With the rise of big data and the vol­ume at which we col­lect it, it’s no sur­prise that demand for data sci­en­tists is grow­ing. As more busi­ness­es are in search of some­one who can ana­lyze and inter­pret large, com­plex data sets and assist in deci­sion-mak­ing, it’s like­ly the demand will out­grow the sup­ply of qual­i­fied individuals.

SAP is no dif­fer­ent than oth­er orga­ni­za­tions look­ing for data sci­ence exper­tise to help make smarter busi­ness deci­sions. Dave Her­man, chief data sci­en­tist, was brought on board short­ly after the com­pa­ny acquired the cloud-based busi­ness com­merce net­work, Ari­ba, in 2012.