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.

Social media management platform Hootsuite has purchased Heyday, a system that embeds human and AI-based chat in ecommerce, CRM, and other customer-facing systems.  Price was $48 million.  Heyday launched in July 2020 and had raised $6.7 million Don’t confuse them with Heyday.co the marketplace acceleration platform, which has raised $245 million.