Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world\u2019s #1 CRM company, today announced Heroku Elements, a marketplace of innovative, pre-integrated app components, services, and tools that empower developers to build engaging customer-facing applications.Now developers have instant access to Heroku\u2019s rich ecosystem of powerful, pre-integrated app components, services and tools
Brown-Forman and Product Hunt use Heroku Elements to quickly build customized, engaging customer-facing apps
SAN FRANCISCO\u2014April 16, 2015\u2014Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world\u2019s #1 CRM company, today announced Heroku Elements, a marketplace of innovative, pre-integrated app components, services, and tools that empower developers to build engaging customer-facing applications.
Today, developers are not just writing custom code to create apps. They are composing apps out of pre-built elements, such as messaging services, payment systems, app monitors and data stores. However, researching and finding the specific elements developers need to build apps is a burdensome task. Heroku Elements solves this problem with a new marketplace that enables developers to find, evaluate, and quickly utilize modern services, components and tools.
Introducing Heroku Elements: The Marketplace for the Builders of the App Economy
Heroku Elements includes three new categories of app components, some built by Heroku, but the vast majority of which are built and maintained by Heroku\u2019s robust ecosystem of more than 1,500 partners and open source developers. Each Element on the marketplace can easily be found by use case or function, and, to help developers decide which element is right for their needs, includes key information around number of installs, recency of updates, region data and more.
? Add-ons are tools and services pre-integrated into Heroku that are tailored for developing, extending, and operating apps. In the Heroku Elements marketplace, developers can search and preview add-on functionality to select which fits best with their app\u2019s specific needs.
? Heroku Buttons are third-party components, libraries, and pattern apps that allow users to deploy with a single click. The Heroku Elements marketplace lets developers find which Heroku Buttons are new and trending, giving users the perfect recipe to start building apps quickly.
? Buildpacks allow users to easily customize the build process in their preferred framework, language, and community. Now, users can search the Heroku Elements marketplace to discover new Buildpacks from Heroku or choose from the hundreds built and maintained by its community.
Heroku Elements enables developers to quickly search a broad ecosystem of trusted tools, components and services and discover the elements needed to develop better apps faster. Heroku Elements also provides developers with the unrivaled user experience, support, productivity, and reliability of Heroku\u2019s enterprise platform to deliver success at any scale.
Comments on the News:
? \u201cHeroku Elements represents some of the most interesting and innovative advancements happening across the developer ecosystem,\u201d said Adam Gross, VP of Product at Heroku. \u201cCompanies of all sizes can now easily access the creativity and functionality of application components, commercial services and open source tools – all in one place, and with a single click."
? \u201cAt Brown-Forman, we\u2019re using promotional websites built on Heroku to drive higher levels of customer engagement around brands like Southern Comfort and Jack Daniel’s,\u201d said Scott Riehl, Interactive Technology Manager, Brown-Forman. \u201cThe rich selection of Heroku Add-ons available from Heroku Elements enable our developers to focus on building sites that deliver compelling and authentic brand experiences.\u201d
? \u201cNew Relic and Heroku have been on a journey to help developers build modern apps in the cloud,\u201d said John Gray, SVP Business Development at New Relic. \u201cHeroku Elements represents the state of the art when it comes to giving developers the ability to discover Add-on services like New Relic to leverage the power of software analytics and more.\u201d
? "Heroku Elements makes it easy for us to discover and add new services to our app as we introduce new functionality," said Ryan Hoover, Founder, Product Hunt.
? \u201cThere is a quiet revolution underway in software development: The nature of the work is shifting from developing and deploying large complex applications to connecting new and existing services in unique and value-added ways,\u201d wrote Forrester Research Analysts Michael Facemire and Kurt Bittner. \u201cNew solutions to help developers find the right services they need and keep track of what they used to manage dependencies are needed to manage the potential complexity developers will unwittingly create.\u201d (1)
Pricing and availability:
? Heroku Elements is publicly available at https:\/\/elements.heroku.com. Heroku Buttons and Buildpacks are free resources, pricing for Add-ons is determined by the provider.
Additional Information:
? Learn more about Heroku Elements at https:\/\/elements.heroku.com
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About Heroku
Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service, enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud, without the need to purchase or maintain any servers or software. Since 2007, over four million apps have been created on Heroku. With support for the most popular languages, an enterprise-class database service, and an add-ons ecosystem featuring over 150 cloud application services, Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy and manage apps.
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(1) \u201cFrom Application Design to Application Composition,\u201d Kurt Bittner and Michael Facemire, Forrester Research, Inc. February 19, 2015<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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