Adding to the complexities of the CEM landscape is the emergence of big data, as detailed in the recent McKinsey Report Big Data, The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity.

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And cloud based services like Flickr and Twitter are producing massive quantities of detailed (location specific) user data that is available for anyone to mine (as allowed by their users).

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