BigMachines


BigMachines is a software company, founded in 2000 by Godard Abel and Christopher Shutts, and its software is designed to integrate with enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and other business systems.
The company is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois with development offices in San Mateo, California and Hyderabad, India. 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.

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, a private equity firm based in San Francisco, acquired majority ownership of BigMachines through several transactions starting January 2001. 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. The transaction later completed. Oracle kept the product, now called CPQ Cloud.

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