Now what do we do? Ask Birst.

Like many other people, you’ve probably been watching the markets tumble downwards in the past few weeks and started wondering, what comes next?  And shortly after that, what do I do about all of this?  How should I move forward?

Now is the time to take stock of your business and think carefully about the strategic moves you’ll make in the upcoming months.  In order to make those decisions, though, you need solid information about your customers and business.  That’s where business intelligence comes in.  BI can give you insight into the drivers of revenue and costs, tell you which markets have the largest opportunities, or where to stop investing your efforts and resources.

Historically, BI solutions have been very expensive and difficult to use, requiring large sums of money and small armies of developers to get started.  Now there’s Birst.  Birst is the first automated, on-demand BI solution that’s so easy to use that you can get started using it today.  By yourself.

Birst is free to get started.  If you want fancier features and more application space, you can upgrade to our paid versions.  As you’ll see from our pricing, we’re far more affordable than other solutions.  And we scale to fit your needs as you grow.

So as you watch the market wobble and wonder how you can afford the insight that will tell you how to best move forward, know now that you can relax and stop wondering.  Try Birst.

Birst launched today.  Thanks to all of our beta customers and fellow Birst enthusiasts!

Birst moves to open beta

After a few months in private beta, when we were growing slowly to make sure that we could keep everyone happy with their Birst experience, we're now in open beta.  Anyone can sign up immediately, for free, without any special promo code or invitation.  Welcome!

Please take Birst for a nice data spin and let us know what you think.  Everyone gets free access to Birst Professional during the beta, so you've got all of the fanciest features at your fingertips.  You can post feedback in the forums or send us an email at feedback@birst.com.

Thanks for a few decades of patience. Get ready for the new new thing.

Yes, business intelligence is an old category.  It's been around in one form or another for decades.  Multi-billion dollar companies have successfully been created to try to meet customers' BI needs.  And yet those needs are still not fully met.

Traditional BI is expensive, hard to use, inflexible, and, ultimately, disappointing.  There is still a large number of people out there who are having a hard time getting the timely, relevant data they need to make important decisions.

That's why we created Birst.  It's fast, it's affordable, and it's powerful.  And it finally provides an answer to all of those people frustrated with spending hours using Excel trying to approximate a solution, all of those people who have outgrown Excel but can't afford an enterprise BI solution, and all of those people who have an enterprise BI solution but *still* can't get the answers they need.  That's a lot of people.

So if you're one of those folks, know that you're not alone.  And know that you now have a solution.  Welcome to Birst.  We hope you like it.