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(Former) Salesforce employee here, long enough to have been there a couple of years before the Heroku acquisition. I can't let this stand without a comment. He
by hthrowaway1 4y ago
(Former) Salesforce employee here, long enough to have been there a couple of years before the Heroku acquisition. I can't let this stand without a comment.
Heroku never seemed to want to integrate, but instead be the "cool kids", those who just do not have to worry about the enterprisy stuff such as automated backups, DR, high availability, enabling Java, etc. Everything they did was great, everything "Salesforce" sucked, yet they never made any money before the acquisition. The acquisition was a waste of money in first place (IMHO).
The founders did not even try and so they left.
- glenngillen 4y agoFormer Heroku employee here: everything you list happened within the first year of acquisition. You’re correct that the lack of real integration with SFDC was a large part of the problem though. Though as far as SFDC acquisitions go Heroku was cheap. More expensive ones had far worse outcomes even with integration.
- throwawa3238273 4y agoTrying to integrate with SFDC was a mistake. The product never fit inside of the company. Of course their investment made Heroku successful over the first few years (and eventually highly profitable as I understand) but they should've just spun it off and let it succeed without trying to figure out how to "enterprise" it. What we knew how to do at Heroku was build a great platform for developers to launch apps. We never claimed to know how to make that model work for enterprise. In fact we were awful at trying.
- Aeolun 4y ago> Heroku never seemed to want to integrate, but instead be the "cool kids", those who just do not have to worry about the enterprisy stuff such as automated backups, DR, high availability, enabling Java, etc. Seems like Salesforce got exactly what they bought. Not sure why they’d be surprised about it.