Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement connection
Use the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formerly known as Pardot) destination to capture, track, score and grade leads. You can also design lead tracks for all stages of the pipeline for targeted market audiences and customer groups through email drip campaigns and lead management with nurturing, scoring and campaign segmentation.
Compared to Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement which is more oriented towards B2C marketing, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement is ideal for B2B use cases involving multiple departments and decision makers which require longer sales and decision cycles. In addition, you also maintain closer proximity and integration with your CRM to make appropriate sales and marketing decisions. Note, Experience Platform also has connections for Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement, you can check them on the Salesforce Marketing Cloud and (API) Salesforce Marketing Cloud pages.
This Adobe Experience Platform destination leverages the Salesforce Account Engagement API > Prospect Upsert by Email endpoint, to add or update your leads after activating them within a new Marketing Cloud Account Engagement segment.
Marketing Cloud Account Engagement uses the OAuth 2 with Authorization Code protocol to authenticate to the Account Engagement API. Instructions to authenticate to your Marketing Cloud Account Engagement instance are further below, in the Authenticate to destination section.
Use cases use-cases
To help you better understand how and when you should use the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement destination, here is a sample use case that Adobe Experience Platform customers can solve by using this destination.
Send emails to contacts for marketing campaigns use-case-send-emails
The marketing department of an online platform wants to broadcast an email-based marketing campaign to a curated audience of B2B leads. The platform’s marketing team can add new leads or update existing lead information through Adobe Experience Platform, build audiences from their own offline data, and send these audiences to Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, which can then be used to send the marketing campaign email.
Prerequisites prerequisites
Refer to the sections below for any prerequisites that you need to set up in Experience Platform and Salesforce and for information that you need to gather before working with the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement destination.
Prerequisites in Experience Platform prerequisites-in-experience-platform
Before activating data to the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement destination, you must have a schema, a dataset, and segments created in Experience Platform.
Prerequisites in Marketing Cloud Account Engagement prerequisites-destination
Note the following prerequisites in order to export data from Platform to your Marketing Cloud Account Engagement account:
You need to have a Marketing Cloud Account Engagement account prerequisites-account
A Marketing Cloud Account Engagement account with a subscription to the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement product is mandatory to proceed.
Your Salesforce account should have the Salesforce Account Engagement Administrator role. This is required to create custom prospect fields.
Finally, your account should also be able to access the Account Engagement Lightning App.
Reach out to Salesforce Support or your Salesforce account administrator if you do not have an account, or the account is missing the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement subscription or the Account Engagement Administrator role.
Gather Marketing Cloud Account Engagement credentials gather-credentials
Note down the items below before you authenticate to the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement destination.
UsernamePasswordAccount Engagement Business Unit ID0Uv and is 18 characters long. If you can’t access the Business Unit Setup information, ask your Salesforce Account Administrator to provide you with the Account Engagement Business Unit ID. If you require any additional guidance refer to the Salesforce Authentication guideline page.Guardrails guardrails
Refer to the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement rate limits which details the limits imposed by your plan and would also apply to the Experience Platform executions.
Supported identities supported-identities
Marketing Cloud Account Engagement supports the activation of identities described in the table below. Learn more about identities.
Export type and frequency export-type-frequency
Refer to the table below for information about the destination export type and frequency.
- You are exporting all members of a segment, together with the desired schema fields (for example: email address, phone number, last name), according to your field mapping.
- For each selected audience in Platform, the corresponding Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement segment status gets updated with its audience status from Platform.
Connect to the destination connect
To connect to this destination, follow the steps described in the destination configuration tutorial. In the configure destination workflow, fill in the fields listed in the two sections below.
Within Destinations > Catalog, search for Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement. Alternatively you can locate it under the Email marketing category.
Authenticate to destination authenticate
To authenticate to the destination, select Connect to destination. You will be navigated to the Salesforce login page. Enter your Marketing Cloud Account Engagement account credentials and select Log In.
Next, Select Allow in the subsequent window to give permissions to the Adobe Experience Platform app to access your Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement account. You will need to do this only once.
If the details provided are valid, the UI displays a message: You successfully connected to Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement account message and a Connected status with a green check mark, you can then proceed to the next step.
Fill in destination details destination-details
To configure details for the destination, fill in the required and optional fields below. An asterisk next to a field in the UI indicates that the field is required. Refer to the Gather Marketing Cloud Account Engagement credentials section for any guidance.
Account Engagement Business Unit ID.Enable alerts enable-alerts
You can enable alerts to receive notifications on the status of the dataflow to your destination. Select an alert from the list to subscribe to receive notifications on the status of your dataflow. For more information on alerts, see the guide on subscribing to destinations alerts using the UI.
When you are finished providing details for your destination connection, select Next.
Activate audiences to this destination activate
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To activate data, you need the View Destinations, Activate Destinations, View Profiles, and View Segments access control permissions. Read the access control overview or contact your product administrator to obtain the required permissions.
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To export identities, you need the View Identity Graph access control permission.
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Read Activate profiles and audiences to streaming audience export destinations for instructions on activating audiences to this destination.
Mapping considerations and example mapping-considerations-example
To correctly send your audience data from Adobe Experience Platform to the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement destination, you need to go through the field mapping step. Mapping consists of creating a link between your Experience Data Model (XDM) schema fields in your Platform account and their corresponding equivalents from the target destination.
To correctly map your XDM fields to the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement destination fields, follow the steps below.
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In the Mapping step, select Add new mapping. You will see a new mapping row on the screen.
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In the Select source field window, choose the Select attributes category and select the XDM attribute or choose the Select identity namespace and select an identity.
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In the Select target field window, choose the Select identity namespace and select an identity or choose Select custom attributes category and specify from the list of Prospect API fields from the available schema.
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Repeat these steps to add any mappings between your XDM profile schema and Marketing Cloud Account Engagement:
table 0-row-3 1-row-3 2-row-3 3-row-3 Source Field Target Field Mandatory IdentityMap: EmailIdentity: emailYes xdm: MailingAddress.cityxdm: cityxdm: person.name.firstNameAttribute: firstName -
An example with the above mappings is shown below:
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When you have finished providing the mappings for your destination connection, select Next.
Validate data export exported-data
To validate that you have correctly set up the destination, follow the steps below:
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Navigate to one of the audiences you had selected. Select the Activation data tab. The Mapping ID column displays the name of the custom field which is generated within the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement Prospects page.
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Log in to the Salesforce website. Then navigate to the Account Engagement > Prospects > Pardot Prospects page and check if the prospects from the audience have been added / updated. Alternatively you can also access Salesforce Pardot and access the Prospects page.
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To check if the prospects have been updated, select a prospect and verify if the custom prospect field has been updated with the Experience Platform audience status.
Data usage and governance data-usage-governance
All Adobe Experience Platform destinations are compliant with data usage policies when handling your data. For detailed information on how Adobe Experience Platform enforces data governance, see the Data Governance overview.
Additional resources additional-resources
- Marketing Cloud Account Engagement API documentation.