Elevate Your Salesforce Consulting Practice with Heroku

Partners are a critical part of the community in driving customer success in technology adoption. Today, we’re thrilled to announce new solution expertise and program benefits for Salesforce Consulting Partners to expand their practice with Heroku AI PaaS. Building on our announcement from earlier this year, today’s announcement is designed to deepen technical expertise and help partners expand the service offerings they can provide their customers with the Salesforce portfolio.

Salesforce is the world’s #1 AI CRM and provider of the Agentforce digital labor platform bringing together the C360 apps and data with Heroku. Every customer’s business is unique and that often means designing solutions that bring together multiple Salesforce Clouds with 3rd party systems, and building customized experiences around them. Heroku’s robust AI PaaS provides the flexibility developers need and the reliability businesses need to enable these solutions with custom apps, services, and native integration to the Salesforce platform.

What’s new for partners:

• Heroku Expert Area: Available in July as part of the Salesforce Partner Navigator, the new Heroku Expert Area is designed to recognize and reward partners with proven Heroku expertise.
• Trailblazer Community Group: A private community group for Salesforce Consulting Partners on their Heroku journey to get the latest updates, network with peers, and connect with the Heroku team.
• Product Benefits: Partners are provided access to Heroku products to get hands on with the technology, enable their teams, and build demos.

“At Showoff we deeply value our partnership with Heroku—not just for the powerful technology platform it provides, but for the trust and collaboration that underpin our relationship. Our customers understand the value Heroku brings, and we see that every day in the agility and scalability it enables. What sets this partnership apart is the personal connection—the ability to pick up the phone, solve problems together, and collaborate on innovative solutions that truly drive business value”
– Barry Sheehan, CCO, Showoff

Certifications to build deep expertise

Expertise is built through knowledge and experience. We have two certifications to help partners continue their enablement journey on the path to becoming a Heroku Expert. Partners can achieve Heroku Specialist and Heroku Cloud Expert distinctions, with Heroku Implementation Expert distinction launching in 2026. Information on how to achieve Heroku distinctions is available in the Heroku Partner Readiness Guide and Heroku Technical Learning Journey.

• Heroku Developer Specialist [new]: This speciality area demonstrates an individual’s ability to build and manage Heroku applications effectively with an emphasis on practical skills related to deploying, maintaining, and scaling apps on the Heroku platform. A core component of this distinction is the Heroku Developer Accredited Professional certification.
• Heroku Architect Specialist [new]: This speciality area demonstrates an individual’s ability to design and implement applications on Heroku with a focus on architectural best practices. It involves understanding complex architectural considerations and leveraging Heroku features to build robust, scalable applications. A core component of this distinction is the Heroku Architect certification.
• Heroku Cloud Expert [new]: This distinction demonstrates an organization’s proven expertise in successfully delivering Heroku implementations that achieve high customer satisfaction scores.

Access to Heroku products

Starting next month, eligible Salesforce Consultants and Cloud Resellers will get access to Heroku products within a Heroku Demo Org with access to a Heroku Dev Starter Package which includes Dynos, Heroku Connect, and General Credits. This direct access to products provides a hands-on environment to build demos, design and prototype solutions, and complements enablement for certification.

“At Cognizant, we deeply value our partnership with Heroku. Its platform has empowered our teams to accelerate application development, streamline deployment, and deliver scalable, resilient solutions for our clients. We’ve seen measurable improvements in time-to-market and customer satisfaction. As we continue to innovate, we’re excited to build on this collaboration to drive even greater impact for the businesses we serve.”
– Sivakumar Meenakshi Sundaram, Global Delivery Head, Cognizant

Heroku Lighthouse Partners

These announcements mark an exciting new chapter for our partner community with new opportunities to grow their practice and expand their customer relationships. We are especially thankful for the lighthouse partners featured throughout this blog. These partners have worked diligently to become Heroku Experts; providing early participation and feedback in building a robust partner network. This group of standout consulting firms have demonstrated deep platform knowledge and delivered innovative solutions to clients using Heroku.

“Heroku lets our team focus on building great products, not managing infrastructure—empowering us to deliver faster, smarter solutions for our clients.”
– Scott Weisman, Co-Founder & CEO, LaunchPad Lab

By removing the friction of infrastructure management, Heroku has enabled partners like LaunchPad Lab to spend more time on what matters: creating high-impact digital experiences for their customers. This is the foundation of the Heroku Expert model, it’s a model designed to free teams to deliver client value at speed.

“Heroku by Salesforce gives our clients the flexibility to scale agentic AI across their end-to-end processes. From microservices to BYOM, Heroku enables us to deliver enterprise-grade solutions with speed and precision.”
– Sadagopan Singam, EVP (Global), Digital Business – Commercial Applications, HCLTech

For global consulting firms like HCLTech, Heroku provides the agility and control needed to meet the evolving demands of enterprise clients—especially as AI, data, and integration use cases grow more complex. Heroku’s ability to support both modern architectures and emerging AI use cases makes it a powerful enabler of digital transformation.

“Heroku gives Vanshiv’s engineering team the flexibility to build scalable microservices and extend Salesforce with modern architectures—helping us deliver robust, enterprise-grade solutions.”
– Gaurav Kheterpal, Founder & CEO, Vanshiv

As clients look to bring more custom logic and scalable services into their Salesforce environment, partners like Vanshiv are building microservices on Heroku to handle complexity and ensure reliability. This approach, that leans into custom solutions is essential for industries with high security and performance requirements.

“We’ve always embraced the pro-code ethos of Heroku as it allows us, a Salesforce Consulting Partner, to greatly extend the capabilities of Salesforce.”
– Jaime Solari, CEO & Founder, Oktana

The developer experience is a key differentiator for Heroku and a core reason why engineering-driven consultancies choose to invest in the platform. Oktana’s work demonstrates how Heroku enables partners to bridge the gap between low-code solutions and the full power of custom development.

Together, these Lighthouse Partners exemplify how Heroku is the best AI PaaS for innovation and growth. Their success stories are just the beginning, and we’re thrilled to continue building a thriving ecosystem of expert partners delivering next-generation solutions to Salesforce customers.

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“We are values aligned and value driven. Selling, delivering and growing with Heroku and Salesforce for the past 15 years has proven that success is a 3-way celebration with our joint customers.”
– Chris Peacock, CEO, Kilterset