Heroku Connect makes it easy for you to build Heroku apps that share data with your Salesforce deployment. Using bi-directional synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres, Heroku Connect unifies the data in your Postgres database with the standard and custom objects in Salesforce. Easily configured with a point and click UI, it?s simple to get the service up and running in minutes. In this session we will explore various data centric and apps use cases such as data warehousing, data enrichment and mobile apps integrated with Salesforce data. We will also dive into some of the data sync modes and share best practices for configuring Heroku Connect.

1. Heroku Connect
Unlock the Value of Your Salesforce Data with Heroku Connect
William Gradin
Director Product Management
Heroku
wgradin@heroku.com
Pei Huang
Technical Architect
Groundswell Cloud Solutions Inc
pei@gscloudsolutions.com

2. Heroku is a Platform as a Service

3. Dynos
Run virtually any
language at scale
Database
Enterprise-Grade
Postgres as a Service
Add-ons
150+ App Plugin
Ecosystem
Heroku - Platform as a Service
Everything you need to build, run and scale customer apps
Payments
Email
SMS
Search
Analytics
Monitoring
Logging
Ruby
Node.js
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
24/7/365 Ops
Continuous
Protection
Health Checks
High Availability
Encryption
Rollback

4. Mass Updates
Change millions of records quickly and easily
Transformations
Transform data to best suit your needs
Aggregations
Summarize large rows of data into usable metrics
Enrichment
Enrich SFDC with data from multiple orgs/other systems
Get the maximum value out of your Salesforce Data
What are Your Salesforce Data Needs?

5. It can often feel like Salesforce data is off limits
But How Do We get Access to Salesforce Data?
Metric
Metric
Metric
Metric
Metric Metric

6. Simple
Point-and-click configuration
Automatic
Changes synchronized automatically between Salesforce
and Postgres
Scalable
Scale to hundreds of millions of records
Purpose-built
Best practices for Salesforce REST, BULK, and
Streaming APIs
Bidirectional Synchronization Service - SFDC <-> Heroku Postgres
Heroku Connect

7. Trusted Technology
Proven SQL relational database fleet running billions
of database transactions
Managed Operations
Global security, operations, and support teams
Powerful Services
Failover, high availability, visibility, rollback, tuning
Scalable
Horizontal and vertical scaling
Secure
Encryption, continuous protection
Global operations and service to keep your data safe, secure, and available
The Power of Heroku Postgres

8. Sync
Bidirectional near real time sync
Salesforce Centric
Evented, Sync Explorer, Bulk API, External Objects
Resilient
Automatic recovery from errors
Free API
SOAP read/write calls Connect makes into Salesforce
are not counted against API limits
The simple and powerful way to work with Salesforce Data
Heroku Connect vs ETL

9. Work with Data
Run programmatic data
enrichment and transformation
on data from Salesforce
Data Warehousing
Store and report on data from
Salesforce and/or other data
sources in a single data store
Multiple-Org Management
​Consolidate data across
multiple Salesforce Orgs for a
unified view
Heroku Connect + Postgres to Enable Multiple Use cases
Unlock the Value of your Salesforce Data

10. Heroku Connect Demo

11. Forever Living Customer Story
Pei Huang
Technical Architect
Groundswell Cloud Solutions Inc
pei@gscloudsolutions.com

12. We own the
largest Aloe
Vera fields in the
world
Grow and harvest over
Over 6,500 acres
Manufacture over 8
million gallons of Aloe
That create our successful
line of products
Products sold through
Distributors in their own
personal business
9.5 million distributors in
over 150 countries
Forever Living
World’s largest Grower, Manufacturer, and Distributor of Aloe Based Products

13. Forever Living Architecture
Using the Breadth and Depth of the Salesforce Customer Success Platform

14. Synchronizing 100+ Million Rows with Heroku Connect

15. Executive Dashboard Views - Pre-Calculated Aggregations

16. Complex Tree Traversals For Partner Community Reporting

17. Heroku Connect Demo Edition
• Free limited edition of Heroku Connect
• addons.heroku.com/herokuconnect
• Proof of Concepts and Testing
Check out the Power of Heroku Connect for free

18. • Sign up for Heroku: https://www.heroku.com
• Heroku Connect documentation: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/herokuconnect
• Get email updates about upcoming events/ webinars, talk to a rep about Heroku Connect: https:
//www.heroku.com/connect
• Heroku Connect Demo Edition
• https://addons.heroku.com/herokuconnect
• Heroku Connect Demo App – Powered by Heroku Button
• https://github.com/scottpersinger/contactmap-demoapp
• https://contactmap.herokuapp.com/
Heroku Resources

19. Q&A
William Gradin
Director Product Management
Heroku
wgradin@heroku.com
Pei Huang
Technical Architect
Groundswell Cloud Solutions Inc
pei@gscloudsolutions.com

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