BigMachines
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BigMachines is a software company.
BigMachines, Inc. was founded in 2000 by Godard Abel and Christopher Shutts and 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, UK served by BigMachines AG as well as offices in Singapore
, Tokyo
, and Sydney
, serving Asia-pacific. The company's software is designed to integrate with existing ERP (Enterprise resource planning
), CRM (Customer relationship management
), and other business systems.
Vista Equity Partners
, 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 of 2010.
, Oracle
CRM On-Demand, Vendavo, and PROS to provide software applications to these CRM systems.
BigMachines, Inc. was founded in 2000 by Godard Abel and Christopher Shutts and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois
Deerfield, Illinois
Deerfield is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States and is located approximately 25 miles north of Chicago, Illinois. A portion of the village is in Cook County, Illinois, United States...
with development offices in San Mateo, California
San Mateo, California
San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...
and Hyderabad, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. BigMachines also has European operations with offices in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and London, UK served by BigMachines AG as well as offices in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, and Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, serving Asia-pacific. The company's software is designed to integrate with existing ERP (Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
), CRM (Customer relationship management
Customer relationship management
Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...
), and other business systems.
Vista Equity Partners
Vista Equity Partners
Vista Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses. The firm was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Chicago, Illinois and Austin, Texas. Vista Equity Partners currently holds...
, 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 of 2010.
Partners
The company has partnered with Salesforce.comSalesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...
, Oracle
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
CRM On-Demand, Vendavo, and PROS to provide software applications to these CRM systems.
Awards
- 2010 CODiE Award Winner - Best Business Productivity Solution
- 2010 Sales 2.0 Awards – Best Sales Enablement Program
- 2010 AlwaysOn Top 100 OnDemand – Top 100 Software Companies
- 2009 Illinois Technology Association - CityLIGHTS Lighthouse Award Finalist
- 2009, 2010 JMP Hot 100 Software Companies - Best Privately Owned Software Companies
- 2008, 2009, 2010 Inc 5000 three year consecutive Award Winner
- 2008, 2009, 2010 AppExchange - Best Quoting Tool
- 2008 GartnerGartnerGartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....
& 1to1 - Customer Award for Enterprise CRM Optimization - 2005, 2007 Manufacturing Business Technology – Top 40 Emerging Software Venders
- 2004, 2006, 2007 Supply & Demand Chain - Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top 100
- 2003 Start MagazineSTart MagazineSTart Magazine was a spin-off computer magazine started by ANTIC magazine. Unlike ANTIC, STart focused on Atari's new ST computer line. The magazine lasted 42 issues, from 1986 to 1991, actually outliving its parent. It originally started from Atari ST specific sections in ANTIC magazine, later...
- Technology & Business Award - 2002 APICS International Conference – Best in Show
- 2002 ForbesForbesForbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
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