Choosing Your Data Cloud Provisioning Strategy 

Enterprises with Data Cloud and multiple Salesforce orgs face an important architectural decision: how to bring customer data together in a way that strengthens governance, compliance, and cost efficiency. 

The choice of how to provision Salesforce Data Cloud is a foundational decision that impacts everything from AI readiness to platform features and overall scalability.  To help you navigate this complexity, we published a comprehensive Decision Guide: Data Cloud Provisioning. This guide is designed for architects and technical leaders and focuses on three core strategic choices:

1. Choosing Your Home Org: Should you provision Data Cloud in an existing major org or create a new, dedicated one?  
2. The Multi-Org Strategy: Why is Data Cloud One the recommended default for creating a single source of truth across your orgs?  
3. Collaborating Across Separate Data Clouds: Strategic guidance on how and when to transition to a Data Cloud One cluster versus set up Zero Copy data sharing between Data Clouds.

Why Utilize the Data Cloud Provisioning Decision Guide

A Decision Guide is a resource designed to help architects evaluate critical choices with clarity and consistency and choose the right Salesforce tools for your solutions. Instead of a one-size-fits-all prescriptive approach, Decision Guides outline:

• The context of the decision
• The trade-offs of each approach
• Best practices informed by real-world implementations

The goal is to help you make intentional, well-documented choices that align with your architectural strategy—rather than reactive decisions that create downstream complexity and technical debt down the line.