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Dubai Airports and Landmark Group win key awards against global competition in San Francisco
Dubai, United Arab Emirates– 9 October 2016: The United Arab Emirates further strengthened its reputation as a global hub for innovation, as leading local companies; Dubai Airports and Landmark Group bagged top honours at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco for implementing next generation IT innovations.
Dubai Airports, which serves more international passengers than any other airport in the world, has received an Oracle Excellence Award for cloud innovation in the ‘integration’ category. Dubai Airports won this award for completing a complex integration with Fusion HCM to enable mobile application extensions for performance management, recruitment, onboarding and core HR and self-service. With this implementation, Dubai Airports now enjoys IT flexibility with governance policies and freedom to connect to multiple cloud solutions with ease.
Kirit Shah, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Landmark Group, one of the largest retail conglomerates across the Middle East, Africa and the Indian Subcontinent was distinguished as the CIO of the Year at the Oracle Excellence Awards. Kirit was recognized among more than 70 nominations from across the globe and received the award from Safra A. Catz, Chief Executive Officer of Oracle for having displayed unparalleled performance and vision.
Kirit has been at the forefront of adopting best business practices and establishing a technological platform that is scalable and supports Landmark’s aggressive growth plan and management vision. Over its decade-long relationship with Oracle, the Landmark Group has grown its store presence from 200 to nearly 2,000, and increased employee strength to 50,000 with a customer base of over 10 million in the Middle East region.
“Oracle OpenWorld has been one of the industry’s most important business and technology conferences for the past 20 years. Recognition on this global stage is testament to the UAE being at the forefront of implementing IT innovations to drive growth; develop world class operations and offer an exceptional customer experience. At Oracle, we are proud to support the digital transformation process of Dubai Airports and Landmark Group and we look forward to jointly achieving more milestones in the future”, said Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President, Business Applications, ECEMEA, Oracle.
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Contact Information
Gaurav Bhatnagar
Director, Corporate Communications – Middle East & Africa
Oracle
+971 55 100 1407
gaurav.b.bhatnagar@oracle.com
Mohaned Lafi
Account Director, Four Communications
+971 55 985 3379
Mohaned.Lafi@fourcommunications.com
© Press Release 2016
Dubai, United Arab Emirates– 9 October 2016: The United Arab Emirates further strengthened its reputation as a global hub for innovation, as leading local companies; Dubai Airports and Landmark Group bagged top honours at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco for implementing next generation IT innovations.
Dubai Airports, which serves more international passengers than any other airport in the world, has received an Oracle Excellence Award for cloud innovation in the ‘integration’ category. Dubai Airports won this award for completing a complex integration with Fusion HCM to enable mobile application extensions for performance management, recruitment, onboarding and core HR and self-service. With this implementation, Dubai Airports now enjoys IT flexibility with governance policies and freedom to connect to multiple cloud solutions with ease.
Kirit Shah, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Landmark Group, one of the largest retail conglomerates across the Middle East, Africa and the Indian Subcontinent was distinguished as the CIO of the Year at the Oracle Excellence Awards. Kirit was recognized among more than 70 nominations from across the globe and received the award from Safra A. Catz, Chief Executive Officer of Oracle for having displayed unparalleled performance and vision.
Kirit has been at the forefront of adopting best business practices and establishing a technological platform that is scalable and supports Landmark’s aggressive growth plan and management vision. Over its decade-long relationship with Oracle, the Landmark Group has grown its store presence from 200 to nearly 2,000, and increased employee strength to 50,000 with a customer base of over 10 million in the Middle East region.
“Oracle OpenWorld has been one of the industry’s most important business and technology conferences for the past 20 years. Recognition on this global stage is testament to the UAE being at the forefront of implementing IT innovations to drive growth; develop world class operations and offer an exceptional customer experience. At Oracle, we are proud to support the digital transformation process of Dubai Airports and Landmark Group and we look forward to jointly achieving more milestones in the future”, said Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President, Business Applications, ECEMEA, Oracle.
About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
Trademarks
Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact Information
Gaurav Bhatnagar
Director, Corporate Communications – Middle East & Africa
Oracle
+971 55 100 1407
gaurav.b.bhatnagar@oracle.com
Mohaned Lafi
Account Director, Four Communications
+971 55 985 3379
Mohaned.Lafi@fourcommunications.com
© Press Release 2016
