Twist Bioscience stores a large amount of business- critical data within Salesforce, including accounts, contacts, opportunities, quotes, as well as all parts of the sales and marketing cycles from Lead to Cash. Following the standard MVC model in Salesforce, Twist Bioscience is constantly working on their development of custom Apex classes, controllers, and triggers, as well as their front-end development with Visualforce and Lightning components.

Twist Bioscience discovered the need for a release management tool that could function seamlessly with Salesforce and help speed up their development and deployment processes. The tool needed to help create clean data sets in their testing environments in order to prevent bugs from being deployed into production.

Twist Bioscience required a tool that could replicate their sandboxes and quickly move datasets between production and their sandboxes for testing. Twist Biosience needed to ensure that their sandbox environments matched up with their production environments in order for deployments to run smoothly.

While searching for a Release Management tool, Twist Bioscience stumbled upon OwnBackup. To their pleasant surprise, OwnBackup ended up being a very useful tool for Twist Bioscience beyond its sandbox replication capabilities.

Twist Bioscience not only discovered an innovative way to use OwnBackup in place of a release management tool, but after implementing OwnBackup’s full-service backup and recovery platform, they can now backup and restore data more efficiently.

Twist Bioscience now leverages OwnBackup Sandbox Seeding to populate sandboxes of any size with perfect, anonymized test datasets in minutes. Before deployment to production or a sandbox, Twist Bioscience uses OwnBackup Compare to identify if any new validation rules exist to avoid deployment failures. They also use Sandbox Seeding to reproduce bugs in their sandboxes to ensure there would not be any developmental issues upon deployment.

When replications for their sandboxes were not running as expected, Twist Bioscience contacted OwnBackup with their concerns. In less than a week, OwnBackup had quickly reconfigured the replication process to meet their specific requests. OwnBackup Sandbox Seeding has also helped reduce Twist Bioscience’s replication times significantly.

"Twist Bioscience can now focus their time and energy on increasing productivity."

Twist Bioscience now leverages OwnBackup Sandbox Seeding to populate sandboxes of any size with perfect, anonymized test datasets in minutes.

During day-to-day operations and development projects, Twist Bioscience leverages Smart Alerts to ensure no unexpected data changes go unnoticed. Smart Alerts notify Twist Bioscience’s CRM team to data and metadata changes, often before their end users notice. Twist Bioscience can now focus their time and energy on increasing productivity.

Twist Bioscience got more than they expected with OwnBackup’s automatic backup and quick recovery of lost or corrupted data, metadata, and attachments. OwnBackup enables Twist Bioscience to continue manufacturing DNA at scale, while serving life science researchers who are changing the world for the better.