CRM & CDP Integration
Joining marketing data to what happened afterwards: identity resolved, records synchronised both ways, and closed-won data fed back where it changes decisions.
Überblick
Marketing measures leads and sales measures revenue, and in most companies the two datasets never meet properly. Marketing optimises toward form fills that sales knows are worthless, and nobody can produce a channel report that ends in closed business.
Connecting them is mostly an identity and hygiene problem rather than a technical one. Getting the same person recognised across systems, agreeing what a duplicate is, and deciding which system wins on each field is the work. The integration itself is usually the easy part.
Für wen das gedacht ist
- Companies whose marketing reporting stops at the enquiry
- Businesses where sales and marketing quote different pipeline numbers
- Teams considering a CDP without a clear reason for one
Unser Vorgehen bei CRM & CDP Integration
Die konkreten Arbeitspakete eines typischen Projekts. Der Umfang steht vorab fest, nichts davon taucht später als Überraschung auf der Rechnung auf.
Identity resolution
Recognising the same person across web, CRM and email. Deciding the matching rules is most of the difficulty.
Field mapping and ownership
Which system is authoritative for each field, so a two-way sync does not overwrite good data with stale data.
Deduplication
Merge rules and a cleanup of what is already there. Most CRMs carry more duplicates than anyone expects.
Closed-loop reporting
Pushing closed-won and closed-lost back into marketing platforms so bidding and reporting reach revenue.
Segmentation and activation
Building audiences from combined data and sending them to the channels where they will be used.
Governance
Consent state travelling with the record, and deletion propagating across systems rather than stopping at the first one.
Vom ersten Gespräch zum gemessenen Ergebnis
Immer dieselbe Reihenfolge, damit Sie wissen, was als Nächstes kommt.
Map
Document what data lives where, what conflicts, and what the duplicate situation actually is.
Decide
Agree identity rules, field ownership and merge behaviour before connecting anything.
Integrate
Build the sync with error handling and a reconciliation report, starting one-way before going two-way.
Close the loop
Push outcome data back to marketing platforms and verify that bidding and reporting improve.
Ergebnisse statt Aktenordner
Ein Stapel Dokumente ist kein Fortschritt. Das hier sind die Veränderungen, die die Arbeit bewirken soll.
Reporting that reaches revenue
Channel performance measured in closed business rather than in enquiries changes budget decisions immediately.
Better automated bidding
Feeding real outcomes back means platforms optimise toward customers rather than form fills.
One version of a customer
Identity resolution and deduplication end the arguments about whose number is right.
Consent that travels
Preferences and deletion propagating properly is both a legal requirement and a trust issue.
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Do we need a CDP?
Less often than they are sold. A CDP earns its cost when you have many sources, high volume and real-time activation needs. For most mid-sized companies, a well-integrated CRM plus a warehouse does the same job for considerably less. We would rather say that than implement one.
How long does a CRM integration take?
Four to ten weeks depending on data quality. The integration is quick; agreeing identity rules and cleaning up duplicates is what takes the time, and skipping it produces a sync that spreads bad data faster.
What is closed-loop reporting?
Sending the eventual outcome of a lead back to the systems that generated it, so a channel is judged on revenue rather than on enquiry volume. For long sales cycles it is the single highest-value integration available.
Our CRM data is a mess. Should we fix it first?
Partly, and in parallel. Waiting for perfect data means never starting. We usually clean the fields the integration depends on, connect it, then improve the rest with the sync in place and visible.
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