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TDWI Best Practices Reports
TDWI's Best Practices Reports educate technical and business professionals about emerging issues in
business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW). These in-depth reports offer objective,
vendor-neutral research consisting of interviews with practitioners and industry experts, as
well as a survey of BI professionals worldwide. The reports are sponsored by vendors who
collectively wish to evangelize a BI/DW discipline or emerging technology.
Current Report:
Who are your customers? Which products and services are they buying across your enterprise? How
much business have they transacted with your enterprise so far this year? Where do they conduct
business besides your firm?
For many reasons, it’s difficult to know who your customers are, much less what they’re doing. For
example, companies in industries like financial services, insurance, and retail have grown through
the organic development of new products and the acquisition of products through mergers. The
result is that many firms now have dozens of products and services, which the customer purchases
and uses through many touch points, such as call centers, retail outlets, business reply cards, and
Web sites. This isn’t just a large-corporation phenomenon; even relatively small businesses have
multiple products and touch points.
For the sake of effective customer service, sales, account management, billing, shipping—you name
it!—companies need to accurately recognize the customer across multiple lines of business and touch
points, plus integrate the customer’s information across those for a more complete picture. To achieve
these goals, many companies have turned to customer data integration (CDI).
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