SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Heroku, the leading Ruby platform as a service (PaaS), today announced it is extending its partner ecosystem to accelerate the availability of top, highly qualified technical expertise and resources to the exploding number of businesses choosing Heroku's Ruby cloud application platform.  The Heroku Partner Program is designed to help systems integrators, consultants, and design firms that are using Heroku to meet growing client demand for full-featured and scalable web, mobile, and social applications.  Over fifty technology businesses are participating in the program, including global systems integrator Accenture and top agile development firm Pivotal Labs.