BigMachines Receives AppExchange Best of '10 Award in the Quoting and Orders Category from Salesforce.com Customers
BigMachines wins award for third consecutive year by helping customers sell more and sell faster
Chicago IL -- February 9, 2011 -- BigMachines, Inc., the leader in product configuration, pricing and quoting, proposal generator and B2B ecommerce, 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/.
BigMachines received its award for the best Quoting and Orders app based on reviews from salesforce.com customers. This is the third consecutive year that BigMachines has won the AppExchange "Best Of" customer choice award. BigMachines helps customers increase profits by streamlining sales processes from inquiry-to-order. BigMachines provides on-demand product configuration, pricing and proposal capabilities that can be easily integrated to Salesforce CRM. Capabilities include guided selling, product configuration, quote generation, complex pricing and discounting, approval workflow, proposal generation, and integration to CRM and ERP systems.
"Customers have posted overwhelmingly positive reviews of BigMachines on the AppExchange," said Will Wiegler, Vice President of Marketing at BigMachines. "These success stories illustrate how our customers use BigMachines within their familiar Salesforce CRM interface, enabling them to sell more and sell faster with a complete cloud B2B sales solution."
"The AppExchange provides companies a fast and easy way to extend the benefits of cloud computing in their organization," said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer at salesforce.com. "BigMachines can help our customers realize success with real-time product configuration, quoting and proposal generation, plus integration with Salesforce Chatter. We congratulate BigMachines for being recognized by customers in the Quoting and Orders category on the AppExchange in 2010."
The Quoting and Orders category, one of 11 separate categories, recognizes solutions which deliver configuration, pricing, proposal and quoting functionality. The "Best Of" customer choice awards recognize AppExchange partners who have had excellent user reviews in a specific calendar year. They are awarded based on user-contributed reviews and do not reflect the opinions of salesforce.com, its employees or partners.
About BigMachines
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.
About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange
Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM (http://www.salesforce.com/) applications, more than 1,000 ISV partner applications like those from CA Technologies, FinancialForce.com and Fujitsu, and 185,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 87,200 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel. Force.com also enables developers to make any enterprise app social by leveraging the social collaboration components including profiles, status updates, and real-time feeds available with Chatter. Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange 2 marketplace http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/, now featuring the ChatterExchange.
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