Deployments in Salesforce incorporate any action that needs to be taken to get a system from one organization to another, be it a sandbox to production, sandbox to sandbox, or even developer org to developer org.
Deployments in Salesforce incorporate any action that needs to be taken to get a system from one organization to another, be it a sandbox to production, sandbox to sandbox, or even developer org to developer org.
Deployments can be done through change sets, Force.com Ant Migration Tool, or even Eclipse. Deployments in Salesforce are unique in that they require a nice combination of data migration, metadata migration, and manual work to complete.