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Today, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Heroku GitHub Enterprise Server Integration.

For our Enterprise customers, the bridge between code and production must be more than just convenient. It must be resilient, secure, and governed at scale. While our legacy OAuth integration served us well, the modern security landscape demands a shift away from personal credentials toward managed service identities.

This blog series has taken you on a journey through the world of AppLink, from its foundational concepts and core components in Heroku AppLink: Extend Salesforce with Any Programming Language, to a deep dive into its key integration patterns in AppLink Fundamentals I: AppLink Integration Patterns – Connecting Salesforce to Heroku Applications, and then we explored advanced integrations with Data Cloud, automation, and AI in AppLink Fundamentals II: Advanced AppLink Integrations – Automation

In our previous posts, we introduced Heroku AppLink and explored its foundational integration patterns for connecting Heroku applications with Salesforce. Now, we’ll delve into how AppLink truly expands Salesforce capabilities, focusing on advanced integrations with Data Cloud, Flow, Apex, and Agentforce. This blog will highlight how AppLink empowers you to infuse your Salesforce orgs with powerful external logic, real-time data processing, and intelligent automation.

In our previous post, we introduced AppLink as a powerful new way to extend Salesforce with any programming language at any scale, detailing its core components and overarching benefits. Now, we’ll dive deeper into the practical application of AppLink by exploring its primary integration patterns. Understanding these patterns is key to leveraging AppLink effectively, as they dictate how your Heroku applications interact with and enhance your Salesforce orgs.

The Salesforce platform offers a powerful array of tools for customization and building customer-centric experiences, from no-code automation with Flow, Prompt Builder, and Agent Builder, to robust Apex and Lightning Web Components. The art lies in choosing the right blend of these tools to achieve agility, optimize skill sets, and quickly adapt to business demands. Today, we’re introducing a new ingredient to this powerful mix: Heroku + AppLink.

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.

Heroku is a powerful general-purpose PaaS offering, but when combined with the broader Salesforce portfolio, it excels in unlocking and unifying customer data, regardless of its age, location, size, or structure. Salesforce customers turn to Heroku when they need to leverage high data volumes from sources such as consumer web or mobile apps or when they need scalable compute resources to access and analyze complex data in real time. In this blog, we’ll explore how …

In today’s fast-paced digital world, companies are looking for ways to expose their APIs and microservices to the internet while enhancing their overall API security. MuleSoft Anypoint Flex Gateway is a powerful solution that solves this problem. Let’s walk through deploying the Anypoint Flex Gateway on Heroku in a few straightforward steps. You’ll learn how to connect your private APIs and microservices on the Heroku platform through the Anypoint Flex Gateway which provide comprehensive API …

Heroku Postgres is one of the world's largest managed data stores. Our customers rely on Heroku Postgres to store valuable data, which powers a range of experiences and services they build on Heroku. Salesforce Data Cloud integrates all your company's data into the Einstein 1 Platform, creating a comprehensive customer view for personalized engagements, analytics, and AI.

When businesses bring data from Heroku Postgres into Salesforce Data Cloud to create unified customer profiles, they …

[Update: May 25, 2022 – GitHub integration is now re-enabled. You can connect to GitHub immediately or wait for the enhanced integration as described below. To re-establish your GitHub connection now, please follow these instructions.]

We know you are waiting for us to re-enable our integration with GitHub, and we’ve committed to you that we would only do so following a security review. We are happy to report that the review has now …

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