Corporations have significantly increased investments in their “Digital Enterprise” in the past few years. It has been estimated that by 2020, IT departments will be monitoring 50 times more data than they are today. This wave of data is driving unprecedented demand for those with the skills required to manage and leverage these very large data sets into a competitive advantage. "By 2020, the number of jobs for all US data professionals will increase by 364,000 openings to 2,720,000. Annual demand for the fast-growing new roles of data scientist, data developers and data engineers will reach nearly 700,000 openings" based on Forbes analytics.