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Becoming a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing Functional Consultant

By : Malin Martnes
Book Image

Becoming a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing Functional Consultant

By: Malin Martnes

Overview of this book

Marketing is one of the most powerful entities in the modern world with the potential to make or break a business. The mighty Microsoft Dynamics 356 Marketing tool offers a wide range of marketing automation tools, understanding which is an essential skill for a successful marketer. This in-depth guide to the ins and outs of Dynamics 365 Marketing will help you grasp all the information you need to implement and use the system the right way. Starting with the setup and configuration of your Dynamics 365 Marketing instance, you'll explore fundamental concepts, such as leads, accounts, and contacts, and the creation and administration of segments and lists. Once you've grasped these basic concepts, you'll advance to the core of the book. From the email editor to outbound and real-time customer journeys and from the event module to Customer Voice, you'll develop a solid understanding of the fundamental topics crucial for anyone who wants to be a Dynamics 365 Marketing functional consultant. By the end of the book, you'll be ready for Dynamics 365 Marketing end-to-end implementations.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1 –The Foundation of Dynamics 365 Marketing
5
Part 2 –Core Features of Dynamics 365 Marketing
11
Part 3 –The Microsoft Ecosystem Adding Value

Customer Insights

Dynamics 365 CI is Microsoft’s customer data platform (CDP). It will help you, with the use of AI, to get an overview of your customers based on several data sources and in real time. CI is tightly integrated with Dynamics 365 Marketing and can create segments with the use of AI, which you can then use in your journeys.

As you can see in Figure 10.43, a lot of information about your customer is potentially stored in CI:

Figure 10.43 – Customer information

As you can see in Figure 10.44, there are several segments in my CI environment, and any of these can be updated with data from multiple data sources and automatically transferred to Marketing as a segment:

Figure 10.44 – Segments in Customer Insights

A segment coming from CI will always be static and will be updated by CI every time synchronization runs. You should never make changes to these segments. These segments are always created as...