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BigMachines

Logo: www.bigmachines.com, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia3

Configure, price, quote cloud software owned by Oracle

BigMachines, now Oracle Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ), was a software company founded in 2000 by Godard Abel and Christopher Shutts, which was acquired by Oracle in 2013. The software is designed to integrate with enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and other business systems to help companies automate the sales process. It specializes in software for configure, price and quote (CPQ).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2000Founded1

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BigMachines, now Oracle Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ), was a software company founded in 2000 by Godard Abel and Christopher Shutts, which was acquired by Oracle in 2013. The software is designed to integrate with enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and other business systems to help companies automate the sales process. It specializes in software for configure, price and quote (CPQ). It can be used by internal teams, channel partners, VARs, distributors, customers, and outside representatives and partners.2

Products and brands

  • enterprise software

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in San Francisco, acquired majority ownership of BigMachines in 2010 through several transactions starting January 2001. Shortly after in 2011, Abel left the company.

Three years later, Oracle Corporation announced it was acquiring BigMachines on October 24, 2013. Oracle kept the product, now called CPQ Cloud.

From Wikipedia’s article on BigMachines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 2013Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 2000Founded Founded1

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