Salesforce with two Marketo instances?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
May 7, 2018
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Hi guys,

I have tried to find the answer everywhere but with no luck. Is it possible to connect 2 Marketo instances to 1 Salesforce?

If so, is it possible to do it natively or do we need to use 3rd party tools/API?

Thank you!

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Grégoire_Miche2

Level 10

Hi Elena,

With the standard connector, this is totally impossible.

With an ETL, of course, this can be achieved. Look into Informatica, workato, ...

And with some custom API dev, this is possible too, but I would not recommend it.

-Greg

Josh_Hill13

Level 10

That being said, there are several dozen threads on this. Please search.

Matthew_Gomez1

Level 2

In our org we're about to launch a second Marketo org connected to a single Salesforce org natively, so despite what you have seen above, we have been advised this is possible and are on track to do it. However, there are drawbacks - like you can only have Marketo MSI associated with a single Salesforce org.

Grégoire_Miche2

Level 10

Hi Matthew,

I fact you are right, I read and answered to quickly. What's impossible is 2 SFDC with 1 Marketo.

The impossibility to have MSI on the 2 instances is not the only issue, though. You need to pay a lot of attention to how the data flows, in order to avoid having leads or contacts sync'ing with your 2 instances, otherwise, you will create a real data mess.

At the end of the day, it will only be workable if the data is clearly separated within the SFDC instance.

And as pointed out by Josh, there is quite a few threads on this already.

-Greg

Matthew_Gomez1

Level 2

Very good insight here. It's easy to create a data mess, and very difficult to resolve!

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