Lucas da CostaToday, we're launching Briefer's open-source offering
Briefer is a platform for people to build notebooks and dashboards in a single place. It's much more flexible than traditional BI tools because it allows you to write code and use any library you want to manipulate data and create visualizations.
From today, you can use Briefer for free on your machine, or deploy it to your own infrastructure so that your whole team can use it and eliminate your data silos.
What's included in the open-source offering?
Briefer's open-source offering includes everything you need to build notebooks and dashboards, including Markdown, SQL, Python, point-and-click visualizations, scheduled runs, writebacks, and more.
Also, given you'll be running Briefer on your own machines, there's no limit on how many users you can invite, how much memory and compute you can give to your notebooks, and how many pages you can schedule.
The only things that are not in Briefer's open-source offering are PDF exports, granular permissions, and email and Slack integrations. These are available in the paid version of Briefer, for which you can sign up here.
Why open-source?
We want people to have zero barriers to using Briefer. We believe that the best way to do that is to make it open-source.
By making Briefer open-source, we're giving you the freedom to run it on your own infrastructure, customize it to your needs, and contribute to its development.
Furthermore, given Briefer will be running on your own machines, you don't have to worry about your data being stored in a third-party service. You have full control over your data.
If you want an in-depth explanation of our open-source strategy, you can read it here.
How do I get started?
You can get started by following the instructions in our GitHub repository. While you're there, please don't forget to give us a star ⭐.
If you have any questions, please send me an email at lucas.costa[at]briefer.cloud. I respond to every email I receive from users.
Now, it's time to build.
Best,
LdC.