Intel Corporation wanted a software product to help businesses capitalize on the vast, unstructured oceans of information known as Big Data — and Zettaset had one.

For months, according to a suit filed last week, Intel employees negotiated with Zettaset, met with executives at the venture-capital backed firm, and tested its “Orchestrator” product at Intel’s state-of-the-art Hillsboro, Ore. software development campus.