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Customer information is one of your organisation's key strategic
assets and the proper architecture has a profound effect on the
success of CRM initiatives and on establishing a strong bond between
your organisation and your customers.
Most businesses face the problem of not having a Single View of the
Customer, in that their customers' data is recorded in many product
based systems. Also the customer data in these product systems is of
variable quality, due to the individual standards enforced by each
product system. Moreover the timeliness of customer data is often an
unknown quantity and synchronization between operational and analytic
systems is weak.Together these factors wreak havoc on attempts at
meaningful customer relationship management.
Key components of the Customer Information Application Architecture
are the Master Customer Repository (MCR); the Data Warehouse for
analysis; the means of communication between the Product systems and
the MCR; and Common Callable Objects.
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