BigMachines Achieves Record Growth in 2007
Leading Configurator, Quoting, and Proposal Software provider posts record revenues and successful deployments, and surpasses 100 customer milestone
CHICAGO & MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BigMachines, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand configuration and quoting software, achieved a record 2007 with a 96% growth in revenues and 66% jump in customers over 2006. In addition, the company launched 3 major product releases, adding new capabilities to a best-of-breed solution to help companies streamline their sales processes from inquiry-to-order.
BigMachines has successfully deployed to customers who serve a broad variety of markets including software, high tech, medical instruments, and industrial products. Customers added in 2007 include divisions of global leaders United Technologies and Kodak, in addition to fast growing software and technology companies such as Merge Healthcare, Enterasys, Bottomline Technologies, and NaviSite.
BigMachines grew its staff to over 80 resources globally, and continued to expand its product development capacity with additional offshore development resources. BigMachines also added significant customer service resources, telecommunications infrastructure, and helpdesk systems across multiple office locations to support their growing global customer base. BigMachines also expanded its partnerships with other technology and service providers to include ATG, Xactly Corporation, Right90, and Bluewolf.
According to Godard Abel, co-founder and CEO of BigMachines, “2007 was a spectacular year for BigMachines- and adding our 100th customer is truly a milestone for our company. Our success will allow us to more than double our investment in our product and resources over the coming year, so we can continue to serve both small customers and the largest global enterprises. The marketplace continues to recognize our leadership and our continuous focus on delighting our customers. We’re very excited to continue this growth into 2008 and beyond.”
About BigMachines, Inc. and BigMachines AG
BigMachines, Inc. is the leading provider of on-demand configurator, quoting, and proposal software that helps leading companies empower their sales teams and channels. BigMachines Lean Front-End® (LFE) solution digitizes tribal knowledge and streamlines configuration, pricing, quoting, proposal generation, and order management. BigMachines provides extensive reporting capabilities to analyze sales activities and easily integrates to existing ERP, CAD, and CRM systems including those from Salesforce.com, Siebel CRM On-Demand, Oracle and SAP. BigMachines rapidly growing customer base includes global leaders such as Kodak GCG, Siemens, Ingersoll Rand, NTT Communications, as well as innovative growth companies such as ShoreTel and Aruba Networks. Visit www.bigmachines.com.
About BigIdeas 2008
The BigIdeas annual conference is an exclusive forum for customers, partners, and industry experts to discuss innovative business strategies to increase revenues, improve sales efficiency, and reduce costs. BigIdeas is scheduled for October 5 - 7, 2008 at the Sofitel Water Tower in downtown Chicago. For more information, visit www.bigmachines.com/bigideas.
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