Oracle Announces Platform Innovation Award Winners

Oracle Announces Platform Innovation Award Winners

Celebrates customers using Oracle PaaS and IaaS to drive business
value

Oracle OpenWorld, San
Francisco – September 21, 2016 – This week at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle honored
the winners of the 2016 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Awards. This
prestigious group of recipients is using Oracle’s PaaS and IaaS services in new
and innovative ways to transform their businesses, drive innovation and gain a
competitive advantage.

Thirty-one customers
were chosen from around the world, spanning small and medium businesses to the
largest enterprise, across a wide range of industries. This year’s winners
include:  Ambev, Avaya, BAMF, Calix, Cima Global, Cisco Capital, City of
Hope, ClubCorp, Cummins, Inc., DX Marketing, Dubai Airports, Elbooq, ENEL,
HCPA, Helsana Gruppe, IDEA Cellular, IDEXX Laboratories, La Caixa, Manchester
Airport Group, Nacional Monte de Piedad, National Pharmacies, The Procter and
Gamble Company, Rakuten, Renault, Safexpress, State Bank of India, SuiteBox,
Tippett Studio and YellowDog.

“These awards recognize
customers that are using Oracle’s PaaS and IaaS together in unique and
innovative ways to transform their businesses. Over the past couple of years,
we’ve seen our customers make a wholesale move in using the Cloud for just
simple dev/test scenarios to running serious, enterprise workloads in the
Cloud,” said Amit Zavery, senior vice president of Cloud Platform and
Integration products, Oracle.  “We’d like to congratulate all customers on
their well-deserved awards.”

Part of the Oracle Excellence Awards, the Cloud Platform
Innovation Awards is an annual awards program recognizing customers for their
cutting-edge solutions using Oracle’s PaaS and IaaS services. Recipients of
Oracle’s Platform Innovation Awards were selected based on the uniqueness of
their business case, business benefits, level of impact relative to the size of
the organization, complexity and magnitude of implementation and the
originality of architecture.

Oracle
Cloud Platform and Infrastructure enables organizations to move their
enterprise workloads to the Cloud while providing their customers with a
portfolio of highly innovative and accessible cloud-based services to
capitalize on key transformative technologies such as big data analytics,
machine learning and IoT.

A few
of the 2016 winners are:

HCPA Chose Oracle Cloud
at Customer for Running Business-Critical Healthcare Workload

Hospital de Clínicas de
Porto Alegre (HCPA) is a leading hospital in Brazil with 850 beds. It is well
known for transplants and genetic research in Latin America and conducts over
600,000 consultations a year. Oracle Cloud at Customer allowed HCPA to run
applications that handle healthcare data on their premises and enabling low latency
connections to other on-premises applications. 

“By moving to Oracle’s
Cloud at Customer infrastructure with subscription based pricing, HCPA was able
to immediately cut back $2.5MM in CapEx expense, and foresee additional savings
as more workloads are moved to Cloud at Customer,” said Valter Silva, CIO,
HCPA. “Oracle Cloud at Customer is fully managed by Oracle. As a result, HCPA
has also significantly reduced our IT operating and staffing costs.”

IDEA Cellular Chose
Oracle PaaS to Help Prevent Outages in its Most Mission-Critical Applications

IDEA Cellular, one of
India’s leading wireless telecommunication providers, is using Oracle
Management Cloud to help prevent potential outages and also to increase
performance and efficiency of its mission-critical applications. Using
Oracle Management Cloud, IDEA Cellular is able to monitor its Oracle and
third-party applications to rapidly identify the root cause of problems before
they become potential problems. 

“IDEA Cellular has over
175 million wireless subscribers, and our mission-critical systems cannot
afford downtime,” said Prakash Paranjape, CIO, IDEA Cellular. “Oracle
Management Cloud’s machine learning techniques enable us to proactively
identify potential operational trouble-spots even in our most complex
applications, helping to prevent failures.”

Tippett Studio Chose
Oracle IaaS to Store Special Effects Used in Biggest Blockbuster Movies

Tippett Studio, the
animation and visual effects company behind incredible special effects in films
like Jurassic Park, RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Twilight, Jurassic
World and Star Wars: The Force Awakens plans to move petabytes of
archived digital content to the Oracle Storage Cloud Services to provide a
global content repository for easy accessibility and sharing and to streamline
its operations at cloud-scale economics. 

“With Oracle Storage
Cloud Services, we can access content from anywhere in the world much faster
than with legacy IT gear and benefit from unrivaled economic value,” said
Sanjay Das, COO, Tippett Studio. “We selected Oracle because it provided the
most compelling business value for our growing animation and visual effects
business while other public cloud services were priced up to 10 times more.”

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