Dreamforce - cloudstorms, monkeys, and overheard

We're still recovering from a fantastic Dreamforce 2010 here at the Birst headquarters. We had over three times the number of people stopping by to chat about business intelligence this year, which is a great validation of how important powerful analytics are to salesforce.com customers.

There were so many clouds announced at Dreamforce 2010 that it started raining. 
The new cloud announcements during Marc Benioff's keynote seemed to have a cloud seeding effect. The energy and enthusiasm of the Dreamforce 2010 attendees stayed at a high level, though, and they seemed to revel in the cloudy weather.

Thanks to everyone who came by the Birst booth - sorry we ran out of monkeys. Here's how you can still get one.
The monkeys ended up being more popular than we expected, much to the chagrin of Birst employees who were hoping that there would be leftovers to take home.  If you missed your monkey, just arrange a sales call with one of our sales teams, and we'll be happy to give you a monkey as a thank you.  You can reach our sales team at 1 (866) 940-1496 or you can send us an email from our contact form - click here.

Overheard at Dreamforce
Dreamforce attendees are a fun crowd, and we heard a lot of amusing, enlightening, and thoughtful things over the course of the week.  Here are a few of them.

• "No, really, I'm the Microsoft CTO." - inebriated Microsoft employee, trying to crash the Birst private party on Monday night

• "You can never have too much flair." -  enthusiastic Dreamforce attendee, sporting no less than 12 salesforce.com event buttons, including "Repeat Attender"

• "I was a Business Objects SI for years.  But on-premise BI is nowhere now." -  software systems integrator who stopped by the Birst booth to strike up a partnership conversation

• "I wonder if they have cow socks, too." - attendee considering getting the type of socks that Marc Benioff was wearing for the Tuesday morning keynote

• "I think I should go play the lottery now." -  Dreamforce attendee who picked up an orange Birst bag to carry the Microsoft Xbox Kinect that she won from Coupa and the iPad that she won from another Dreamforce sponsor

• "Hey, you, get offa my cloud!" - attendee who was wondering when we would all have clouds, or if there should just be one cloud

Thanks again for a great Dreamforce 2010, we're looking forward to seeing you again next year!