Submission Instructions
A customer or customer’spartner can fill in and submit the nomination form on behalf of the customer. Winners will be notified in August. See last year’s winnershere. You do not have to answer every question, but please fill in thisnomination form as completely as possible. Winners are selected based on the extent of their environmental impact, as well as the business efficienciesthey have achieved through their use of Oracle products.
Please fill in the following information for the company being nominated for this award.
- Company Information
- Company Name:
- Company URL:
- Company’s Industry/Vertical:
- Company Location:
- Your Name:
- Your Title:
- Your E-Mail:
- Your Phone #:
- Sustainability Drivers
What are your company’s key environmental sustainability drivers, and what are the top goals that have been identified for your company?
Answer:
- Oracle Products
Please indicate which of these Oracle productsor solutions you are using for your sustainability initiatives by checking the appropriate box or boxes. Note that these are just a subset of the products you may be using to help with your sustainability initiatives.
Risk and Performance Management
Oracle Business Intelligence
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting
Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
IT Infrastructure
Oracle Active Data Guard
Oracle Advanced Compression
Oracle Content Management
Oracle Data Center Management
Oracle Desktop Virtualization (Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Sun Ray, etc.)
Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic, or Oracle Exalytics
Oracle Real Applications Clusters
Oracle Serversand Storage
Oracle VM
Business Operations
Oracle Applications
Oracle Asset Lifecycle Management
Agile Product Lifecycle Management
Oracle Field Service
Oracle Lean Manufacturing
Oracle Reverse Logistics (includes Oracle Service Parts Planning, Oracle Depot Repair,
Siebel Preventive Maintenance, Oracle Product Information Management Hub, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition)
Oracle Self-Service Applications
Oracle Service
Oracle Strategic Network Optimization
Oracle Transportation Management
Oracle Utilities (Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management, Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, etc.)
Please list any other Oracle products your company is using related to sustainability:
Answer:
- Eco-Efficiency
Eco-efficiency is defined as improving the efficiency of your organization by cutting out waste, using resources productively, and minimizing your carbon footprint. With the Oracle products you are using, what is your company doing to increase its eco-efficiency?
Answer:
Possible discussion points:
Reducing energy usage by x percentwith data center management
Going paperless and reducing costs by….
- Reducing our greenhouse emissions by x percentwith these changes in our production processes
- Improving our resource usage by…
Streamlined our manufacturing processes by x percentand reduced costs by$X
Preserving the environment and our budget with energy-efficient Sun servers from Oracle
- Eco-Innovation
Eco-innovation means improving product and service designs so they’re based on green processes, such as minimizing waste by-products and designing for recycling. With the Oracle products you are using, what is your company doing to increase its eco-innovation?
Answer:
Possible discussion points:
- Designing products thatare right for the environment
- Designing greener business processes
- Using new software to design greener products
6.Eco-TransparencyEco-transparency means gaining knowledge into the value chain so that your business can promote its green brand and enhance its overall brand. With the Oracle products you are using, what is your company doing to increase its eco-transparency and improve its sustainability reporting?
Answer:
Possible discussion points:
- Using software tools to report environmental metrics and/or greenhouse gasses
- Using technology such asOracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting to report on metrics such as energy, waste, and water usage
- Using software tools such asAgile Product Governance andCompliance to manage regulatory compliance directives
- Project ROI
What kind of intelligence do you have to manage your efforts in building a greener enterprise? What is the ROI on your sustainability project(s)** (quantifiable cost/time savings or other tangible benefits)? Please quantify as closely as possible the benefits your company has achieved. You can see some examples of customer ROI case studies here. There are various carbon footprint calculators available, such as this one. There are also carbon footprint calculators available from Nature Conservancy, Terrapass, and Verify.
Answer:
Possible discussion examples:
- Saving x million gallons of water or preventing xtons of solid waste
- Reducing our energy usage by x
- Saving x in emissions or in gallons of diesel fuel or tons of paper
- Additional Comments
In addition to your responses to the previous questions, are there any other ways in which Oracle products are helping your company reach its sustainability goals, or do you envision them doing so going forward (if so, how)?
Answer:
- Partner
Which partner did you use (if any) to help you with this project? Please discuss the partner’scontribution.
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Last Year’s Winners
This will be the sixth year Oracle has awarded Eco-Enterprise Innovation awards to honor customers that use Oracle products to take an environmental lead as well as to reduce costs and improve business efficiencies by using green business practices. This year’s Oracle Excellence Awards for Eco-Enterprise Innovation will be presented at a special executive session at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Clickhere for more information. Last year’s winners (pictured below) include: Dena Bank, Earth Rangers Centre for Sustainable Technology, Grupo Pão de Açúcar, Health Authority—Abu Dhabi, Korean Air, Orlando Utilities Commission, North County Transit District, Ricoh Europe, Schneider Electric, Severn Trent Water, and Terracap.Many of these customers chose to include a partner to co-accept the award with them. The winning partners include: Hitachi Consulting UK, Infosys, Memora Processos Inovadores, Oracle, Raqmiyat, and TeamCain.
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