What Every Admin Should Know About Data Cloud 360
Nov 13, 2025
Unify Data Across Orgs. Activate Insights Everywhere. No Code Required.
In the Salesforce ecosystem, few things are as powerful — or as complex — as managing multiple orgs. Each one captures a slice of the customer story. But between those slices lie gaps — moments where data, context, and even customer trust can slip away.
As Navin Aswani, Co-Founder of CloudEarly and Tableau Ambassador, shared in his Dreamforce session:
It’s a reminder that behind every integration and dashboard, there’s a human expectation — continuity. Customers expect us to remember who they are, what they’ve done, and what they need next.
The Multi-Org Data Challenge
Many enterprises today operate in a multi-org world: one Salesforce org for Sales, one for Service, one for Marketing. It’s flexibility with a price tag — complexity.
Admins know the pain well:
Custom Apex integrations between orgs, reviewed and redeployed for every small change.
Connected Apps and Data Actions that take days or weeks to set up.
Analytics gaps that require another org’s admin just to create an insight.
The result? Fragmented systems, duplicated data, and slow turnaround times. The multi-org model gives freedom — but at the cost of consistency and agility.
Enter Data Cloud 360
Data Cloud 360 transforms that fragmented picture into a unified canvas.
Instead of each org managing its own silo, Data Cloud One introduces a Home Org — the central foundation where all your data lives in one governed Data Lake.
Other Salesforce orgs, known as Companion Orgs, connect to it securely through Companion Connections and shared Data Spaces.
Here’s what that means in practice:
The Home Org holds your master data and metadata.
Companion Orgs can access and build on shared data spaces in real time.
Insights, segments, and automations are powered by the same single source of truth.
No data duplication. No rebuilds. No loss of context.
Every org now sees the same customer profile, the same insights, and the same metrics — but can still act independently. Real-time intelligence, out of the box.
The Northern Trail Outfitters Example
Imagine Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) — a brand with multiple Salesforce orgs for Retail, Loyalty, Sports, and Services.
With Data Cloud 360:
NTO Retail acts as the Home Org, integrating all data from AWS, Snowflake, Marketing Cloud, and Service Cloud.
Each business unit — Loyalty, Sports, Services — becomes a Companion Org connected to the same governed data spaces.
Every team personalizes engagement and activates campaigns from one trusted dataset.
What used to be weeks of integration now happens through configuration. Each team works autonomously — yet remains part of a single, connected data ecosystem.
How Easy Is It to Set Up?
It’s simpler than most Admins imagine. It can be broken down into four words:
Why It Matters
For Admins, this is a shift in power — from integration maintenance to insight activation.
Technology is no longer about moving data — it’s about keeping the customer journey connected.
The Future: From Connected Data to Intelligent Action
When paired with Tableau Next and the new wave of Agentforce 360 tools, Data Cloud 360 becomes more than infrastructure — it becomes intelligence.
Admins can now go beyond dashboards to build agentic analytics that respond, recommend, and automate next best actions — all powered by the same unified dataset.
Closing Thought
With Data Cloud 360, the era of disconnected orgs is over.
The next era belongs to the connected admin.
