Migrating from Eloqua to Marketing Cloud Advanced Without Losing 
a Single Consent Record

A complex platform migration for an established life sciences organization, rebuilding newsletter consent data inside Data Cloud’s Contact Point Consent framework.

Industry:
Life Sciences
Region:
North America
Duration:
3 months (Phase 1)

The client had run marketing automation on Oracle Eloqua for years and needed to move onto Salesforce Marketing Cloud Advanced to unify with the rest of their Salesforce ecosystem — without breaking existing subscriber consent records in the process.

Our Approach

Rosedale led the technical migration with a particular focus on consent data integrity, since a mishandled migration risked either over-suppressing legitimate subscribers or emailing people who had opted out.

  • Audited existing Eloqua consent and subscription data
  • Modeled newsletter consent into Data Cloud’s Contact Point Consent framework using a long-format ingestion approach
  • Validated the migrated data against source records before cutover

The challenge

Consent data in Eloqua wasn’t structured in a way that mapped cleanly onto Data Cloud’s consent model, and the client couldn’t afford ambiguity — sending to someone who’d opted out, or losing legitimate contacts, both carried real compliance and reputational risk.

The solution

A long-format consent ingestion model that captured every historical consent event as its own record inside Data Cloud’s Contact Point Consent object, giving the client a fully auditable consent trail post-migration.

  • Full Eloqua-to-Marketing Cloud Advanced platform migration
  • Ontact Point Consent data model and ingestion pipeline
  • Validation and reconciliation process comparing pre- and post-migration consent state

Measurable results

Increase in qualified B2B leads
2 X
Bounce rate dropped
36 %
Marketing ROI
4 X
This project didn’t just generate leads, it reshaped how we sell.

We used to rely on referrals and cold calls — now we have an inbound pipeline that runs 24/7.

Taylor Leigh Cannizzaro

CRO, Plastic Bank

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