How is joined sales and marketing analytics different from two dashboards in separate tools?
Two dashboards in separate tools reconcile through an export and a VLOOKUP in a spreadsheet, usually once a quarter. The reconciliation is error-prone because the marketing tool models leads and MQLs while the sales tool models opportunities and closed-won, and the join column rarely matches cleanly. Joined analytics means the same record carries every touch and every stage from first form fill through closed-won renewal, so the analytics engine walks the whole lifecycle in one query. The attribution math stops being a reconciliation project and becomes a database query.