Infrastructure Awards Past Winners

The Excellence Awards used to give center stage to customers who were transforming their enterprises and changing the world using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure solutions. In 2024, all Oracle Customer Awards are part of the Oracle Excellence Awards. Whether you’re using Oracle Cloud Applications or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we have a category for you!

Nominations for the 2025 Customer Awards are now open

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Infrastructure Awards 2024 Winners

Data Center Migration and Transformation Award

Service Partner: Oracle Customer Success Services, Oracle Strategic Client Group

Winner: Vodafone

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Application Modernization Award

Service Partner: Fujitsu

Winner: KDDI Corporation

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Data Platform Innovation Award

Service Partner: NS Solutions Corporation

Winner: Shiseido Company, Limited

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AI Innovation Award

Winner: Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

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Cloud Architect of the Year Award

Cloud Architect: Sai Penumuru

Winner: Accenture

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Data Center Migration and Transformation Award

Transformed Data Center Operations

Oracle honors organizations that transformed their data center operations across both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Often this includes exiting one or more data centers. These solutions delivered higher performance at lower cost than alternatives, frequently without rearchitecting applications.


Winner | Vodafone

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Application Modernization Award

Excellence in Application Modernization

Oracle honors organizations that successfully moved Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Sometimes these deployments minimize rearchitecting applications, while in other cases they involve modernizing the application to new software versions or cloud services. They deliver higher performance at lower cost than alternatives.


Winner | KDDI Corporation

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Data Platform Innovation Award

Innovation in Use of Data

Oracle honors organizations that changed their own products, services, or processes by using their data in new ways. These deployments use Oracle Cloud to derive new value for the business from new or existing business data.


Winner | Shiseido Company, Limited

Finalists

AI Innovation Award

Best Use of AI and ML

Oracle honors organizations that transform their products or services with artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) on Oracle Cloud. These solutions enable the business to provide new solutions for their customers, create new value for their business, or meaningfully enhance and transform existing activities.


Winner | Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

Finalists

Cloud Architect of the Year Award

Most Impactful Cloud Deployments

Oracle presents this award to enterprise cloud architects who have delivered and executed on clear strategies that resulted in successful and impactful cloud deployments on Oracle Cloud.


Winner | Accenture


  • Cloud Architect: Sai Penumuru

Finalists

  • Cloud Architect:
    Yusuke Suzuki

  • Cloud Architect:
    Beverly Tseng

  • Cloud Architect:
    Zach Ehrhardt

Infrastructure Awards 2023 Winners

Congratulations to the 2023 Oracle Excellence Awards Winners and Finalists!



Application Migration and Modernization Award

Winner: Contribute NV

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Cloud Architect of the Year Award

Winner: Stellar Cyber | Sam Jones

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Business Innovation with AI/ML Award

Winner: FIA (FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L'AUTOMOBILE)

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CIO of the Year Award

Winner: MutualSer EPS | Holman Mauricio Cardenas

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Data Center Migration and Transformation Award

Winner: Liberty Global B.V.

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Eureka Award

Winner: University of Pittsburgh | Ahmad Tafti

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Innovating with Data Award

Winners: SMI Group | Aramco Digital

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New Product or Service Innovation Award

Winner: East Daily

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Cloud Security Champion Award

Winner: Aria S.p.A.

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Application Migration and Modernization Award

Oracle honors organizations who successfully deployed a variety of both Oracle and non-Oracle applications.


Winner | Contribute NV

Finalists

Cloud Architect of the Year Award

Oracle presents this award to architects who have delivered clear, executable strategies that resulted in successful and impactful cloud deployments on Oracle Cloud.

  • Accenture | Sai Penumuru
  • KDDI corporation | Yusuke Suzuki

Winner | Sam Jones, Stellar Cyber

Finalists

Business Innovation with AI/ML Award

Oracle honors organizations who transform their products or services with artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI / ML) solutions on Oracle Cloud.


Winner | FIA (FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L'AUTOMOBILE)

Finalists

CIO of the Year Award

Oracle recognizes industry leaders whose IT vision and execution create sustained business value for their organizations and customers. By leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in unique ways, these CIOs have increased organizational performance, accelerated time to value, reduced the cost of IT operations, and enhanced end user productivity.

  • KGISL Technologies Private Limited | Vinith Menon
  • Mercadolibre S.R.L. | Sebastian Barrios
  • Dai Nippon Printing Co.,Ltd | Takahito Kanazawa

Winner | Holman Mauricio Cardenas, MutualSer EPS

Finalists

Data Center Migration and Transformation Award

Oracle honors organizations which transformed their data center operations with Oracle Cloud across a variety of both Oracle and non-Oracle applications.


Winner | Liberty Global B.V.

Finalists

Eureka Award

With Oracle for Research, researchers in academic, commercial, and governmental settings, across all disciplines, are exploring novel ways to achieve ground-breaking results to make the world a better place.

  • Sarah Ostadabbas
  • Javier Andreu-Perez
  • Jeffrey Smith
  • Steffen Bollmann

Winner | Ahmad Tafti, University of Pittsburgh

Finalists

Innovating with Data Award

Oracle honors organizations who changed their products, services, or processes by using their data in new ways.


Winners

New Product or Service Innovation Award

This award recognizes organizations who have created value by leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in unique ways to achieve business benefits.


Winner | East Daily

Finalists

Cloud Security Champion Award

In a world of ever-changing security risks, Oracle recognizes the company that best uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to protect and secure both their customers’ data and their own.


Winner | Aria S.p.A.

Infrastructure Awards 2022 Winners

Congratulations to the 2022 Excellence Awards winners and finalists!

Customer award categories

Application Modernization Champion Award

Winner: Maxim's Caterers (APAC)

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Autonomous Database Leader Award

Winner: PayPal (NA)

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Business Transformation Award

Winner: DigiFarm (EMEA)

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CIO of the Year Award

Winner: William Compton, Integra LifeSciences (NA)

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Cloud Architect of the Year Award

Winner: Mohammad Goudarzi, Qifan Deng, and Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne (APAC)

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Cloud Security Champion Award

Winner: Mynet (JAPAN)

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Data Analytics Leader of the Year Award

Winner: Schneider Electric (EMEA)

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Eureka Award

Winner: John Mulligan, Rice University (NA)

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Application Modernization Champion Award

Oracle honors organizations who successfully deployed a variety of both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. These deployments minimized the need for rearchitecture or reintegration and delivered higher performance at lower cost than alternatives.


Winner | Maxim's Caterers (APAC)

Finalists

Autonomous Database Leader Award

Oracle recognizes leaders who have successfully implemented Oracle Autonomous Database running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This includes Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP), Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) and analytics, and mixed workloads. Implementing both ATP and ADW is a remarkable achievement, reflecting a commitment to modernization and the reduction of human error.


Winner | PayPal (NA)

Finalists

Business Transformation Award

This award recognizes organizations who have created value by leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in unique ways to achieve business benefits, such as increased organizational performance, accelerated time to value, reduced IT operation costs, and enhanced end user productivity.


Winner | DigiFarm (EMEA)

Finalists

CIO of the Year Award

Oracle recognizes industry leaders whose IT vision and execution create sustained business value for their organizations and customers. By leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in unique ways, these CIOs have increased organizational performance, accelerated time to value, reduced the cost of IT operations, and enhanced end user productivity.


Winner | William Compton, Integra LifeSciences (NA)

Finalists

Cloud Architect of the Year Award

Oracle presents this award to architects who have demonstrated their deep knowledge of Oracle’s cloud offering and delivered clear, executable strategies that resulted in successful cloud deployments.


Winner | Mohammad Goudarzi, Qifan Deng, and Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne (APAC)

Finalists

Cloud Security Champion Award

In a world of ever-increasing security risks, Oracle recognizes the company that best uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to protect and secure both their customers’ data and their own.


Winner | Mynet (JAPAN)

Finalists

Data Analytics Leader of the Year Award

Oracle recognizes line-of-business or IT leaders who leverage the capabilities of Oracle’s data warehouse, lakehouse, and analytics solutions to accelerate responsiveness to market opportunities and enable collaboration around a single source of truth.


Winner | Schneider Electric (EMEA)

Finalists

Eureka Award

This award recognizes an outstanding member of the Oracle for Research community who leveraged the capabilities of Oracle Cloud to drive impactful change on a global scale. This program aims to encourage and enable the work of researchers by putting the power of Oracle Cloud in their hands.


Winner | John Mulligan, Rice University (NA)

Finalists

Partner award categories

Game Changer Tech Service Delivery Partner of the Year Award

Winner: Accenture (EMEA)

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Visionary ISV Partner of the Year Award

Winner: Zoom Video Communications (NA)

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Game Changer Tech Service Delivery Partner of the Year Award

This award is given to Oracle service delivery partners who demonstrate repeated success in implementing innovative solutions and workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We salute their relentless drive to achieve desired customer business outcomes.

Open to all eligible Oracle Partners (active Oracle PartnerNetwork membership with published Expertise in the applicable award category).


Winner | Accenture (EMEA)

Finalists

Visionary ISV Partner of the Year Award

This award goes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) ISV partners whose solutions on OCI (including SaaS and Oracle Cloud application integration solutions hosted on OCI) have made a significant impact on end customer business. These partners have established new benchmarks for quality of delivery and customer experience through innovations such as speed of transformation, reduced cost, and seamless enablement.


Winner | Zoom Video Communications (NA)

Finalists

Infrastructure Awards 2019 Winners

    • North America

      Akash Khurana, Global Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Chief Digital Officer, McDermott International

    • Cloud

      Sally Gilligan, CIO, Gap

    • Europe, Middle East, and Africa

      Markus Voss, COO and CIO, DHL Supply Chain

    • Latin America

      Cinthya Sánchez, CIO, Universidad de los Andes

    • North America

      Alex Ryabov, Head of Data Services, Wargaming

    • Europe, Middle East, and Africa

      Pencho Tzonev, Head of Data Analytics and Development Europe, PaySafe

    • Asia Pacific

      Richard Kudakwashe Bururu, Managing Director and Regional Head, Decision Management Group Consumer, CIMB Bank

    • Latin America

      Alberto Camardelli, CIO, SKY Brasil

    • North America

      Mangesh Deo, Sr. Director, Global Corporate Solutions Technology, TIAA

    • Europe, Middle East, and Africa

      Oscar Jalón Arias, CIO, Casa Santiveri

    • Asia Pacific

      Zhiliang Yang, CIO, China Gas Holdings Ltd.

    • Latin America

      Hernan Antolini, Enterprise Architecture - Technology Manager, DIRECTV

    • North America

      Derek Hayden, VP, Data Strategy & Analytics
      OUTFRONT Media

    • Europe, Middle East, and Africa

      Alain Fuhrer, Head Databases, Die Mobiliar

    • Asia Pacific

      Pawarit Ruengsuksilp, Business Development Analyst
      Forth Smart

    • Latin America

      Jesus Ramirez, Gerente Corp Big Data y BI, Ripley

    • Application Development and Operations
      • Hi-Tech Textile and partners 3Di and Kahuna
      • Rakuten
      • Syniverse
    • Digital Experience and Engagement
      • Atradius and partner Griffiths Waite
      • Australian Finance Group
      • Credit Suisse and partner Cognizant
      • Sutton Tools and partner Anatas Technology Solutions
    • Mobile
      • Bank of Communications (Hong Kong) and partner Team-C
      • City of Las Vegas and partner 3Di
      • Ebrahim K. Kanoo and partner RapidValue
      • L&T Finance
    • Big Data, Business Analytics, and Data Integration
      • Amazon and partner The Hackett Group
      • CaixaBank
      • Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
      • Serta Simmons Bedding and partner Grant Thornton
      • Skanska
      • Tampa International Airport
    • Integration
      • Calix
      • General Electric and Accenture
    • Security
      • Kaiser Permanente
      • REDISA
    • Laszlo Beres, GVC Group

      Suping Dong, Bowmicro

      Vivek Jaiswal, National Roads and Motorists’ Association (NRMA) Australia

    • Ryan Lea, CCL: Together with Revera

      Jan-Pier Loonstra, KPN

    • Prasanta Kumar Nayak, State Bank of India

      Yasushi Taki, JustPlayer

    • Global Partner of the Year

      Deloitte

    • Global

      HighJump Software

    • Europe, Middle East, and Africa

      TIA Technology A/S

    • North America

      FireEye

    • Asia Pacific

      Datalynx

    • Latin America

      4ward Servicos e Comercio de Equipamentos

    • Autonomous Database

      OneGlobe Systems

    • Emerging Technologies

      Services & Processes Solutions

    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

      BIAS Corporation

    • Business Analytics

      interRel Consulting

    • Engineered Systems

      Mannai Trading Company

    • Oracle Database Appliance

      K.K. Ashisuto

    • CX—Marketing

      Accenture

    • Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

      KPMG

    • Supply Chain Management Cloud

      Deloitte

    • CX—Sales

      Infosys

    • Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud

      Inspirage

    • Value Added Distributor

      Digital China (China) Limited

    • CX—Service

      AmberLeaf

    • Human Capital Management Cloud

      Evolutionary Systems Company Limited (Evosys)

    • North America

      Gary Crisci, Principal Architect, General Electric

    • Asia Pacific

      Kusuma Ponnuru, Global Delivery Leader: Digital Data Engineering, Genpact India Ltd

    • Europe, Middle East, and Africa

      Nina Monckton, Chief Insight Officer, NHS

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