Customer Data Integration (CDI) solution is an application software that helps an enterprise to gather the customer data from different areas and thereby assisting in carrying out an efficient and successful business process. It is becoming one of the major initiatives by different organizations targeting on acquiring, developing and retaining its customers. The demand for this solution is ramping up which in turn is promoting large application vendors to offer these solutions. And most application vendors are anchoring it as a feature of CRM applications.
For benefiting a CDI solution the enterprise need to develop a comprehensive customer view from disparate data sources. For this a CDI application should be capable of supporting a wide range of data structures stored in different data sources. Once these data are integrated, CDI enables the entire organization to carry out various business actions within the system. CDI allows the organization to develop a customer data model across the organization that will help in maintaining a master customer data.