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Salesforce Integration: Xplenty and Heroku Connect

Here at Xplenty (Integrate.io), we have a number of customers who use Xplenty’s Heroku Add-on with Heroku Connect to enable Salesforce integration at their organization. Since Xplenty and Heroku Connect both provide a bi-directional data connection to Salesforce, you might think that you should use one or the other for your integration needs. But our experience shows that each tool has specific strengths that make them complementary parts of a full solution. Read on …

How Heroku’s Scaling helped Zoobean through their Shark Tank Pitch

Every entrepreneur wonders: “Will my startup sink or swim?” When Felix Brandon and his wife Jordan Lloyd Bookey launched Zoobean, a startup focused on children’s reading, they found themselves swimming in rough waters early on. A few months after launch, the founders were invited to pitch their business on the TV show Shark Tank.

What felt like a sinking moment turned into more than a lifeline for the fledgling business — it entirely transformed …

Enhancing Security: MFA Now Available for All Heroku Customers

Customer Trust is our highest priority at Salesforce and Heroku. It’s more important than ever to implement stronger security measures in light of increasing security threats that could affect services and apps that are critical to businesses and communities.

We’re pleased to announce that all Heroku customers can now take advantage of the security offered by Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). We encourage you to check out these new MFA features and add another layer of …

Announcing Heroku Postgres Enhancements: 40x Faster Backups

Today, we’re thrilled to announce backups of Heroku Postgres are now 40x faster by leveraging Snapshots in place of base backups. We’ve been hard at work focused on improving performance, speed, and capacity for the Heroku Data services you rely on. In the past forks and follows of a Premium-8 test database with 992 GB of data took 22 hours; now with Snapshots, the same process is reduced to 10 minutes. This makes the creation …

Announcing Larger Heroku Postgres Plans: More Power, More Storage

As applications become more complex, so do the data requirements to support them. At Heroku we have been working hard on enabling these workloads, while maintaining the same level of abstraction, developer experience, and compliance you’ve come to expect.

Today, we’re excited to announce new, larger Heroku Postgres Plans. These new plans will allow for applications on the Heroku Platform to expand in data size and complexity. The new plans in the Heroku Postgres …

An Iconic Fundraising Tradition Returns with a 21st Century Twist

The Xplenty (Integrate.io) platform allows organizations to integrate, process, and prepare data for analytics in the cloud. Xplenty is also available as a Heroku Add-on. Abe Dearmer is the company’s COO.

Often, innovation sparks innovation in unforeseen ways. In the early 1950’s, television brought the world an entirely new experience that not only changed people’s daily lives, but also created a unique platform for national culture. One of the most beloved and enduring traditions …

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