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.

Deadline extended - Final day to submit February 14.

Key dates

January 6, 2025 Nominations open

February 14, 2025 Nominations close

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 Categories

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Outstanding leadership in finance innovation

    CFO of the Year

    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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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