1. A method for managing data associated with a plurality of customers, the method comprising: assigning a group of objects to a plurality of customer records, wherein each object in the group of objects references a customer attribute that identifies the customer records of one of the customers; authorizing access by each of the customer records to data for each object that is assigned to the customer record by referencing the customer attribute, wherein the access is authorized to be performed by referencing the customer attribute; and managing the group of objects for the plurality of customer records, wherein the group of objects and the customer attributes are stored in a database.