Whitepaper - BARC Cloud Trends 2017

Dr. Carsten Bange is the founder and managing director of BARC, a European research and consulting firm based in Würzburg, Germany that specializes in data, analytics, AI and planning. He is a leading expert in the fields of business intelligence, analytics and data management and has helped companies in a range of industries transform themselves into data-driven organizations. He is a well known thought leader, frequent speaker at conferences and seminars, and the author of numerous industry publications and market studies.

Wayne Eckerson has been a thought leader and consultant in the business intelligence (BI) field since 1995. He has conducted numerous in-depth research studies and is a noted speaker and blogger. He is the author of the best-selling book Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business. He is a noted keynote speaker and blogger and he consults and conducts workshops on business analytics, performance dashboards and BI, among other topics. For many years, Eckerson served as director of education and research at The Data Warehousing Institute, where he oversaw the company’s content and training programs and chaired its BI Executive Summit. Eckerson is currently director of research at TechTarget, where he writes a popular weekly blog called Wayne’s World, which focuses on industry trends and examines best practices in the application of BI.