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Michelle_Tang3
Michelle_Tang3
Level 3
February 20, 2019
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Workspace Recommendation

  • February 20, 2019
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Question/advice about Marketo Workspaces! This is the currently how our business/team is structured:

Audience

Marketing Team
B2C Customers (Free)Expansion Retention
B2C Customers (Biz/Pro)Expansion Retention, Events
B2B Customers (Enterprise)Expansion Retention, Events
B2B ProspectsAcquisition, Events
B2C ProspectsAcquisition, Events

We are proposing to create multiple workspaces using a single lead partition. Any feedback you recommend to go down the workspace route or maybe not.

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Michael_Florin-2
Michael_Florin-2
Level 10
February 21, 2019

My recommendation would be not to use workspaces at all. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

The main reason to have workspaces is user access control. (Structure can also be achieved through folders and naming). And in my tenure in Marketing Automation - 8 years with two Marketo deployments - I have never experienced any user overstepping their boundaries and reaping havoc in an area they are not supposed to be in. You have hired them, you have trained them, so you better trust them. :-)

And the disadvantages are all features that don't work across workspaces: Requesting campaigns, inheriting global folder tokens, restrictions in the cloning process, referencing lists or programs across workspaces...

My former Marketo had workspaces, and the experience with that situation led us to not have workspaces anymore in our current Marketo. ~30 users, supporting ~20 different products in all phases of the life cycle in 6 languages, and we're doing good. Happy to have made that decision.

Michelle_Tang3
Michelle_Tang3Author
Level 3
February 21, 2019

Thanks so much for the feedback! Yes that is very true that campaign owners shouldn't mess around within Marketo. Also good to know the restrictions/constrains of having a workspace...seems more of a pain in the butt and not scalable.

Vineela_Maram
Vineela_Maram
Level 3
February 21, 2019

Hi Michelle,

Our Marketo instance has multiple workspaces without lead partitions for the below reasons:

1. Limited access to users for certain brands/products they are responsible for

2. We do have routing rules set up in each workspace and wanted to enforce accountability for their rules

3. We have a default workspace where we build all our Data Management/subscription center rules etc. Anything related to system level changes or data updations happen here which is accessed by Admin and core team.

So far we are fine with this set up given few challenges that Michael stated and the major one ofcourse is cloning.

Another recommendation is to host all master templates/assets in a Default workspace which is shared across workspaces.

Thanks,

vineela.

    Michelle_Tang3
    Michelle_Tang3Author
    Level 3
    February 21, 2019

    Thanks for the feedback! How do routing rules work in workspaces without lead partitions?

    Veronica_Holme4
    Veronica_Holme4
    Level 9
    February 22, 2019

    You don't need routing rules without partitions. There's only one partition/database that's shared by all workspaces, so nothing to route.

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