Scenes From The Oracle Titan Awards

The Oracle PartnerNetwork, in a ceremony at last week's Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, awarded its 2008 North America Oracle Titan Awards to partners in 17 categories. Channel partners were recognized for excellence in developing and implementing solutions based on Oracle technologies. Honorees were selected by a panel of 66 judges including Everything Channel media representatives, IDC analysts and Oracle sales, marketing and development executives.

Deloitte Consulting won the Titan Award for E-Business Suite Solution for transforming a manufacturing company and its production and business processes using Oracle's E-Business Suite Release 12. The customer is positioned to save $140 million in operational costs over the next 10 years and is poised for aggressive growth. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Deloitte Consulting's Nidal Haddad, Tara Hall, Srini Subramanian and Karen Mazer; Oracle's Matt Mills.

Hitachi Consulting won the Titan Award for Edge Applications Solution for leading the implementation of the Oracle Transportation Management application at a media company. The project delivered cost savings 65 percent greater than anticipated and set the pace for a broader migration to an Oracle IT infrastructure at the customer site. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Hitachi Consulting's Tim Vaio and Troy Lutes; Oracle's Matt Mills

CSS International won the Titan Award for JD Edwards Solution for implementing JD Edwards applications within two construction and engineering companies that were merging. The implementation, which also includes the Oracle database and other software, covers 30 operating units across North America and remains on schedule and on budget. Pictured: Joining Oracle's Jeff Henley and Matt Mills onstage are CEO Kirk King and other CSS International executives.

Deloitte Consulting's second of four awards was the Titan Award for Applications Momentum. Deloitte scored for doubling its Oracle license co-sell revenue in fiscal 2008 and helped generate more than 100 leads in Oracle's "white spacing" effort for applications, including the Oracle E-Business Suite, Agile, OTM, Demantra and Hyperion software. Deloitte was also a key partner in Fusion development and instrumental in go-to-market strategies during the fiscal year. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Deloitte Consulting's Nidal Haddad, Karen Mazer, Mark Silverstein, Mark Raskis; Oracle's Matt Mills

CherryRoad Technologies won the Titan Award for PeopleSoft Solution. CherryRoad, in a competitive win over SAP, implemented a new ERP system in a county sheriff's department to automate what had been a manual "papers-in-triplicate" process for billing for officers' revenue-producing assignments. The project involved the full suite of PeopleSoft applications, including payroll and billing software and PeopleSoft Portal. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; CherryRoad's Steve Lange and Mike Rubilotta; Oracle's Matt Mills.

Deloitte Consulting's third Titan Award was for CRM Solution. Deloitte implemented Oracle Siebel CRM and Oracle Business Intelligence software for a communications industry company that was trying to optimize its marketing spending. The project's first phase was completed ahead of schedule and immediately resulted in a 30 percent increase in marketing campaign response and conversion rate. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Deloitte Consulting's Karen Mazer, Sucha Kukatla, Nidal Haddad and Carmine Cutone; Oracle's Matt Mills and Tyler Prince.

InterRel Consulting won the Titan Award for Enterprise Performance Management Solution. The company implemented Oracle Essbase with Hyperion Web Analysis, Financial Reporting, Planning and Enterprise for sales budgeting down to the SKU-level for a manufacturing customer with more than 60,000 products. The solution, delivered in less than six months and more than $100,000 under budget, serves as the front end of a larger and on-going Hyperion implementation. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; InterRel's Edward Roske and Eduardo Quiroz; Oracle's Matt Mills.

Systime won the Titan Award for Midsize Business Applications Solution. Another competitive win over SAP, Systime implemented the full Oracle JD Edwards suite for a consumer packaged goods company that was running on eight different applications and needed rapid consolidation ahead of a planned sale of the company. The solution allows the company to adapt order fulfillment in real time with a wide and constantly changing array of pricing mechanisms. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Systime's Vishal Grover, Shauna Gerth, Dan McGrath and G. Ashok; Oracle's Matt Mills.

Deloitte Consulting's fourth and final Titan Award was in the category of Industry Solution. Deloitte implemented Oracle's Siebel CRM software for a major healthcare company as part of a larger effort to launch a new service for two of the company's businesses while replacing an aging IT system for a third business. Six months after implementation the system has reduced support costs by 65 percent, reduced drug reimbursement times by 50 percent and lowered call center costs. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Deloitte's Nidal Haddad, Don Birk, Afzal Sulaiman and Karen Mazer; Oracle's Matt Mills.

Terillium won the Titan Award for Manufacturing Industry Solution. Terillium, beating out SAP and Microsoft for the deal, implemented JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to replace the aging information technology at a power transmission company. The solution provider used Oracle's Accelerate rapid implementation technology to install the applications on time and on budget. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Terillium's Warren Bach, Shane Eisenhauer and Dave Woodworth; Oracle's Matt Mills.

SmartDog Services won the Titan Award for Financial Services Industry Solution. The customer, a supplier of plastic cards that provide buying power to people without bank accounts, needed to replace a manual process with an automated system to track disbursement of the cards. The implemented solution, based on Oracle Financials and Incentive Compensation applications, has lowered costs and improved commission payment accuracy. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; SmartDog's Prasana Gobal, Scott Elequin and Robert Specchio; Oracle's Matt Mills.

Piocon Technologies won the Titan Award for Business Intelligence Solution. Systems integrator Piocon expanded a data warehouse owned by a company in the oil and gas industry to a full-scale business intelligence solution that included Oracle Warehouse Builder, Application Server, Application Express, BI Publisher, Portal and Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. The customer uses the system to generate reliability metrics and reports on more than 100,000 pieces of equipment in hundreds of refinery operations in more than 120 plants. With the system the company has increased the average number of days between unplanned shutdowns from 35 to 200. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Piocon's Eric Camplin, Greg Pike and John Weicher; Oracle's Tony Fernicola.

Accenture won the Titan Award for Technology Momentum. In fiscal '08 the company focused on developing differentiated Oracle technology-based solutions and made significant investments in Oracle's Application Integration Architecture, SOA, business intelligence and security products. It partnered with Oracle on 75 RFPs, provided 360 customer references and invested heavily in marketing, training and joint-solution development with Oracle. They also extended their support to the recently acquired BEA Systems and its products. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Accenture's Terri Strauss and Jim Hayes; Oracle's Tony Fernicola.

TUSC won the Titan Award for Grid and RAC Solution. TUSC developed a solution leveraging Oracle Grid and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) that delivers scalability, high availability, ease of management, improved customer services and better use of existing assets to deliver more processing power. The company provides solutions based on Oracle's database, RAC, Enterprise Manager, DataGuard and Automated Storage Management technology. TUSC president Rich Niemic (fourth from left with red tie) joins other TUSC employees and Oracle's Jeff Henley and Tony Fernicola.

CedarCrestone won the Titan Award for Integration and SOA Solution. CedarCrestone developed a solution for a higher education customer to extend millions of dollars in government education financing to more than 120,000 adult students. The system for evaluating student eligibility, implemented in four months, incorporated PeopleSoft, Oracle JDeveloper and other Oracle Fusion Middleware software. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; CedarCrestone's Todd Edge, Chris Judson and Vince Salvato; Oracle's Tony Fernicola.

Entology won the Titan Award for Identity Management Solution. Leveraging the Oracle GRID and RAC technology, Entology developed an identity management solution for a customer that provides improved customer services and makes better use of existing IT assets to deliver more processing power. It also uses the Oracle Database, Enterprise Manager, DataGuard and Automated Storage Management software. Pictured (left to right): Oracle's Jeff Henley; Entology's Rex Thexton and Hidal Siddiqi; Oracle's Tony Fernicola.

LS Technologies won the Titan Award for Content Management Solution. Systems integrator LST worked with a retail customer to upgrade and expand its content management environment throughout the company using Oracle technology. The system is also integrated with PeopleSoft applications. Delivered on time and on budget, the project is producing cost savings of more than $20,000 a month in manpower alone. Pictured: Joining Oracle executives Jeff Henley and Tony Fernicola onstage from LST are Mick Gallagher, Steve Vaught, AJ Michalewicz and other LST executives.