Walker Sands and Chief Martech released a State of Marketing Technology 2017 survey whose respondents rated 48% of their companies and 60% of themselves personally as innovators or early adopters of marketing technology.

Dataiku has received a $14 million Series A investment to expand its integrated predictive application development platform. The system combines data ingestion, preparation, analysis, visualization, workflow, predictive analytics, collaboration, and deployment. It works on several big data platforms and runs primarily in-house. This is a generic system, not specifically for marketing. But it illustrates the continued maturation of the technologies that underlie CDPs.

With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).