Oracle Sustainability Awards

The Oracle Sustainability Awards celebrate customers who use Oracle solutions to weave sustainability into their operations, progress towards their own sustainability targets, and build a more sustainable future.

Review the rules for the Earthfirst Excellence Award here (PDF).

Congratulations to our 2024 Sustainability Award winner and finalists!

Oracle Sustainability Awards

Winners of the 2019 Oracle Sustainability Awards at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco.

The Oracle Sustainability Awards are presented to select customers who use Oracle technology to drive environmental initiatives as part of their business strategy. The awards have been an integral part of sustainability efforts at Oracle since 2008.

Whether your goal is to save energy, reduce emissions, minimize waste, or achieve another environment-focused objective, if you’re using an Oracle product to support your sustainability mission while reducing costs, we want to hear about it. For example, you might use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to reduce power consumption and space requirements by increasing utilization rates. Or you might use Oracle Cloud Applications to minimize environmental impacts, such as energy consumption and waste, during design, sourcing, planning, production, and distribution. If this sounds like you, your organization may be eligible to win an Oracle Sustainability Award.

The Earthfirst Award for Operational Excellence in Sustainability

This award is given to an organization using Oracle Cloud Applications or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (or both!) to help drive efforts toward a sustainable future.

Product Example Oracle solutions Example sustainability benefits
Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Oracle Fusions Cloud Financials
Oracle Fusion Cloud Supplier Qualification Management
Oracle Fusion Risk Management Cloud		 Track and report your company’s environmental impacts in Cloud ERP by capturing data from purchases of fuel, energy, water, and waste management from supplier invoices.
Meet regulatory and stakeholder requirements for supply chain emissions reporting by capturing supplier, item, and invoice data in Cloud ERP.
Oracle Risk Management Cloud can help streamline and automate governance, risk and control (GRC) activities, including around ESG governance and audit.
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service
Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service		 Providing metrics for fact-based environmental management.
Reduced reporting cycle times and costs.
Integrating financial and sustainability reporting.
Oracle Supply Chain Management Oracle Logistics
Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance
Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing
Oracle Fusion Maintenance Cloud
Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management
Oracle Fusion Demand Management Cloud
Oracle Fusions Sales and Operations Planning Cloud
Oracle Fusion Supply Planning Cloud
Oracle Fusion Order Management Cloud
Oracle Intelligent Track and Trace		 Minimizing environmental impacts, such as energy consumption and waste, during design, sourcing, planning, production, and distribution. Reducing risk by managing product environmental compliance. Supporting the circular economy.
Tracking and reporting on environmental metrics.
Reduce risk of supplier-related issues.
Reduce amount of down time, unnecessary labor costs, and increase asset utilization.
Decreased shipments due to order errors.
Decreased waste due to product returns.
Increase recycled product content.
Oracle Human Capital Management Core HR + Journeys
Talent Management
Oracle Recruiting Cloud
Oracle Learning Cloud
Benefits
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion		 Tracking, tracing, and monitoring the condition of products to minimize damage, waste, and theft.
Drive traffic to internal sustainability pages.
Increase ESG training completions.
Instill company values in new talent from the beginning of employment.
Reduction in paper by moving goal management, performances management and other talent review to the cloud.
Reduce travel costs and carbon emissions by offering virtual interviews via Oracle Recruiting Cloud.
Real-time reporting including diversity components such as gender, age, ethnicity, veteran status, disability, etc.
Industry Solutions Oracle Retail
Oracle Utilities
Oracle Construction and Engineering		 With Oracle Retail Brand Compliance, survey and score card management to evaluate GHG Scope 3 metrics on carbon emissions, water consumption, water pollution, bio-diversity, social and other environmental parameters.
With Oracle Energy and Water, achieve behavioral energy efficiency and decarbonization goals.
With Oracle Construction and Engineering, gain insights into construction and operations that promote collaboration and increase transparency into complex supply chains to present a deeper understand of the environmental impact of decisions.
Oracle Intelligent Track and Trace Track and audit goods or transactions across business and partner network
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI
Oracle Analytics Cloud
Multitenant Database
Autonomous Database
Oracle Blockchain Platoform
Artificial Intelligence		 Reduce green house emissions footprint by optimizing infrastructure and operations.

Sustainability Awards over the years

2023 Sustainability Award Winners

The Gaia Award and Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

Gaia Award for Excellence in Sustainability

Winner: Daloop

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Gaia Award for Excellence in Sustainability

Tackling the world’s most pressing challenges requires innovation.


Winner | Daloop



Finalists

  • NIBIO

  • SNCF

  • Martin Brower

  • Punch Torino

The Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability

Winner: Richard Oberg | Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

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The Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability

The time is now to leverage information technology to act against climate change and its impacts. Organizations that weave sustainability into their operational business strategy are ensuring that they’re keeping both the planet and their bottom line in mind. This award goes to the organization using Oracle Cloud Applications—including industry-specific applications and analytics—to help drive its efforts towards a sustainable future.

  • Michael Burger | Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
  • Josh Perkes | Loup Logistics
  • Marcel Gnoth | Aida Cruises
  • Cindy Sutrisna | Link
Winner | Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)



Finalists

  • Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)

  • Loup Logistics

  • Aida Cruises

  • Link

2021 Change Agents Sustainability Customer Awards

The Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

The Gaia Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

Congratulations to the 2021 Sustainability Winners

2019 Sustainability Innovation Award Winners

During Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco there was much discussion of endless possibilities enabled by Oracle products. A wonderful exemplification of this is the Sustainability Innovation Awards where Oracle recognizes select customers for their use of Oracle technology to drive innovative sustainability initiatives. The awards recognize organizations for outstanding work to ensure that sustainability remains a fundamental tenet of enterprise social responsibility. Oracle is honored to congratulate each winner on their leadership and proud they have chosen Oracle technology to help power their cloud transformations.

These award-winning organizations are using many different Oracle products to take an environmental lead as well as to reduce costs and improve business efficiencies using green business practices. The top award winner, Southern California Gas Company, was awarded the 2019 Chief Sustainability Officer of the Year Award.

Winners hail from a wide range of industries and regions. Four of the winning customers chose to include a partner that helped support their sustainability initiatives. The winning nominations were selected by a panel of five judges. Three judges are from Oracle. The other two judges include Heli Helskyaho, CEO Miracle Finland Oy and Oracle ACE Director, and Joe Imbimbo, Oracle Applications DBA at PPG Industries and member of the Board Of Directors for the Oracle Applications Users Group.

The sustainability innovation award winning companies are:

The winner partners were:

2018 Sustainability Innovation Award Winners

The Oracle Excellence Awards is 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. Each year, the winners are chosen from hundreds of nominations that come in from across the globe. Oracle is honored to congratulate each winner on their leadership and proud they have chosen Oracle technology to help power their cloud transformations.

One of the Oracle Excellence Awards is the Oracle Sustainability Innovation Award. This is presented to select customers and their partners that are embracing environmental initiatives as a central part of their businesses and leveraging technology to support those efforts. These award-winning organizations are using many different Oracle products to take an environmental lead as well as to reduce costs and improve business efficiencies using green business practices. The top award winner, City of San Jose, was awarded the 2018 Chief Sustainability Officer of the Year Award.

“Our customers and partners continue to display unprecedented creativity in building successful, sustainable organizations,” said Jon Chorley, Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President of SCM Product Strategy, Oracle. “At this year’s Oracle Sustainability Innovation Awards, we honored these customers for showcasing unique ways to increase eco-innovation while also reducing costs and improving organizational performance using Oracle technologies.”

Winners hail from a wide range of industries and regions. Two of the winning customers chose to include a partner who helped support their sustainability initiatives. The winning nominations were selected by a panel of 5 judges. 3 judges are from Oracle. The other 2 judges include Heli Helskyaho, CEO Miracle Finland Oy and Oracle ACE Director, and Joe Imbimbo, Oracle Applications DBA at PPG Industries and member of the Board Of Directors for the Oracle Applications Users Group.

The sustainability innovation award winning companies are:

The winning partners were:


About the awards

The Earthfirst Award

The Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

Now is the time to use information technology to act on climate change. Organizations that weave sustainability into their operational business strategy ensure that they make decisions with both the planet and profitability in mind. This award is given to an organization that uses Oracle Cloud Applications or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (or both!) to help drive its efforts toward a sustainable future

About the winners

Winners will be selected based on the extent of their environmental impact as well as the business efficiencies they have achieved using Oracle products.


Eligibility criteria

  • Your company must use at least one Oracle product or solution to support sustainability initiatives. Take a look at this partial list for a few examples of how you might use Oracle products to be eligible for these awards.
  • Your sustainability initiative should be in progress or in active development.

Recognition for award winners

Prizes and recognition for the 2024 Sustainability Awards are in line with the prizes and recognition from the Oracle Excellence awards.

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