Oracle Customer Excellence Awards
You’ve done incredible work. Now you deserve the recognition. The Oracle Customer Excellence Awards celebrate the very best of business innovation, showcasing how organizations around the world—and their leaders—use Oracle technology to reinvent business practices, reimagine the workday, and rev up sales.
Check out this year’s updated categories and program structure and be sure to submit your nomination in time. For each category, Oracle will name winners across four regions: Japan and Asia Pacific, Europe Middle East and Africa, Latin America, and North America. A global award winner will be chosen from these regional winners. For more information, consult our FAQs and the Official Rules.
Congratulations to the EMEA and JAPAC Winners and Finalists!
Stay tuned for the remaining regions! LAD – March 25 | NA – May 6
Key dates
January 6, 2025 Nominations open
February 17, 2025 Nominations close for JAPAC and EMEA
February 25, 2025 Nominations close for LAD and NA
March- May 2025 Regional Winners announced
April 28- May 16 2025 Regional Winners invited to answer additional questions
June 2025 Global Winners announced
2025 Customer Excellence Awards
Customer Experience Award Winners - EMEA
Winner: Glory Global Solutions Limited
Customer Experience Excellence Award - EMEA
Outstanding achievements in enhancing CX
Are you building an experience for your customers that goes far beyond a smooth transaction? This award recognizes the breadth and depth of those efforts, including how you understand, engage with, and deliver for your customers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud CX suite.
Winner | Glory Global Solutions Limited
Finalists
Human Resources Award Winners - EMEA
Winner: Nokia
Winner: Ministry of Defence
Winner: Emirates NBD
CHRO: Thomas Ogilvie
Winner: DHL Group
Employee Experience Excellence Award - EMEA
Thoughtful design of the employee experience
This award celebrates a human resources team that helps make their work environment a better place to be, delivering an employee experience that helps people thrive within their roles and build rewarding careers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
Winner | Nokia
Finalists
Candidate Experience Excellence Award - EMEA
Guiding candidates through the hiring journey
This award celebrates a human resources team that goes above and beyond in delivering a meaningful and engaging job application, interview, and onboarding process for potential hires. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
Winner | Ministry of Defence
Finalists
HR Innovation Award - EMEA
Remarkable visions for the future of work
This award celebrates the innovative work of human resources teams. Did you come up with a creative program to engage employees, boost productivity, or find and court talented job candidates? Did you apply data analytics in a novel way to help solve a pressing HR issue? Recognize and celebrate your team’s ingenuity and passion. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
Winner | Emirates NBD
Finalists
CHRO of the Year Award - EMEA
Transformative HR practices and strategies
This award celebrates a visionary leader who is delivering outstanding performance based on your company’s definition of HR success. Whether it’s in recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, culture change, or some other area, inspire other CHROs with your vision for HR performance.
Winner | DHL Group
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CHRO:
Thomas Ogilvie
Finalists
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CHRO:
Aseil Khalil -
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CHRO:
Sherry Bishara -
Finance and Supply Chain Award Winners - EMEA
Winner: ROSHN Group
Winner: City of Espoo
Winner: The Saudi Public Transport Company (SAPTCO)
CFO: Dietrich Franz
Winner: DHL Supply Chain
Finance Excellence Award - EMEA
Innovative and sustained value creation
This award recognizes a finance team for applying strategies and best practices that create sustained value for their organizations. Showcase how you’re excelling in data-driven decision-making, cross-company collaboration, AI-powered automation, or other areas to help your company deliver superior results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.
Winner | ROSHN Group
Finalists
Finance Innovation Award - EMEA
Remarkable vision for the future of finance
This award celebrates an organization that uses emerging technologies to reshape how finance professionals do their jobs. This award recognizes a finance team for its creative new approach to a key task, process, or organizational goal. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.
Winner | City of Espoo
Finalists
Supply Chain Excellence Award - EMEA
Best use of Oracle Cloud across the supply chain
This award celebrates a company for establishing the kind of predictable and resilient supply chain that’s vital for delivering great customer experiences. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM suite.
Winner | The Saudi Public Transport Company (SAPTCO)
Finalists
CFO of the Year Award - EMEA
Outstanding leadership in finance innovation
This award celebrates a visionary leader who’s using technology to reshape the role of their financial organization within the company. The winner is working with executive peers and their team to improve financial performance, forecast what’s coming, make smart investments, and spark business model innovation. Inspire other CFOs with your vision for applying technology to expand finance’s pivotal role.
Winner | DHL Supply Chain
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CFO:
Dietrich Franz
AI Award Winners - EMEA
Winner: Abu Dhabi Media Network
Winner: BIAC Digital & Technology
GenAI Applications Innovation Award - EMEA
Best implementation of AI and ML
Generative AI is increasingly being leveraged in the business applications we use every day. This award celebrates the best use of a GenAI capability that’s integrated into an Oracle Fusion Cloud application or applications to improve the user experience, automate tasks, increase efficiency, generate new insights, or drive other tangible benefits. Whether by building new applications or enhancing existing ones, recipients of this award demonstrate how the seamless integration of GenAI technologies can drive innovation and solve real-world challenges to make a measurable impact. How are you putting in-app GenAI capabilities to work for your business?
Winner | Abu Dhabi Media Network
GenAI Innovation Award - EMEA
Innovative use of GenAI for business challenges
This award honors the most innovative and creative use of generative AI to tackle crucial business problems. Whether you developed entirely new solutions or reinvented existing processes, celebrate how your team has harnessed the power of OCI and GenAI to redefine what’s possible.
Winner | BIAC Digital & Technology
Finalists
OCI & Database Award Winners - EMEA
Cloud Architect: Dhananjay Papde
Winner: SITA
CIO: Nikos Angelopoulos
Winner: MTN Group Limited
CTO: Sergey Kastukevich
Winner: SOFTSWISS
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group
Winner: Santander
Winner: MTN
Winner: The Open University
Winner: Vodafone UK Plc
Cloud Architect of the Year Award - EMEA
Excellence in scalability and innovation
This award recognizes a cloud architect who shows excellence in designing scalable, innovative cloud solutions. This visionary architect implements solutions that deliver business performance, reliability, and trust, enabling their organization to thrive in the cloud era.
Winner | SITA
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Cloud Architect:
Dhananjay Papde
Finalists
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Cloud Architect:
Sai Penumuru -
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Cloud Architect:
Ahmed Eisa -
CIO of the Year Award - EMEA
Outstanding contributions to IT leadership
This award showcases a CIO who demonstrates exceptional IT leadership, delivering business results through the creation and execution of a clear IT strategy. By leveraging OCI in innovative ways, this CIO delivers remarkable business value, implements an effective data analytics strategy, optimizes operations via automation, enhances internal and end-user productivity, and/or protects their organization from evolving security threats. The winner will serve as an inspiration to other CIOs.
Winner | MTN Group Limited
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CIO:
Nikos Angelopoulos
Finalists
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CIO:
Guntars Andersons -
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CIO:
Matteo Serra -
CTO of the Year Award - EMEA
Driving groundbreaking technology strategies
This award highlights a CTO who uses emerging technologies to advance their organization’s goals, such as lowering operational costs and creating new, transformative products to drive meaningful results for the company or even their industry at large. This CTO demonstrates a deep knowledge of their own technology landscape and Oracle’s cloud, delivering clear, executable strategies for successful cloud deployments while securing both their customers’ data and their own. The winner will inspire other CTOs and tech professionals with their vision for technology-led innovation.
Winner | SOFTSWISS
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CTO:
Sergey Kastukevich
Finalists
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CTO:
Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos -
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CTO:
Andres Kaaber -
Multicloud Excellence Award - EMEA
Superior strategies for multicloud management
Organizations want to use what they consider to be the best cloud to fit any given workload. This award honors businesses that combine Oracle Cloud with other leading cloud environments and services—often by migrating Oracle Database to the cloud of their choice—to form an optimal solution for their needs. The winner demonstrates an exceptional strategy for managing and integrating multicloud environments, deftly balancing performance, cost, interoperability, and complexity.
Winner | Lloyds Banking Group
Finalists
Applications Innovation on Oracle Database - EMEA
Using Oracle Database to enhance applications
This award recognizes the most innovative use of Oracle Database to enhance application performance, whether it’s building new applications or expanding the scope and functionality of existing ones. The winner will be a team or individual who pushes the boundaries of what’s possible, delivering outstanding value to customers via high performing applications that make the most of Oracle Database capabilities.
Winner | Santander
Finalists
Data Analytics Award - EMEA
Using analytics to drive business outcomes
Businesses are inundated with data, but how do they get more insight from it? This award recognizes an organization that uses Oracle’s data management and analytics solutions to turn complex data into actionable intelligence, delivering clear value across their operations.
Winner | MTN
Performance Excellence Award - EMEA
Outstanding price-to-performance solution
This award celebrates an OCI-based solution that delivers an outstanding price-to-performance outcome. Share your team’s success story to demonstrate the capabilities of OCI.
Winner | The Open University
Finalists
Dedicated Region Award - EMEA
Innovating with OCI Dedicated Region
OCI Dedicated Region gives companies the power of a public cloud in the location of their choice. This award recognizes the most innovative use of an Oracle distributed cloud solutions—including Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, or Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure—to solve specific business needs. Tell us how your company has leveraged this cloud implementation strategy to overcome a challenge or achieve a particular goal, be it by exiting one or more data centers or bringing cloud solutions directly where you needed them.
Winner | Vodafone UK Plc
Customer Experience Award Winners - JAPAC
Winner: SBI Card
Winner: Indian Hotels Company Limited
Customer Experience Excellence Award - JAPAC
Outstanding achievements in enhancing CX
Are you building an experience for your customers that goes far beyond a smooth transaction? This award recognizes the breadth and depth of those efforts, including how you understand, engage with, and deliver for your customers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud CX suite.
Winner | SBI Card
Finalists
Customer Experience Innovation Award - JAPAC
Most impactful CX program driven by data
Do you regularly surprise your customers—in a good way!—with the experiences you deliver? This award recognizes creative, data-driven approaches to CX that build strong ties with customers and delivers results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud CX suite.
Winner | Indian Hotels Company Limited
Human Resources Award Winners - JAPAC
Winner: Access World Logistics (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Winner: Virtuos Limited
Winner: Colonial First State
CHRO: Gwen Mei Ping Wong
Winner: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Asia Pacific
Employee Experience Excellence Award - JAPAC
Thoughtful design of the employee experience
This award celebrates a human resources team that helps make their work environment a better place to be, delivering an employee experience that helps people thrive within their roles and build rewarding careers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
Winner | Access World Logistics (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Finalists
Candidate Experience Excellence Award - JAPAC
Guiding candidates through the hiring journey
This award celebrates a human resources team that goes above and beyond in delivering a meaningful and engaging job application, interview, and onboarding process for potential hires. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
Winner | Virtuos Limited
HR Innovation Award - JAPAC
Remarkable visions for the future of work
This award celebrates the innovative work of human resources teams. Did you come up with a creative program to engage employees, boost productivity, or find and court talented job candidates? Did you apply data analytics in a novel way to help solve a pressing HR issue? Recognize and celebrate your team’s ingenuity and passion. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
Winner | Colonial First State
Finalists
CHRO of the Year Award - JAPAC
Transformative HR practices and strategies
This award celebrates a visionary leader who is delivering outstanding performance based on your company’s definition of HR success. Whether it’s in recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, culture change, or some other area, inspire other CHROs with your vision for HR performance.
Winner | FUJIFILM Business Innovation Asia Pacific
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CHRO:
Gwen Mei Ping Wong
Finalists
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CHRO:
Eko Waluyo -
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CHRO:
Scott Austin -
Finance and Supply Chain Award Winners - JAPAC
Winner: Omega HealthCare
Winner: OCBC
Winner: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
CFO: Alexandre Macaire
Winner: Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint- stock Bank
Finance Excellence Award - JAPAC
Innovative and sustained value creation
This award recognizes a finance team for applying strategies and best practices that create sustained value for their organizations. Showcase how you’re excelling in data-driven decision-making, cross-company collaboration, AI-powered automation, or other areas to help your company deliver superior results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.
Winner | Omega HealthCare
Finalists
Finance Innovation Award - JAPAC
Remarkable vision for the future of finance
This award celebrates an organization that uses emerging technologies to reshape how finance professionals do their jobs. This award recognizes a finance team for its creative new approach to a key task, process, or organizational goal. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.
Winner | OCBC
Finalists
Supply Chain Excellence Award - JAPAC
Best use of Oracle Cloud across the supply chain
This award celebrates a company for establishing the kind of predictable and resilient supply chain that’s vital for delivering great customer experiences. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM suite.
Winner | Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Finalists
CFO of the Year Award - JAPAC
Outstanding leadership in finance innovation
This award celebrates a visionary leader who’s using technology to reshape the role of their financial organization within the company. The winner is working with executive peers and their team to improve financial performance, forecast what’s coming, make smart investments, and spark business model innovation. Inspire other CFOs with your vision for applying technology to expand finance’s pivotal role.
Winner | Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint- stock Bank
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CFO:
Alexandre Macaire
Finalists
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CFO:
Bhaskar Anand Rao -
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CFO:
Manoj Ladi -
AI Award Winners - JAPAC
Winner: TensorGo Software Pvt. Ltd.
Winner: Singapore Life Ltd
GenAI Applications Innovation Award - JAPAC
Best implementation of AI and ML
Generative AI is increasingly being leveraged in the business applications we use every day. This award celebrates the best use of a GenAI capability that’s integrated into an Oracle Fusion Cloud application or applications to improve the user experience, automate tasks, increase efficiency, generate new insights, or drive other tangible benefits. Whether by building new applications or enhancing existing ones, recipients of this award demonstrate how the seamless integration of GenAI technologies can drive innovation and solve real-world challenges to make a measurable impact. How are you putting in-app GenAI capabilities to work for your business?
Winner | TensorGo Software Pvt. Ltd.
GenAI Innovation Award - JAPAC
Innovative use of GenAI for business challenges
This award honors the most innovative and creative use of generative AI to tackle crucial business problems. Whether you developed entirely new solutions or reinvented existing processes, celebrate how your team has harnessed the power of OCI and GenAI to redefine what’s possible.
Winner | Singapore Life Ltd
OCI & Database Award Winners - JAPAC
Cloud Architect: Yusuke Suzuki
Winner: KDDI Corporation
CIO: Katsuya Masuda
Winner: KDDI Corporation
CTO: Ajay More
Winner: National Informatics Center
Winner: Manulife Singapore
Winner: Bank Of Ayudhya
Winner: Indus Towers Limited
Winner: Fujitsu Limited
Cloud Architect of the Year Award - JAPAC
Excellence in scalability and innovation
This award recognizes a cloud architect who shows excellence in designing scalable, innovative cloud solutions. This visionary architect implements solutions that deliver business performance, reliability, and trust, enabling their organization to thrive in the cloud era.
Winner | KDDI Corporation
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Cloud Architect:
Yusuke Suzuki
Finalists
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Cloud Architect:
Ann Tey Siow Fong -
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Cloud Architect:
Chandrasekaran Krishnan -
CIO of the Year Award - JAPAC
Outstanding contributions to IT leadership
This award showcases a CIO who demonstrates exceptional IT leadership, delivering business results through the creation and execution of a clear IT strategy. By leveraging OCI in innovative ways, this CIO delivers remarkable business value, implements an effective data analytics strategy, optimizes operations via automation, enhances internal and end-user productivity, and/or protects their organization from evolving security threats. The winner will serve as an inspiration to other CIOs.
Winner | KDDI Corporation
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CIO:
Katsuya Masuda
Finalists
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CIO:
Jeroen Buwalda -
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CIO:
Ryan Klose -
CTO of the Year Award - JAPAC
Driving groundbreaking technology strategies
This award highlights a CTO who uses emerging technologies to advance their organization’s goals, such as lowering operational costs and creating new, transformative products to drive meaningful results for the company or even their industry at large. This CTO demonstrates a deep knowledge of their own technology landscape and Oracle’s cloud, delivering clear, executable strategies for successful cloud deployments while securing both their customers’ data and their own. The winner will inspire other CTOs and tech professionals with their vision for technology-led innovation.
Winner | National Informatics Center
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CTO:
Ajay More
Finalists
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CTO:
Satyendra Singh -
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CTO:
Tawan Jithavech -
Multicloud Excellence Award - JAPAC
Superior strategies for multicloud management
Organizations want to use what they consider to be the best cloud to fit any given workload. This award honors businesses that combine Oracle Cloud with other leading cloud environments and services—often by migrating Oracle Database to the cloud of their choice—to form an optimal solution for their needs. The winner demonstrates an exceptional strategy for managing and integrating multicloud environments, deftly balancing performance, cost, interoperability, and complexity.
Winner | Manulife Singapore
Applications Innovation on Oracle Database - JAPAC
Using Oracle Database to enhance applications
This award recognizes the most innovative use of Oracle Database to enhance application performance, whether it’s building new applications or expanding the scope and functionality of existing ones. The winner will be a team or individual who pushes the boundaries of what’s possible, delivering outstanding value to customers via high performing applications that make the most of Oracle Database capabilities.
Winner | Bank Of Ayudhya
Finalists
Data Analytics Award - JAPAC
Using analytics to drive business outcomes
Businesses are inundated with data, but how do they get more insight from it? This award recognizes an organization that uses Oracle’s data management and analytics solutions to turn complex data into actionable intelligence, delivering clear value across their operations.
Winner | Indus Towers Limited
Performance Excellence Award - JAPAC
Outstanding price-to-performance solution
This award celebrates an OCI-based solution that delivers an outstanding price-to-performance outcome. Share your team’s success story to demonstrate the capabilities of OCI.
Winner | Maruti Suzuki India ltd
Finalists
Dedicated Region Award - JAPAC
Innovating with OCI Dedicated Region
OCI Dedicated Region gives companies the power of a public cloud in the location of their choice. This award recognizes the most innovative use of an Oracle distributed cloud solutions—including Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, or Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure—to solve specific business needs. Tell us how your company has leveraged this cloud implementation strategy to overcome a challenge or achieve a particular goal, be it by exiting one or more data centers or bringing cloud solutions directly where you needed them.
Winner | Fujitsu Limited
Customer Experience Award Categories
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Outstanding achievements in enhancing CX
Customer Experience Excellence Award
Are you building an experience for your customers that goes far beyond a smooth transaction? This award recognizes the breadth and depth of those efforts, including how you understand, engage with, and deliver for your customers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud CX suite.
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Most impactful CX program driven by data
Customer Experience Innovation Award
Do you regularly surprise your customers—in a good way!—with the experiences you deliver? This award recognizes creative, data-driven approaches to CX that build strong ties with customers and delivers results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud CX suite.
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Visionary strategies that are reshaping CX
CRO of the Year Award
Chief revenue officers took on an even more influential role at many companies in 2024. This award recognizes an outstanding CRO who made a major impact via their vision and implementation. By sharing how your strategy helped drive revenue or other key financial targets, you can showcase your achievements and inspire others with your insights.
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Innovative leadership in marketing strategies
CMO of the Year Award
This award recognizes a visionary CMO who has helped transform their organization through new customer experiences, creative campaigns, and data-driven marketing initiatives. Share how you led your team to deliver value through passion, creativity, and focus.
Human Resources Award Categories
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Thoughtful design of the employee experience
Employee Experience Excellence Award
This award celebrates a human resources team that helps make their work environment a better place to be, delivering an employee experience that helps people thrive within their roles and build rewarding careers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
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Guiding candidates through the hiring journey
Candidate Experience Excellence Award
This award celebrates a human resources team that goes above and beyond in delivering a meaningful and engaging job application, interview, and onboarding process for potential hires. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
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Remarkable visions for the future of work
HR Innovation Award
This award celebrates the innovative work of human resources teams. Did you come up with a creative program to engage employees, boost productivity, or find and court talented job candidates? Did you apply data analytics in a novel way to help solve a pressing HR issue? Recognize and celebrate your team’s ingenuity and passion. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.
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Transformative HR practices and strategies
CHRO of the Year Award
This award celebrates a visionary leader who is delivering outstanding performance based on your company’s definition of HR success. Whether it’s in recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, culture change, or some other area, inspire other CHROs with your vision for HR performance.
Finance and Supply Chain Award Categories
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Innovative and sustained value creation
Finance Excellence Award
This award recognizes a finance team for applying strategies and best practices that create sustained value for their organizations. Showcase how you’re excelling in data-driven decision-making, cross-company collaboration, AI-powered automation, or other areas to help your company deliver superior results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.
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Remarkable vision for the future of finance
Finance Innovation Award
This award celebrates an organization that uses emerging technologies to reshape how finance professionals do their jobs. This award recognizes a finance team for its creative new approach to a key task, process, or organizational goal. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.
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Best use of Oracle Cloud across the supply chain
Supply Chain Excellence Award
This award celebrates a company for establishing the kind of predictable and resilient supply chain that’s vital for delivering great customer experiences. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM suite.
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Outstanding leadership in finance innovation
CFO of the Year Award
This award celebrates a visionary leader who’s using technology to reshape the role of their financial organization within the company. The winner is working with executive peers and their team to improve financial performance, forecast what’s coming, make smart investments, and spark business model innovation. Inspire other CFOs with your vision for applying technology to expand finance’s pivotal role.
AI Award Categories
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Best implementation of AI and ML
GenAI Applications Innovation Award
Generative AI is increasingly being leveraged in the business applications we use every day. This award celebrates the best use of a GenAI capability that’s integrated into an Oracle Fusion Cloud application or applications to improve the user experience, automate tasks, increase efficiency, generate new insights, or drive other tangible benefits. Whether by building new applications or enhancing existing ones, recipients of this award demonstrate how the seamless integration of GenAI technologies can drive innovation and solve real-world challenges to make a measurable impact. How are you putting in-app GenAI capabilities to work for your business?
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Innovative use of GenAI for business challenges
GenAI Innovation Award
This award honors the most innovative and creative use of generative AI to tackle crucial business problems. Whether you developed entirely new solutions or reinvented existing processes, celebrate how your team has harnessed the power of OCI and GenAI to redefine what’s possible.
OCI & Database Award Categories
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Excellence in scalability and innovation
Cloud Architect of the Year Award
This award recognizes a cloud architect who shows excellence in designing scalable, innovative cloud solutions. This visionary architect implements solutions that deliver business performance, reliability, and trust, enabling their organization to thrive in the cloud era.
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Outstanding contributions to IT leadership
CIO of the Year Award
This award showcases a CIO who demonstrates exceptional IT leadership, delivering business results through the creation and execution of a clear IT strategy. By leveraging OCI in innovative ways, this CIO delivers remarkable business value, implements an effective data analytics strategy, optimizes operations via automation, enhances internal and end-user productivity, and/or protects their organization from evolving security threats. The winner will serve as an inspiration to other CIOs.
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Driving groundbreaking technology strategies
CTO of the Year Award
This award highlights a CTO who uses emerging technologies to advance their organization’s goals, such as lowering operational costs and creating new, transformative products to drive meaningful results for the company or even their industry at large. This CTO demonstrates a deep knowledge of their own technology landscape and Oracle’s cloud, delivering clear, executable strategies for successful cloud deployments while securing both their customers’ data and their own. The winner will inspire other CTOs and tech professionals with their vision for technology-led innovation.
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Superior strategies for multicloud management
Multicloud Excellence Award
Organizations want to use what they consider to be the best cloud to fit any given workload. This award honors businesses that combine Oracle Cloud with other leading cloud environments and services—often by migrating Oracle Database to the cloud of their choice—to form an optimal solution for their needs. The winner demonstrates an exceptional strategy for managing and integrating multicloud environments, deftly balancing performance, cost, interoperability, and complexity.
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Using Oracle Database to enhance applications
Applications Innovation on Oracle Database
This award recognizes the most innovative use of Oracle Database to enhance application performance, whether it’s building new applications or expanding the scope and functionality of existing ones. The winner will be a team or individual who pushes the boundaries of what’s possible, delivering outstanding value to customers via high performing applications that make the most of Oracle Database capabilities.
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Using analytics to drive business outcomes
Data Analytics Award
Businesses are inundated with data, but how do they get more insight from it? This award recognizes an organization that uses Oracle’s data management and analytics solutions to turn complex data into actionable intelligence, delivering clear value across their operations.
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Outstanding price-to-performance solution
Performance Excellence Award
This award celebrates an OCI-based solution that delivers an outstanding price-to-performance outcome. Share your team’s success story to demonstrate the capabilities of OCI.
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Innovating with OCI Dedicated Region
Dedicated Region Award
OCI Dedicated Region gives companies the power of a public cloud in the location of their choice. This award recognizes the most innovative use of an Oracle distributed cloud solutions—including Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, or Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure—to solve specific business needs. Tell us how your company has leveraged this cloud implementation strategy to overcome a challenge or achieve a particular goal, be it by exiting one or more data centers or bringing cloud solutions directly where you needed them.
2025 Customer Excellence Awards Nominees
We're excited to highlight some of the 2025 Customer Excellence Awards nominees.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Who can enter?
The Oracle Excellence Awards are open to any organization that uses services under the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure umbrella and/or Oracle Applications and has achieved extraordinary results leveraging our technologies.
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What are Oracle’s goals for the awards?
We have two main goals: to celebrate our extraordinary customers, and to showcase their remarkable success stories on Oracle.com.
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How will winners be recognized?
Finalists and winners will be recognized on the Oracle Excellence Awards web page and celebrated via various social communications activities. Winners will also be presented with a printed certificate in recognition of their achievement. Regional winners will be honored at one of three in-person regional Oracle CloudWorld Tour Events (Singapore, London, NYC), and global winners will be recognized during a live, in-person event at Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas. Global winners will also receive a complimentary pass to attend the global event (Public sector customers are not eligible for a complimentary pass).
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How many finalists will be announced in each category?
We expect a high volume of submissions, so we’ll announce up to five finalists per category, per region.
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Are the Oracle Excellence Awards global?
The Oracle Excellence Awards feature both regional and global recognition. There are four regional programs (JAPAC, EMEA, Latin America, North America) with 22 categories each, leading to a global competition where regional winners compete for the global title in their respective categories. Review the program rules (PDF) for any current restrictions.
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Can I submit an entry on someone else’s behalf?
Yes. If you know of a person or organization that deserves recognition, please do. Be sure to include their contact details so we can reach out to see if they want to participate.
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Can I enter more than one category?
Absolutely. However, each organization may only submit one nomination per category. If nominations are submitted by one organization for additional categories, each nomination must be materially different from any others submitted.
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What makes a winning entry?
Our judges are looking to highlight the incredible work our customers have done in recent years to increase their organization’s performance, lower costs, create positive impacts, and improve user experience for both employees and customers. When submitting your nomination, including metrics and measurable results helps significantly to demonstrate the impact Oracle and its solutions have had on the business and its people.
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What information do I need before starting a nomination?
You’ll need information about the customer’s mission, the challenges they faced, how they used Oracle solutions to overcome those challenges, and the results they have achieved after implementing the solutions.
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Can I change my nomination after the nomination period ends?
Unfortunately, no. All information is final as of the end date of the nomination period, which is listed on the Excellence Awards home page.
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What are the key differences between the regional and global programs?
Each regional program includes 22 categories, recognizing up to 88 winners across four regions (JAPAC, EMEA, Latin America, North America). Regional winners advance to the global competition, which features the same 22 categories, and will determine the worldwide winners.
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Why has the program expanded to include regional competitions?
The expansion to regional programs allows Oracle to recognize a broader and more diverse set of customers, highlighting innovation, and success stories from different parts of the world. This structure also ensures that regional leaders can compete for a global title, increasing the visibility of their achievements.
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Where and when will the awards ceremonies take place?
The awards ceremonies will take place in the following locations:
Regional Ceremonies
- JAPAC: Singapore
- EMEA: London
- North America: New York City
Global Ceremony
- Oracle CloudWorld, Las Vegas
Please visit the CloudWorld Tours website for more information. Details will be shared with the finalists and winners at a later date.
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Past Customer Awards Winners
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Customer Experience
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