Deloitte Wins Inaugural Oracle PartnerNetwork Global Award

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte has received an Oracle PartnerNetwork Global Award in the category of Technology Partner of the Year. This is the inaugural year for the Oracle PartnerNetwork Global Awards, which recognize solution innovation from around the world leveraging Oracle products to help solve real-world business challenges. Deloitte received the award for its overall excellence and innovation in helping customers meet their business requirements with Oracle technology.

"Receiving the Global Technology Award is an outstanding follow on to our success in winning three Oracle Technology Titan Awards," said Nidal Haddad, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and global Oracle alliance leader. "This overarching award serves as a testament to the effectiveness of our business led, technology-enabled strategy, which places all Oracle-based consulting in one comprehensive organization. In conjunction with the many awards for application knowledge we've won in the past, this award for technology prowess reinforces our view of the marketplace where we see the greatest value being driven by application integration and leveraging application data through integration."

The Oracle PartnerNetwork Global Awards are given by Oracle to recognize solutions and business practices developed or delivered in Oracle's fiscal 2009. These awards commend global excellence in a number of categories, including technology, applications, industry, accelerate and mid-sized business. Nominations were judged by a renowned team of executives and analysts from around the world. The awards were presented during a special Oracle PartnerNetwork Global Awards ceremony at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco on October 11, 2009.

Designated by Oracle as a Certified Advantage Partner (CAP), the highest membership level in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Deloitte's worldwide Oracle service line has access to more than 8,000 professionals, possessing deep industry and functional knowledge across Oracle's full line of applications and technology. In addition, Deloitte's affiliates have capabilities in tax, finance, human resources, risk and business consulting, as well as systems implementation-related consulting.

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