Merge Healthcare Selects BigMachines Lean Front-End® Quote, Configurator, and Proposal Solution

Leading medical imaging and information management software and services provider selects BigMachines to integrate with Salesforce.com

CHICAGO & SAN MATEO, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BigMachines, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand configuration and quoting software, announced today that Merge Healthcare, a leading medical imaging software and services provider, has selected the BigMachines CPP (Configure, Price, Propose) solution to help streamline their sales process. Specifically, Merge Healthcare will use BigMachines integrated with Salesforce.com to help their sales teams generate quotes, manage complex product configurations, and generate proposals.

Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ: MRGE)(TSX: MRG) is a market leader in the development and delivery of medical imaging and information management software and services.

“We found BigMachines to be the best vendor in this space for our needs. As we continue to add businesses and products, the integrated BigMachines/ Salesforce.com solution will allow us to retire several manual quoting tools and reduce our maintenance costs,” said Darren Richardson, Director of Enterprise Systems. “Our sales reps will work much more efficiently with these integrated tools.”

BigMachines CPP will be tightly integrated with Merge Healthcare’s Salesforce.com CRM system to provide a single view of customer data, in addition to automatically updating sales forecasts as quotes and orders are created and changed.

Godard Abel, CEO of BigMachines, stated, “We are delighted that Merge Healthcare has selected BigMachines. Their complex medical software, services, and hardware solutions require robust global configuration, pricing, and quote management tools. We look forward to delivering a fast ROI.”

About Merge Healthcare
Merge Healthcare is a market leader in the development and delivery of medical imaging and information management software and services. Our innovative software solutions use leading-edge imaging software technologies that accelerate market delivery for our OEM customers, while our end-user solutions improve our customers' productivity and enhance the quality of patient care they provide. For additional information, visit our website at www.mergehealthcare.com .

About BigMachines, Inc. and BigMachines AG
BigMachines, Inc. incorporated in 2000, provides 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 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 .