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[/caption]We are looking forward to presenting Birst's case - this has been a phenomenal year for us. We have seen:
- Rapid customer growth, including major customers like Rackspace Hosting, Children's Choice, and YMCA Metro Atlanta. With even more customers to be announced early next year!
- A move to a larger and newer headquarters, to accommodate our growing Birst Team.
- Over 20 new systems integrator partners have joined the Birst Partner Network, including some of the largest and most experienced partners for Salesforce.com. This dramatically expands our expertise in core areas such as analytics for sales, marketing, HR, supply chain, and executive decisionmaking.
- International customer growth, particularly in the UK.
- Major product developments that put Birst at the forefront of business intelligence in the cloud. The Birst team clocked some long hours this year to make sure that customers received the most powerful and easiest to use BI solution available.
- The first comprehensive BI suite in the cloud, from ETL to data warehouses on the fly, to pixel perfect reporting.
- Birst Live Access, which makes Birst the *only* BI provider capable of evaluating both uploaded and on-premise data in the cloud.
- Birst for Salesforce, the premier offering for Salesforce implementations, which has won us tremendous new customers who are interested in better reporting and analytics with Salesforce data combined with othery key business data
- A strong start with our OEM partner RightNow, for enterprise level analytics for customer experience management.
- Awards! Birst won a number of major awards in 2009, including:
- The Red Herring 100 North America, for leading technology companies
- The TDWI Best Practices Award 2009 for Dashboards and Scorecards, along with our longtime customer RBC Wealth Management
- The Web Award for Software Standard of Excellence
- Recognition by InsideSales for having industry-beating best practices for sales professsionalism and performance. Birst was the only business intelligence company to be recognized.
This honor only confirms Birst's leadership in on-demand business intelligence and demonstrates how SaaS BI is becoming a force for companies large and small.
We are hoping to be able to showcase all of these accomplishments at the Red Herring Global 100 Conference in Laguna Nigel in mid January. For more information on the conference, check out the conference website.
Enjoy the holidays, everyone!
