2014 Oracle Spatial and Graph Excellence Awards Nomination Form Page 2
2014 Oracle Spatial and Graph Excellence Awards
Nomination Guidelines
The annual Oracle Spatial and Graph Excellence Awards recognize top customers and partners for significant achievements using Oracle's spatial technologies. Awards are given to organizations and individuals in the categories below:
· Innovator: Demonstrate novel, new uses of Oracle's spatial and graph technologies not seen previously in the marketplace, to solve business problems. The innovation should be of interest and relevance to peers in the industry.
· Integrated Enterprise: Deploy a very large production system that harnesses Oracle's enterprise features, to achieve scalability, serving large numbers of internal users and/or customers. Adoption of advanced Oracle Spatial and Graph datatypes/models is also a factor.
· Education and Research: Innovate and lead in using Oracle spatial and graph technologies in academic curricula and research projects. Support and advance the training of spatial technology talent in academia and/or the private sector.
· Partnership: Build and foster a community around Oracle’s spatial and graph technologies.
The public is invited to submit nominations for the awards. Organizations or individuals may self-nominate or accept a nomination by another organization or individual. Candidates worldwide are eligible for consideration.
Award winners must commit to having a senior representative from your organization in attendance to receive the award at the Oracle Spatial Summit in Washington, DC on May 21, 2014. A nominee who cannot attend to receive the award may be disqualified. Event venue and details are at http://www.locationintelligence.net/dc/ .
A committee from Oracle and the IOUG North American Oracle Spatial and Graph Special Interest Group will review nominations and select the award winners.
Please complete and submit this form to nominate a candidate. (Please send your completed Word form as an email attachment to .) Candidates may be contacted in follow-up to provide further information during the committee’s selection process. Contact with other questions.
The deadline for nomination forms is Feb 28, 2014. Winners will be notified in March 2014.
2014 Oracle Spatial and Graph Excellence Awards Nomination Form
Instructions: Type in requested information directly in the Word document. Save a local copy for your records, and email the completed Word document as an attachment to .
1. For which Excellence Award(s) are you nominating this candidate? (Please check any/all that apply.)
_____ Innovator
_____ Integrated Enterprise
_____ Education and Research
_____ Partnership
For questions 2-4, please respond to the questions applicable to the award(s) for which you are nominating your candidate, as marked.
2. (Innovator and Integrated Enterprise nominations only) Please provide a high-level description of your organization and your system based on Oracle’s spatial and graph technologies. Please include the following information as applicable. Note: not all items may be applicable to each candidate. (500 words or less)
- Brief organizational overview, including vertical area served, size/market share, customer highlights
- Overview of system(s) using Oracle Spatial and Graph/MapViewer
- Brief timeline of past use of Oracle Spatial and Graph/MapViewer, highlights/growth of system
- Type/scope/size of spatial data
- Adoption of 12c release of Oracle Spatial and Graph, specific features (e.g. Vector Performance Acceleration, NDM Feature Modeling, GeoRaster parallel processing)
- Advanced Oracle Spatial and Graph datatypes/models adopted (e.g. GeoRaster, network/topology data models, 3D/point clouds/LiDAR, spatial web services)
- Usage of Oracle Exadata and other features for very large datasets/security
- (Innovator) How does your system show a novel, new use of Oracle’s spatial and graph technologies to solve business problems in the industry? Is this the first application of its kind in the market?
- (Integrated Enterprise) How do you use Oracle’s Spatial and Graph and enterprise features to deploy a very large, scalable, secure system? Please describe your organizational and industry requirements in this area, and how you use Oracle to meet them.
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3. (Education and Research nominations only) Please provide a high-level description of your organization, academic initiatives/curricula, and research projects based on Oracle’s spatial and graph technologies. Please include the following information as applicable. Not all items may be applicable to each candidate. Note: individuals and organizations from the academic and private sectors are eligible for consideration. (500 words or less)
- Overview of (academic) program/department/organization
- Brief timeline of use of Oracle Spatial and Graph/MapViewer, highlights/growth of system
- Curricula incorporating Oracle’s spatial and graph technologies (type and number of classes, number of faculty/students)
- Research project(s) with system(s) using Oracle Spatial/MapViewer. What is the practical application/importance of the research problem being explored? How is your approach new and innovative?
- Partnership activities/interaction with Oracle
- Advanced Oracle Spatial and Graph datatypes/models used (e.g. GeoRaster, network/topology data models, 3D/point clouds/LIDAR, spatial web services)
- Adoption of 12c release of Oracle Spatial and Graph, specific features (e.g. Vector Performance Acceleration, NDM Feature Modeling, GeoRaster parallel processing)
- How do you use Oracle’s Spatial and Graph and enterprise features to deploy a very large, scalable, secure system? Describe usage of Oracle Exadata, Partitioning, Advanced Security, other relevant features.
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4. (Partnership nominations only) Please describe the individual or organization and ongoing commitment to a strong partnership based upon Oracle’s spatial and graph technologies. Please include the following information as applicable. Note: not all items may be applicable to each candidate. (500 words or less)
- How have you contributed to creating a community around Oracle’s spatial technologies (e.g. evangelism, organizing/leading an Oracle Spatial and Graph Interest Group)? Please include details about measurable success metrics, e.g. attendance at events.
- Participation/leadership roles in industry organizations, SIGs, activities relevant to the Oracle/geospatial community
- Brief organizational overview, including vertical area served, size/market share
- Products/technologies integrated with Oracle Spatial and Graph/MapViewer
- Examples of cross-organizational collaboration among customers, vendors, and thought leaders
- Joint customer base – size, verticals, examples of key reference customers/profiles
- Joint marketing activities with Oracle
- Interaction with Oracle product teams
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5. (All nominations) Please provide the following information on your Oracle-based system(s), if available. (If information is unavailable, leave blank.)
● Oracle Database/Spatial and Graph version used
● System status (production, pilot, migration, etc.) Please include any planned dates for going production.
● Current database size, number of spatial and graph objects, description of spatial and graph feature data
● Oracle Spatial and Graph features used (E.g., Spatial and Graph - 12c release, Vector Performance Acceleration, 3D/point cloud/LiDAR support, Spatial Web Services, GeoRaster, Network Data Model, Topology Data Model, Linear Referencing System)
● Oracle MapViewer used/version Application server used (Oracle Application Server, WebLogic, OC4J Standalone, Apache Tomcat, Websphere, JBoss)
● Other Database options/ features used (E.g., Exadata, Exalogic, Partitioning, RAC, Advanced Security, etc.)
● Number of users, internal and external
6. (All nominations) Describe in detail the benefits that this user organization has realized from the Oracle-based application. (If requested, this will be kept confidential.) Please include both measurable benefits and intangible benefits, as applicable. Examples of measurable benefits include cost/time savings, increased revenue, new system features/capabilities, increased number of users served, benefits to external customers and stakeholders.
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7. (All nominations) Feel free to share any other comments you would like the awards committee to consider.
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Instructions: Type in requested information above directly in the Word document. Save a local copy for your records, and email the completed Word document as an attachment to .