SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2025 — Metazoa today announced a major update to Snapshot on Salesforce AppExchange, the leading enterprise marketplace for partner apps and experts. The new release empowers Salesforce Administrators to split, clone, or merge complex production environments in just a day or two. This advancement in platform agility is powered by specially constructed placeholder components called Shell Assets, which bypass metadata dependencies. The two-stage deployment process enables Administrators to rapidly bootstrap destination environments and then deploy the real metadata without triggering dependency errors.
Snapshot with Shell Assets is now available on the AppExchange.
In the first stage, specially constructed components are deployed to the target org. In the second stage, those shells are overwritten with the full source metadata, enabling a clean and accurate replication. With Shell Asset technology, Salesforce professionals can:
Create a true metadata clone of any Salesforce org
Complete org splits and clones in days instead of months
Reduce cost and complexity by an order of magnitude
Accelerate user acceptance testing (UAT) cycles
Unlock platform agility and flexibility