BigMachines Introduces Sforce Certified Configuration and Proposal Solution for Salesforce.

CHICAGO & MUNICH, Germany -- BigMachines, Inc., a provider of web-based configuration and proposal generation software for sellers of complex products, and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today at the salesforce.com Summer '05 launch in San Francisco announced that BigMachines' Lean Front-End(SM) has achieved the official Sforce certified designation. Tightly integrated with Salesforce via the Sforce on-demand platform, and immediately available to all salesforce.com customers, BigMachines Lean Front-End (LFE) for Salesforce is an important link that will allow Salesforce users to enjoy seamless integration of the entire opportunity-to-order process, including product selection, configuration, pricing, quoting, and ordering.

"BigMachines' LFE for Salesforce is an outstanding solution for on-demand configuration and proposal generation management that provides complementary capabilities to Salesforce," said Adam Gross, director of product marketing for Sforce. "BigMachines' Sforce-certified integration means their customers can benefit from streamlining entire sales processes within the familiar Salesforce interface. By saving time, shortening the sales cycle, and allowing salespeople to respond to their customers more quickly, the new solution demonstrates the power and business benefits of integrating with the Sforce Web services API."

By transferring the burden of product configuration and proposal accuracy to BigMachines' on-demand configuration technology, organizations with complex products or quoting processes will enable their sales teams do a better and faster job generating quotes. Fully streamlining the front-end business processes frees up customer-facing internal resources to attend to more value-add customer service activities and proactive selling. BigMachines' LFE digitizes the knowledge previously trapped in the heads of a few and makes it broadly available, making sales channels more effective.

"BigMachines is pleased to be working as a certified Sforce partner to extend the power of our solutions," said Godard Abel, CEO of BigMachines, Inc. "With proven integration, BigMachines' LFE provides salesforce.com customers access to critical information at their fingertips for fast and accurate quoting and ordering transactions within Salesforce."

The BigMachines LFE integration is made possible through Sforce, salesforce.com's web service integration platform. Today, a variety of systems and platforms, including enterprise applications, desktop solutions, mobile devices and IP phone systems integrate with Salesforce and Supportforce via the Sforce Web service API, making key business information available to users from all of their favorite applications and tools.

Sforce is the on-demand platform enabling enterprises to customize, integrate, and extend salesforce.com CRM using standards-based Web services and market-leading development tools. Leveraging standards and technologies from the Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Sforce continues to demonstrate how on-demand platforms are a central part of the new enterprise IT strategies. Free access to the Sforce community, as well as more information on the Sforce Developer Program, is available at http://www.sforce.com.

About BigMachines, Inc. and BigMachines AG

BigMachines, Inc. founded in 1999 (www.bigmachines.com) provides web-based configurator and quoting software and services to help companies streamline their selling processes from customer inquiry-to-order. BigMachines Lean Front-End (LFE) solution digitizes complex selling processes and capture an organization's tribal knowledge to provide online product selection, configuration, quoting, and ordering capabilities for new products and aftermarket parts. BigMachines' LFE provides in-depth sales reporting capabilities and easily integrates to existing ERP, CAD, and CRM systems.

About salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). Through its award-winning salesforce.com family of products including Salesforce (http://www.salesforce.com) and Supportforce (http://www.supportforce.com), the company provides a comprehensive suite of CRM applications to help enterprises of all sizes, industries and geographies meet the complex challenge of sharing and managing information on-demand. Salesforce and Supportforce are built on the Sforce client/service integration platform and include the Customforce tool for complete on-demand customization. Sforce (http://www.sforce.com) and Customforce (http://www.customforce.com) allow customers and independent software vendors to customize and integrate salesforce.com's products, as well as build their own on-demand enterprise applications. As of April 30, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 15,500 customers and approximately 267,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.

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