BigMachines, Inc., a provider of web-based configuration and proposal generation software, today announced the release of Lean Front-End (LFE) version 6.0 featuring a web service API for BigMachines on-demand product configurator and a powerful new administration interface for BigMachines Commerce Process engine. With BigMachines LFE 6.0, customers will be able to easily tie BigMachines' product configurator into other applications using the Standard Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and rapidly model and automate front-end business processes including quoting, ordering, pricing, collaboration, and approval processes.
The BigMachines' LFE is a complete lean front-end solution designed to meet the unique selling requirements for providers of complex products and services. The software's proven capabilities help manufacturers to quickly and affordably automate and integrate all customer-facing processes from inquiry to order.
The full support for Web Services, a set of programming standards used to make different types of software talk to each other over the Internet, introduced in LFE v6.0 provides BigMachines' customers fast and affordable integration of applications and systems across the enterprise. This extends the proven web service integration capabilities that BigMachines offers to applications such as its Sforce-certified integration to salesforce.com's on-demand CRM solution.
