# Heroku's Acquisition 2 Years Later

DevFeed: [Heroku's Acquisition 2 Years Later](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/heroku-s-acquisition-2-years-later-41135.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/04/18/Herokus-Acquisition-2-Years-Later/>)

Author: Map

Published: 2013-04-18T20:55:56Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Craig Kerstiens](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/craig-kerstiens.md>)

Topics: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [acquisition](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/acquisition.md>), [email](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/email.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [salesforce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/salesforce.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of how Heroku changed two years after its acquisition by Salesforce. The article says Heroku largely retained its own office, IT, workflow, and hiring practices, while some administrative functions, including paperwork and expenses, moved through Salesforce systems.

## Source excerpt

Just over two years ago, Heroku was acquired. I was around and peripheral to this just before the acquisition and came on board only barely after. While there is a large group of people that have been there longer than I have (several for 4+ years) I'm still commonly asked how things have changed, how things work, and other questions of that nature. I wrote about some of these processes over a year ago in the months after joining Heroku around our hiring, our teams, and how we work. Many of these things haven't changed, and yet almost always at a conference I'm asked how are things different since being acquired. Here's my personal take (and while I don't typically include this - to be safe, this is not an official Heroku view of what's changed). Are things different since the acquisition? Heroku in many ways operates like a wholly owned subsidiary or as an independent business within Salesforce. We still have our own office space, our own IT (if you can even call it that), and in general entirely own workflow. I have a salesforce email account that automatically forwards to my Heroku google apps account, and that's about as much as I know about it. In fact, we're currently preparing for our new office and its planned to be our home for somewhere between the next 5-10 years. At the same time some things do flow through Salesforce, some of those things are logistical some strategic. First the perhaps most unfortunate part - hiring. This has not really changed how we hire, but rather once you are coming on board theres more paperwork. In general this is the most painful part that instead of 1/2 pieces of paper theres a few to sign. At the same time some of these come with some greater gains such as benefit, etc. To be honest I dont fully recall what all of the paper work is, but either way there is a bit more of it. The other area we really see this effect is expense accounts. All expenses flow through concur, which in my opinion is a pretty good solution. I've used m