Overview
Heroku is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows companies to build, develop, scale and manage web and mobile phone-based applications. Enterprise-level customers use Heroku Connect to synchronize data between a PostgreSQL database and Salesforce. Services like Connect can be expensive in terms of monthly cash outlay and your staff's time to manage, troubleshoot and enhance related applications.
GREAT's Heroku Connect Performance & Spend Assessment identifies opportunities to reduce annual spending by tens of thousands and, in some cases, millions of dollars while significantly increasing performance. The assessment adds additional value by highlighting ways to redirect your talented team from low-value, repetitive tasks to higher-value, strategic activities.
How do you know we can deliver? One of the world's largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies needed to substantively address these core problems resulting from ongoing, high-volume data transfer of hundreds of millions of records per year in production. Our client turned to GREAT before entering a multi-million dollar renewal negotiation with Heroku. After analyzing Connect cost and performance, GREAT architected a solution that drove down costs, improved performance, and helped refocus the client's internal technical team on more value-added assignments.
GREAT created an event-driven Heroku Connect Data Synchronization Solution that eliminated the dependency on Heroku Connect for bi-directional data synchronization between a PostgreSQL database and Salesforce. The solution leveraged Amazon Web Services (AWS) and focused on the following:
● An event-driven architecture that acts when defined events occur ● Use of cloud-native, serverless technology designed to reduce cost ● Synchronized data between Salesforce and the Heroku database ● Minimal impact upon current applications
If you want to drive down costs and improve the performance of your critical infrastructure, contact GREAT's Client Services team today.
Highlights
- Cost Optimization – The two primary use cases for GREAT’s Heroku Connect Data Synchronization Solution are: (1) many small changes via Connect over a long time period; and/or (2) one extremely large change via Connect over a short time period. AWS Lambda's ability to scale horizontally allows GREAT's solution to address both use cases easily and reduce costs. The initial assessment identifies pathways to optimize your related spending on data synchronization.
- Reliability – GREAT's Solution relies on AWS Lambdas, a SaaS offering that provides a 99.95% uptime service-level agreement (SLA). The solution further increases reliability for clients by deploying to multiple Availability Zones. The assessment uncovers critical ways to improve the dependability of bi-directional synchronization without sacrificing either performance or security.
- Operational Excellence – GREAT’s Solution uses AWS's ability to isolate discrete workloads, a trait critical for business-critical workloads. This isolation reduces the mean time to resolution of production defects. It improves the ability to learn from root cause analysis, shortening the feedback loop and improving the overall service quality. Our assessment identifies, prioritizes, and resolves core operational issues as part of the comprehensive improvement roadmap.
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