BigMachines

BigMachines is a software company, founded in 2000 by Godard Abel and Christopher Shutts,[2] and its software is designed to integrate with enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and other business systems.[3]

BigMachines
Subsidiary
SuccessorOracle Corporation 
Founded2000 (2000)
Defunct2013 
Headquarters
Deerfield, Illinois
,
USA
Number of locations
8
Revenue32.1 million USD (2011)[1]
ParentOracle Corporation
Websitewww.bigmachines.com

The company is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois with development offices in San Mateo, California and Hyderabad, India.[4] BigMachines also has European operations with offices in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and London served by BigMachines AG as well as offices in Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney, serving Asia-pacific.

Company

Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in San Francisco, acquired majority ownership of BigMachines through several transactions starting January 2001.[5] Vista Equity acquired majority ownership of the company in December 2010. Shortly after Vista acquired majority ownership Abel left the company.

Three years later, Oracle Corporation announced it was acquiring BigMachines on October 24, 2013.[6] The transaction later completed.[7] Oracle kept the product, now called CPQ Cloud.

Awards
  • 2002 Forbes.com – Best of the Web Winner[8]
  • 2003 Start Magazine – Technology & Business Award[9]
  • 2004,[10] 2006,[11] 2007[12] Supply & Demand Chain – Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top 100
  • 2005, 2007 Manufacturing Business Technology – Top 40 Emerging Software Venders[8]
  • 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Inc 5000 five-year consecutive Award Winner[13][14]
  • 2009, 2010 JMP Hot 100 Software Companies – Best Privately Owned Software Companies[8]
  • 2010 Sales 2.0 Awards – Best Sales Enablement Program[15]
  • 2010 Codie award Winner – Best Business Productivity Solution[16]

References
  1. Dwyer, Ann (October 25, 2011). "Silicon City: BigMachines, a maker of cloud-based sales software, sees big things ahead". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
  2. "Crunchbase". Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  3. "BigMachines Achieves Record Growth in First Half of 2010". Denverpost.com. 2010-08-05. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  4. "Vista Equity Partners". Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  5. Melanie Austria Farmer (March 19, 2001). "BigMachines reels in $29 million". CNET news. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  6. "Oracle and BigMachines". Oracle web page. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  7. "Oracle and BigMachines". Oracle: acquisitions. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  8. "BigMachines Awards". Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  9. "BigMachines, Inc. wins Start Magazine's Technology & Business Award as Technology Enabler for 2003". Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  10. "BigMachines, Inc. Named to the Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top 100". Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  11. "2006 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100". Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  12. "2007 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100". Archived from the original on 2011-05-05. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  13. "Inc 500". Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  14. "BigMachines Featured in Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest Growing Companies for Third Consecutive Year". Pymnts.com. 2010-08-25. Archived from the original on 2010-08-26. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  15. "Inside View Customers Dominate Sales and Marketing 2.0 Awards". 2010-11-11. Archived from the original on 2010-12-05. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  16. "2010 CODiE Finalists". Archived from the original on 2010-08-21. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
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