Marketing Cloud components
Marketing Cloud is composed of several different products built on a variety of technologies. Many of the core messaging and journey-building components reside on the core Marketing Cloud Engagement platform but newer products added to the portfolio, such as Marketing Cloud Intelligence, and Marketing Cloud Personalization, are entirely separate. This hybrid approach to technology means that fully leveraging Marketing Cloud and understanding its role in a B2C solution involves understanding the Lightning Platform as well as the various technologies within the Marketing Cloud ecosystem.
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The core Marketing Cloud Engagement platform refers to the product formerly known as ExactTarget, acquired by Salesforce in 2013 and rebranded as Marketing Cloud Engagement. This component includes contact management, email messaging, social communication, journey orchestration, and flexible data extension capability. This is the product most often referred to in...