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.

[5] The company was headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, US with development offices in San Mateo, California, US and Hyderabad, India.

[6] Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in San Francisco, acquired majority ownership of BigMachines in 2010 through several transactions starting January 2001.

Three years later, Oracle Corporation announced it was acquiring BigMachines on October 24, 2013.

[10][11][12] Oracle Sales capabilities include:[11] In 2017, Order Management, part of the Oracle Cloud SCM, was integrated with the CPQ Cloud, giving companies the ability to use the SCM Configurator within CPQ.