SaaS software, real expertise and support that never stops
Biron is not just a piece of software, not a data agency and not a consultancy. We are all three at once.
SaaS software
Data and technical expertise
Ongoing support
Three models, one and the same blind spot
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A BI tool
A BI tool shows your data. It does not make it reliable and it arbitrates no calculation rule. The promise of "connect and steer" assumes your data is ready — and it never is.
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A data agency
A data agency produces a good deliverable, and then the engagement ends. Six months later a source has changed, an indicator has moved, and nobody is maintaining the whole.
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A consultancy
A consultancy analyses, recommends and frames. It does not build, it does not apply, and it does not stay.
All three models share the same blind spot: nobody takes responsibility for your figures staying reliable over time. For us, that is where it starts.
A tool built on your reality
At Biron, built to measure is not an option. We start by understanding your business before structuring anything: your teams, your goals, your processes, the way you steer performance.
Concretely: your definition of revenue is not your neighbour’s. Your exclusions, your currencies, the way you treat refunds are your own. A generic tool ignores them. We arbitrate them with you, and then we document them.
That work follows a method in eight steps.
The data comparison: Biron vs the alternatives
| Criterion |
Biron
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Hiring in-house | A BI tool | A data agency |
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| Time to go live | Biron A few weeks | Hiring in-house 3 to 6 months of hiring | A BI tool Fast, but on raw data | A data agency Several months |
| Making indicators reliable | Biron Yes, at rollout and continuously | Hiring in-house Depends who you hire | A BI tool Not covered | A data agency Yes, at rollout |
| Built around you | Biron Fully, and it keeps evolving | Hiring in-house Fully, but you build it | A BI tool Configuration within a fixed frame | A data agency As far as the brief goes |
| Evolving over time | Biron Included | Hiring in-house Rests on one person | A BI tool Down to you | A data agency A new engagement to scope |
| Dependency | Biron EU hosting, open architecture | Hiring in-house On one individual | A BI tool On a vendor and its host | A data agency On a provider |
| Cost | Biron Fixed, based on your data volume | Hiring in-house Fully loaded salary + tooling | A BI tool Licences + internal time | A data agency Billed per project |
Hire, or outsource
The question most of our clients are asking themselves.
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You have nobody
Between the decision to hire and the first reliable figures, it is rarely less than six months. And one person alone does not cover both data engineering and business analysis: those are two distinct skills.
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Your analyst is swamped
They spend their time repairing connections, answering requests, fixing exports and redoing calculations instead of analysing. The whole thing rests on one person: if they leave, nobody knows how to run the system, let alone grow it.
With Biron
We take on the layer that costs the most: connections, reconciliation, reliability, maintenance, scaling.
If you have an IT or data team, it keeps the analysis and full access to the foundation. We do not cut them out: they can audit it, query it in SQL and extend what we build.
The teams you already have can concentrate on work with a far higher return.
A team, not a support desk
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With a software vendor
You open a ticket. You explain your context to somebody who does not know it, who has no idea how you calculate your margin, and who will answer within the scope of their product. The incident is handled; the underlying question is untouched.
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With an agency
The engagement is over. Picking the subject up again means a new scoping, a new quote, a new lead time.
With Biron
The people who answer you are the ones who built your foundation. They know your arbitrations because they made them with you.
What you get is not plain technical support but a genuine advisory stance, able to challenge a request in order to aim at the right indicator.
Let us talk about your figures
A first conversation to understand your sources, your indicators and what is in the way today.
Talk to a data expert