BigMachines Achieves Record Growth in 2006.Increasing Customer Demand for Product Configurator and Quoting Software, BigMachines posts record revenues, new customers, and grows management team CHICAGO & MUNICH, Germany -- BigMachines, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand configuration and quoting software, achieved a record 2006 with a 59% growth in contract bookings and 79% jump in customers over 2005. In addition, the company launched two major product releases, adding new capabilities to a best-of-breed software solution to help companies streamline and simplify complex front-end sales processes - from inquiry-to-order. BigMachines new customers serve a broad variety of markets including software, medical instruments, life sciences, web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. , and industrial products. Customers added in 2006 include divisions of global leaders NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform , Emerson, ThermoFisher Scientific, Teradyne, and Kubota Tractor. To support this growth, BigMachines grew its staff by 33% across all areas, and expanded product development capacity with an offshore development partner in India. BigMachines has also added to their management team. Mei-Lin Cheng was hired to lead their west coast Professional Services team after 25 years in various roles with Hewlett Packard, including CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. of HP's imaging business. Greg Swender joined to lead BigMachines' marketing efforts, coming from Dell's corporate OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and business and Accenture. According to Godard Abel, co-founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BigMachines, "2006 was a tremendous year for BigMachines by any measure. Our powerful new product and our continued commitment to make our solution easier than ever for customers to implement, use and maintain are clearly being applauded by the marketplace. This momentum has continued into early 2007, with an additional 11 new customers added since January 1. We're excited to continued this growth for the rest of 2007." About BigMachines, Inc. and BigMachines AG BigMachines, Inc. founded in 1999 (www.bigmachines.com) provides web-based configurator, quoting, and proposal software to help companies streamline their selling processes from customer inquiry-to-order. BigMachines Lean Front-End([R]) (LFE LFE Low Frequency Effects LFE Lean Front End (software) LFE Laminar Flow Element LFE Learning From Experience LFE Large Final Emitter (environment) LFE Leicester, Forest, East ) solution digitizes complex selling processes and captures an organization's tribal knowledge to provide online product selection, configurator, quoting, and ordering capabilities for new products and aftermarket parts. BigMachines provides in-depth sales reporting capabilities and easily integrates to existing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. systems. |
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