About LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented social network that allows users to build profiles, connect with others, and share relevant information. One of the biggest social networks, it is primarily used for professional networking, online recruiting, and to seek employment.
About Heroku Connect
Heroku Connect is a data integration tool that uses bi-directional synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres to harmonize Postgres data your Salesforce information like contacts, accounts, and custom objects. Heroku connect includes a user-friendly, point-and-click interface so non-tech-savvy users can set up the service in minutes without coding or complicated configuration procedures.
Popular Use Cases
Bring all your LinkedIn data to Amazon Redshift
Load your LinkedIn data to Google BigQuery
ETL all your LinkedIn data to Snowflake
Move your LinkedIn data to MySQL
Bring all your Heroku Connect data to Amazon Redshift
Load your Heroku Connect data to Google BigQuery
ETL all your Heroku Connect data to Snowflake
Move your Heroku Connect data to MySQL
LinkedIn's End Points
LinkedIn Organizations
Get a detailed overview of organizations and search across organization profiles by industry, location, size, and more. This can help you understand your demographics and send targeted, accurate communications.
LinkedIn People
With this API, you can use LinkedIn to quickly sign in to other applications, with access to your name, photo, headline, and email address. Also easily connect to 1st degree connections and discover 2nd degree connections, thereby maintaining your networks and keeping your contacts across platforms.
LinkedIn Jobs
Retrieve recommended jobs, search through LinkedIn jobs, and enable people to save jobs on their account.
LinkedIn Ads
Manage and promote your ads on LinkedIn, thereby raising brand awareness, building relationships, and driving quality leads.
LinkedIn Share and Social Stream
Share your content and insights through your professional network, distributing it via the network update stream. This stream has all of the content and changes happening in your 1st and 2nd degree networks, offering a place where you can widely distribute information and expand your influence.
Heroku Connect's End Points
Heroku Connect Synchronization of Apps Across Heroku and Salesforce
Heroku Connect allows you to build apps with open source stacks, natively integrate the apps with Postgres, and directly sync them with Salesforce. By integrating your Salesforce data with Heroku Postgres, it's easy to combine the power of the Lightning Platform with Heroku. Heroku Connect makes the process of building apps that bring your data and processes to your users as easy as coding in SQL.
Heroku Connect External Objects
Heroku Connect External Objects let you make your Heroku Postgres database information available inside your Salesforce deployment. This empowers you to synchronize your information across both platforms as you create, read, update, and delete data. By creating sophisticated applications inside Heroku and making the app data available to your Salesforce processes, you'll present a seamless experience in Salesforce, while all of your data stays inside Heroku Postgres. Moreover, configuring Heroku-Salesforce integrations for data pertaining to apps, sensors, customers, and products is a simple, point-and-click process that doesn't require any coding skills. Heroku External Objects combined with Salesforce Connect makes it easy to create a seamless experience across all of your business systems.
Heroku Connect Data Security Compliance
Heroku Shield Connect supports the development of applications that share sensitive data with Salesforce while complying with the strictest data security standards. Safely integrate CRM data, Protected Health Information (PHI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), contact information, account data, and custom objects between Heroku apps and Salesforce. Heroku Shield Connect provides an easy pathway for building advanced applications that need to adhere to the most complicated data security regulations, including HIPAA compliance.
Heroku Connect Easy Application Development and Scaling
Through its compatibility with the most popular stacks and programming languages, Heroku Connect facilitates easy application development. Its add-on ecosystem includes your favorite development tools and databases (like New Relic, Mongo, and Redis) so you can use them with the applications you're creating. Through Heroku's proven infrastructure, which currently supports 26 billion daily transactions for massive consumer websites (such as Upworthy and Bonobo) virtually limitless scaling is available for high volume applications.
