Developers love Heroku for its elegance and simplicity to easily build and deploy any type of app or service in the languages they love. This flexibility enables developers to build robust custom applications or specialized capabilities like agent actions, complex pricing calculations, or real-time transformations and processing. These are often capabilities where Salesforce Admins and Developers on Heroku come together to design and implement robust workflows and agents to support business processes.
The process of bringing their custom apps on Heroku to their Salesforce implementations has historically been a complex and time-consuming process. To address this, we’ve introduced Heroku AppLink, a powerful new tool designed to streamline the integration process.
Taming the Complexity of Salesforce <-> Heroku Connections
Without a native integration solution, developers and admins face several key challenges:
- Lack of visibility - No centralized place for admin/developer to view and manage all existing connections.
- Limited discoverability - Salesforce Admins and Developers struggle to discover Heroku resources in their implementations.
- Fragmented management - No centralized way for Heroku admins to manage access and connection settings.
- Security & compliance challenges - Ensuring that Heroku services meet Salesforce’s security requirements.
These challenges slowed down development, created inefficiencies between teams, and made it harder to design solutions that fully leveraged the combined power of the Heroku platform and Salesforce Clouds.
That’s why we built Heroku AppLink.
Simplifying Integration with Heroku AppLink
Heroku AppLink, now available in pilot, makes it effortless to securely connect your Heroku applications to Agentforce, Data Cloud, and any Salesforce Cloud. AppLink is designed with long term manageability, visibility, and ease of use in mind.
Now, with a single command, teams can:
- Accelerate development by eliminating manual setup and integration tasks.
- Enhance security with a standardized integration approach and managed connections that meet Salesforce security standards.
- Boost operational efficiency with more granular environment and connection definitions.
- Enhance visibility & governance by providing a single source of truth for Heroku - Salesforce integrations and single UX for managing credentials and connections.
Key Features of Heroku AppLink
- Seamless integration: Automatically connect Heroku apps with Agentforce, Salesforce Clouds, and Data Cloud for near real-time interactions.
- Managed security: Supports three interaction modes while enforcing Salesforce user permissions for data access, and while maintaining user context.
- Flows and Apex-based invocation: Call Heroku-hosted services directly from Salesforce Flows and Apex.
- SDK templates: Use predefined SDK templates to perform DML operations on Salesforce and Data Cloud data.
- Built-in discoverability: Centralized access to Heroku services and resources.
📺 To see Heroku AppLink in action, check out our Heroku AppLink and Eventing Demo video.
Join the Heroku AppLink Pilot
Heroku AppLink is now available in pilot, and we’re looking for developers to try it out and share feedback. By joining the pilot, you’ll get early access to AppLink features, and your input will help shape the future of Heroku integrations tools.
🚀 Sign up for the pilot today.
Heroku AppLink and Eventing: Better Together, Like Pair Programing
We’re also piloting Heroku Eventing, which works alongside AppLink to provide real-time event streaming between Heroku and Salesforce.
- Heroku AppLink -> Best for secure, managed integrations.
- Heroku Eventing -> Best for event-driven architectures, allowing real time data flow across systems.
Together, these two new capabilities can allow developers to build more responsive and interactive applications and collaborate effectively with their Salesforce Admins.
We’re excited to bring a more connected Heroku experience to developers.