The document discusses challenges in managing customer data across multiple vendors and technologies. It proposes that companies should focus on building a unified customer view from the center out by implementing a customer data platform (CDP) to assemble data from various sources, build customer profiles, and enable real-time sharing of data and directives with vendors. A CDP provides a single source of truth for customer data, facilitates data sharing across departments, and helps address issues like data fragmentation, siloed views of the customer, and lack of data governance.
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