Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Birst booth at TDWI. The Birst team had a blast meeting so many people excited about the possibilities of BI and enjoyed all of the demos that we gave.
Big thanks to Shawn Spott, the RBC Wealth Management winner of the Best Practices 2009 Award for Dashboards and Scorecards. We didn't realize until we got to the event how many people applied this year, and we were surprised and humbled to see that we had won against some big deployments of traditional enterprise BI. It's really a credit to the vision of the RBC Wealth Management team that they had such a bold view of what BI could accomplish, and were willing to work with a relatively newer company to make that vision a reality.
Shawn and Birst each got their own big, heavy plaque to take home to the office. For a picture of the win, click here.
And thanks to the analysts and journalists who took the time to meet with us at the event. Next time I go to TDWI, I want to go as an analyst. In addition to their long hours meeting companies, seeing demos, and sitting in on sessions, they knew how to get the most out of a conference -- Shawn Rogers has some great pictures of his time sailing on a boat, enjoying the libations at Whiskey Girl, and noshing at Croce's in the Gaslamp District. You can see it all on his Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/shawnrog
And one funny story from the BI Executive Summit. TDWI does a great job of setting up so that it's easy for companies to demo their solutions to attendees. So it was a bit of a surprise to find our power suddenly go off during the BI Executive Summit reception on Monday night, which was prime demo time. Our intrepid Sales Engineer followed the various cords until they terminated at a power strip that had mysteriously been switched off. The power strip was located in IBM's area, where the employees seemed strangely unsurprised and, in fact, downright bemused at our discovery. Hmmm. . .
