"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." Click here for more.
"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." Click here for more.
"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." Click here for more.
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.
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"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."
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"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.
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"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"
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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.
"BigMachines is a very flexible solution that can be integrated to leverage the existing architecture between our Microsoft CRM and ERP systems"
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"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."
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"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."
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"...businesses can rectify this problem [Unreliable quotes] by deriving from BigMachines' lineup of Lean Front-End solutions, which offer a Web-based approach to handling the inquiry-to-order process.
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"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
"...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.
Vendors like BigMachines are helping manufacturers integrate their systems in order to manage the entire opportunity-to-cash cycle. Click here for full article. (Login required:
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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.
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.
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.
Does software as a service offer a graduated scale of functionality, or does it just pick your pocket?
Last week saw the official launch of AppExchange, which exposes the Salesforce.com (Profile, Products, Articles) APIs to third-party software providers: 160 of them, at present. Click here for a full article.
Shifting to demand-based manufacturing decreases inventories and provides companies with a competitive edge. All manufacturers-whether offshore contract service providers or domestic-have been evolving toward a lean manufacturing model. Click here for a full article.
"Lean thinking always works when applied in a comprehensive way," say James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones in a 1996 Harvard Business Review article titled Beyond Toyota: How to Root Out Waste and Pursue Perfection. Click here for HTML version.
Is Microsoft's customer relationship management (CRM) offering really suited to small and midsized manufacturers? Are there functional gaps in the offering that might give Microsoft serious pause? Click here to read full article.
When companies grow rapidly by acquisition with multiple business, brands, sales forces, customer service teams, and business management systems, bottlenecks and non-value-added processes slow down the entire customer care process. Click here for the full article.
Manufacturers need to maximize their speed and efficiency to satisfy customers, cut costs and enhance their margins will succeed. Click here for full article.