Ixia Selects BigMachines Lean Front-End(R) Quote, Configurator, and Proposal Solution

BigMachines, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand configuration and quoting software, announced today that Ixia, a global provider of IP performance test systems, has selected the BigMachines CPP (Configure, Price, Propose) solution to help automate their sales process. Specifically, Ixia will use BigMachines integrated with Salesforce.com to help their sales teams generate quotes, manage complex product configurations, and generate proposals. Ixia is a public company (NASDAQ: XXIA) operating in over 30 countries worldwide. Ixia's highly scalable solutions generate, capture, characterize, and emulate network and application traffic, establishing definitive performance and conformance metrics of network devices or systems under test. "BigMachines offers a robust solution, enabling scalabilty and intelligent proposal generation reducing administration, increasing sales operation efficiency, and customer response time,” said David Anderson, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development Operations. "Our sales reps will now be able to self-service their own proposals. This will also streamline the management of our sales forecasts by integrating quote data with our Salesforce.com Opportunity pipeline.” BigMachines CPP will be tightly integrated with Ixia’s Salesforce.com CRM 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 of BigMachines, stated, "We are delighted that Ixia has selected BigMachines- proof that our application is a great fit for the hi-tech space. Their growing global sales activities required a robust global configuration, pricing, and quote management capabilities. We look forward to delivering a fast ROI to Ixia.” About Ixia Ixia is a leading provider of performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services. Ixia's test systems are used by Network and Telephony Equipment Manufacturers, Semiconductor Manufacturers, Service Providers, Governments, and Enterprises to validate the functionality and reliability of complex IP networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's Triple Play test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions. For more information, contact Ixia at http://www.ixiacom.com. 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® (LFE) 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, CAD, and CRM systems. Visit www.bigmachines.com.