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# Get Started with Business Units

Your Marketing Cloud Next account uses one business unit by default. To use business units in your account, complete these steps.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d58967e63 ">To connect to <span>Marketing Cloud Engagement</span>:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d58967e63 ">A <span>Marketing Cloud Engagement</span> account that has the Marketing Cloud Administrator
              and Administrator roles, and that’s enabled as an API User.</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d58967e63 ">To configure Marketing Cloud Next:</td>

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              <p>A Salesforce account with the System Administrator profile and these permission sets:</p>
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                <li>Marketing Cloud Admin</li>

                <li><span>Data Cloud Architect</span></li>

                <li>Tableau Next Included App Business User</li>

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1. [Connect Marketing Cloud Engagement to Data 360](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mke_configure_connect_mce.htm&language=en_US).
2. [Create a data space for each business unit that you want to create](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_spaces_create.htm&language=en_US).
3. [Turn on the business units feature and create your first two business units](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_bu_create_bus_in_mktg_cloud_next.htm&language=en_US).
4. Create more business units as needed.
5. [Set up Marketing Cloud Next for each business unit](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_bu_setup_mktg_cloud_next_for_a_bu.htm&language=en_US).

#### See Also

- [Business Units in Marketing Cloud Engagement+](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mke_business_units.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use business units in Marketing Cloud Engagement+ to scale and control your brand and your marketing activities. Business units make it possible for divisions within an organization to focus on their own marketing objectives, while also enabling reporting and access control across the entire enterprise.")
- [Recommendations for Existing Marketing Cloud Engagement Customers](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mke_business_units_recommendations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "For customers who use business units in Marketing Cloud Engagement, we recommend that you create a 1:1 business unit architecture. In other words, for each business unit that you use in Marketing Cloud Engagement, create and map a corresponding business unit in Marketing Cloud Next.")
- [Differences Between Marketing Cloud Engagement and Marketing Cloud Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mke_business_units_differences.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Marketing Cloud Next has a concept of business units that’s separate and different from the concept of business units in Marketing Cloud Engagement This table lists some of the main differences between the ways that business units work in the two apps.")