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About Us

History

Matt Van Bergen, Principal Consultant and President, founded Baraap in 1998 after spending 8 years working for various technology consulting companies. He started the business to offer clients technology expertise with an honest handshake.
 
Today, Baraap is a privately owned corporation with offices located in downtown Chicago.

Corporate Mission

Baraap's mission is to offer superior technology consulting services to corporate entities helping them achieve their business goals. Our number one priority is client satisfaction. We seek long-term relationships through partnerships with our clients and vendors.

Baraap achieves this mission by providing a creative and entrepreneurial environment for our employees and owners. Baraap's culture enables a rewarding and self-gratifying experience to all employees.

Competitive Advantages

Commitment to Excellence - Our management and consultants understand that our deliverables shall be nothing less than perfect. We strive to understand your business so that we can implement systems that have a maximum lifetime.

Knowledge and Experience - We hire senior level consultants. Our Junior Consultant-Senior Consultant ratio is 1:4. All projects have at least one senior consultant and in most cases more. Our management does not believe in "learning on the job". We offer you consultants that will start performing on day one.

Management Expertise - Baraap's management is seasoned in technology consulting. We believe in creating partnerships with our clients so that we can rely on each other. Management understands that our clients make our business and that client satisfaction is the most important goal.

Vendor Independent -We pride ourselves in offering an unbiased recommendation when it is our job to make these types of recommendations.

Cost Effective - Our corporate structure is very flat where we don't have the typical partner hierarchy found in most full service consulting companies. Because of this structure, we can offer cost effective solutions without sacrificing quality.