Providing a single repository that delivers a 360-degree view of the customer enables an organization to deliver a highly differentiated and much more engaging customer experience (CX). Brands who leverage a CDP are already proving how IT and marketing teams can work together to drive business success.
As organizations deploy their first CDP use cases, or plan to do so, Adobe’s experts have some important tips that can help improve the chance of success with these projects. The most important is that the CDP must support both known and unknown data. An unknown contact is one that may not be a registered or named user yet is still a valid contact or website visitor. Adobe has designed their use case with the capability to bring together known and unknown data to activate real-time customer profiles across channels throughout the customer journey.
https://www.cio.com/article/3385116/the-customer-data-platform-your-next-step-in-optimizing-the-customer-experience.html/
Whether your organisation is online or offline, B2B or B2C, a startup or a long-standing corporation, the common truth in today's digital world is that you can’t craft an effective customer experience if you don’t truly understand your customers. And you can't understand your customers if you don't have the right mix of data to give you the insight into their behaviours, needs and challenges.
Netflix knows this. Amazon knows this. Facebook knows this.
These billion dollar empires are built on vast amounts of user data, but their success is based on a relentless need to get smarter and faster about interpreting that data. That's what enables them to provide their services and make recommendations to their users in real-time, taking account of their behaviour, preferences, history and context to deliver a great experience.
https://www.itproportal.com/features/the-roi-of-customer-data/