The BI & Analytics Survey 25

As founder and CEO, Dr. Carsten Bange has built BARC into Europe’s leading market analysis and consulting firm for data & analytics over the past 25 years. With his team of 50 people, he helps companies make the strategic, organizational and technological decisions that ensure their successful transformation into data- and analytics-driven organizations.

Dr. Bange is considered one of the leading experts on the technology market and the beneficial use of data & analytics, which makes him a sought-after speaker, author and consultant for companies, software vendors and service providers as well as investors.

Larissa Baier is a Senior Analyst in the Data & Analytics field, combining expertise in consulting projects and research. She supports end customers with strategic questions regarding BI and analytics front ends, including architectural design, usage scenarios, and software selection. Her focus lies on BI and analytics front ends for dashboards, reporting, analysis, planning, as well as self-service BI and analytics. A particular area of expertise lies in assisting SAP customers in deriving added value from their data.

In the research domain, Larissa is responsible for the “Score” and “Guide” product lines and serves as the product manager for the “BARC Score Enterprise BI & Analytics Platforms.” Additionally, she contributes as a co-author to various market analyses, including the “BI & Analytics Survey” and the “BARC Data, BI, and Analytics Trend Monitor.”

Robert is Managing Director and Senior Analyst at BARC Austria. His areas of expertise are analytics, BI and CPM.

He supports companies in all industries in software selection as well as in the design and optimization of strategy, architecture and organization.

Robert has many years of experience managing analytics and BI projects, hands-on expertise with many BI tools on the front end as well as the back end, designing, coaching and implementing reporting, analytics and planning solutions with a focus on self-service BI, information design and advanced planning.

Dr. Christian Fuchs is a Senior Analyst and Head of Data & Analytics Research at BARC. He is the author of numerous BARC studies as well as a sought-after speaker at conferences. His areas of expertise are decision support information systems in corporate performance management (CPM), planning, consolidation and analytics front ends.

As a consultant, he supports companies in the software selection process and in the implementation phase as well as with strategic questions regarding tool portfolios, architecture and usage scenarios.