Industry expert shares 2017 data predictions

Siummary: In 2017, AI and analytics M&A activity will accelerate, data lakes will finally become useful, and data monetization strategies will mature. These are some of the predictions Ramon Chen, CMO of data management innovator, Reltio, has for the coming year. Major players as diverse as Google, Apple, Salesforce and Microsoft to AOL, Twitter and Amazon drove the acquisition trend this year. Due to the short operating history of most of the startups being acquired, these moves are as much about acquiring the limited number of AI experts on the planet as the value of what each company has produced to date. The battle for AI enterprise mindshare has clearly been drawn between IBM Watson, Salesforce Einstein, and Oracle's Adaptive Intelligent Applications.