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Oracle Excellence Awards 2008 Call for Nominations: 2008 Oracle Excellence Awards

Does your company use Oracle Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware?

The Oracle Excellence Awards have been launched to honor our customers and their partners who are creatively using Oracle Fusion Middleware or BEA with Oracle Applications such as Oracle’s E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards and vertical industry applicationsto create innovative and standards-based technology solutions.

Nomination Deadline

  • Deadline for the nomination is Friday / August 8th, 2008.
  • Winning organizations will be notified by early September 2008.
  • To submit a nomination, please Register Now and download an official 2008 Oracle Excellence Award submission form.

Nomination Eligibility

  • Company uses at least one component of Oracle Fusion Middleware or BEA.
  • Company uses at least one component of Oracle Applications.
  • Have a solution that uses Oracle Fusion Middleware or BEA with Oracle Applications.
  • This solution should be in production or in active development.

Sample Use Cases:

  • Streamline the order-to-cash process using Oracle SOA as an orchestration engine between Siebel CRM and E-Business Suite Financials.
  • Discover actionable intelligence in finance, sales, service to employees by using Oracle BI and Siebel CRM.
  • Achieve SOX compliance and faster Employee on-boarding by securely provisioning users with PeopleSoft HCM using Oracle Identity Manager.
  • More use cases from the 2007 Oracle Excellence Award winners:

    • Oracle Profit Magazine article
    • OAUG (Oracle Applications User Group) magazine article
    • QUEST (JD Edwards and PeopleSoft user group) magazine article

About The Oracle Excellence Awards

  • The Awards Selection Committee determines winners.
  • Committee Members include representatives from Oracle, OAUG, and Quest.
  • Awards ceremony held during Oracle OpenWorld 2008 (September 21-25) in San Francisco.

Submit a Nomination Today!

Awards Recipients will receive:

  • FREE registration to Oracle OpenWorld 2008 (September 21-25) in San Francisco
  • FREE Oracle polo shirt
  • Placement in Oracle Press Release
  • Feature placement in Oracle Profit Magazine article
  • Podcast opportunity with Oracle SVP of Applications Technology
  • 1-3 meetings with Oracle Executives during Oracle OpenWorld 2008
  • For Australian and Asia Pacific Excellence Award winners, free passes from Australian Oracle User Group (AUSOUG) to the annual conference (October 2008) as well as opportunity to participate in a panel session and reception.
  • For Excellence Award winners from Europe, Middle East and Africa, free passes to UK Oracle User Group Conference and Exhibition (December 2008) as well as offer guaranteed speaker slots for the top 5 winners Oracle User Group (UKOUG) to the annual conference Award Nominations


    • To submit a nomination, please Register Now and download an official 2008 Oracle Excellence Award submission form.

Award Selection

The Awards Selection Committee, consisting of individuals from Oracle, OAUG and Quest will choose the winners. Winners will be judged on multiple factors including, but not limited to:

  • Level of impact (ROI/soft benefits) relative to the size of the organization
  • Complexity of implementation
  • Future plans

2007 Awards Media Coverage

Some examples from the coverage received by some of our 2007 Oracle Excellence Award Winners:

  • Oracle Profit Magazine article
  • OAUG (Oracle User Group) magazine article
  • QUEST (JDE and PSFT user group) magazine article
  • 2007 Oracle Excellence Podcasts

Co-Sponsored by:

OAUG Quest
IOUG ODTUG
UKOUG AUSOUG

All decisions by Oracle are final. Oracle reserves the right to modify or terminate the Oracle Excellence Award promotion at any time and at its sole discretion. This includes having fewer than 30 prize winners. Winners are responsible for any other expenses relating to the acceptance and use of prizes. Oracle has the option, at its sole discretion, of substituting a prize if for any reason, including scheduling, a prize becomes unavailable. Prizes cannot be transferred, substituted, or redeemed for cash value except as expressly authorized by Oracle.

Award of prizes to governmental entities and/or employees is conditioned on verification that Oracle’s provision, and the governmental entity’s and/or employee’s acceptance, of the prize or prizes, complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and/or rules of the entity or employee’s nation, state or province, locality and/or employer.

BY PARTICIPATING, ENTRANTS, PARTICIPANTS, POTENTIAL WINNERS AND WINNERS WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO CLAIM AMBIGUITY IN THE RULES, AND RELEASE, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS, ORACLE CORPORATION, AND ITS AFFILIATES AND SUBSIDIARIES, AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS AND EMPLOYEES (COLLECTIVELY, "RELEASEES") FROM AND AGAINST ANY INJURIES, LOSSES, DAMAGES, CLAIMS, ACTIONS, OR ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM OR ARISING FROM PARTICIPATION OR ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE, MISUSE OR NONUSE OF PRIZE(S) THAT MAY BE AWARDED.


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