Pioneers like Mint in the financial sector, Amazon in retail or Netflix in media proved that turning Big Data into actions and insights at the customer touch points delivers measurable outcomes – increased transformation rate, larger share of wallet, better customer acquisition, just in time fraud detection, etc. They showcased that it is possible today to put in place a platform for the management of customer data that is able to integrate and deliver information in real time, regardless of the interaction channel being used… and as a result establish the foundation to disrupt a whole industry with data driven processes. Now, this Customer Data Platform is reaching the mainstream through affordable technologies such as Hadoop and Spark, if empowered with embedded data and application integration, data governance, master data management, analytics and real time data processing. This platform, sometimes referred as Customer Data Platform (CDP) or as a Data Management Platform (DMP), allows organizations to reconstruct the entire customer journey by centralizing and cross referencing interactional or internal data such as purchase history, preferences, satisfaction, and loyalty with social or external data that can uncover customer intention as well as broader habits and tastes. In this presentation, attendees will get knowledge of the key components of the platform, how to implement it, and how to run it in the context of the enterprise marketing activities.