2018 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 2018. This document is intended to help you prepare and submit your formal application.

Submission deadline is July 30th, 2018

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-InnovationAwards2018”
• Oracle may contact you to collect additional details, if necessary.
• Winners will be notified in September.

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

Oracle Application Development (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

Oracle 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.

Oracle Application Development services that qualify for a 2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Java Cloud Service
• Oracle Developer Cloud Service
• Oracle Application Container Cloud Service
• Oracle Container Cloud Service
• Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service
• Oracle Container Pipelines
• Oracle Cloud at Customer
• Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
• Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise (OMCe)
• Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud Enterprise (AMCe)

Oracle Integration (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

Solutions that Connect and Extend Applications help customers deliver faster time to value via digital connectivity and 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.

Oracle Integration services that qualify for a 2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Process Cloud Service
• Oracle Integration Cloud Service
• Oracle SOA Cloud Service
• Oracle API Platform Cloud Service

Oracle Content and Experience (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

Oracle Content and Experience Cloud a cloud-based content hub to drive omni-channel content management and accelerate experience delivery.

Oracle Content and Experience services that qualify for a 2018 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 Security and Identity (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

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.

Oracle Security and Identity services that qualify for a 2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

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

Oracle Analytics (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

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.

Oracle Analytics services that qualify for a 2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Analytics Cloud – Any Edition
• Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud – Any Edition
• Oracle BI Cloud Service
• Oracle Data Visualization Desktop, On Prem
• Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service
• Oracle BI Foundation Suite
• Oracle BI Applications
• Oracle Essbase
• Oracle Day by Day and/or Synopsis
• Oracle Advanced Analytics
• Oracle Business Intelligence 12c

Oracle Data Integration and Governance (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

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 Data Integration Platform Cloud, Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service, Oracle Stream Analytics, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Enterprise Data Quality, and Oracle Metadata Management as a foundation for continuous availability, Big Data projects, real-time data warehousing and BI solutions on-premise and for the cloud.

Oracle Data Integration and Governance services that qualify for a 2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud
• Data Integration Platform Cloud with Autonomous Capabilities
• Oracle Stream Analytics
• Oracle Golden Gate Cloud Service
• Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service
• Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition
• Application Adaptors for Data Integration
• Oracle Data Integrator for Big Data
• Oracle GoldenGate
• Oracle GoldenGate Foundation Suite
• Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data
• Oracle GoldenGate Application Adapters
• Oracle GoldenGate Veridata
• Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management
• Oracle Enterprise Data Quality

Oracle Data Management (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

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.

Oracle Data Management services that qualify for a 2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Database Cloud Service
• Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service
• Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer
• 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

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

Oracle has built its Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (OCI) 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.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services that qualify for a 2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • Compute
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Database
  • Containers
  • FastConnect
  • Edge Services
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic
  • Compute Classic
  • Storage Classic
  • Container Services on Classic
• Oracle Cloud at Customer
• Ravello Solution

Oracle Systems Management (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

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.

Oracle Systems Management services that qualify for a 2018 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 Cloud Service
• Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service
• Oracle Configuration and Compliance Cloud Service
• Oracle Orchestration Cloud Service

Transformational Technologies (Nomination Form) (Pending Submissions)

The Oracle Autonomous AI Platform Cloud Service offering an environment to create AI applications and features of existing software. AI capabilities combine first- and third-party data with advanced machine learning and sophisticated decision science to deliver the industry’s most powerful AI-based modern business applications, Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service to automate and secure transactions, and provide a reliable way to share information inside and outside the enterprise boundary, AI-powered “intelligence bots” to help enterprises engage with customers on Oracle’s Autonomous mobile cloud and Oracle IoT Cloud Service, a secure and scalable platform to help organizations quickly build and deploy IoT applications, allowing customers to gain new data-driven insights and drive actions from IoT by connecting, analyzing and integrating device data into business processes and applications like remote equipment monitoring and asset tracking.

Oracle Transformational Technologies that qualify for a 2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award include:

• Oracle Autonomous AI Platform
• Oracle Autonomous Mobile and Chatbot
• Oracle IoT Cloud Service
• Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud 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:

• Oracle Application Development
• Oracle Integration
• Oracle Analytics
• Oracle Security and Identity
• Oracle Data Integration and Governance
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Oracle Data Management
• Oracle Systems Management
• Oracle Content and Experience
• Transformational Technologies