BigMachines Announces Release of Lean Front-End Version 5.9.0.CHICAGO -- Latest product enhancements include advanced features and functionality for globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , as well as faster performance and more flexible user experience. BigMachines, Inc., the premier provider of innovative business software and solutions for manufacturers, today announced the availability of its Lean Front-End(SM) (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 ), Version 5.9.0. The BigMachines LFE is a complete lean front-end solution designed to meet the unique selling requirements of manufacturers of complex products. The software's proven capabilities help manufacturers to quickly and affordably automate and integrate all customer-facing processes from inquiry to order. The comprehensive LFE software suite includes web-based applications See Web application. for configuration, pricing, quoting, proposal generation, order management and aftermarket Aftermarket See: Secondary market. aftermarket See secondary market. part sales. The LFE software also provides powerful sales reporting, web-based administration, and integration tools for linking to 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. systems. Since its original launch, BigMachines' LFE has enabled manufacturers to reduce quote and order processing times by 50-80 percent, while eliminating quote and order errors, resulting in a significant reduction in selling costs and improvement in customer satisfaction. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Godard Abel, founder and chief executive officer, BigMachines' LFE v5.9.0 was developed in close cooperation with key customers and incorporates enhanced functionality responding to specific customer requests. "Striving to fulfill the front-end requirements of manufacturers has been the key to our success," notes Abel. "We believe in working closely with our customers to stay ahead of the curve as sales processes A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. grow and evolve within an ever-changing and highly competitive business climate. Because of this close cooperation, we are confident that the LFE v5.9 will be greeted with enthusiastic acceptance among existing and new customers alike." BigMachines' new and improved LFE v5.9 offers a broad array of functional enhancements, including: --Advanced Multilingual and Multi-Currency Support across the LFE encompasses English, French, Italian, German and Spanish languages Spanish language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Spain and 19 Latin American nations, Spanish is spoken as a first language by about 330 million persons and currencies. --Internationalized Number Formats and International Time and Date Formats based on administrator or user-defined preferences. --Flexible XML-Based Attribute Naming and Labeling to enable the use of discrete configuration and commerce process attribute variables in XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. rather than attribute labels or names. --Expanded Global Tables Functionality and Download Capabilities via XML to speed up implementations and facilitate rule and data maintenance. --Commerce Process Performance Enhancements, including advanced modification script and advanced default functionality, pricing optimization, and faster commerce process migration performance. To further enhance the LFE user experience, a host of additional technical and functional improvements have also been incorporated relative to displays, navigation, image flexibility, configuration arrays, commerce functions and much more. For more detailed technical specifications, please visit our Website at www.bigmachines.com. About BigMachines, Inc. and BigMachines AG BigMachines, Inc., founded January 1, 2000, (www.bigmachines.com) provides web-based software and services to help manufacturers of complex products streamline their selling and customer service processes from inquiry-to-order. BigMachines Lean Front-End(SM) (LFE) solution digitizes selling processes and captures an organization's tribal knowledge Tribal knowledge is any unwritten information that is known within a tribe but often unknown outside of it. Further reading
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