Dr. Carsten Bange is founder and managing director of the Business Application Research Center (BARC), an independent software market analyst and IT consulting company he founded in 1999. BARC offers a portfolio of in-depth software evaluations based on lab tests, conferences, consulting and market research that enables companies across Europe to make better technology decisions. The BARC/CXP group is the leading analyst firm in Europe for business software with offices in Germany/Austria/Switzerland, France and the UK. Dr. Bange holds a PhD in management information systems, is a frequent speaker at IT conferences and seminars and BARC analyst and consultant on Business Intelligence and Data Management strategy, architecture and technology selection for more than 10 years.