Salesforce Marketing Cloud Intelligence

Implement, optimize, & maintain your Marketing Cloud Intelligence (Datorama) environment with specialists who know the platform, from data ingestion and harmonization to attribution, dashboards and AI-powered activation.

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The Real Problems Marketing Teams Bring to Us

“We’re pulling data from six platforms and building reports manually in spreadsheets every week.”
“We spend more time cleaning data than actually using it.”
“Leadership wants cross-channel ROI but our tools don’t talk to each other.”
“We have the data. We just can’t see it fast enough to change anything.”

Our Marketing Cloud Intelligence Offerings

Realize the full potential of MCI with Decision Foundry's agile, outcome-driven implementation approach. Our service partnerships span across the full MCI lifecycle: from strategy and architecture to adoption, and uncovering advanced intelligence.

Unified Data & Governance

Unified Data & Governance

We bring together every marketing touchpoint - paid media, email, CRM, web analytics, and offline data into a single data and decision-ready environment. You benefit with harmonized campaign data, consistent KPIs, and a single source of truth for reporting and optimization.

Automation & AI Integration

Automation & AI Integration

Our data experts configure MCI using Einstein AI and Agentforce to automate ingestion, normalization and enrichment. Detect anomalies, enrich datasets, and receive AI recommendations for optimization. Free up your team to focus on strategy and performance.

Customization and hyper personalization

Customization and hyper personalization

We customize data models, naming rules, calculated metrics, and dashboards around how your teams work. Whether you need different reporting for each agency client, consistent measurement across brands, or calculations built around your business goals, we build those requirements into your setup.

Real-Time Insights & Automation

Real-Time Insights & Automation

Move from time-lagged reports to always-on intelligence. Use automated dashboards, AI-summarized insights and alerts to surface trends, anomalies and opportunities as they emerge.

Attribution & Optimization

Attribution & Optimization

Enable built-in multi-touch attribution, unified spend reporting and end-to-end visibility that ties marketing activity to business outcomes. Optimize budgets and improve ROI with confidence.

Custom Integrations & Data Enrichment

Custom Integrations & Data Enrichment

When native connectors aren’t enough, we extend MCI with custom pipelines and enriched datasets, ensuring your intelligence reflects the full marketing ecosystem, not partial views.

Need help connecting custom data sources or harmonizing taxonomy?

Speak with a certified Marketing Cloud Intelligence architect.

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Our Marketing Cloud Intelligence Implementation Process

01

Discovery

We audit your current data sources, reporting workflows, and business questions. We identify gaps and define what success looks like.

02

Architecture & Planning

We design your data model, connector map, and workspace structure before we touch the platform. This prevents rework later.

03

Implementation

We build the connections, harmonize the data, and configure the platform. Parallel testing runs alongside your existing reporting until you’re confident in the new setup.

04

Dashboard Delivery

We deliver the dashboards and reports agreed in discovery, reviewed with your team before go-live.

05

Training

We train the people who will own the platform day-to-day. Role-specific sessions for analysts, ops managers, and leadership.

06

Ongoing Support

Post-launch, we offer managed services, quarterly reviews, and optimization sprints as your marketing mix and business priorities evolve.

How Marketing Cloud Intelligence Salesforce (MCI) works

01Data sources
Advertising platforms
Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn
Analytics & email
Web, app and email data
CRM & sales systems
Leads, pipeline and revenue
Files & offline data
Spreadsheets, custom feeds
02Bring data in
API connectors
Connect supported platforms and retrieve source data
TotalConnect & custom
Import file-based data and extend integrations
03Process in MCI
Ingest & map
Match source fields to the data model
Harmonize
Standardize campaign names, channels and categories
Validate & calculate
Check data quality and apply KPI definitions
Combine & analyze
Bring sources together to assess performance
04Use the data
Dashboards & reports
Explore performance in MCI and share reporting
Tableau & exports
Use prepared data for further analysis
Alerts & actions
Notify teams and trigger configured workflows

Connect. Standardize. Analyze. Act.

Connection methods, refresh frequency and available actions depend on your sources and MCI configuration.

From Datorama to Marketing Cloud Intelligence: What Changed?

If your team still calls it Datorama, you’re talking about Salesforce Marketing Cloud Intelligence. The name changed, but the central purpose remains: bringing fragmented marketing data together so teams can measure performance across channels.

The bigger question is whether your current environment still supports the way you work. New channels, changing campaign structures, and evolving reporting requirements can leave older implementations struggling to keep up.

Decision Foundry helps you review your existing setup, identify what needs attention, and decide whether to optimize MCI or evaluate a different platform.

Marketing Cloud Intelligence vs Other Analytics Tools

Choosing a platform starts with understanding the job you need it to do.

ToolPrimary focusWhen to consider it
Marketing Cloud Intelligence (MCI)Marketing data integration, harmonization, and cross-channel reportingYou need a consistent reporting foundation across a complex marketing stack
Salesforce Marketing Intelligence (MI)Salesforce’s newer native marketing analytics productYou’re evaluating its semantic model, Tableau Next visualizations, and agent capabilities
TableauData exploration and visualizationYou need flexible analysis across marketing and other business functions
Power BIBusiness analytics, data modeling, and reportingYou want reporting across multiple departments and business systems
GA4Website and app behavior, key events, and attributionYou need to understand digital journeys and acquisition performance

These tools can also work together. For example, MCI can supply harmonized marketing data to Tableau rather than replace it.

We help you assess your data sources, reporting requirements, internal skills, and ongoing maintenance needs before recommending a platform.

Built for Agencies Managing More Than One Marketing Story

Every client has different platforms, campaign structures, and reporting expectations. Rebuilding the entire reporting process for each account makes growth harder than it needs to be.

We help marketing agencies onboard customers seamlessly, build reusable data models, shared KPI definitions, and dashboard templates, with room for client-specific requirements.

Give account teams a consistent reporting foundation, control access to client data, and make onboarding the next account more manageable.

Who On Your Team Will Use This Most

Marketing Cloud Intelligence touches multiple roles. The people who feel the impact most directly:

Chief Marketing Officers

Get reliable cross-channel ROI without waiting for the analytics team to pull reports

Marketing Operations Managers

Eliminate manual data wrangling and maintain a single source of truth

Performance Marketing Leads

See spend, impressions, clicks, and conversions from all paid channels in one place

Media Planners & Buyers

Compare channel efficiency and shift budget based on actual performance data

Marketing Analysts

Spend time on analysis instead of data cleaning and reformatting

Revenue Operations

Align marketing data with pipeline and sales metrics for a complete funnel view

Why Decision Foundry for Marketing Cloud Intelligence Implementation

Certified Salesforce Select Partner

We hold active Salesforce certifications across Marketing Cloud products. That means direct access to Salesforce support, product roadmap updates, and implementation best practices.

We Implement. We Don’t Just Configure.

A lot of partners activate the platform and hand it back. We stay involved through data modeling, dashboard build-out, training, and managed services until your team is fully operational.

Cross-Platform Data Experience

Marketing Cloud Intelligence is only as good as what you put into it. Our data engineering team has connected data sources across clients, including paid media APIs, CRM systems, data warehouses, and custom feeds.

No Black Box Reporting

Everything we build, we document. Your team understands the logic behind every metric, every model, and every automated report. You own the output.

Security & Governance

We follow Salesforce’s security framework and apply data governance standards throughout every engagement. Role-based access, data lineage, and audit trails are built in, not bolted on.

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Common Questions

Marketing Cloud Intelligence (MCI) FAQs

Is Marketing Cloud Intelligence the same as Datorama?

Yes. Salesforce renamed Datorama to Marketing Cloud Intelligence, or MCI. If your team still calls it Datorama, you’re referring to the same platform. It brings marketing data together, standardizes it, and helps you report on performance across channels.

How is MCI different from Data Cloud and Tableau?

Each platform serves a different purpose:

  • MCI brings together marketing spend and campaign data so you can compare performance across channels.
  • Data Cloud connects customer data across systems to build unified profiles and support personalization and other business use cases.
  • Tableau helps teams explore and visualize data across the business, beyond marketing alone.

They can also work together. For example, you can organize your marketing data in MCI and use Tableau for further analysis and reporting.

Can MCI connect to the platforms we already use?

MCI supports a wide range of advertising, analytics, and business data sources through pre-built connectors. These include platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, and LinkedIn.

For sources without a suitable connector, file uploads and custom integrations can bring the data into MCI. We review your platforms and reporting needs to determine the best connection method for each source.

What can hold up an MCI implementation?

Often, the challenge is the data rather than the platform. Campaign names vary between channels, teams define the same KPI differently, or dashboards are built before the reporting rules are agreed.

We address these issues early by reviewing naming conventions, mapping rules, and metric definitions before building dashboards.

How long does it take to set up MCI?

The timeline depends on how many sources you need to connect, the condition of your data, and the reports you want to build.

We usually work in phases: connect and validate the data first, then build dashboards and train your team. After discovery, we provide a timeline based on your scope.

Can MCI show which campaigns bring in revenue?

Yes, when marketing data can be connected reliably to sales and revenue data.

Combining campaign spend with CRM leads, opportunities, and closed deals can help you measure cost per opportunity, attributed pipeline, and return on ad spend. The accuracy depends on your tracking, data quality, and attribution rules. We help define those rules so your team understands what the numbers show.