Analyst Profile Detailed
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Chris Barnard
Research Director, European Telecommunications and Networking
Team:
eBusiness Strategies
EMEA Networking
Mobile and Wireless
Network Infrastructure
Unified Communications
VOIP
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Chris Barnard is research director at IDC's European Telecommunication and Networking group in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is responsible for:
- Managing IDC's European IP Telephony research service. Analysts based at IDC's Amsterdam and London offices track market developments of IP telephony enterprise and service provider equipment, VoIP minutes of use, value-added applications, and hosted IP voice services. Chris Barnard's research focus is on hosted IP voice services and service provider VoIP strategies.
- Managing IDC's European Enterprise Networks research service, in which analysts track the enterprise markets for routers, switches, hubs, network interface cards, and wireless LAN equipment. This program provides a quantitative overview of this multibillion-dollar market in terms of technology, product category, and country.
- Managing IDC's new European Communications Infrastructure Services research, in which analysts focus on the multibillion-dollar market for professional services opportunities related to designing, building, managing, and maintaining network-based wireline, wireless, and converged communications infrastructure for both the enterprise and carrier segments.
Barnard is the author of numerous white papers and trade press articles on convergence, IP telephony, ebusiness, infrastructure, and networking strategies. He also contributed a chapter to a book, Making e-Business Deliver, published by the Confederation of British Industry in 2000. He is often quoted in international technology and business publications, such as Business Week.
Chris Barnard joined IDC in 2000. He previously worked for three years at Montreal-based software company, Essentus, as special projects manager and customer support manager (Europe). Before joining this supply-chain management vendor, he was employed by Fast Lane, an Oracle consultancy in the Netherlands. Barnard, who holds a master's degree (cum laude) in social sciences from Stellenbosch University, also has six years' experience as a journalist and editor at various publications.
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