2017 Oracle Excellence Award:
Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Awards

Thank you for your interest in submitting a nomination for Oracle Excellence Award: Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation of the Year 2017. This document is intended to help you prepare and submit your formal application.

Submission deadline is July 10th, 2017

Nomination Criteria

• The nominated solution must use at least one component or product from the category or categories below for which you are submitting
• Solution shows innovative and/or visionary use of these products
• There is a measurable level of impact such as ROI or other business benefit (or projected ROI)
• Solution should have a specific use case identified
• The nominated company is aware of and agrees to this nomination
• Nominations for solutions which are not yet running in production will also be considered
• Nominations will be accepted from Oracle employees, Oracle Partners, third parties or the nominee themselves.

Submission Guidance

• Please complete this form with as much detail as possible.
• Nominations must have the solution area identified and the disclaimer at the end completed in order to be eligible for an award.
• Submit completed form and any relevant supporting documents as attachments.
• IMPORTANT: Include category and company name in the attachments, for example: “CATEGORYNAME-CompanyName-InnovationAwards2017”
• Oracle may contact you to collect additional details, if necessary.
• Winners will be notified in August.

For any questions, please send an email to: innovation-cloud-platform_ww_grp@oracle.com.

Accelerate Application Development (Nomination Form)

Application Development and Deployment solutions help customers deliver next-generation applications with a mission-critical cloud platform optimized for high performance, reliability, availability and security. It simplifies operations with native cloud management and scales operations to multi-data center high availability infrastructures. It accelerates time to market with a modern development platform and integrated tools and is the foundation for modern application development, both in the cloud and on premises.

Accelerate Application Development services that qualify for a 2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Java Cloud Service
• Oracle Developer Cloud Service
• Oracle Application Container Cloud Service
• Oracle Container Cloud Service
• Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service
• Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
• Oracle Cloud Machine and/or Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine

Connect and Extend Applications (Nomination Form)

Solutions that Connect and Extend Applications help customers deliver faster time to value via digital connectivity & automation across applications, maximize engagement and user adoption with enhanced omni experiences via mobile, chat and digital assets, and rapidly deliver differentiation by adapting your applications.

Connect and Extend Applications services that qualify for a 2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Content and Experience Cloud (formerly Documents Cloud Service and Sites Cloud Service)
• Oracle WebCenter Portal Cloud Service
• Oracle Process Cloud Service
• Oracle Integration Cloud Service
• Oracle SOA Cloud Service
• Oracle API Platform Cloud Service
• Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
• Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service
• Oracle Java Cloud Service

Modernize Enterprise Security (Nomination Form)

The Security Category is made of the Oracle Identity and Security Services that provide the necessary security for the Digital Business World. Oracle Security Cloud Services are designed to protect applications, people, workloads and data from today’s sophisticated cyber threats with a complete predict, prevent, detect, and respond approach. We have introduced the industry’s first ever Identity-based Security Operations Center framework to help customers modernize their security operations.

Modernize Enterprise Security services that qualify for a 2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Identity Cloud Service
• Oracle CASB Cloud Service
• Oracle Security, Monitoring & Analytics Cloud Service
• Oracle Configuration and Compliance Cloud Service

Innovate with Enterprise Analytics (Nomination Form)

Oracle Analytics powers your analytics strategy at any scale, in every environment – cloud, premises, desktop, and data center.  Offering the industry’s most comprehensive capabilities, Oracle Analytics is delivered as a single cloud platform that includes self-service visualization and data preparation, enterprise reporting and advanced analytics, dynamic user-driven what-if modeling, self-learning mobile analytics that provide proactive insights, and much more.  With everything you need to ask any question of any data, at any time, on any device, Oracle Analytics Cloud ensures you can always get the best value from analytics.

Innovate with Enterprise Analytics services that qualify for a 2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Data Visualization
• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Oracle Essbase
• Oracle Day by Day
• Oracle Synopsis
• Oracle Big Data Discovery
• Oracle Advanced Analytics

Modernize through Data Integration and Governance (Nomination Form)

Oracle Data Integration products deliver low-impact, real-time data integration, fast bulk data transformation, and reliable data quality to provide timely, and trusted, heterogeneous data across the enterprise. Its products enable improved business insights, decreased cost of ownership, higher online transaction processing (OLTP) performance, and 24x7, continuous data availability for mission-critical systems and turning data into fact-based insights and big business opportunities.

Today, more than 10,000 customers are utilizing Oracle Data Integration technologies, including Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Enterprise Data Quality, and Oracle Metadata Management as a foundation for continuous availability, real-time data warehousing and BI solutions on-premise and for the cloud.

Modernize through Data Integration and Governance services that qualify for a 2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service
• Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service
• Oracle Data Integrator
• Oracle GoldenGate
• Oracle Enterprise Data Quality
• Oracle Metadata Management

Transform Data Management (Nomination Form)

Oracle Data Management Cloud services provide a complete and integrated set of capabilities for building, deploying and managing data driven applications. Combining the best in class scalability, security, availability and analytics for your business applications, these services accelerate your organization's pace of innovation and agility.

Transform Data Management services that qualify for a 2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Database Cloud Service
• Oracle Database Cloud Service – Bare Metal
• Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service
• Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine
• Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service – Managed
• Oracle Database Schema Cloud Service – Managed
• Oracle Database Backup Service
• Oracle Big Data Cloud Service
• Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service
• Oracle Big Data Cloud Machine

Move Workloads to Cloud (Nomination Form)

Oracle has built its Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to emulate a software defined, virtualized data center in the cloud where customers can experience the same operational control, isolation, security and predictable performance that they come to expect from their own, on-premise data centers.

Move Workloads to Cloud services that qualify for a 2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle IaaS Compute
       - Bare Metal Compute
       - Compute Cloud Service
       - Cloud at Customer
       - Ravello Cloud Service
• Oracle IaaS Storage
       - Oracle Storage Cloud Service - Object Storage
       - Oracle Storage Cloud Service - Archive Storage
       - Oracle Compute Cloud Service – Block Storage
       - Bare Metal Block Volume
       - Bare Metal Object Storage
• Oracle IaaS Networking
       - Virtual Cloud Network
       - Virtual Private Network
       - Fast Connect

Transform System Management (Nomination Form)

IT Operations Management solutions enable customers to foster a collaborative environment between development and operations organizations in order to deliver innovations faster, with higher quality and lower risk. Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) is a suite of next-generation, integrated monitoring, management and analytics solutions delivered as a service on Oracle Cloud. It is designed for today’s heterogeneous environments across on-premises, Oracle Cloud and third-party cloud services. OMC is built on a horizontally scalable big data platform with high throughput data processing for providing real-time analysis and deep insights across technical and business events. Data in OMC is automatically analyzed using machine learning and is correlated across all OMC services, thereby eliminating multiple information silos across end-user and infrastructure data, enabling faster trouble-shooting and providing the ability to run IT like a business.

Transform System Management services that qualify for a 2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Application Performance Monitoring Cloud Service
• Oracle Log Analytics Cloud Service
• Oracle IT Analytics Cloud Service
• Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring Service

Select the Cloud Platform Category

Please choose the Oracle Cloud Platform category the solution being nominated is primarily related to. You are encouraged to submit in more than one category, if your solution crosses category boundaries:

• Move Workloads to Cloud
• Accelerate Application Development
• Connect and Extend Applications
• Innovate with Enterprise Analytics
• Modernize Enterprise Security
• Transform System Management
• Transform Data Management
• Modernize through Data Integration and Governance