SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
OpenWorld -- 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."
For additional information, visit Oracle Cloud and connect with
Oracle Cloud on Facebook and Twitter.
About Oracle
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About Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld, the industry's most important business and
technology conference for the past 20 years, hosts tens of
thousands of in-person attendees as well as millions online.
Dedicated to helping businesses leverage Cloud for their innovation
and growth, the conference delivers deep insight into industry
trends and breakthroughs driven by technology. Designed for
attendees who want to connect, learn, explore and be inspired,
Oracle OpenWorld offers more than 2,200 educational sessions led by
more than 2,000 customers and partners sharing their experiences,
first hand. With hundreds of demos and hands-on labs, plus
exhibitions from more than 400 partners and customers from around
the world, Oracle OpenWorld has become a showcase for leading cloud
technologies, from Cloud Applications to Cloud Platform and
Infrastructure. Oracle OpenWorld 2016 is being held
September 18 – September 22 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information; to
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