BigMachines Lean Front-End® (LFE) can greatly enhance the value of your current SAP solution. BigMachines extends SAP’s native functionality by providing the following complimentary capabilities:
Guided selling and advanced product selection
Intuitive and flexible web-based sales configuration
Rich proposal generation tools - including datasheets, drawings, pictures, etc.
Ability to manage pricing and quotes across multiple sales channels and distributors
Through seamless integration, BigMachines will fully leverage the master data and knowledge you have already embedded in your SAP system. We have successfully deployed a variety of interfaces to SAP for many joint customers including:
Integration to SAP R/3 for single item master and customer master data
Seamless Inquiry-to-Order integration and automated order processing from BigMachines to R/3
Ability to check inventory and order status realtime in R/3
Integration to SAP R/3 Variant Configurator (VC)
Integration to SAP Internet Pricing and Configurator (IPC)
Integration to SAP CRM and Internet Sales Application (ISA)
SAP integration is enabled through real-time web service interfaces that leverage the SAP NetWeaver™ architecture and BigMachines own web service interfaces. Additional integration capabilities are provided through BigMachines’ Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) interfaces (powered by WebMethods™). WebMethods is a BigMachines business partner and has successfully deployed hundreds of SAP integrations and offers a variety of SAP adapters and interface methods. Please visit www.webmethods.com/OptimizeforSAP for more details.