The one ecosystem where platform DevOps already became an industry, with its own vendors, benchmark and training.
How well Salesforce supports the role
- Protect74
- Change96
- Observe97
- Govern100
- Documentation93
- Data97
- Integrate75
- Support89
- Agents81
- Security96
The synopsis
AI-generated draft- ProtectOptimizing74
Salesforce supports backup and restore well enough to measure and tune it; much of it is self-service.
- ChangeLeading96
Code management, staging and rollback is a first-class part of Salesforce, with the controls the practice needs.
- ObserveLeading97
Schema monitoring and change visibility is a first-class part of Salesforce, with the controls the practice needs.
- GovernLeading100
Users, authentication and access control is a first-class part of Salesforce, with the controls the practice needs.
- DocumentationLeading93
Documentation in the platform and across teams is a first-class part of Salesforce, with the controls the practice needs.
- DataLeading97
Data cleansing, hygiene and integrity is a first-class part of Salesforce, with the controls the practice needs.
- IntegrateOptimizing75
Salesforce supports integrations and how they are secured well enough to measure and tune it; much of it is self-service.
- SupportLeading89
Support from the platform and to end users is a first-class part of Salesforce, with the controls the practice needs.
- AgentsOptimizing81
Salesforce supports using AI in the job, and managing it inside the platform well enough to measure and tune it; much of it is self-service.
- SecurityLeading96
Access, secrets, audit and compliance is a first-class part of Salesforce, with the controls the practice needs.
An estimate until the survey closes; then the number from everyone who answered for Salesforce, labeled survey-generated, published with its report.
Three bodies, seats open.
The people who run Salesforce’s corner of the Alliance. A steering committee of three decides; the certification working group writes the exam; the ops working group keeps the community.
- Platform Steering Committee3 per platform
Everything specific to one platform. Reports to the Board.
Seats open - Platform Certification Working GroupPer platform
The deep experts. Drafts platform-specific questions and scoring for the Committee to approve.
Seats open - Platform Ops Working GroupUncapped
Content and moderation within the platform’s community.
Seats open
Supported by its practitioners. Salesforce has not joined as a participating platform member.
Join for Salesforce.
Every name on the join form counts toward Salesforce’s twenty, and toward a seat on its steering committee.
- Sep 2026 · nowFounding members join
Gathering initial interest: your name on the join form, and the first survey open, for every platform.
- Q1 2027Survey’s open
The industry report, the rubric published with it, and the first benchmark.
- Summer 2027The Alliance forms
Three platforms at twenty, steering committees seated, the benefit corporation filed.
- AfterCertification opens
The exam follows the nine domains the survey measures.