Lytics launches Salesforce Marketing Cloud integration for customer journeys

Customer data platform (CDP) Lytics announced updates to its platform that will allow users to integrate customer journey execution with Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC). Lytics’ campaign orchestration capabilities can now be used across a number of marketing technologies, including Facebook and SendGrid – in addition to the new SFMC integration.

The integration between Lytics’ CDP and SFMC is expected to allow marketers to import existing campaigns to build new experiences within the Orchestrate Journey canvas. The insights delivered from Lytics can then be used to inform more targeted campaigns and be sent to SFMC for delivery.

Why we should care

Delivering personalized, one-to-one marketing at scale is something we strive for as marketers. Our disparate martech environments tend to complicate this, and customer data platforms seek to address these complications by providing users with a single view of their customer data from the different tools they use. Marrying this data into a single view should help marketers extract new insights to further inform their campaigns.

“The best customer journeys are an open road,” said James McDermott, CEO of Lytics, “and for us, that means giving marketers the freedom to choose multiple paths by integrating with their existing marketing technology stack.”

More on the news

With the new Lytics and Salesforce Marketing Cloud integration, users can:

• Export audience segments from Lytics into SFMC to continue the customer journey
• Trigger new experiences in SFMC based on customer events (e.g., opened an email) captured in Lytics
• Switch between Lytics and SFMC within the same customer journey to deliver a combination of channel and message.

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Jennifer Cannon

Jennifer Videtta Cannon serves as Third Door Media's Senior Editor, covering topics from email marketing and analytics to CRM and project management. With over a decade of organizational digital marketing experience, she has overseen digital marketing operations for NHL franchises and held roles at tech companies including Salesforce, advising enterprise marketers on maximizing their martech capabilities. Jennifer formerly organized the Inbound Marketing Summit and holds a certificate in Digital Marketing Analytics from MIT Sloan School of Management.