The past 2 years have been defining ones for enterprises seeking to become data-driven. There have been changes wrought by COVID-19, of course, but, even before the pandemic, companies were already on a path to better leverage the data that was streaming in from all corners of their organizations. With this heightened focus, new roles have been emerging for the caretakers of data, including database administrators, data engineers, data analysts, data scientists, and developers.
The question now is: What are the greatest opportunities and trends that will be impacting data environments in the year ahead? To get a sense of where things are heading in 2022, we canvassed industry experts.