Account-based orchestration (ABO) is Adobe's approach to synchronizing marketing, sales, and service actions across high-value accounts. Built on Adobe Experience Platform, it connects Adobe Real-Time CDP B2B Edition, Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B Edition, Adobe Marketo Engage, Adobe Customer Journey Analytics, and Adobe Brand Concierge. The result: Real-time journey decisioning, compliant content delivery, and coordinated engagement across channels. For CMOs, it streamlines GTM motions. For CIOs, it ensures a governed, interoperable architecture. For CROs, it accelerates the pipeline.

This post will cover:

• What is account-based orchestration
• Why account-based orchestration matters now
• Adobe’s account orchestration stack
• How Adobe powers end-to-end account orchestration
• What makes Adobe’s approach different
• Use cases in action
• Is Adobe right for your orchestration strategy
• Explore Adobe’s B2B marketing solutions

What is account-based orchestration?

Account-based orchestration is the coordinated execution of go-to-market activities across all teams, channels, and technologies — focused on entire buying groups within high-value accounts. Unlike traditional account-based marketing (ABM), which often stops at targeting, ABO powers full-funnel engagement. Adobe’s orchestration stack brings real-time decisioning, buying group resolution, and AI-powered activation into a single, interoperable system.

While many B2B teams begin with ABM to align targeting and personalize outreach at the account level, most stop short of real coordination. Adobe Marketo Engage helps scale these early efforts — automating handoffs and engaging buying groups.

ABO takes the next step. It integrates journey decisioning, real-time signals, and cross-functional execution. It coordinates every team, channel, and system — so that marketing, sales, and partner teams act in unison across the account lifecycle.

If ABM is who to target and how to personalize, then ABO is how to respond  — instantly, intelligently, and across every moment

Why account orchestration matters now.

Modern B2B buying is complex:

• 6 to 13 decision-makers per deal
• Long, non-linear cycles
• Channels outside your control (third-party intent, dark social, partner touchpoints)

Most technology stacks can’t keep up:

• Data lives in silos across CRM, MAP, and DMPs
• Campaigns are calendar-driven, not signal-responsive
• Personalization breaks when journeys shift

Without orchestration:

• Marketers waste budget on cold accounts
• Sales gets leads without context
• Ops can’t measure what’s working

What this looks like in real life: A B2B software team sends a campaign to an entire contact list — even though the buying group for Account X just went cold. Sales follows up on stale leads. Meanwhile, a high-intent account shows new activity in your CRM and third-party platforms — but no one notices. Momentum is lost, and the deal stalls.

After Adobe customer deployments: 3x buying group engagement, 25% lift in lead-to-opportunity conversion, and 222% increase in sales opportunities.

Adobe’s account orchestration stack.

Adobe doesn’t offer a single orchestration tool — we offer a modular, connected system built for enterprise B2B needs.

Each application is purpose-built and deeply integrated. For example: Real-Time CDP resolves identities and enriches profiles. Journey Optimizer uses those profiles to trigger journeys. Marketo Engage executes personalized nurture and handoffs. And finally, Customer Journey Analytics feeds insights back into the system.

How Adobe powers end-to-end account orchestration.

1. Unify fragmented B2B data.

Powered by: Real-Time CDP B2B Edition.

• Ingest first, second, and third-party signals from CRM, web, MAP, and intent platforms.
• Resolve person, account, and buying group identities.
• Enrich profiles with attributes like job role, opportunity status, and content engagement.
• Govern audience segmentation and data access for marketing and sales.

2. Turn buying signals into real-time engagement.

Powered by: Journey Optimizer B2B Edition.

• Detect account-level events (for example, new opportunity and intent spike)
• Trigger journeys across email, web, ads, and sales alerts.
• Apply journey scoring and AI decisioning to prioritize actions.
• Sync with Marketo Engage and CRMs for context-rich activation.

3. Orchestrate scalable marketing and sales plays.

Powered by: Marketo Engage.

• Run persona-specific nurture tracks for different buying roles.
• Automatically score engagement and route to sales.
• Sync opportunity data back to marketing for re-engagement.
• Enable sales with context-driven alerts and pre-built templates.

4. Analyze and optimize buying group journeys.

Powered by: Customer Journey Analytics B2B Edition.

• See journey drop-off and velocity by channel, segment, and persona.
• Compare conversion paths across sales regions or industries.
• Integrate journey insights back into Real-Time CDP for smarter targeting.

5. Scale brand-safe, personalized content.

Powered by: Brand Concierge and generative AI agents.

• Centrally manage sales decks, campaign assets, and product content.
• Allow GenAI to personalize copy by persona or use case.
• Ensure brand governance across every piece of sales and marketing collateral.

What makes Adobe’s approach different?

• Built for B2B: Supports buying group logic, partner motions, and role-based journeys.
• AI-native orchestration: Journey Agent determines next-best experiences based on real-time context, Audience Agent dynamically builds and updates audiences across platforms, and Content Agent personalizes and delivers compliant assets instantly — all working in concert to drive account-level engagement.
• Real-time, not batch: Segments and journeys update continuously based on behavior and data.
• Enterprise-grade governance: Identity namespaces, schema standards, and PII controls.
• Modular or full-suite: Integrates into your current stack or serves as a unified solution.

Adobe is uniquely positioned to deliver lead, account, and journey orchestration within a single AI-native B2B platform.

Use cases in action.

Adobe on Adobe: Orchestration at global scale.

Adobe's own marketing team uses the B2B orchestration stack to coordinate engagement across thousands of accounts worldwide. Real-Time CDP B2B Edition resolves buying groups and activates Journey Optimizer to trigger deal acceleration journeys. Marketo Engage handles nurture and handoff, while Brand Concierge ensures localized, compliant content. AI scoring dynamically suppresses or activates personas based on real-time behavior — enabling marketing, sales, and partner teams to stay aligned across every touchpoint.

Use case 1: Sales-triggered journey orchestration.

A new opportunity stage triggers Journey Optimizer to kick off a deal acceleration journey. Marketo Engage nurtures the financial stakeholder. Sales receives a Brand Concierge-approved deck tailored to the account’s industry.

Use case 2: Buying group engagement and suppression.

Real-Time CDP detects intent signals from a dormant account. Journey Optimizer reactivates the IT persona with targeted messaging, while disengaged roles are temporarily suppressed to preserve budget.

Use case 3: Partner co-selling enablement.

Brand Concierge gives resellers compliant, localized, and GenAI-personalized materials. Customer Journey Analytics measures partner-driven engagement and maps it back to journey effectiveness.

Use case 4: Cross-functional response to real-time signals.

An in-market signal from a key account (for example, pricing page visit and high-fit intent) triggers Journey Optimizer. Marketing sends a nurture email via Marketo Engage, sales receive a context-rich alert, and the partner team is provided with co-branded collateral from Brand Concierge — all within hours. Customer Journey Analytics tracks multi-role impact on opportunity creation.

Brand Concierge gives resellers compliant, localized, and GenAI-personalized materials. Customer Journey Analytics measures partner-driven engagement and maps it back to journey effectiveness.

Is Adobe right for your orchestration strategy?

• For CMOs: You need faster execution and clearer ROI across campaigns and journeys.
• For CIOs: You need trusted AI, governed data, and interoperable architecture.
• For CROs: You need pipeline progression and account visibility, not just lead volume.

If you’re ready to align every signal, stakeholder, and system around revenue — Adobe is here for you.

Explore Adobe’s B2B marketing solutions.

Account-based orchestration is just one part of how Adobe for Business helps modern B2B teams go to market faster, smarter, and more connected. From demand generation to lifecycle growth, Adobe’s B2B marketing solutions bring together data, content, and journeys — powered by AI and built on a unified platform.

See how Adobe supports the entire B2B marketing lifecycle. And learn more about:

• Adobe Real-Time CDP B2B Edition
• Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B Edition
• Adobe Marketo Engage
• Adobe Customer Journey Analytics B2B Edition

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