96% of data teams are at or over capacity ‘ down only 1% from the 2020 study. Businesses face a new scaling challenge: how to enable their teams to achieve more, and faster. Data engineers are overburdened with building mission-critical yet fragile pipelines. Data scientists are 2.4x more likely than other roles to anticipate significant growth in pipeline demands. 79% of respondents indicated that their infrastructure and systems are able to scale to meet increased data volume processing needs, which further highlights that the new problem with scale is focused on team capacity.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/06/14/data-teams-automation/