The DRD is our intuitive visual tool for at-a-glance impact analysis. Select the parent object of the customization you want to change and Strongpoint will generate a diagram showing everywhere it’s currently being used. When you know this, you know what could potentially be affected if you change the customization.
Strongpoint also gives you detailed reports for analyzing the impact of a proposed change. Our impact reports show you all the customizations on a base record, as well as their dependencies. This method is particularly useful for investigating and reviewing changes in multiple customizations at once.
Need to go deeper? The customization record is a detailed overview of all the metadata collected by the Strongpoint documentation engine. Drill down to see who owns a customization, when it was last used or modified, and more. Access the customization record from the DRD, from an impact report, or by using the search function.
Strongpoint lets you build out specific change policies and approval requirements based on risk.
Here's the Strongpoint policy record, where we can specify which types of changes require a full SDLC, which require testing in the Sandbox, which require approval, which can be handled via a process issue, and which are simply logged, ie. they are safe and require no additional investigation:
With detailed change policies in place, Strongpoint automatically assesses each change to see what will be affected, and applies the appropriate policy to it based on this analysis.
This is all captured in detailed change logs, which capture the results of our analysis, the details about the policy, whether or not the change followed policy, and other important details:
If you use Jira or ServiceNow to manage tickets, you can access Strongpoint's impact analysis directly at the ticket level, and get a comprehensive list of related customizations that will be affected by a potential change.
You can also synch Jira/ServiceNow tickets to change requests in Strongpoint, so the impact analysis and approval, if required, is collected in an audit-ready report.
Here's a short video showing how it works:
Impact analysis is a critical part of Strongpoint's change management process. When you know the impact and risk of a proposed change, you can automatically approve simple, declarative changes, maximizing the efficiency of your CoE and other valuable IT resources, by ensuring only the riskiest/most complex changes are elevated for review.
Automate critical decisions about the appropriate approvals, testing and release processes required for different types of changes.
Strongpoint shows you which changes require a full SDLC and helps manage the deployment process up to 26x faster!
Here's a sample of what some Strongpoint users are saying about this feature on the Salesforce AppExchange:
Strongpoint reconciles deployed changes back to the originating request and approval — and captures everything in detailed reports showing all changes that followed policy, all changes that didn't but were resolved later, and all non-compliant changes that remain unresolved.
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