We launched BigMachines in early 2000
with a vision to provide businesses with innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that empower people to sell more and sell faster.
Our company has grown a lot since then, but our overall vision has not changed, and our growth clearly indicates that the need is there – more than ever.
We recently announced another record year in 2010, with 77 percent year-over-year growth in recurring revenue and 72 percent growth in total revenue, along with more than $47 million in contract bookings—and we achieved this by focusing on the needs of our customers and by delivering the
most innovative and robust B2B sales platform to meet those needs.
I am very excited to witness the growth of our company, the growth of the SaaS market, and the growth that many of our customers have experienced in their businesses.
In the past 10 years, I have talked with thousands of people in companies around the world about their B2B sales challenges. Many continue to be constrained by inefficient manual processes and outdated solutions—and I found surprisingly similar challenges across diverse industries and across regions from North America to Europe to Asia. We can help these companies improve their selling processes, just as we have done for our existing customers. BigMachines’ customer base now includes 240 companies in a broad variety of industries including high tech, software, medical instrumentation, manufacturing, telecom, media, business services, and financial services.
As the momentum in cloud computing and improving sales productivity continues to grow, BigMachines will continue to accelerate our investments in our product innovation, services, and supporting infrastructure to ensure that we provide on-going innovations to businesses across industries and across the world. I'm very proud of the dedicated and talented team at BigMachines who have all contributed to our success and I look forward to continuing to provide our customers with the most innovative selling platform on the market.
Godard Abel
CEO & Co-Founder
BigMachines, Inc.
BigIdeas Europe
2011 is Coming Up!
Meet industry leaders and discover how BigMachines helps companies in Europe and worldwide to overcome
their sales challenges to increase sales and improve business processes.
This two day forum for customers, partners, industry experts and progressive companies explores innovative business strategies and best practices to increase revenues, improve sales efficiencies and reduce costs.
This year’s event will be held for the first time in London, UK, on the 9th and 10th of May 2011 at the Hilton London Tower Bridge.
Learn more and register today!
BigMachines 11 is Available Now
BigMachines 11, the newest version of our innovative selling platform, incorporates many of the most-requested enhancements and features, as well as new innovations that make our software more powerful than ever, yet easier to use.
With enhanced performance, security and scalability to the award-winning sales automation selling platform, BigMachines 11 provides an enterprise-strength sales solution.
Enhancements and new features in BigMachines 11 include the following:
- iPad support provides the ability to conveniently create quotes directly on the popular device, enhancing sales team mobility
- User interface templates enable users to create 100 percent customized templates for their configurators to match company branding and standards
- Drag and drop reporting interface makes creating reports fast and easy, even for novice users
- Table-based configuration rules reduce the amount of time required to build and maintain rules
- Data Table Administration provides table maintenance using a familiar spreadsheet interface from within the BigMachines application
- Quick-key item entry allows users to add items to a sales quote with fewer clicks and auto-suggest intelligence
- Performance enhancements enable faster set-up and faster configurations and quotes
Read our full press release.
New Product! BigMachines
QuickConfig
BigMachines QuickConfig is the first BigMachines product built natively on the Force.com platform to automate product selection and eliminate errors.
QuickConfig adds Guided Selling to Salesforce Real-Time Quotes to empower sales reps to select the best mix of products for each customer by following a series of pre-defined questions, and easily add them to sales quotes and opportunities. While QuickConfig offers the same configuration rules as BigMachines Sales Engine, it is not suitable for all organizations. In general, QuickConfig is a great fit for those who have a small group of users, are currently using Salesforce Real-Time Quotes, and who want to add configuration. For larger needs and more complex cases, we suggest using the more full-featured BigMachines 11 selling platform.
BigMachines EMEA Update
BigIdeas Europe 2011 is coming up!
Our annual European Customer and Industry Forum is quickly approaching:
May 9 & 10
Hilton London Tower Bridge
London, United Kingdom
More than 120 members of the BigMachines community are expected to gather to learn more about BigMachines’ latest releases, share best practices and participate in future product feature brainstorming and roadmap planning.
Learn more and REGISTER NOW at www.bigmachines.de/bigideaseurope/
Administration Training in London
May 11 – 13 (following BigIdeas Europe)
BigMachines offers ongoing training to help you quickly and successfully implement and maintain your BigMachines solution.
This course is appropriate for application administrators, implementation team members, business analysts, consultants, or other individuals responsible for successfully implementing and administering the BigMachines selling platform.
Register at www.bigmachines.com/training
Meet BigMachines Team Members at Cloudforce 2011 Paris
April 5
Paris, France
Register for this premier event at https://www.salesforce.com/fr/events/details/a1x300000004DJKAA2.jsp
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Streamline Your Inquiry to Order Process – Webinar Feb 22
Join us for a one-hour webinar to learn how you can streamline the sales process from inquiry to order with product configuration, workflow approvals and proposal generation.
The one-hour webinar includes a live, interactive demo of BigMachines 11 web-based software. Register Now!
