{"id":88957,"date":"2025-08-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=88957"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:08:45","slug":"gartner-magic-quadrant-cloud-native-application-platforms-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/gartner-magic-quadrant-cloud-native-application-platforms-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce (Heroku) Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner\u00ae Magic Quadrant\u2122 for Cloud-Native Application Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Salesforce today announced that Salesforce (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heroku.com\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Heroku<\/a>) has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner\u00ae Magic Quadrant\u2122 for Cloud-Native Application Platforms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/artificial-intelligence\/what-is-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI<\/a> is reshaping how businesses serve their customers, creating unprecedented demand for intelligent, responsive applications. But this transformation comes with a cost: organizations are drowning in complexity as they attempt to integrate and maintain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/connectivity-report-announcement-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of disparate applications<\/a>, AI models, and AI tools, creating bottlenecks that slow innovation and increase security risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge extends beyond technology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/form\/platform\/4th-state-of-it-ai-and-app-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over two-thirds of development teams<\/a> lack the resources to build and deploy new classes of applications effectively, forcing them to choose between speed and quality \u2014 or abandon AI initiatives altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heroku.com\/platform\/\">Herok<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heroku.com\/platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">u<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heroku.com\/platform\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> AI PaaS<\/a> eliminates this tradeoff. The comprehensive Cloud-Native Application Platform transforms AI development from a complex engineering challenge into a streamlined workflow, giving businesses simple access to enterprise-grade AI capabilities while automating security and operational best practices. The result: faster time-to-market, reduced risk, and lower total cost of ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"contextual-driver has-text-align-left contextual-driver--mountain\">\n\t<header class=\"tidbit-header\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"tidbit-head\">\n\t\t\tHeroku: Introducing the next generation platform built on leading cloud infrastructure services and open source standards.\t\t<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div class=\"tidbit-body\">\n\t\t<p><\/p>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"tidbit-link label\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"label has-right-arrow has-right-arrow--small\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heroku.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t<span>MORE<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 14 10\">\n\t<path d=\"M13.92 5.38a1 1 0 000-.76.9.9 0 00-.17-.26.25.25 0 000-.07l-4-4a1 1 0 00-1.46 1.42L10.59 4H1.07a1 1 0 000 2h9.52l-2.3 2.29a1 1 0 000 1.42 1 1 0 001.42 0l4-4a.25.25 0 000-.07.9.9 0 00.21-.26z\" \/>\n<\/svg>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img class=\"tidbit img-mountain\"\n\t\tsrcset=\"\n\t\t\thttps:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/wp-content\/themes\/newsroom\/assets\/images\/article-tidbit-mountain-large@0.5x.png 84w,\n\t\t\thttps:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/wp-content\/themes\/newsroom\/assets\/images\/article-tidbit-mountain-large@1x.png 168w,\n\t\t\thttps:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/wp-content\/themes\/newsroom\/assets\/images\/article-tidbit-mountain-large@2x.png 336w\n\t\t\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/wp-content\/themes\/newsroom\/assets\/images\/article-tidbit-mountain-large@1x.png\"\n\t\talt=\"Illustration of mountain\"\n\t\tsizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 175px, 130px\"\n\t>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Innovation in action: <\/strong>Heroku AI PaaS helps businesses accelerate delivery and simplify operations of apps and agents at every scale. It features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An AI-native developer experience with AI IDE support for Cursor, Windsor, Claude Desktop, simplified access to foundation models with Heroku Managed Inference and Agents, and MCP server support with a toolkit for custom MCP Servers and a Heroku Remote MCP Server.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support for a wide range of programming languages, frameworks, and databases to remove friction from the development process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deep integration with Salesforce products, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/agentforce\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agentforce<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/mulesoft\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mulesoft<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/data\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data Cloud<\/a> with Heroku AppLink to enable unique and enhanced use cases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fully managed and integrated infrastructure platform and DevOps automation to reduce operational overhead and risk.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Built-in regulatory compliance in Heroku platform for applications with PCI, HIPAA, ISO, and SOC compliance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simple delivery and modernization of a wide range of workloads, including cloud-native, machine learning, AI applications and agents, and traditional applications.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Salesforce perspective: <\/strong>\u201cWe are honored to be recognized again as a Leader in the Gartner\u00ae Magic Quadrant\u2122 for Cloud-Native Application Platforms. Heroku makes it easier for businesses to bring their ideas to life through software by removing friction and complexity in their process, and increasing both their creativity and productivity,&#8221; said Betty Junod, CMO and SVP, Heroku from Salesforce. &#8220;By simplifying the development and deployment of AI applications, we&#8217;re helping our customers reduce wait times, improve customer satisfaction, and drive business growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Customer perspective:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHeroku allowed us to focus more on innovation and building the things we want to build, the applications that make our business unique in the market. Our speed has become our biggest competitive advantage in this space, and Heroku has allowed us to scale quickly.\u201d \u2013 Cheyne Pierce, 1West CTO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Heroku provided us the flexibility to move quickly and get the customer&#8217;s product to market from 12-18 months to under four months.<\/p>\n<cite>Brendan Hennessy, Co-Founder &amp; CTO, LaunchPad Lab<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUsing Heroku, we were able to seamlessly integrate Kawasaki Engine&#8217;s backend systems and Salesforce instances and provided a scalable platform that was easy for the team to manage and iterate solutions very quickly on. 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scale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More than 65 million apps and 38 million data stores have been built on Heroku.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More than 65 billion requests are served daily on Heroku.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heroku Elements Marketplace hosts hundreds of ecosystem add-on services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"more-from-block more-from-block--2 alignfull wp-block-newsroom-moreontopic\">\n\t<div class=\"more-from-block__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"more-from-block__title\">Related<\/h4>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"more-from-block__cards more-from-block__cards--2\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\n\n<article\t\t\titemscope=\"\"\n\t\titemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Article\"\n\t\tdata-card-id=\"92828\"\n\t\tclass=\"content-card content-card--large-inline is-entire-area-clickable content-card--is-boxed\"\n\t\t\tdata-clickable-area-link=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/press-releases\/2026\/03\/26\/vha-salesforce-agentic-os-saves-staff-hours\/\"\n\t>\n\t\t\t<div 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