The 2018 Oracle Excellence Award winners were recently lauded for their Cloud Business Transformations. The businesses and organizations included the American Red Cross, Deloitte, Gap, Hertz, National Grid, Sainsbury’s and Stitch Fix. The recipients were announced this week at Oracle OpenWorld and “represent a wide range of customers and partners from small and medium businesses to the largest enterprises, spanning a wide range of industries.”
Each year, Oracle chooses award winners among hundeds of worldwide nominations. The Excellence Awards constitute
“an annual program that recognizes an extraordinary set of customers and partners for exceptional use of Oracle solutions to accelerate innovation and drive business transformation and value by increasing agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity.”
The 2018 Oracle Excellence Award categories included six customer categories and three partner categories. The six customer categories include Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation, Cloud Architect of the Year, Chief Data Officer of the Year, Data Warehouse and Big Data Leader of the Year, Leadership in Infrastructure Transformation and Oracle Sustainability Innovation. The three partner categories include Oracle Cloud ISV Partner of the Year, Global Cloud Solution Award and Specialized Partner of the Year.