Destination CRM (June 17, 2011)

"Challenges are mounting for sales teams: higher quotas, changing metrics, and new channels in which to sell. The problem is that these changes can get in the way of salespeople doing what they do best, which is selling. To better understand this conundrum, BigMachines recently conducted a benchmark survey, identifying the key factors that drive sales teams and the roadblocks they encounter."
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DemandGen Report (May 24, 2011)

"For those on the outside looking in, sales is a seemingly straightforward profession with one simple goal in mind: selling. While that premise certainly carries some degree of truth, the full reality is that the industry has become increasingly more complex and competitive. The challenges salespeople face on a daily basis continue to mount - higher quotas, changing metrics and new sales channels."
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1to1media.com/weblog (May 5, 2011)

"Challenges are mounting for sales teams: higher quotas, changing metrics, and new channels in which to sell. The problem is that these changes can get in the way of salespeople doing what they do best, which is selling. To better understand this conundrum, BigMachines recently conducted a benchmark survey, identifying the key factors that drive sales teams, as well as the roadblocks they encounter." Click here for more.

businessweek.com/smallbiz/tips (March 11, 2011)

"Large businesses such as Amazon, Dell, and OfficeMax use e-commerce for business-related transactions, so why not use it for yours as well? With more users online than ever before, your customers expect to be able to buy what they want, when they want, and more important, how they want." Click here for more.

blog.technologyevaluation.com (February 7, 2011)

"BigMachines has been salesforce.com's top Q2O partner for a few years due to the most joint customers (about 100) that tout their success stories. " Click here for more.

blog.technologyevaluation.com (January 4, 2011)

"Dreamforce 2010 saw, inter alia, BigMachines' brand new QuickConfig solution and Ariba's intention to build its contract management solution in Apex. " Click here for more.

1to1 Media (December, 2010)

Companies that make the sales process easy for customers and respond quickly and effectively to customers' needs have a better chance of converting sales leads when times are tough, says BigMachines Cofounder and CEO Godard Abel.

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Chicago Sun-Times (November, 2010)

"BigMachines' software lets us quickly convert a customers' quote into an order and analyze the different configurations that our customers are buying,"
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TMCnet.com (September, 2010)

"Vendor in the configuration and quoting space BigMachines and enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com have announced that BigMachines' on-demand configuration, quoting and proposal application is now integrated with Force.com. " Click here for more.

siia.net (September, 2010)

"OpenWorld, Dreamforce, BigIdeas, SIIA OnDemand Europe, or SIIA All About Mobile - if you are planning to attend any of these conferences with Falll, or any of the other great events in 2011, learn how to maximize your ROI and make the most of event attendance." Click here for more.

SellingPower.com (July, 2010)

Will e-commerce for complex products change the nature of B2B sales? A new class of software allows firms to create e-commerce applications that allow informed customers to directly build and customize their own solutions and even generate orders, purchase orders, and all the other elements of a complex-solution sale.
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Forbes.com (April 22, 2010)

SaaS Sales Configuration and Proposal Leader Opens New Office to Support Asia-Pacific Market.
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TargetMarketingMag.com (April 22, 2010)

"Direct marketers and others using the quoting and proposal solution from Deerfield, Ill.-based on-demand sales software provider BigMachines weighed in on how to improve it, and now there's BigMachines 10."
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DemandGen Report (April 20, 2010)

"Over the past decade, BtoC eCommerce has changed the landscape for selling products as leaders like Amazon.com have brought eCommerce to the mainstream - and the numbers are growing."
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ITBusinessEdge (April 12, 2010)

"One of the things that made Dell so successful is that it pushed the configuration process out to the customer. [...] That's the thinking behind a set of product-configuration and price-quoting applications delivered by BigMachines."
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CBS2 Chicago Monsters and Money in the Morning (March 5, 2010)

Godard Abel, Chief Executive Officer of BigMachines, Inc. talks about company growth with CBS 2 Chicago's "Monsters and Money in the Morning" talk show. Click here for more.

TMCnet.com (December 14, 2009)

"BigMachines officials said they're interested in expanding the company's footprint into the Japanese business market. " Click here for more.

blog.technologyevaluation.com (November 10, 2009)

"From the vibrant SaaS Q2O pack, BigMachines is differentiated by its market leadership with the fastest growth, the most customers, and the strongest roster of marquee partners." Click here for more.

DMNews.com (October 26, 2009)

"Maintaining regular communication with all of your customers is critical to the success of the relationship," says Will Wiegler, director of corporate marketing at BigMachines. Click here for more.

blog.technologyevaluation.com (October 23, 2009)

" The company had a record year in 2008 and has seen a combined revenue growth of 265 percent over the past three years." Click here for more.

TMCnet.com (October 7, 2009)

"Streamlining the sales quoting process will enable our sales reps to easily manage and track complex orders" Click here for more.

avalara.com (September 8, 2009)

"Not only are we excited about being a BigIdeas 2009 Gold Sponsor in Chicago this October, we feel very good about having established a partner relationship with BigMachines to leverage each of our company's cloud computing capabilities to better serve the constantly growing e-commerce market" Click here for more.

Manufacturing Business Technology (July, 2009)

Solution based on BigMachines configuration platform saves labor, preserves profit margins

"...Since installing this solution in July 2008, Rolls-Royce Energy has drastically reduced the time it takes to create quotes, and has determined that it's on track to realize a ROI of more than $4.5 million on this project over the next three years." Click here for more.

TMCnet.com (July 14, 2009)

"BigMachines is a very flexible solution that can be integrated to leverage the existing architecture between our Microsoft CRM and ERP systems" Click here for more.

eWeek.com (June 22, 2009)

"BigMachines is the latest company to help streamline enterprise processes such as quote-generation and complex pricing management through the use of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform." Click here for more.

Phone+ Magazine (May 22, 2009)

"BigMachines is a significant product for [ShoreTel]. We want to make it easy for our channel partners to do business with us, so having a tool like [BigMachines] is significant." Click here for more.

Midwest Business (December 4, 2008)

Venturing Forward is a feature on MidwestBusiness.com profiling Chicago and Midwest Internet and technology entrepreneurs who have raised significant capital from venture and angel investors. Click here for more.

Manufacturing Business Technology (June 2008)

"Just because a company makes complex products doesn't mean configuring a sales proposal or a sales order needs to be complicated." Click here for full article.

Illinois Information Technology Association (March 2008)

"In 10 words or less, what pain does BigMachines solve? ...How does BigMachines differentiate from its competitors?...What trends do you see in 2008 that are relevant to the industry and BigMachines?..." Click here for more.

Aberdeen Research Report (2007)
"...to solve these issues, Spectra Logic licensed a web-based product configuration and quotation solution [from BigMachines]..." Click here for more.

Rob Bois - AMR Research (2007)
Sales configuration processes and software not only improve efficiency and reduce costs, but also increasingly serve as strategic differentiators that directly impact forecasting, new product development, profit margins, and market share. www.amrresearch.com

Quality Magazine (November 2007)

"...We had thought it could possibly take years to build our business rules. But we realized it could be done in weeks or months time using BigMachines’ unique configuration rules engine..." Click here for full article.

Managing Automation (June 13, 2007)

Vendors like BigMachines are helping manufacturers integrate their systems in order to manage the entire opportunity-to-cash cycle. Click here for full article.
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Chicago Tribune (May 28, 2007)

Interview with BigMachines' co-founder and CEO Godard Abel featured in Chicago Tribune's Business section. Click here for full article.

chem.info Magazine (January/February 2007)

Wallace & Tiernan, part of USFilter, a Siemens Business, reduces quote time by 65% with BigMachines Lean Front-End (LFE). Click here for full article.

CRM Magazine (May 2006)

Vendors like BigMachines guide a different part of the sales process. BigMachines lets salespeople provide a fast draft quote, usually during the course of the sales call. Click here for full article.

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (March 2006)

Heavy equipment distributor Kubota Tractor Corporation has selected an order management solution from BigMachines to create an online configurator and allow customers to create customized product options to assist in buying decisions. Click here for full article.

Manufacturing Business Technology (March 2006)

Taking orders electronically is a formidable challenge for manufacturers with complex product and pricing structures matched only by the sophistication of their channel strategies. Click here for a full article.