Everyone is asking. Few have tried it.

Is Marketing Cloud Next right for your team?

Find out in 60 days, on one real use case: what you gain, what it takes and what it costs. Your current platform keeps running throughout.

Find your path

Your route through these pages
1

Find your path

Choose the platform you run today. Engagement: run both side by side, and see where MCE+ fits. Account Engagement: it may already be in your licence.

2

Check the cost

Data 360 and the credit calculator: what your setup would cost.

3

Take the next step

Download the readiness pack, or talk to us about a 60-day pilot.

Whichever platform you are on

Your platform stays. Four things change around it.

Salesforce has set no end date for Engagement or Account Engagement. New capabilities still land in Marketing Cloud Next first, and they rest on a different foundation.

01

Data 360 becomes the foundation

Segments, personalisation and AI all run on Data 360. How your data is modelled now matters more than how many templates you have.

More on Data 360 →

02

Consent works differently

Next manages consent per subscription and channel. Under GDPR, that is the first thing to get right, not the last.

03

You pay for what you use

Data 360, messaging and AI run on credits. Your setup decides the bill, not only your licence.

Estimate your credits →

04

Orchestration moves to Flow

Journeys and programs are built in Flow, on the same platform as sales and service. New skills for your team, and fewer integrations to maintain.

Who this page is for

Three seats at the table. One question each.

The move to Marketing Cloud Next lands differently depending on where you sit. The pilot below answers all three.

CMO / VP Marketing
“What do I tell the board?”
  • A phased roadmap with value and cost proven on one use case in 60 days, before budget scales
Head of Marketing Automation
“How do we do this without stopping the machine?”
  • Engagement or Account Engagement keeps running through the pilot, with a clear split of what stays, what moves, and who owns it
Marketing Operations
“Where will this break first?”
  • Consent, identity and Data 360 readiness validated before anything moves. The pilot becomes your tested way of working
The 60-day pilot

Take the journey with us

Marketing Cloud Next is new for most Nordic marketing teams, and there are few local references yet. We would rather build them with you than wait for them. We are inviting a small number of B2B teams to run the 60-day pilot with us.

Pre-kickoff

Assess

Map your setup and sort every asset: carries over, rebuilt, or decide first.

You get: An inventory sized by effort
Days 1-20

Prepare

Access, roles and Data 360 readiness. We estimate the pilot’s credit use before it runs.

You get: A readiness report and credit estimate
Days 1-20

Align

Consent and identity designed and tested under GDPR, before anything moves.

You get: A consent model both platforms respect
Days 21-40

Pilot

One real use case built end to end in Next, while your current platform keeps sending.

You get: A live, measured use case
Days 41-60

Decide

Measure the results and the actual credit use. Then choose your path.

You get: A chosen path and a roadmap your board can read
An example, to make it concrete

This is an illustration of how a pilot could run, not a client case.

A Nordic B2B manufacturer runs Marketing Cloud Engagement with around 40 active journeys. For the pilot they pick one use case: the welcome journey for new distributors. Engagement keeps sending everything else.

By day 60 they know what the welcome journey costs to run in Next, in credits per month; which of their other journeys carry over and which need rebuilding; and whether to move more, run both side by side, or wait. Whichever they choose, the decision rests on their own numbers.

Pilot partners

Run it with a senior Atcore team

  • A senior team on your pilot, from assessment to decision
  • A defined 60-day scope with a clear decision point: continue, pause or stay
  • Shared, anonymised learnings from the other pilot teams

Book 30 minutes about a pilot

The questions we hear

What Nordic marketing teams ask us about Marketing Cloud Next

Answers updated as the product evolves. Last updated October 2026.

Marketing director“Do we have to move, and by when?”+

No. Salesforce has set no end date for Engagement or Account Engagement. But new capabilities land in Marketing Cloud Next first, so waiting has a cost too. The useful question is not whether, but when and in which order.

Head of digital“What do we get that we cannot do today?”+

Marketing on the same platform as sales and service, with fewer integrations to maintain. Segments built on data beyond the CRM, new channels such as SMS, AI that drafts campaigns, and B2B and B2C in one place. Whether that is worth it for you is what the pilot shows.

CMO“What will it cost us?”+

Next and Data 360 run on credits, so the bill follows your setup: how much data you load, how often, and what you activate. In the pilot, we measure your actual use.

Estimate it with our credit calculator →

Marketing automation manager“Will our running campaigns break?”+

They do not have to. Engagement journeys can be triggered from Next flows, and Account Engagement programs stay where they are. Nothing needs to be switched off during the pilot.

Marketing operations“What happens to our consent and opt-outs?”+

Next manages consent per subscription and channel. Under GDPR, mapping your current consent is the first thing to get right. In the pilot, we design and test it before a single message is sent.

Not seeing your question?

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Start where you are

There is no wrong place to begin. Read, ask or talk, whichever fits today.

Exploring

Take the readiness pack with you

Download the pack for your platform and share it with your team. No conversation needed.

Engagement pack →Account Engagement pack →Or estimate your credits in two minutes →

Curious

Ask a question, get a straight answer

One specific question about consent, Data 360 or MCE+? Ask a specialist directly.

Send it by email

Ready

Book a 30-minute readiness talk

No slides, no obligation. We look at your setup and tell you honestly where you stand, including if the answer is “wait”.

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DD
Debra DeviedEngagement Partner · Atcore
ded@atcore.com
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