Global Privileged Access Management Company

Revenue
$350 mil
Customers
20,000+
Fortune 100
75 companies

Background

The case study provides insight into the company's marketing operations, highlighting a reliance on Salesforce as the core CRM system and Eloqua as the primary marketing automation platform. For the company known for its extensive range of security products, Eloqua serves as the primary outbound marketing platform.

Critical Marketing Strategy: A critical aspect of the company's marketing strategy lies in providing tailored security product awareness to prospects, contingent on factors like product engagement, journey stage, and geographical region. This necessitates access to accurate and up-to-date data, ensuring that the content remains relevant and effective.

The company was using an integration app between Salesforce and Eloqua for an extended period to manage its marketing needs.

Challenges

But the integration app had its own share of challenges that significantly impacted marketing operations efficiency and data reliability.

Data Duplication
The need to import data into Eloqua's custom data objects created redundancy. Managing source dataset in Salesforce and target dataset in Eloqua created synchronization challenges.
Real-Time Data Limitations
The existing integration could not deliver real-time data on demand. Operations team had to carefully schedule synchronization to balance data freshness and resource consumption.
Dedicated Oversight Team
Required resources to monitor and maintain the fragile sync data pipe which would always fail to sync records due to conflicts between source and target.
Protracted Implementation
Introducing new dimensions was always a large IT project with constant dependency on IT/external teams, resulting in prolonged processes.
Escalating Costs
Expenses associated with maintaining and updating the integration soared, posing challenges for securing additional budget allocation.
Rapid Data Changes
Frequent data structure changes caused marketing assets to become outdated, increasing Tech Debt with stagnant assets in Eloqua.

Solution

Portqii's External Data Intelligence (EDI) solution is an innovative platform with data virtualization to access any data without any extract and load process, setting it apart from the conventional data integration approach.

The company turned to Portqii to address its data, integration, and marketing challenges.

Through EDI, the company's marketing team gained direct access to Salesforce data, eliminating the necessity for data imports. This single advancement provided them with real-time data without any data duplication. They now have access to all the attributes in Salesforce and are not limited to attributes in the extracts.

Any new attribute becomes automatically available to them in Eloqua for use in campaigns. This development significantly lightened the load on the operations teams, eliminating the associated tasks and costs linked with maintaining synchronization.

Furthermore, EDI's decision service module empowered the marketing team with seamless access to Salesforce data directly within Eloqua campaigns. This real-time integration allowed the company to deliver hyper-personalized experiences at scale to its prospects.

Result

EDi's integration has been transformative for the company's marketing team. By automating internal processes and providing seamless data access, the team has been able to redirect their efforts towards core marketing functions, driving a substantial increase in productivity.

Transformational Impact: This shift has also yielded significant financial benefits. The company has experienced a notable reduction in marketing spend while achieving greater operational efficiency.

This strategic reallocation of resources has enabled the team to amplify the impact of their marketing efforts, resulting in a remarkable enhancement of their email marketing campaigns.

The outcomes have been nothing short of impressive. The team has consistently outperformed industry benchmarks, delivering email marketing statistics that not only meet but exceed, established standards. This level of success stands as a testament to the effectiveness and strategic advantage gained through the implementation of EDI.

Real-time Data
Direct access to Salesforce data without imports
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Zero Duplication
Eliminated redundant data management
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Hyper-personalization
Scalable personalized experiences
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Enhanced ROI
Reduced spend with greater efficiency