The problem it solves is duplication. When the same fact lives in many spreadsheets and systems, versions drift and no one knows which is correct. A single source of truth designates one authoritative record that others reference.
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Achieving it is as much discipline as technology. It relies on shared definitions — a controlled vocabulary, a data model, or an ontology — so that the one authoritative version is also unambiguously understood.