subject: BigMachines Annual BigIdeas Conference to Feature Industry-Leading Sponsors, Innovative Analyst Presentations and New Customer Awards [print this page] BigMachines Annual BigIdeas Conference to Feature Industry-Leading Sponsors, Innovative Analyst Presentations and New Customer Awards
Sponsors include Oracle and salesforce.com plus leaders in on-demand software and computing with presentations by lead analysts at AMR Research and Gartner Research
Chicago, IL and Frankfurt, Germany - September 17, 2009 - BigMachines, Inc., the global leader in on-demand sales configuration and proposal software, today announced that Oracle Corporation and salesforce.com are Platinum Sponsors of BigIdeas 2009, an industry-leading conference scheduled for October 4-6 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel. BigIdeas provides a forum for customers, business partners, industry experts, and interested companies to discuss innovative strategies and best practices for improving sales process efficiencies, increasing revenues and reducing costs.
Additional sponsors for the event include Astadia, Avalara, Bluewolf, Cast Iron Systems, Echo Lane, EDL Consulting, Microstrategy, Right90, Xactly and ZY Solutions. Mark Woollen, VP Social CRM Products, Oracle, and Pat Morrissey, VP Strategic CRM Partners, salesforce.com, will each deliver presentations about trends in CRM and cloud computing. Additional conference speakers include Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer, AMR Research and Gene Alvarez, a Vice President in the Gartner CRM research organization.
"BigIdeas sponsors include many of the industry-leading companies with whom we partner to offer complete, on-demand sales solutions," said Godard Abel, CEO and co-founder, BigMachines. "The sponsors will not only demonstrate their own products and services, but will also partner with our own BigMachines experts and our customers to show best practices for implementing complete solutions that help companies streamline sales and business processes. We are delighted that these companies are participating in BigIdeas and look forward to providing a valuable experience for all conference attendees."
At BigIdeas 2009, BigMachines will honor innovative customers by presenting three awards:
Big Innovation Award for a customer that has implemented an innovative use of BigMachines within their company
Big Success Award for a customer that demonstrates significant ROI from using BigMachines
Biggest Idea Award for the BigMachines customer that contributes the most innovative idea to enhance BigMachines products. This award is based on votes from within the BigMachines user community and is tracked on the BigMachines Customer Support website.
BigMachines customers can nominate their companies for these awards at www.bigmachines.com/bigideas/big-awards.php.
BigMachines customers will share best practices for streamlining sales processes during two panel discussions at the conference. One customer panel, moderated by Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and Publisher of Selling Power, will focus on high tech products and services and includes speakers from Carestream Health, Enterasys and ShoreTel. The second customer panel, moderated by Chris Shutts, SVP Professional Services, BigMachines, will focus on manufacturing companies and includes speakers from Fike, Rolls-Royce Energy Systems and SPX Lightnin.
The latest information about BigIdeas 2009 for attendees, media, and sponsors can be found 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, helping companies sell more and sell faster in the cloud. 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.de/english.php.
