BigMachines, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand quoting, configuration and proposal software, today announced the immediate availability of BigMachines 9.2, the latest version of BigMachines’ on-demand solution. BigMachines 9.2 is built on the company’s industry-leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that enables sales teams, channel partners and resellers to quickly configure products, generate quotes and proposals, manage complex pricing, generate legal contracts, and submit and manage orders.

BigMachines 9.2 enables customers to sell more and sell faster with many customer-driven enhancements including new pricing options, expanded mobile approval capabilities, updated CRM integration, and additional administration controls. Existing customers will be seamlessly upgraded to BigMachines 9.2 as part of their subscription and support agreements at no additional cost and can benefit immediately from the new technology.

One example of the benefits of the new administration controls in BigMachines 9.2 is described by Dustin Swindell, Director of Integrated Business and Emerging Technologies, Williams Furnace Company. Williams is a leading manufacturer of HVAC products. Swindell explains, “BigMachines’ new administration features enable us to create a robust online marketplace for our channel partners and other manufacturers in our industry. This marketplace enables channel partners to sell to each other. With BigMachines, the time to market is practically instantaneous from the moment the deal is made between the channel partners. Using BigMachines’ advanced admin controls, these channel partners can control their own configuration rules and pricing, while we can control their access to all of the other products in the system.”

Additional benefits of new features in BigMachines 9.2 include the following:

• Pricing changes are faster and easier than ever. Enhanced pricing options, with real-time pricing displays, provide a user experience similar to popular e-commerce sites.
• Sales managers and finance teams can now review price quotes from sales reps in the field through an expanded variety of mobile devices. Approvals are automatically logged in the BigMachines software, ensuring rigorous audit controls.
• Data migration has been simplified so that users can now easily migrate changes from test environments to their live site.
• Using the latest AJAX technology, administrators can quickly analyze the effects of configuration and pricing changes in real-time.
• Enhanced security features provide administrators with improved tracking and controls, ensuring tighter change control for customers with globally dispersed administration teams.

“BigMachines 9.2 brings more powerful and easy-to-use features to our customers,” said Godard Abel, Co-Founder and CEO of BigMachines. “We continue to enhance our products with the most requested features from our customers, who contribute to our product roadmap through the My Big Idea web portal on our Customer Support site, as well as at our annual BigIdeas Customer and Industry Forum. BigMachines provides customers with industry-leading tools and technologies that will streamline their sales processes and help them be more successful.”

BigMachines customers will participate in product roadmap and brainstorming sessions at BigIdeas 2009, the company’s annual customer and industry forum that will be held October 4-6 in Chicago, Illinois. Industry experts, BigMachines customers, and business partners gather at BigIdeas to discuss innovative business strategies and best practices in guided selling and product configuration to increase revenues, improve sales efficiency, and reduce costs. BigMachines uses input from the conference to plan product enhancements for the coming year. More information is available at www.bigmachines.com/bigideas.

About BigMachines, Inc. and BigMachines AG

BigMachines is the global leader in on-demand sales configuration, quoting and proposal software. BigMachines solutions empower sales across customers’ channels by streamlining their sales processes from opportunity to order. Using BigMachines software, sales teams and channels can quickly configure products, generate quotes and proposals, manage complex pricing, generate legal contracts, and manage orders. BigMachines offers extensive reporting capabilities and easily integrates to leading CRM and ERP systems, including those from Salesforce.com, Oracle, and SAP. BigMachines’ rapidly growing customer base includes global leaders such as Kodak’s GCG, Siemens, Ingersoll Rand, and NTT Communications, as well as innovative growth companies such as ShoreTel and Voltaire Ltd. For more information, visit www.bigmachines.com.