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BigMachines
Company typeSubsidiary
Founded2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Headquarters
Deerfield, Illinois
,
USA
Number of locations
8
Revenue32.1 million USD (2011)[1]
ParentOracle Corporation
Websitewww.bigmachines.com

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]

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.[citation needed] 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. ^ a b c "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.

External links

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