We received some amazing questions at Dreamforce and would love to share the answers with you: What is the difference between BigMachines Express and BigMachines QuickConfig? BigMachines Express is the product formerly known as QuickConfig, but we changed more than the name.  We have added new features, and will continue to build out a full configuration, pricing and quoting suite.   What is BigMachines Express? BigMachines Express is a packaged, easy-to-use, quick-to-install configuration, pricing & quoting (CPQ) solution that is 100% native to Force.com, making it fast to deploy and simple to administer.  Built on Salesforce.com’s platform, BigMachines Express provides a familiar and... read more »

We are so proud to introduce to the world, BigMachines Express. BigMachines Express is a packaged, easy-to-use, quick-toinstall configuration, pricing and quoting (CPQ) solution for growing, mid-sized businesses. It is 100% native to Force.com, making it fast to deploy and simple to administer. In addition, because it is built on Salesforce.com’s platform, it provides a familiar and intuitive user experience for sales professionals and administrators alike. 100% Native Force.com solution Easily & accurately configure, price & quote Fast to deploy — rapid ROI Simple to administer and update Spend more time selling, less time processing orders read more »

The world has become an increasingly online place, and nowhere is this more evident than consumer spending.   Online shopping, or B2C eCommerce, has exploded over the last decade and now accounts for over $200 billion in sales each year - and we are all a part of this explosion. Whether due to time constraints or convenience, no matter what we need, we go online to search and compare.   From TV’s and phones to cars and computers, the mouse click has become the first step in our buying process.  Amazon.com, Buy.com, and many traditional retailers’ online sites have captured this market by providing an easy to use, self-service and guided process for consumers.  Many of these same consumers... read more »

This year has been very exciting for BigMachines and for all of the employees here. We have seen record breaking grown both in business and the number of employees added. As we have gotten bigger, so has our collective heart.   I am very proud to be a founding member (sounds very cool, doesn't it) of the BigMachines Philanthropy Committee to make some BigChanges (the initiative, organized by employees, to give back in different ways every quarter.) This quarter, our focus is on building homes for those who are not as fortunate as us. We have teamed up with Windy City Habitat for Humanity and rallied together to build two separate houses. We will also spend time volunteering at the ReStore,... read more »

            You have nearly finalized a huge sale. The hard work is done, the customer knows what he wants, and the price has been agreed upon. When you get the signature, it’s payday – but the deal can still fall through. You need to lock it down with a killer proposal, but building it out takes a lot of time: writing a cover letter from scratch, copying in all the customer information and pricing data for the quote, branding it with a customer logo, finding the applicable terms and conditions, adding any visual aids and then double checking to make sure everything’s correct. After the exhausting process is complete, you still run a high risk of error and the quality of the final product... read more »

                             In a perfect world, there is a forum for everything. With the internet, I suppose the world is moving closer to this opinioned perfection. You can find a forum for everything online, from handbags to power tools. And, of course, anything and everything Star Wars is always in demand. If only these forums could be taken from the virtual world, where you could talk to everyone in person and see how they work…                 Wait! That does exist at BigMachines. Our Customer Success Forums provide the chance to talk about your BigMachines product with other BigMachines users and experts from the company. Having trouble with figuring out how to phrase a certain... read more »

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that much has changed since my grandfather’s sales days. Back then, he would travel to customers and prospects with a heavy bag of products so he could demonstrate how the product worked and interacted with its various components. Over the years, sales professionals started to move away from this approach – in part due to the back breaking pain it caused. Instead, some started to carry paper catalogs. While not as heavy to carry, these were (and still are) pricey and much more difficult to use for new and existing customers in terms of visualizing how the product actually worked. Today, sales professionals have a new sales bag – the iPad. With the third... read more »

This is a re-post from www.bigmachines.com: BigMachines announced that its BigMachines 11 release has achieved Oracle Database Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), demonstrating that BigMachines has fully tested and supports its product on the Oracle Database 11g Release 2. BigMachines is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.Oracle Database Ready is part of the Oracle Exastack Ready program, which allows partners such as BigMachines to be recognized by Oracle for developing, testing and tuning their applications on the latest component products of Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems. Oracle Database 11g offers BigMachines... read more »

BigMachines was recently featured in an article by P.J. Jakovljevic of Technology Evaluation Centers. P.J. recently had the opportunity to attended BigIdeas Chicago for the first time.  BigIdeas is the annual BigMachines conference where customers, partners and industry experts gathered to examine the latest solutions and best practices to increase sales and improve their business processes. In part one of his two-part series, P.J. describes his impressions of the conference, summarizes some of the new BigMachines selling platform features, and examines company’s future direction. Excerpt from part one of P.J. Jakovljevic’s two-part series on BigMachines: [David] Bonnette pledged to invest... read more »

Annual conference focused on customer innovation, best practices and product enhancements to drive business value using BigMachines BigMachines today announced it concluded the 7th annual BigIdeas conference in Chicago, one of the largest cloud innovation conferences to date. More than 400 attendees participated in the two and a half-day event at the Swissôtel Chicago from October 23-25, sharing best practices for increasing productivity and generating high value by streamlining their sales processes. BigMachines President David Bonnette led the conference with a strong keynote presentation emphasizing the company’s mission to deliver unmatched customer success, with a commitment to... read more »