Customer Panel Announced for BigIdeas 2007 Annual Conference

BigMachines' Customers SPX Corporation, Kodak, and Siemens Included among Customer Panel Participants

CHICAGO -- BigMachines, Inc., a leading provider of web-based configurator, quote, and proposal selling tools, today announced the customer panel participants at its BigIdeas 2007 annual conference. BigIdeas, an exclusive two-day conference scheduled for October 7 - 9, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Chicago, will provide a forum for customers, partners and industry experts to discuss innovative business strategies and how best practices in guided selling and product configuration can increase revenues, improve sales efficiency, and reduce cost.

The BigMachines' Customer Panel topic is "Best Practices for Lean Front-End® (LFE) Implementation" and will be moderated by eLogic Group. The panel is scheduled for October 8th from 10 - 11:30 a.m. All conference attendees are invited to the panel discussion.

Customer Panel Participants:

• Rodney Hawkins, VP of Product Management, AMICAS
• Mark Allegretti, Program Manager, Colfax Corporation
• Mark Moran, Global Sales Operations Manager, Graphic Communications Group, Kodak
• Rick Parkinson, CIO, ShoreTel
• Hermann Worner, Senior Manager Sales Office and Project Engineering, Siemens Water Technologies
• Darren Dickson, VP of IT, SPX Corporation, SPX Flow Technology

"We are again honored to have BigMachines' customers share their industry leading practices and implementation lessons learned with BigIdeas conference attendees," said Godard Abel, CEO of BigMachines. "Attendees will have a unique opportunity to gain insight into how companies today are driving improvements in their sales processes."

Additional Speakers Scheduled for BigIdeas Include:

• Shep Parke, Partner in Accenture's CRM Practice
• Dushyant Pandya, VP of Product Strategy at Salesforce.com
• A series of breakout sessions in Executive and Technical tracks. These sessions will highlight best practices in areas such as Ensuring Successful User Adoption, Leveraging Project Reporting, Driving Partner Sales using Channel Portals, and Optimizing Product Configuration Rules.

The latest information for attendees, media and sponsors including more details on the specific breakout sessions can be found at www.bigmachines.com/bigideas07.

About BigMachines, Inc.
BigMachines, Inc. founded in 1999 (www.bigmachines.com) provides web-based configurator, quoting, and proposal software to help companies streamline their selling processes from customer inquiry-to-order. BigMachines Lean Front-End® (LFE) solution digitizes complex selling processes and captures an organization's tribal knowledge to provide online product selection, configurator, quoting, and ordering capabilities for new products and aftermarket parts. BigMachines provides in-depth sales reporting capabilities and easily integrates to existing ERP and CRM systems.