BigMachines Announces BigMachines 10 - Takes B2B eCommerce to the Cloud

Leading on-demand quoting, configurator and proposal platform draws on customer feedback, presenting innovations in key areas such as multi-channel selling and user-interface customization

Chicago, IL and Frankfurt, Germany - Februrary 1, 2010 - BigMachines Inc., the global leader in on-demand sales configuration and proposal software, today announced the release of BigMachines 10, the latest generation of its flagship, award winning quoting and proposal solution. With BigMachines 10, the company further establishes itself as the clear leader in sales automation solutions, enabling companies to sell more and sell faster.

BigMachines 10 is built on the company's industry-leading SaaS platform, enabling sales teams, VARs and channel partners to quickly and easily generate quotes and proposals, manage pricing, generate contracts and submit and manage orders. The latest version was designed with the user in mind, with many of its enhancements based directly on customer feedback.

One of the most powerful new tools in BigMachines 10 is the enhanced eCommerce Engine which allows companies to use the same system for internal quoting and proposal development as they do for selling direct to business customers on their website. A new shopping cart feature, available to both internal and external users, simplifies orders and makes checkout a one-click transaction.

"We have already been using BigMachines 10 and we are impressed with the flexibility it offers," said BigMachines customer Mara Dolan, Director of Accounting at HealthPort, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services to hospitals and physicians. "Our sales approval workflow is complex and unique. By taking advantage of the new workflow approvals in BigMachines 10, we were able to reduce the time to set up our approval workflow from weeks to a single day. We anticipate that BigMachines 10 will deliver many process improvements for us, and deliver a quick ROI."

Additional user enhancements include the following:

• Customizable user interface using drag-and-drop components that offer expanded flexibility and simplified maintenance.
• Simplified approval workflows that are easily developed and maintained using a visual flowchart interface. Sales teams benefit from having visibility into real-time approval status.
• Full-featured shopping cart lets you add and remove items during ecommerce, modify quantities in the cart, and add dynamic cart totals. One-click checkout makes it simple to complete B2B transactions.
• Innovative Document Engine now enables marketing and sales to create content libraries that can be reused throughout a document or across multiple documents, such as proposals and contracts. Changing the content in one place automatically updates it everywhere it is used in a document.
• Robust integration of BigMachines Unplugged expands offline capabilities so sales reps can generate quotes even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Once they are back online, they can populate these quotes back to the central database for quote management, revisions, tracking, and reporting.

"BigMachines 10 represents a major step forward into the next generation of automated selling and enabling B2B eCommerce for our customers," said Godard Abel, Co-Founder and CEO of BigMachines. "We continue to listen to the needs of our customers and incorporate their feedback into each new product release. Each year at our annual BigIdeas Conference, we take note of what our customers are asking for, and plan our product roadmap around their input. With BigMachines 10, we are providing a game-changing platform that delivers to our customers the tools they need to sell more and sell faster."

BigMachines customer and partners will collaborate on next-generation BigMachines products at BigIdeas 2010 at the Swissotel Chicago, October 24-26, 2010. Information is available at www.bigmachines.com/bigideas.

About BigMachines and BigMachines AG

BigMachines is the global leader in enabling B2B sales, helping companies sell more and sell faster. BigMachines' award-winning on-demand configurator, pricing and quoting, proposal generator, and B2B eCommerce software solutions empower sales across customers' channels by streamlining their sales processes from opportunity to order. Using BigMachines software, sales teams and channels can quickly configure products, generate quotes and proposals, manage complex pricing, generate legal contracts, and manage orders. BigMachines offers extensive reporting capabilities and easily integrates to leading CRM and ERP systems, including those from salesforce.com, Oracle, Microsoft and SAP. BigMachines' rapidly growing customer base includes global leaders such as Kodak's GCG, Siemens, Ingersoll Rand, and NTT Communications, as well as innovative growth companies such as Acme Packet. For more information, visit www.bigmachines.com.

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