Salesforce (Heroku) Named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms

Salesforce today announced that Salesforce (Heroku) has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms. Heroku is recognized in the inaugural year of this Gartner® Magic Quadrant™.

Significance: Heroku is a platform-as-a-service that helps organizations of all sizes and in all industries build, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications quickly and effortlessly. Over 65 million apps have been created on Heroku, and the platform serves billions of application requests per day.

Innovation in action: Heroku's platform delivers a developer experience that accelerates path to production, simplifies and automates operations, and is trusted at every scale. Heroku:

• Provides a productive developer experience, support for the languages, frameworks, data systems of choice, and removes friction from the software delivery lifecycle.
• Simplifies infrastructure and DevOps automation with provisioning, scaling, patching, and updating of infrastructure services, delivered as a managed service.
• Enables compliance and reliability at scale with access controls and PCI, HIPAA, ISO, and SOC compliance built in.
• Eases delivery of new cloud-native apps and supports the migration of existing apps to the cloud.
• Extends and enhances Salesforce cloud offerings, particularly Agentforce, with custom actions and services written in languages such as Python, Java, Go, etc.

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Salesforce perspective: "We are honored to be named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. Heroku is a pioneer in the application platform space and continues to lead in delivering the kind of experiences that application teams need so they can focus on building and shipping great apps, services, and specialized actions for Agentforce," said Gail Frederick, CTO and SVP, Heroku.

Customer perspective: "Using Heroku helps us stay focused on our vision to be the #1 distributor of personal lines insurance in the U.S.A. Heroku's platform enables our engineers to develop innovative capabilities for our business-critical applications to improve agent productivity and application performance," said Altaf Somani, Goosehead Insurance, Head of Software Development. "Heroku empowers our teams to be agile and innovative with its seamless integration, robust security, and exceptional support."

Heroku empowers our teams to be agile and innovative with its seamless integration, robust security, and exceptional support.

Altaf Somani, Goosehead Insurance, Head of Software Development

Fast facts: Heroku is a leading cloud application platform, founded in 2007 and acquired by Salesforce in 2010.

• More than 65 million apps have been built on Heroku.
• More than 65 billion requests are served daily on Heroku.
• More than 38 million data stores have been created on Heroku.
• Heroku Elements Marketplace hosts over 200 ecosystem add-on services.

Explore more:

• Learn more about Heroku
• Learn more about the latest Heroku innovations
• Download a complimentary copy of the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms

Additional Gartner info
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