Sample Use Cases:

• Streamline the order-to-cash process using Oracle SOA as orchestration engine between Siebel CRM and e-Business Suite Financials.
• Actionable intelligence in finance, sales, service and HR to employees using Oracle BI on Siebel CRM.
• SOX compliance and faster Employee Onboarding by securely provisioning users on PeopleSoft HR using Oracle Identity Manager.

Please note that Oracle Fusion Middleware is not limited to Oracle SOA Suite. We also welcome nominations from:

• BEA customers
• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) as well as Identity Management (IdM) or Enterprise Content Management (ECM) projects together with Oracle applications.

The award is jointly sponsored by Oracle and premier user groups: Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), Quest International Users Group, Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG), UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG), and Australian Oracle Users Group (AUSOUG).

Awards Recipients

• FREE registration to Oracle OpenWorld 2008 (September 21-25) in San Francisco
• FREE Oracle polo shirt
• Placement in Oracle Press Release
• Placement in Oracle Profit Magazine
• Podcast opportunity with Oracle SVP of Applications Technology
• 1-3 Meetings with Oracle Executives during Oracle OpenWorld 2008
• For Australian and Asia Pacific Excellence Award winners, free passes from Australian Oracle User Group(AUSOUG) to the annual conference (October 2008) as well as opportunity to participate in a panel session and reception.
• For Excellence Award winners from Europe, Middle East and Africa, free passes from UK (December 2008) as well as offer guaranteed speaker slots for the top 5 winners Oracle User Group (UKOUG) to the annual conference Award Nominations

To submit a nomination, please Register Now and download an official 2008 Oracle Excellence Award submission form.

Forrester segmented the IAM (Identity and Access Management) market based on several technologies, including directories, meta directories, virtual directories, provisioning, role management, password management, enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO), Web single sign-on (Web SSO), and federation, along with emerging areas, including entitlement management and identity auditing.

In its March 18, 2008, report, The Forrester Wave: Identity And Access Management, Q1 2008, independent analyst firm Forrester, “evaluated leading identity and access management (IAM) vendors across 117 criteria and found that Oracle has established itself as the IAM market Leader due to its solid technology base across the IAM landscape and its compelling, aggressive strategy around what it refers to as application-centric identity.”. Forrester believes that Oracle has excellent enterprise role management and risk-based authentication capabilities, noting, “we already see Oracle reaching into the small enterprise space more successfully than similar-size competitors.“Serving as the security backbone for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Identity Management helps customers and partners decrease security threats across diverse IT environments while helping address governance, risk, and compliance needs. Oracle Identity Management was the fastest growing suite of Identity Management products in 2006, based on total software revenues worldwide. Oracle Identity Management’s support of industry standards such as WS*, XACML, SAML, and SPML helps enable customers and partners to more easily integrate applications with the framework.

The family of best-in-class software includes Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager, Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite, Oracle Identity Federation, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Management Pack for Identity Management, and Oracle Web Services Manager — all of which can be used in its entirety or as individual components. Details are available here.