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BigMachines recently announced the release BigMachines 12, the latest version of the company’s award-winning SaaS selling software.  BigMachines 12 delivers an enhanced user experience and ease of maintenance.

The new features delivered in BigMachines 12 are driven by customer input combined with extensive industry research.  BigMachines gathers product feedback by collaborating with customers on the My BigIdea innovation portal, regional Customer Success Forums and Cloud conferences in the United States and Europe.

“BigMachines 12 is the latest release in our long line of industry-leading SaaS software solutions.  Each new BigMachines product release improves upon the scalability, repeatability and predictability of the solution for our customers,” said John Pulling, Senior Vice President of Products, BigMachines.  “Customer feedback is crucial to the process and enables us to continue to deliver the features requested by our customers that will best drive their business productivity.”

The release notes are available to customers on the BigMachines Customer Support website.

Read the official BigMachines 12 Press Release: View Release

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BigMachines, Inc. today announced the availability of BigMachines 11.1, the latest release of the company’s flagship, award-winning SaaS platform. BigMachines 11.1 enables sales teams, channel partners and resellers to easily configure products, generate quotes and proposals, manage complex pricing, generate legal contracts, submit and manage orders more efficiently and securely.

New features delivered in BigMachines 11.1 are the result of extensive industry research combined with customer input. BigMachines encourages customer feedback gathered from many sources: customers submit ideas via the My BigIdea innovation web portal, share and comment on product roadmaps at regional Customer Success Forums, and vote on most-requested enhancements during BigIdeas Customer and Cloud conferences in the United States and Europe.

Current BigMachines customers will benefit from enhancements and new features in BigMachines 11.1 include the following:

• Fast, dynamic user experience utilizing new AJAX configuration rules enables  dynamic updates without the need to refresh web pages.
• Intuitive drag and drop interface allows for easy reordering of product and part line items during commerce process.
• Streamlined Document Engine administration provides enhanced flexibility in designing document layouts for proposals, contracts and other sales documents.
• New workflow approval delegation options allow approvers to easily delegate  approval authority.
• Simplified document migration for faster deployment and upgrades.
• Expanded access to pricebook data in configuration rules.

To read the entire press release, visit www.bigmachines.com/press_releases.php.

To maintain sales momentum and grow market share, companies must now look to new tools and technologies that can reach across industries and across sales channels. Today’s successful business leaders are embracing solutions for optimizing flow, speed and accuracy, while improving efficiencies throughout all areas of their business, including Sales.

How do you eliminate waste, reduce inefficiencies, and improve order accuracy? You need to investigate all areas of your sales process, including product selection and configuration, pricing, quoting, and order processing. By applying innovative thinking and Web 2.0 technology, companies can eliminate the delays and errors inherent in the cumbersome processes typically used to sell complex products and services across multiple channels. Companies must eliminate inefficiencies throughout the inquiry-to-order process to remain agile and competitive in today’s global economy. (more…)

BigMachines announced today that two of its customers, AGCO and Enterasys Networks, were selected as winners of the seventh annual Progressive Manufacturing  PM100 Awards. The PM100 awards are given to companies that have successfully carried out projects that improve competitiveness and demonstrate mastery of one of eight foundation disciplines of Progressive Manufacturing.  Award winners were selected by Manufacturing Enterprise Communications, Inc., producers of the Manufacturing Leadership Summit and publishers of Managing Automation.  AGCO was recognized in the Customer Mastery category for its innovative use of the BigMachines Selling Platform, and Enterasys was recognized in the Supply Network Mastery category for their Sales & Operations Planning process improvements resulting from the integration of BigMachines with other key business applications. (more…)

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BigMachines, Inc., the leader in product configuration, pricing and quoting, proposal generator and B2B ecommerce, today announced that it has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious 2011 CODiE Awards. Established by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the CODiEs recognize excellence and achievement in the business software, digital content, and education technology industries. Being selected as a finalist is a unique and important distinction, as the CODiEs are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program.

BigMachines 10, the version of the company’s on-demand configuration, quoting and proposal software that was reviewed by the CODiE judges, was selected as a finalist in the “Best Integration Solution” category. Nominees in this category demonstrated innovative solutions designed to link disparate applications, operating systems, data and/or business processes used within an organization in order to simplify and automate their use and eliminate silos of information and functionality. (more…)

This is a repost of a press release from BigMachines

BigMachines today announced it has launched BigMachines Selling Platform for Configuration, Quoting, Pricing and Proposals on salesforce.com’s ChatterExchange, helping to accelerate the market shift to Cloud 2, the next cloud computing paradigm. BigMachines empowers sales teams and channel partners to configure, price and quote (CPQ) complex orders, generate rich proposals and dynamically build contracts, with full integration to Salesforce CRM. BigMachines Selling Platform for Configuration, Quoting, Pricing and Proposals is immediately available on AppExchange 2 at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/. (more…)

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BigMachines, the leader in product configuration, pricing and quoting, proposal generation and B2B e-commerce, today was honored by salesforce.com customers with an AppExchange Best of ’10 Award. In receiving this customer choice award for Quoting and Orders, BigMachines joined all the winners in receiving recognition for their ability to take customer success to new levels in satisfaction and application excellence. BigMachines is immediately available on the AppExchange, the world’s most-popular marketplace for business apps, at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/. (more…)

This is a repost of a press release from BigMachines

BigMachines, Inc., the leader in product configuration, pricing and quoting, proposal generation and B2B ecommerce, announced today that it has been named to the JMP Securities “Hot 100:The Best Privately Held Software Companies” list for the second consecutive year. JMP Securities is a full-service investment bank that provides equity research, institutional brokerage and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. The report, issued December 2010, profiles 100 of the leading private companies in the software industry as identified by the software research team at JMP Securities. (more…)

This is a repost of a press release from PROS and BigMachines

PROS, the world’s leader in business-to-business pricing and margin optimization software and BigMachines, Inc., the global leader in on-demand product configuration, B2B ecommerce, quoting and proposal software, today announced a partnership focused on integrating the power of PROS prescriptive enterprise pricing software with BigMachines’ B2B selling platform.

The result of the partnership is an integrated solution for B2B companies that provides advanced science-based price optimization and deal guidance in real-time during the configuration and quoting process. The seamless integration ensures consistency of price and increased margins.

Read the full press release here

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BigMachines, Inc., the leader in configurator, pricing and quoting, proposal generator and B2B eCommerce cloud computing, today announced the availability of BigMachines 11, the company’s flagship on-demand software.  BigMachines 11 delivers enhanced performance, security and scalability to the award-winning sales automation platform, providing an enterprise-strength sales solution. (more…)

With Dreamforce2010 just around the corner, the BigMachines team is busy planning for the event.  BigMachines is a gold sponsor this year.  Stop by and visit us at Booth 707. We’ll have demos, prizes to win, and the debut of our brand new product on Force.com! (Shhh… it’s super secret until we officially announce it.) (more…)

This is repost of a press release from marketwire

Forty-seven of the future thought leaders of the technology industry have been identified, through the ITA Fall Challenge presented by BigMachines. The responsibility lies on the local industry to keep them in Illinois. (more…)

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 BigMachines, Inc., the leader in product configuration, pricing and quoting, proposal generator and B2B ecommerce software-as-a-service (SaaS), announced today that BigMachines was selected as the Best Sales Enablement Program of 2010 by the Sales & Marketing 2.0 Award judges. The Sales & Marketing 2.0 Awards recognize excellence in leveraging SaaS technologies. Winners were announced on November 9, 2010 at the Sales & Marketing 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA. (more…)

This is a repost of an article by Sandra Guy, Chicago Sun-Times

Much like fashionistas mix and match their latest outfits online, heavy-machinery companies are now specifying their industrial fashions on the Web.

The system is the brainchild of the Godard Abel, CEO and co-founder of BigMachines in Deerfield, whose grandfather, Wilhelm, started an industrial pump making company in Dusseldorf, Germany, 63 years ago.

The pump manufacturer, Abel Pump, now operates as a Pittsburg, Pa.-based subsidiary of Roper Industries. The pump company’s inner workings proved to the younger Abel the need for big-machinery companies to use cloud-computing software to design their complicated equipment and serve as a virtual information-technology group.

“The big challenge to Abel Pump when my father ran it was that the company had only two IT people. There was no way for its customers to custom-configure their orders on-line,” Godard Abel said.
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BigMachines, Inc., the leader in sales configurator, pricing and quoting, proposal generator and B2B ecommerce software-as-a-service (SaaS), today announced the panelists that will participate on customer and partner panels at the upcoming BigIdeas Chicago 2010 conference. BigIdeas, held October 24 through 26 at the Swissôtel Chicago, is an innovative SaaS conference providing a forum for customers, business partners, industry experts and prospects to discuss innovative strategies for improving sales process efficiencies, increasing revenues and reducing costs. Guided by industry leaders, BigIdeas attendees will share innovations and best practices for streamlining sales processes during three panel sessions at the conference. (more…)