The expansion will allow Ascribe’s verbatim analysis platform to be available for projects across the EU and enable data from Europe to be uploaded securely to the platform, including for government studies.

The new data centre follows the decision to open a Germany office last year in Hamburg, which is led by Gustav Jaeckel.

Ascribe helps market research firms, corporate researchers and customer experience professionals structure verbatim comments for analysis.

Rick Kieser, chief executive of Ascribe, said: “Establishing a data centre in Germany is the next logical step in our expansion and meets the requests of existing clients that we bring Ascribe’s footprint completely into the EU.”