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MDM Institute Finds Growing Demand for Master Data Management Specialists

Since corporate data management seems to be the topic of the day, let’s finish up with news that the MDM Institute has found a sharp uptick in interest in master data management. Institute president Aaron Zornes said his research found 160,000 members in groups relevant to MDM, RDM (Reference Data Management) and data governance. Although CDPs are often built because corporate MDM projects don’t move quickly enough, the MDM community has plenty of skills that are relevant to CDP issues.

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Dataiku Raises $14 Million for Its Predictive Application Development Platform

November 2, 2016

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.

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CDP Industry is Growing Again: CDP Institute

July 10, 2025

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).

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