Know Your Customer with Data Cloud (DC)
Previously known as Salesforce Customer 360, Salesforce CDP, and Salesforce Genie, Salesforce Data Cloud is one of the newest platforms under the Salesforce enterprise umbrella. Data Cloud as a platform delivers on the long-anticipated Customer 360 view across Salesforce through the ingestion, harmonization, unification, and activation of customer data across enterprise platforms. Data Cloud sits fully within the Lightning Platform. Given this, you’ll see several overlaps between the Data Cloud and Service Cloud data models and API functionality through connected app configurations that were outlined in Chapter 2, Supporting Your Customers with Service Cloud. There are many Data Cloud-specific design considerations, which we’ll cover in detail in this chapter.
Note that the Data Cloud platform itself is not required to build the foundational B2C solution as understood between the B2C Commerce, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud...