Infrastructure Awards Past Winners

Cloud Architect of the Year Award - NA

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 - NA

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 - NA

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 - NA

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 - NA

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 - NA

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 - NA

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.

Excellence in scalability and innovation

Cloud Architect of the Year Award - LAD

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 - LAD

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 - LAD

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 - LAD

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 - LAD

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.

Outstanding price-to-performance solution

Performance Excellence Award - LAD

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.

Excellence in scalability and innovation

Cloud Architect of the Year Award - EMEA

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 - EMEA

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 - EMEA

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 - EMEA

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 - EMEA

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 - EMEA

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 - EMEA

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 - EMEA

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.

Excellence in scalability and innovation

Cloud Architect of the Year Award - JAPAC

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 - JAPAC

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 - JAPAC

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 - JAPAC

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 - JAPAC

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 - JAPAC

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 - JAPAC

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 - JAPAC

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.

Transformed Data Center Operations

Data Center Migration and Transformation Award

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.

Excellence in Application Modernization

Application Modernization Award

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.

Innovation in Use of Data

Data Platform Innovation Award

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.

Best Use of AI and ML

AI Innovation Award

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.

Most Impactful Cloud Deployments

Cloud Architect of the Year Award

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.

Excellence in Sustainability

Application Migration and Modernization Award

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Innovating with Data Award

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.