It’s all surveys today, Dear Reader.  We’ll start with NewVantage Partner’s 10th annual study on corporate data initiatives, which finds scant progress towards becoming data-driven.  One hint why: 92% of companies say corporate culture is the main obstacle, but just 13% are making data literacy their top investment priority.

Respondents to this TDWI survey see more technical than organizational obstacles to data-driven decisions: data quality ranks first (61%) followed by lack of a unified view (43%).   The group prioritized end-to-end integration of data prep (45%) over self-service options (30%), and just 40% have a comprehensive plan to move data into the cloud.  Moral of the story: IT folks are more conservative about their tech than you might think.

CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million.  It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge.  (See this blog post for more analysis.)