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EDL Consulting, a leading technology services firm specializing in the intelligent integration of eCommerce, CRM and business intelligence solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with BigMachines, the leading provider of on-demand quoting, configuration and proposal software.

This alliance will enhance BigMachines' and EDL Consulting's existing solutions. BigMachines enables sales teams, channel partners and resellers to quickly configure products, generate quotes and proposals, manage complex pricing, generate legal contracts, and submit and manage orders. This alliance will help EDL Consulting's clients sell more and sell faster with BigMachine's pricing and configuration options, expanded mobile approval capabilities, updated CRM integration, and additional administration controls.

"We understand each others businesses very well. The EDL Consulting and BigMachines alliance will bring tremendous value to our customers. Adding BigMachines software to our solution set provides our customers with significant opportunity to streamline business processes in the cloud. Specifically, this alliance enhances client guided selling, product configuration capabilities and overall sales process efficiency. We are confident that this partnership will lead to greater client success," says Bill Loumpouridis, EDL president and CEO.

EDL is also a Gold sponsor of BigMachine's annual BigIdeas customer and industry forum being held in Chicago beginning today.  There, EDL will be presenting a booth and co-hosting a breakout session with BigMachines to demonstrate its Cloud-based WirelessCraze eCommerce application.

"We are pleased to enhance EDL's solution set with the BigMachines configurator tool for pricing and proposals. Customers are demanding a better process, and this alliance can deliver that," said Matt Gorniak, senior vice president of sales and alliances at BigMachines.

Chicago-based EDL Consulting is a national technology services firm specializing in the intelligent integration of eCommerce, CRM and business intelligence solutions to improve business performance. EDL solves the complex systems integration issues behind state-of-the-art technology solutions to make organizations more successful. The solutions EDL builds generate revenue, result in cost savings, promote differentiation and make it easier for clients to do business with their customers. See www.cloud-craze.com and www.edlconsulting.com.

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.com.