About BARC
Business Application Research Center - BARC - www.BARC-Research.com - is a leading independent software industry analyst delivering information to more than 1000 customers each year.
For more than ten years, BARC has specialized in core research areas including Data Management and Business Intelligence as well as Enterprise Content Management.
BARC publishes the largest end-user survey on Business Intelligence products - The BI Survey - and the most comprehensive collection of in-depth BI product evaluations and market analysis - The BI Verdict (formerly known as The OLAP Report).
More than 30 highly-qualified professionals deliver 100% unbiased and well-founded knowledge about the software market with software evaluations, conferences, market research and consulting.
BARC has offices in the UK, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and partners worldwide.
The team
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Melanie Mack is a senior analyst and head of market research at BARC. She joined BARC in 2009 having previously gained broad experience working as an IT analyst. She is responsible for all BARC's research-based reports. Besides co-authoring The BI Survey, she is also The BI Survey product manager. |
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Carsten Bange is the founder and managing director of the Business Application Research Center (BARC). He holds a PhD in management information systems, is a frequent speaker at IT conferences throughout Europe and has been BARC's lead analyst and consultant on business intelligence and data warehousing strategy, architecture and technology selection for more than 10 years. |
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Patrick Keller has been at BARC since 2001 and is a vastly experienced analyst and consultant specializing in business intelligence and data warehousing software. He has authored and contributed to numerous research reports for the BARC imprint and speaks regularly at conferences. |
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Steffen Vierkorn is co-author of the BARC reports, "Data Warehousing and Data Integration" and "Business Intelligence". He specializes in management information systems with a particular emphasis on business intelligence front-ends and web applications. As head of BARC's business intelligence and data warehousing consulting practice, he also advises companies on software selection and contributes BI product evaluations to The BI Verdict, sister publication of The BI Survey. |