PRESS RELEASE
Paris/Würzburg, December 1st, 2009
CXP and BARC announce strategic cooperation
Two of Europe’s leading software analyst companies join forces
Centre d’eXpertise des Progiciels (CXP), the leading analyst company for the French software market, and the Business Application Research Center (BARC), one of Europe’s leading analysts for Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and Content Management have today announced a strategic cooperation.
CXP and BARC follow the same methodology to provide research and consulting based on software evaluations and detailed vendor analysis. By joining forces clients will benefit from fundamental synergies: the partnership complements CXP’s and BARC’s respective expertise as regards to geographies and software segments from business intelligence, content management, IT Service Management to ERP and CRM.
The first two collaborations will be the “Truffle 100” and the “The BI Survey 9”, the world’s largest survey among business intelligence users.
Carsten Bange, CEO of BARC states: “By joining forces with CXP we gain a very strong partner, who knows not only the French – and French speaking countries - but also the European software market very well. Our clients will benefit from a broader knowledge and analyst base that enable us to provide detailed know how for all business software segments in the largest European markets. We share the same vision to provide unbiased and in-depth expertise in software vendors, products and markets. Now we can do this on a broader scale and provide complete services to our clients in all questions regarding software investments.”
Laurent Calot, chairman at CXP continues: “This strategic cooperation offers both companies a unique opportunity to create major synergies with the goal to provide optimum value to our clients. It will immediately give us stronger access to in-depth knowledge in key applications software areas such as BI and Content Management – answering a current strong demand - as well as expending our expertise in the UK and German speaking countries”
About CXP
Centre d’eXpertise des Progiciels – CXP - headquartered in Paris, France - is a unique and recognised brand as the uncontested leading authority on enterprise software solutions in French speaking countries. With 36 years of experience, CXP has developed for technology end-users and purchasers a comprehensive range of services covering the critical aspects of the software and service solutions' selection cycle. CXP owned a unique database of over 7000 software applications and provide extensive and proven consulting capabilities supported by a robust proprietary methodology. Today, close to 900 large and mid-size end-user companies use CXP’s services.
About BARC
Business Application Research Center — BARC — is a leading independent software industry analyst. For more than ten years, BARC has specialized in core research areas including Data Management and Business Intelligence. 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, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and partners worldwide. BARC is publisher of the BI Survey (http://www.bi-survey.com) and The BI Verdict (formerly The OLAP Report – http://www.bi-verdict.com).
