Heroku Enterprise launches, bringing Salesforce's app platform to the business
"It's amazing how the most disruptive thing you can do for any business is to launch an app," said Adam Gross, Salesforce's vice president of developer platform marketing.
It also adds enhanced administrative features like team and user permissions, so no one can work on code they're not authorized to see, along with user access logs -- eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming code audits to make sure everything's on the up-and-up, Gross said.
"In a more structured environment, things like the path to production is a real problem," Gross said.
Heroku for Enterprise is a major investment for Salesforce, Gross said, and a serious effort to get its enterprise customers quickly building apps that can make life happier for its customers and its customers' customers. That's important in the days where everybody's trying to be a developer.
"The same's true of the iPhone," Gross said.