadata comparisons beats Salesforce's change set interface without question. The data migration tool is great, but would be better if it could easily turn off all triggers, validation rules, workflows, processes, and flows, deploy, then turn them back on exactly how they were prior to migration. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Can't emphasize how much faster Gearset is for building change sets, especially for large changes across multiple objects. Through the salesforce UI it could take hours, and Gearset (if you know exactly what metadata you've touched) can take a matter of minutes. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simplifying and scheduling Change Sets. Always finding new and creative ways to work with Gearset's tools. For example, recently used it to assist with creating a new "Minimal Access Profile" and then migrating only Tab Visibility, Record Type Visibility to it. I also believe it's helped me understand Salesforce Metadata better than I ever did before. ### 6. Gearset changes everything! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset makes deployments fun! Instead of fussing with old fashioned change sets and adding more and more components each time your deployment fails because, "opps, you forgot something!", just run a Gearset comparison instead! Gearset will show you all the differences between your two orgs so you can add all your new and updated (or even deleted) components to your deployment, without forgetting anything. Also, for each component you select, it'll tell you what other components it depends on, so you can add them right then and there instead of waiting for your deployment to fail first! Gearset will also warn you before deploying if it thinks the deployment will fail for some reason, so that you can fix the issue before you spend time deploying. It has awesome sorting and filtering both when choosing which metadata items to compare between orgs, and also when selecting which items to deploy. Highly recommend! **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** At first glance the price is a little high and smaller companies may have a harder time approving the purchase. HOWEVER, after running the 30 day trial and seeing how much time it'll save you per month, it becomes quite obvious that Gearset pays for itself extremely quickly! You just need to explain to management how worthwhile it is and then you are all set :) **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Go for it! There is a 30 day free trial and their support team will walk you through getting started so you can maximize your time during the trial. Oh did I mention that their support team is AWESOME! Live chat can answer most questions and if need be, they'll schedule a screenshare to help you figure out what you need. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** The worst part about building things in salesforce has always been deploying them to production! It always took a good few days, and with Gearset I have cut it down to anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours! It also lowers the incentive to build things directly in prod, which is something we all know not to do... ### 7. Excellent UX, Performance is good for Small / Mid projects, worse for big Metadata projects. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Very useful tips and integrity analysis on deployment. User experience: gearset gives nice tools to compare xml metadata, such as pick list entries etc. Native authentication using browser cookies - I don't have to recall passwords. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** When dealing with enterprise projects (4000+records) even objects selection takes a lot of time and comparison just stucks. For such projects I use an alternative platform. Also, it would be good to have an option to include selected objects/profiles security settings (FLS) automatically, like it's in change sets. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Nice choice if the volume of customisations in your org is not big. But if you are big enterprise with more than 5 years in Salesforce, you'll probably have performance issues with it. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) gearset leverages the deployment: it gives easy tools to compare/select/manage deployment metadata. 2)gearset provides an option to backup the metadata toVCS (GitHub etc.) ### 8. Easy to Use and Intuitive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** The UI is very clean and the UX makes it easy to learn how to use this powerful tool. Being able to validate deployments prior to deployment makes it easy to feel confidence when deploying large and complex change sets. Gearset makes it easy to identify dependencies that might cause a deployment to fail-- this allows for more successful deployments than not. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** The pricing is higher than I'd like- however, I do understand that it does make sense for such a sophisticated tool- so it does feel like a value product. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Easy to use, easy to manage, and always leading-edge **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping to better document changes made and deployed by developers and linking up with Jira. We also are testing out the data deployment tool to resolve the limitations of Salesforce data loader. We do have CI set up as well. ### 9. Solid change-management software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Overall, gearset is easy to use and required little training for our less technical employees to learn and start using. Being able to easily access old comparison info has been useful when trying to investigate past deployments. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Finding certain metadata types has been a challenge in the past, but they have made improvements to address this recently. Comparison speeds can be slow, but this has also been improved recently and is happening more infrequently. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Gearset is a good pick if you have a mix of developers/engineers as well as less technical admin types deploying salesforce changes. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are mainly using this software as a way to keep an audit log of all changes that enter our production salesforce org. Also, gearset is used as a way to separate and enforce roles and responsibilities across our development and admin team. ### 10. One of the easiest tool for Salesforce DevOps! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joey C. | Salesforce MVP, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset makes it very easy for me to compare the metadata between different orgs and remember the different settings and configuration of the comparison. One of the biggest features that I enjoyed is the ability to rollback deployments with one click! There are other very useful features like org change monitoring and automation that can really improve the DevOps process **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Having discounts on annual plans would be nice to have **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** This solves the limitations of change sets and makes the process really accessible for admins. This improved the quality and speed of our deployments. ### 11. I love Gearset to compare 2 Salesforce envrionments, easily select components and deploy in 1 click. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jean-marc c. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** - org comparison - help to cleanup package - comparison filter **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** - no way to manually modify components - profile deployment : need to have more clear vision on difference on profile and tools to deploy difference - licensing is not clear for Continuous Integration, I can prepare package but not used CI. It should be in the same package -territory deployment does not work **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** easy to build your pacakge **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployment when I do not know which components to deploy and build fastly package. Build a repository with all component in Gitlab ### 12. Awesome salesforce tool for developers and deployment teams **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikash A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** The artifacts comparison and the simplicity while deployment and most of all deployment rollback feature. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** It takes too much time if the client have a huge org , but that's not its drawback completely. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** This tools will reducing the pain that comes with change-sets for sure and metadata comparison is the best. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multiple artifacts comparison and seamless deployment without waiting for artifacts to move like change-sets. ### 13. Imagine Change Sets, but they don't suck. And on top of that, you get bells and whistles. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo D. | Moderator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** - comparison: take two environments and see what is changed/new/deleted - no more guessing what was built - compare only what you want: the pre-analysis lets you decide what you want to compare - no more clicking "next" trying to find that custom field you built on your biggest object - inspect metadata before selection: what was actually done? - view the metadata diff (see the actual XML) before you select to add it to your package - analysis before deployment: did someone say dependencies? - the system will alert you when references made within what you're deploying are not available in target, it will prompt you to add them to your package. You can ignore/accept! - instant validate, instant deploy: how long have you waited for a Change Set to show up in target? 1click-2click-deployed with Gearset - no lag time - oh, what's that? you got a deployment error?: you can immediately go back to your comparison and select the new items/refresh with what is needed. You can rinse repeat and fix your deployment MUCH faster than through traditional means - receipts: get a download of what was deployed, when it was, and by whom **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** There is only one downside and it's not Gearset's fault. The analysis tool is trying its best when telling you what "may" go wrong with your deployment. It is not all-knowing, in the end it is a computer. You yourself need to know enough to make the correct judgement when deploying items. Deployments in large orgs can have MANY impacts. In the end, this tool is an extension of your knowledge and capability. NOT a replacement for something akin to a CAB. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Try it, see the light - or don't. To each their own. Just trust me and try it. See if your deployments get better at all. It sure has made mine way easier. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** - centralized deployment location - one person can man the helm - deploy your items on time without lag, especially when on a timetable - every second matters. Don't waste it waiting for that Change Set to show up ### 14. Best Devops tool for Salesforce **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nithesh N. | Salesforce Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Easy to Setup No need for a DevOps team for CI/CD User Voice Portal Monitoring Static Code Analysis **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** User Voice feedback to feature release process is too slow Data Deployment feature is not satisfactory **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improving Release Management Tracking Test Coverage Monitoring Org Deployment Rollbacks Static Code Analysis - Code Reviews ### 15. It is a fantastic product which makes deployment so easy. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** 1) Continuous Integration 2) Data migration 3) Compare sandboxes 4) Cloning the deployment 5)History of the deployment 6)Auto recommendation to add the references while doing deployment. 7) Generating the package file before validation **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** 1) Code review functionality. There is no way we can add our own PMI rule file. Depending on the application, many rules should not fire. 2) Naming of the validated packages. If we want to deploy the metadata in few iterations it is useful. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** It is really a nice product which almost does what you need for deployment, data migration and tracking. I use this product on daily basis but rarely frustrated with functionality. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data input, deployment, automated test runs. This tool made our life easier and efficient. ### 16. Gearset simplifies Deployments from sandboxes to production, CI/CD jobs and monitoring. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Packaging and Containers | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** The deployments from one environment to another. Monitoring of environments is just a time savior. I can save every step as a template to reuse. For example, when having more than 1 deployment of the same type, I save a deployment template to reuse . No need to redo a comparison. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Comparisons take a long time to complete. Error messages are not always clear. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gearset helped me in correcting all of apex code not being up to standards. Improved my coding skills. ### 17. Gearset Helps Us Run Smooth and Automatic SF Devops **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James (Jim) Y. | Director, Systems, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** My favorite features are the automatic CI features, especially the ability to automatically validate a Pull Request when it's submitted via GitHub. This streamlines our production process and eliminates wasted steps. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Not much, really - but they are based in the UK so sometimes support in the late afternoons is spotty. The good news? My team and I very rarely need support. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Watch the various videos and webcasts that Gearset provides - if you're not using CI and source-based development, they offer a wide variety of insights that will go a long way to helping you get configured and ready to go. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous Integration feels like the biggest, but intelligent deployment to Salesforce is the hidden factor. We have never, as a team, had to do much with Changesets and other techniques because we adopted Gearset very early in our org. The amount that I've heard people complain about them, though, leads me to believe that, without Gearset, we'd be facing quite a headache. ### 18. Revolutionized the way we build and deploy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rustin F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** We love that Gearset takes the guess work out what we changed and need to package with our deployments when we are changing multiple items on our sandbox. We have almost zero deployment failures as Gearset notifies us of dependent fields and rules to deploy with our changes. The fact that we can schedule deployments allows us to deploy changes early mornings and late evenings when our users are not utilizing the Salesforce platform, cutting down on the need for quick work arounds and rollbacks when user flows are effected. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** I think this is more of a Salesforce sandbox issue, but we find that the compare feature at times is extremely slow to pull the data and we find ourselves refreshing the screen to see if the compare actually did finish. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Know that their are many great tools in Gearset that require the Enterprise Tier. Gearset is deploying some really great features and tools but if you are not an Enterprise Tier customer, they will not be available to you. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gearset is our go to deployment tool. It helps us deploy with little to no errors and helps us find other fields we changed and malupideted that also need to be deployed. The visibility that we have of changes in our sandbox and even from production back to the sandbox have allowed our orgs to remain in constant sync. It's been a life saver. ### 19. Gearset made implementing CI/CD a breeze! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon B. | Engineer - Salesforce Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** At the top of the list is the ease of use! As a team just beginning to explore DevOps, we didn't have a lot of experience or understanding. Gearset was by FAR the easiest to use solution available and we were successful in using it to improve our processes within a few days. I also love their customer service and customer support. I always felt very valued as a customer. Even though they're in the UK, we never went more than a few minutes to just a few hours without a response to our needs. Finally, they're always improving. It seems like they're releasing something new every day to make their product better. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** For some time we experienced struggles in metadata inconsistencies that were caused by the way Salesforce exports the metadata. For a long time, this was a struggle for us because it made the process of reviewing changes in GitHub more difficult. It was time-consuming to resolve some of these changes and it did cause a few problems for us. Gearset's answer at the time was "it is caused by Salesforce, and we just pass along what we are given." This is fair, I suppose, but other products alphabetized the output to help in tackling this issue. It's not perfect, but it is much better. Recently, Gearset began doing the same. I would like to see more from Gearset around implementing functionality that can improve situations like this for the user. Not just say "that's the way Salesforce gives it to us and we just pass it along." Also, Gearset is a great product but is lacking some additional functionality I see in comparative products such as Copado. Keep in mind, you'll pay MUCH more for said product. The only other thing I dislike is that Gearset has no API. There is a whole new world of possibility if this were made available to customers. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** This is a company worth partnering with. They do a great job and can help you succeed in your ci/cd process and improve your DevOps implementation. If you're looking for a lot of bells and whistles, perform a trial first to make sure you can meet your requirements as there is no Gearset API. It is quick and easy to configure and implement. I suggest having at least 1 Enterprise license, but more than 1 would certainly make things better not having to swap licenses around on your team to gain access to the many additional features you gain with the more advanced license. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gearset allows us to implement a great CI/CD process which was a big improvement from not having one. We have been able to move deploys quickly from environment to environment, saving time and effort. We are able to quickly compare differences and resolve them. We have streamlined our releases making fewer mistakes, and getting from beginning to end faster and with more confidence. We were also able to monitor failing tests and alert our teams in email or Slack on a daily basis. Rolling back changes when a problem is caused is another great improvement we take advantage of. ### 20. SFDC CI/CD tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dayo O. | Senior Release Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** I like the fact that you can schedule metadata deployments from the gearset UI. You can also use the UI to do many things like do comparisons. This makes it user-friendly, divers users of different levels of technical ability are still able to use it **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** I like to see the integration with version controls more seamless. The reason this is important is teams are set up in different structures. It's important that less technical individuals can easily deploy changes. Another enhancement I like to see is integration with other tools like slack **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** This is a great tool if you are looking into implementing release management. Make sure to prepare for a learning period depending on the different individuals **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Given the size of my team, gearset has made it easy for us to move changes across multiple sandboxes. We were able to take control of our production and staging environment. One other thing we were able to do is to eliminate working directly in prod thereby adhering to the recommendations of salesforc.com ### 21. I've been managing deploys with Gearset for so long, I don't want to consider a release without it! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nghi L. | Senior Business Systems Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Ease of detecting changes in two environments, selecting these differences, and deploying them to another environment. The ability to clone these deployments and use them across multiple environments is a game-changer! **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** We are still colliding with each other when it comes to layouts. We manage merge conflicts outside of Gearset, and I wish there was a way to make this easier. Also, new API versions released by Salesforce often cause errors within our repo, so there's always a little bit of friction when we start off a new sprint and cut our development branches. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Really think about your deployment architecture when first deploying Gearset. We're still having to clean up our repository and to iterate on the flow of our deployment process to make it easier for our internal users. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Ability for continuous integration across multiple development branches and Salesforce environments. 2) Automated validations for pull requests against our first integration branch (to check if there are any potential errors). 3) Enables the team to collaborate on a single deployment through draft deployments. 4) Continued ease of use in terms of building a deployment package compared to Salesforce change sets. 5) Ability to easily monitor our code base through daily monitoring jobs. ### 22. Amazing resource for coordinating Salesforce development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin S. | Director of Information Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset absolutely changed the entire experience of deploying between Salesforce orgs for us. What was an awful experience of keeping track of changes for inclusion in Change Sets or deploys from ANT/Eclipse turned into a great experience of being able to automatically do a diff against two orgs and deploy. Gearset made it possible to selectively deploy partial components, like workflows, or field, without deploying the entire object, not to mention being able to successfully deploy profile and permission set changes. The price is completely worth the saved headache of multiple failed deployments from deploying the wrong items. Also, the support team is stellar. They go above and beyond to help you get the most of their product. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** It be a little slow to do comparison, build the package, and then deploy if you are making only small or frequent between orgs. The code analysis tools can be a bit of work to set up, the out of the box ones were not super useful. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to save hours of frustration with the default deployment options, and save regular backups of our code to Github. ### 23. A Simple and Powerful Answer to Deployment Process Headaches **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Simple, powerful interface allows you to move metadata from A to B. Doing this by comparing data instead of picking individual components, coupled with the built-in dependency checker, avoids missing components upon deployment. Very admin-friendly- no command lines. It looks the same whether you're moving metadata from a Salesforce org or a git repo - making git-driven development achievable to teams that don't have dedicated DevOps resources. Deployment history and rollback features are great for traceability. Outstanding chat-based support gets you answers very quickly. Very quick release cadence. Continuous Integration can be used as a backup mechanism. 100% cloud - no local installs of any kind. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Comparisons are slow, and it takes some getting used to to learn how to filter the metadata so that the comparisons complete in a reasonable period of time. When a deployment fails, it is tedious to retry it, since you have to run the entire comparison again (can't refresh a single component); deployment notes are wiped. I shouldn't have to type my deployment notes in a separate app so I can paste them into the box on a retry. I have on occasion run into wonky bugs and hiccups, such as the app losing the ability to select which tests to run on deployment. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increases traceability of deployments. Enabled git-driven DevOps processes without command lines. Increases fault tolerance with rollback feature. ### 24. Gearset sped up our deployment process and made our team more productive. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex S. | Sr. Salesforce.com Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Ease of use, the ability to link multiple instances of Salesforce and customer support/training are the standouts. Being able to drill down into each object and find exactly what you need without all of the clutter is fantastic. We no longer need to use ANT packages with deployments, which is great due to the time it takes to create the packages. Now we just login and drill down to each object. The ability to deploy a package from on instance to another and then clone that package to deploy to yet another instance is such a time saver. We no longer have to rebuild the package for every deployment. Being able to clone another users package and add or remove items without having to rebuild is another plus. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** More detailed error reporting would be great, but I think they are limited to what Salesforce provides. There are certain times where the system runs slow, but it usually has to do with the Salesforce connection. I have very few issues with the Gearset application. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** If you are tired of creating ANT packages or wasting time preparing your deployment, Gearset is an amazing solution. You can gather all of the data that you need for your deployment within the application, no need for external tools. Comparison results and validation results are very helpful, they allow for you to troubleshoot without starting the process over. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployment times have been cut in half, deployment code coverage best practice help is nice, no need to use ANT packages. The detailed code coverage assistance page is very nice, it helps us keep our code within the Salesforce best practices. We recently create a new Salesforce org and we have the ability to move metadata from our Gov Cloud instance to our normal Sales Cloud instance by just adding a new connection. Just an overall better experience with deployments. ### 25. Gearset is an essential tool for developing on the Salesforce platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg M. | Implementation Specialist Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** There are multiple deployment tools on the market for moving data between sandboxes and production in Salesforce. Gearset takes it a step further by allowing us to deploy metadata accross Salesforce orgs. As Salesforce consultants, we have pre-built solutions that enable us to rapidly accelerate the implementation process for our customers. We prefer using Gearset over Salesforce Managed Packages or Unmanaged Packages because it gives our customers full access to the metadata and allows us to add additional customer-specific customizations once in the target salesforce instance. We also work with multiple development teams and utilize GitHub to create branches and pull requests to pull features into a staging sandbox which is aligned with the master branch using CI. Finally, the support team at Gearset is amazing and always willing to help answer questions or troubleshoot an issue that comes up. They have great response time which seems uncommon in this day and age. We've been using Gearset for over 2 years now and we love the tool! **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** We have no major problems with Gearset. Doing large comparisons (comparing lots of different types of metadata) on large Salesforce orgs (orgs that have lots of customizations) can be slow (~5min until the comparison screen loads) which is understandable but something to be aware of. Working with Github branches, pull requests, and CI takes some getting used to and fine-tuning. There is a lot of metadata that doesn't like to deploy nicely in Salesforce. You just have to work through what is the best to set up for your team in CI so that everything runs as smooth as possible. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** I highly recommend that you get this tool if you develop or administer on the Salesforce platform on a regular basis. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** As Salesforce consultants, we need to be able to quickly and easily deploy metadata between Salesforce instances. Gearset allows us to easily compare and review our deployments between instances. Using standard Salesforce deployment tools is a major pain and takes forever. Gearset saves the day and gives you a lot more insight into what you are deploying and its likelihood to succeed. ### 26. What Salesforce Deployments Should Be **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Skot N. | Principal, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset makes it easy to see exactly what changes your deployment is going to make in the destination environment with its built in visual diff tool, It makes it easy to build focused, well built deployments including all necessary dependencies. The ability to schedule deployments is fantastic--why Salesforce doesn't let us do this already is astonishing. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Some deployment problems still persist--if sandboxes aren't on the same release (e.g. one on spring and one on summer) there can be problems that gearset doesn't have tools to address. My example is always a new permission that exists on a profile--gearset would be unable to deploy the profile until the Sandboxes are in synch. (This is a challenge that is not unique to gearset.) **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Get enterprise edition. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Deployments while I sleep - Small surgical deployments to fix minor issues are easy - Cloning deployments to push to multiple environments - If I had Enterprise, I'd use it for dev opps, but i don't, so instead I cry myself to sleep every night ### 27. The bees knees for metadata deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Organising and deploying metadata is a breeze with Gearset. Previously we were using Salesforce native change set deployments and it was a pain. Gearset makes it easy. Now we can quickly analyse changes and review them in realtime in the app. Plus having quick access to past deployments plus integration with version control are just icing on the cake. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Sometimes it can be hard to break out a deployment into manageable chunks without a bunch of manual effort. It would be nice if the tool could manage that for us (Eg. you define items to be deployed then Gearset can break them into code, permissions, page layouts etc and separate those into staged deployments). **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** There are a number of deployment tools for Salesforce but Gearset stands above in my opinion. It's easy to slice your metadata various ways to find the changes you want to deploy and then the built in validation and suggestions ensure your deploy goes smoothly. We do not use their data deployment features but from my time trialling them I could tell they were working towards having a top notch solution for data management. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our time to build and deploy a release has gone down substantially. Also with built in validation and history we can get a good grip on governance and visibility into our release process for reporting. We are also using CI to monitor our metadata in production to ensure no unsanctioned changes are made. ### 28. Gearset Solves our needs and constantly improves **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Easy Deployments including CustomMetadataTypes! They are constantly innovating with Github and other VCS web-hooks for a more traditional CI/CD. Pull Requests can be created right after a comparison. Nightly CI Jobs that run can keep us proactive in identifying any issues. (Nightly test jobs, and nighty pulls and updates into Github) **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Comparisons can be slow and if you refresh sandboxes routinely it can be cumbersome to authenticate. No API to call from command line. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** If you're not currently using anything or having to build a custom CI/CD platform. Gearset does it all for you, it's easy to use, easy to implement. I've sunsetted my previous custom CI/CD platform in use of this. Good for your entire org. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD, Testing Automation. Pull request creation on comparison. This is beneficial as the barriers for entry are low when trying to include admins within the development lifecycle. ### 29. CI/CD Automation Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramprasad V. | Tech Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** 1. Automated CI/CD . 2. Clone Deployments. 3. Monitoring and Unit tests. 4. All the children including permissions show up after comparison under parent **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** 1. Filters (May be I expect it should have a lock or only Enterprise should have Edit access) 2. Object Translation **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** It's a recommended tool for CI/CD Automation and Monitoring all Sandboxes and Production **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Of Course Object Translation gives us more problems frequently. ### 30. SF Architect using Gearset for release management, data deployments, and source control **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Ease of use, standardizaion of DevOps, sharing of packages and deployments, draft deployments, integration with AWS CodeCommit and Jira, being able to refresh metadata before deployments or to include other components, pre-validation of deployments, static code analysis. In addition, customer support is great ... and the constant releases with meaningful updates are great. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Some things take a lot of time; not Gearset's fault. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Great product, easy to use, good fit for us **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better, more stable DevOps. Increased team collaboration and understanding of future deployments, ability to roll back deployments. efficiencies around DevOps (like updating Jira), better documentation through the standard deployment reports. ### 31. A fast, reliable tool that saves so much time! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sue I. | Salesforce Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Having struggled with changesets for years, Gearset was a breath of fresh air. It is so quick and easy to put together a package for migration, and it can be scheduled to run in the middle of the night. The comparison tool is such a help as well. It is so easy to see the differences between environments and act accordingly. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** I've had some bad luck using some of their newer tools such as data backups, but they are brand new at this point. I'm sure they'll be polished off soon. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** It is really worth it, for the peace of mind, and time savings. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Metadata migrations are so quick and easy to do, they have saved me a lot of time and frustration. ### 32. Change Set on Steroids **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhra B. | VP - Application Lead (Digital Transformation), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Pretty comprehensive and easy when it comes to learning the tool and great for smaller companies that use Salesforce and users are wearing multiple hats **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** I think a certification would help users get more attached towards the product and to try and learn all the in and outs of the tool **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Release Management, CI/CD. Faster deployments and more or less error free code propagation between enviornments ### 33. The Admin and Consultant's best companion **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geoffrey B. | Delivery Director, DACH, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset allows you: - to handle deployments more easily - to find specific metadata faster - to back up your metadata easily - to revert deployments when needed - to waste MUCH less time on deployment preparation. It is a must-have on bigger Salesforce projects. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** It's relatively expensive, and some of the features are only available on higher-tier plans, though they're transparent about pricing at least. It also does not have a YOLO mode where you can edit metadata at will. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Call theirsupport and organize a demo, it's the easiest way to see how it can be used **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** As said above, I use gearset to deploy to organization, mainly client ones, and also to optimize my code deployments so they don't take hours each friday anymore. ### 34. Intuitive app with excellent features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohan S. | Senior Solutions Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Ease of use and integration with source control. We used this app for migrating metadata from one org to other (non-linked orgs) org. During the migration process, hand picking the metadata which needs to be migrated was a big help and PDF report of what was migrated also a huge help. And comparison between two orgs and validation of deployment were couple of other best features. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** I've to think hard to come up with something I don't like. One place I recommend to Gearset team was "Draft Deployments", I wasn't able to save an existing draft always have to create a new draft when I make a change. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving metadata between Salesforce orgs (non-linked orgs) is not possible within Salesforce. While using the GearSet, validation of deployment package prior to deployment was great, so we can fix any deployment errors (this was missing in SFDC change sets). ### 35. Outstanding Salesforce deployment, CI, monitoring and Backup tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc D. B. | Salesforce Solution Architect, Consumer Goods, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** I have been using Gearset for several years now and have had the opportunity to both watch and influence its growth and development, and find it to be an outstanding tool to assist in deploying metadata between Salesforce orgs. Using Gearset, my team and I are able to monitor our orgs for changes, make comparisons between orgs or version control systems (BitBucket, GitHub or local folders) and even backup our data. Gearset has behind the scenes validations to try to catch missing relationships so increase the chances of deployments completing successfully the first time. Gearset can also run PMD (a static source code analyzer) to look for code issues before they get deployed. A recent update to this feature also allows PMD to not only looks for quality code, but it now implements a feature that reviews the code for readability and maintainability, thus helping to try to ensure better code for your org. With an add on feature, you can also use Gearset to take daily backups of your data and restore it if the need were to ever arise. With Salesforce doing away with providing data restoration services this year (2020), this is more important than ever in creating a data recovery process. At the Enterprise level, every time you complete a deployment using Gearset, you have the ability to quickly and completely roll-back the changes as they keep a copy of the data that is being replaced by the new data, so a bad deployment can be quickly and easily reversed. You can enable CI features that detect when a change is made to a VCS branch to start a process to test the new code and changes against a specific org to see if updates break things before they actually get deployed. Gearset supports both org based and DX (package) based development processes. It can automatically detect the format of your VCS and adapts its comparisons accordingly Finally the customer support team is outstanding and they are there to help you with any issues or questions that you have simply by clicking on the chat bubble that is available (but not obtrusive) on every page. They will work with you to understand any questions or problems that you may have for as long as it takes; either until your deployment works or they understand what you need (that somehow they don't already support) and will look for ways to add features in a future release. They keep up with new features that are added into the core Salesforce platform during the 3 yearly Salesforce releases as quickly as possible. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** The biggest drawback that some companies may find is the pricing, specifically if you need to support large teams, but you get what you pay for. The Pro level is $150/month per user and the Enterprise level is $300/month per user. They do allow you to have users at different levels, so that can help keeping the costs down. Another issue, that is currently being worked on, relates to sfdx development. Gearset supports creating a scratch org to deploy your project for CI work, but as of today, if your project has dependencies on other packages (either other locally developed sfdx packages or AppExchange packages), they can not load those before pushing your data into the scratch org, which will probably result in errors during deployment. In talking to the Gearset developers, they say that they are working on a solution for this presently, so I am sure this will be resolved. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Gearset has helped my team deploy changes faster and with more confidence ### 36. Great tool to familiarize with Metadata **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** avesh l. | Salesforce Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Easy to analyze metadata results and changes with a great User Interface. If you are unaware of metadata in Salesforce then you can easily learn this with Gearset. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Many times comparison retrieval takes too much time to load compared to ANT migration retrieval even though it depends on your org. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Great tool with Easy to use UI **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using the gearset to retrieve and compare the changes in our DEV sandbox and deploy this to our bit bucket repository/ Salesforce orgs. ### 37. gearset pros **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** deepak k. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** the mapping and matching feature of gearset between orgs and branches **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** some times the error messages are not detailed **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** great devops tool. recommend to have this for all CI/CD **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** the ability to merge and identify differences has saved me a lot of time ### 38. Gearset: Number one for Salesforce DevOps! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roman H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** * User interface * Powerful functions * Awesome customer support! **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Usually I like to complain about something. So "I dislike" that I cannot complain about something ;-) **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployment processes between dozens of SF Orgs. CI / CD pipelines doing lots of jobs automatically. ### 39. Deployments made easy with Gearset **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martijn S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** The Org comparison has been vital for our deployments. In one overview you can see exactly what the differences between 2 orgs are and what needs to be deployed. Also the monitoring features are highly recommendable. They give you daily insights in the changes in your orgs and you can notify people about those changes. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** It's still a very technical tool. For me that's not the issue, but for more functional colleagues it's too technical for them to use it. You really need to know the metadata from Salesforce in order to deploy what you need. Change sets follow the functional names like Lightning Page for example where with Gearset you'd have to know that those pages are actually Flexipages. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** It's a great tool that gives you control over your Salesforce environments and deployments. It supports deployments to/from Sandboxes, Scratch orgs and Source control repositories. Their support is excellent! Via the in-app chat all questions were answered within 5-10 mins. Do keep in mind that you need knowledge about the metadata from Salesforce, so it might not be the right tool for functional consultants that are used to change sets. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not only can we automate the deployments, we also used the monitoring features to keep track of changes in production (by admins/end users). Using Gearset we have a much better overview of who's doing what and if our environments are in sync. ### 40. Indispensable tool with best-in-class support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike . | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Beyond the massive time savings managing Salesforce deployments across many team members, Gearset allows our Admins to participate in our Continuous Integration development workflow without requiring any command line expertise. Paired with excellent, responsive, knowledgeable, friendly support staff, this makes Gearset a stand out application in our tech stack. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset licenses are quite expensive. Despite the value we get, the incremental cost of additional licenses for a small team in a small business is very high. Additionally, we've found the Data Backup service to be far more expensive than other vendors like OwnBackup. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving time on non-value-generating activities which can be spent on better testing & review. Beyond that, it helps centralize and document our deployments throughout the pipeline. ### 41. Out Team Cannot Live Without It! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony M. | Salesforce Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset provides visibility into what was changed, who changed it. and why it was changed. Working with a large team of engineers who deploy to production constantly, that visibility makes all of the difference. Gearset also provides monitoring for all of our dev, shared, and production environments; from scheduled test runs to change monitoring. This allows us to address issues early on and keeps my team accountable for the changes we make. Scheduled deployments is a really nice feature because we can keep deployments outside work hours. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Currently they do not provide visibility into changes to flows/process builder metadata types. Our instance takes heavy advantage of these automation tools and it would be nice to get support for this. The comparison time can also be slow at times. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Gearset is most effective with teams with more than 4 resources due to its emphasis on collaboration. Smaller teams can easily do with the out of the box delivery options offered by salesforce **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gearset made us aware of metadata types we did not think were possible to deploy and were previously making in production directly. It has fundamentally changed our deployment strategy for the better. We take heavy advantage of the scheduled deploy feature to push changes off hours and make heavy use of the test run feature to ensure our production operations are always producing the right results. ### 42. Deployments Fast and Secure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Altug M. I. | Certified Salesforce.com Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** When I first started here our Salesforce team were using ANT packages to do deployments and it was taking a lot of time to create packages and it was super easy to make mistakes. Now with Gearset I can just use clicks to deploy things between environments and when I forget something Gearset is smart enough to point out that I need to include additional components in my package. Also I love having a rollback button so that I don't have to backup anything manually which was another hassle of using ANT packages. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** So far I did not find anything I disliked and Gearset team is amazing and once we ask for a new feature they usually make it happen in a very short time so kudos for the team as well! **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are making less mistakes every deployment as our whole is using the tool and figure out the little quirks of it so deployments are getting smoother and more robust every day. ### 43. Gearset Provides us the Ability to Achieve Continuous Delivery with Salesforce Release Management! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristopher G. | Salesforce Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** 1. Ease of use - Can be used by developers, administrators, and analysts to have one tool to rule them all with Salesforce deployment. 2. Quick support and engagement from everyone involved at the company - from the support team all the way to the top 3. Can keep our many sandboxes all up-to-date with latest production code. 4. Can validate our repository against production with every change to make our release day worry-free. The product is a complete time-saver and an essential Salesforce tool and the quality of the employees at the company is what makes them stand-out even more. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Most things I dislike end up being issues/limitations with Salesforce and the Metadata API as opposed to this product. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Understand that if you're looking to switch to source-control, that the mindset itself is the most difficult part. It helps to have a tool like Gearset that can bridge the gap for admins/analysts to be able to push to repositories without necessarily understanding git/source control. This tool saves you time in implementing by letting you focus on your metadata and what you need as opposed to how you can schedule or get it automated. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've been able to move towards source-control driven development and have continuous delivery. Instead of scrambling to get everyone's package.xmls for the release and then validating and contacting people when things fail - we get information for every push into the repository whether it passes or fails validation. This has made the huge headache of release day with different teams simpler and we can even have it scheduled with no need for manual intervention deployment ### 44. Seamless deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas C. | Salesforce Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset somehow makes a very complex step in the development lifecycle seems easy. Their platform is very user friendly and easy to use. Anyone can benefit from Gearset, from beginners to experienced IT/Salesforce workers. Along with providing all resources needed to successfully create a development cycle in your environment, they also provide some amazing functionalities such as the merging of deployed packages (Very handful when you need to deploy many packages to a sandbox or branch), Github/Bitbucket integration, CI integration, cloning of packages, incoming/outgoing webhooks (Perfect to setup Jenkins jobs) Gearset is key for any agile methodology implementation. There are so many ways to use gearset to speed up and deploy constantly to your production instance, one being their continuous integration feature which is amazing and very easy to use. You can easily include/exclude metadata that you don't want deployed making it easier to avoid any error or overrides in an instance Some other key features when it comes to cloning packages and CI: Gearset also provides a user-friendly interface to create a pull request on your bitbucket/GitHub, and review your deployed components on a PDF, perfect when you need to identify what went wrong in a deployment. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** It would be nicer if during org authorization error (especially during a comparison) if gearset could provide which org failed to authorize and pop it up on the screen, to avoid us to navigate back to the connected orgs package and redo the comparison) **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gearset helped our company build a development environment with many streams (Sandbox/branches) continuously delivering products in production: Setting up CI from branch to sandbox/ sandbox to branch, outgoing webhooks to Jenkins after CI execution ### 45. Campingworld SF Admin review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** The ease of use is primary. The deployment history is a great asset as it allows us to see what has been done and to which sandbox. The history is very helpful. I don't know how I would do without it. We use an 'on premises' GitLab repository. We just recently converted the to a DX file structure for our repository. Gearset actually did all the work for us. We followed a few simple requirements and Gearset created new branches with the new file structure. Another perk is Gearset's ability to move code from a sand box to a branch. The ability to move from a sandbox/org to a branch is a feature which is not easily done otherwise. The rollback feature is critical. I have used this feature a few times and it has made what can be a painstaking process quick and easy. Also like the ability to integrate with JIRA **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** I don't know that I would call it a dislike but what I would like to have. I would like to have the ability to pick one item, for example a class, and gearset could produce a report which shows me when that item was included in a deployment. Developers are always asking me that. There are ways to get to that information but you have to go to each deployment and look. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Highly recommend. I don't know how I would do my job without it. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** I frequently help developer do comparisons with Gearset. It's a great tool for looking at diff's between sandboxes, org's and branches. Developers frequently want to move code from one sandbox to another. Very easy to do with Gearset. ### 46. Correct blend of Developer and Managerial requirements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikram F. | Technology Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Compare All :) I mean regardless of what you have changed, created, deleted under a particular release just use compare all and figure out then and there. How cool is that. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** All or Nothing. I mean though we can compare the file from two different orgs but I miss stage/deploy only required snippet from left file towards right file just like diffmerge. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** This is really handy at the same time highly effective tool. One must go for it without so many if and but. I highly recommend this in order to save a lot of time and utilize that in more constructive work. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Salesforce changeset issue of selecting one type of items that too from first page first then next page otherwise no mercy from salesforce. 2) Maintaining package.xml all over the time you working on any release. Just come here and compare all. 3) No need to remember all the commands and org credentials, just authorize the org and there you go. ### 47. Gearset for the WIN! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset is absolutely one of my favorite tools that I use day to day. It's user interface is intuitive and it allows for successful deployments and easily document release details. Apex has always been cumbersome to deploy using change sets through sfdc and Gearset has made it so much easier. Their support is also top notch! **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** There's not anything to dislike about their product. I'm a big fan and it's fulfilling all my needs and then some. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping various orgs in sync and release management. Easy to visualize comparisons between orgs and alerts when code has been changed. They also have a ROLLBACK button! This has come in handy on more than one occasion. ### 48. Great app for deployments **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim P. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Finding diffs within code. Multiple orgs can be stored and you dont have to login to the orgs each time you use it. Validation into Production orgs is easily simulated and the fact you can specify which test classes to run is great. No more waiting for the orgs entire set of tests to finish. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** We do not use the code analysis option. Seems to intrusive and results sometimes don't make sense. Trying to figure out the continuous integration aspect took a bit of work. On large orgs, downloading the metadata each time you want to select something to compare take a really long time. Is there a way to store what was "discovered" last time and just use that instead of querying the salesforce API all over again to read what was changed... if nothing has changed, why scan? **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** It'll save you a ton of time! NO MORE ANT Scripts or Change Sets. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** We deploy from a dev org, qa and then to a production org. So much time saved in doing the diffs and getting to avoid writing ant scripts ### 49. Gearset has been a huge help in improving our team's deployment process! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** Gearset's comparison tool is a must-have for any large Salesforce org. The daily monitoring and automated deployment capabilities have reduced drift and risk in our org and deployment process. In addition, their support team is a delight to work with. They are very responsive via the "in-app" chat and provide direction to relevant knowledge articles as well as personal troubleshooting to investigate an issue. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** There are a few types of metadata that can have issues upon deployment but these are few and far between. We have also been unable to ever get the data deployment tool to work in our org. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** Be sure to reach out to the support team with any questions. Their responses have often been faster and more direct than trying to figure out any setup or integrations questions on our own. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gearset has sped up our deployment processes immensely. The ability to compare orgs, schedule deployments, merge packages, and monitor orgs daily has expanded our team's capacity and allowed us to focus on creating more functionality for our users and spend less time on deployment activities. ### 50. Gearset has made deployments easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Gearset DevOps?** All I need to do is keep my filters up to date. Just do that and I never need to worry about forgetting I changed something. It is easy to see if someone else has changed something as well to avoid overwriting their changes. **What do you dislike about Gearset DevOps?** Including/excluding stuff in deployment could be better explained as to why. Data deployments could be explained better and/or easier. **Recommendations to others considering Gearset DevOps:** It has made life so much easier. Deployments to production no longer take a weekend. We have it ready and scheduled within an hour or two and most of that is just comparison/validation time that you get in large change sets. Being able to see changes in the target environment gives us the ability to avoid overwriting changes from other teams. **What problems is Gearset DevOps solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have solved the issues of click changes being made in Production not being see in lower environments by implementing a CI job and forcing the changes to be made lower. 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Configuration Management - Access Control - Orchestration **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Functionality ** - Test Feedback - Test History - Customization - Test Variety **Customization - AI Agent Builders** - Natural Language Configuration - Tone Customization - Security Guardrails **Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability** - Multi-Telemetry Ingestion - OpenTelemetry Support **Agentic AI - Static Code Analysis** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Salesforce AppExchange Apps** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Observability Software** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **AI Test Generation & Authoring** - UI-Based Test Generation - Natural Language Test Creation - Test Coverage Suggestions **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Compatibility ** - Endpoint Variety - SaaS Application Variety - Storage Formats **Network** - Compliance Testing - Perimeter Scanning - Configuration Monitoring **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Management** - Local Management - Infrastructure Compatibility - Solution Integration - Real-Time Analytics - RTO and RPO Management **Functionality** - Automation - Integrations **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Automation** - Organization - Reliability - Thoroughness **Functionality - AI Agent Builders** - Omni-channel Support - Agent Branding - Proactive Response Capabilities - Seamless Human Escalation **Visualization & Dashboards - Observability** - Service Dependency Mapping - Unified Dashboard - Trace Visualization **Test Maintenance & Resilience ** - Self-healing - Dynamic Element Locators - AI-Powered Test Maintenance **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Management** - File Sharing - Security Standards - Encrypted Storage **Application** - Manual Application Testing - Static Code Analysis - Black Box Testing **Processes** - Pipeline Control - Workflow Visualization - Continuous Deployment **Data and Analytics - AI Agent Builders** - Analytics & Reporting - Contextual Awareness - Data Privacy Compliance **Agentic AI - Automation Testing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability** - Cross-Telemetry Correlation - Root Cause Detection - Intelligent Alerting **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Disaster Recovery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Execution & Analytics** - Intelligent Reporting - Visual Anomaly Detection - Root Cause Analysis **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Integration - AI Agent Builders** - Workflow Automation - API Usage - Platform Interoperability - CRM Data Integration **Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability** - Kubernetes Monitoring - Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Support **Agentic AI - Vulnerability Scanner** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - SaaS Backup** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **AI Features - Observability** - 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