Bottomline Technologies selects BigMachines Lean Front-End(R) to Streamline Quote and Configuration Processes.Leading Software Provider Selects BigMachines Product Configurator to Integrate with Salesforce.com CHICAGO & SAN MATEO, Calif. -- BigMachines, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand configuration and quoting software, announced today that Bottomline Technologies, recently honored by Global Finance magazine for Best Accounts Payable Services and American Banker as a top 100 financial services technology provider, has selected the BigMachines CPP cpp - C preprocessor. (Configure, Price, Propose) solution through the Salesforce.com AppExchange. Bottomline will use BigMachines integrated with Salesforce.com to help their sales team manage configurations and generate quotes. Bottomline supports more than 9,000 customers, including 3,000 that access the company's capabilities through convenient subscription-based services. Serving industries such as financial services, insurance, health care, technology, communications, education, media, manufacturing and government, Bottomline provides products and services to approximately 60 of the Fortune 100 companies and 90 of the FTSE FTSE A company that specializes in index calculation. Although not part of a stock exchange, co-owners include the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. Notes: The FTSE is similar to Standard & Poor's in the United States. (Financial Times) 100 companies. "BigMachines' CPP solution met all of our requirements for this project, without the need for any level of customization," said Debbie Hill, Director of Information Services See Information Systems. , Bottomline Technologies. "We've been particularly pleased with the solution's flexibility. Flexibility was an important factor in our decision as we needed a product that would allow us to make changes without having to go back to the vendor. " BigMachines CPP will be tightly integrated with Bottomline's Salesforce.com CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. system to provide a single view of customer data, in addition to automatically updating sales forecasts as quotes and orders are created and changed. Godard Abel, 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, stated, "We are delighted that Bottomline has selected BigMachines. Their sophisticated payments and invoice automation solutions, combined with continued business momentum, have driven the need for more robust configuration, pricing, and quote management tools to integrate with their CRM system. These needs are a great fit for our capabilities, and we look forward to delivering a fast ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). to Bottomline." About BigMachines, Inc. and BigMachines AG BigMachines, Inc. founded in 1999, provides web-based configurator, quoting, and proposal software and services 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, 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 (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. , CAD, and CRM systems. Please visit www.bigmachines.com for more information. |
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