BigMachines

BigMachines
Type Private
Industry Computer software
IT Services
Founded 2000
Headquarters Deerfield, Illinois, USA
Number of locations 7
Key people Godard Abel, Co-founder & CEO
Products
  • Sales Configuration
  • Quoting Software
  • Proposal Generation
  • B2B eCommerce
  • CRM Integration
Revenue 18.7 million USD (2009)[1]
Website http://www.bigmachines.com

BigMachines is a software company.[2]

BigMachines, Inc. was founded in 2000 by Godard Abel and Christopher Shutts[3] and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois[2] 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.[4]

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 2010.[5]

Contents

Partners

The company has partnered with Salesforce.com,[6] Oracle[7] CRM On-Demand, Vendavo,[8] and PROS[9] to provide software applications to these CRM systems.

Awards

External links

References

  1. ^ Inc magazine BigMachines profile
  2. ^ a b "Vista Equity Partners". http://www.vistaequitypartners.com/?q=company/bigmachines. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  3. ^ "Chunchbase". http://www.crunchbase.com/company/bigmachines. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  4. ^ "BigMachines Achieves Record Growth in First Half of 2010". Denverpost.com. 2010-08-05. http://finance.denverpost.com/mng-denver.denverpost/news/read?GUID=14165850. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  5. ^ Melanie Austria Farmer (2001-03-19). "BigMachines reels in $29 million". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/BigMachines-reels-in-29-million/2110-1017_3-254310.html. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  6. ^ a b "SalesForce". http://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0330000001GDyTAAW. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  7. ^ "Oracle Partner Network". http://solutions.oracle.com/partners/bigmachines. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  8. ^ "Vendavo and BigMachines Announce Partnership". Vendavo. 2010-06-16. http://www.vendavo.com/pr_061610.html. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  9. ^ "PROS and BigMachines Announce Partnership". 2011-01-11. http://www.bigmachines.com/pros-bigmachines-announce-partnership.php. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  10. ^ "2010 CODiE Finalists". http://www.siia.net/CODiEs/2010/finalist_list.asp. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  11. ^ "Inside View Customers Dominate Sales and Marketing 2.0 Awards". 2010-11-11. http://www.insideview.com/NEWS-PRESS/press-11112010-SalesMarketing.html. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  12. ^ "The 2010 OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies". 2010-05-22. http://www.aonetwork.com/2010/OnDemand-Top-100-Competiton. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  13. ^ a b c "BigMachines Awards". http://www.bigmachines.com/awards.php. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  14. ^ "Inc 500". http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/bigmachines. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  15. ^ "BigMachines Featured in Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies for Third Consecutive Year". Pymnts.com. 2010-08-25. http://www.pymnts.com/bigmachines-featured-in-inc-5000-list-of-americas-fastest-growing-companies-for-third-consecutive-year-20100825005271/. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  16. ^ Jeremy Nedelka (2008-09-08). "Gartner and 1to1 Customer Award Winners: Enterprise CRM Optimization". 1to1 Media. http://www.1to1media.com/View.aspx?DocID=31105. Retrieved 2011-04-11. 
  17. ^ "BigMachines, Inc. Named to the Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top 100". http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040630005618/en/BigMachines-Named-Supply-Demand-Chain-Executive-Top. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  18. ^ "2006 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100". http://www.sdcexec.com/online/article.jsp?id=8554&pageNum=3. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  19. ^ "2007 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100". http://www.sdcexec.com/publication/article.jsp?pubId=1&id=9672&pageNum=2. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
  20. ^ "BigMachines, Inc. wins Start Magazine's Technology & Business Award as Technology Enabler for 2003". http://www.bigmachines.com/start2003.php. Retrieved 2011-04-12.