Oracle awards three

Oracle gave out its inaugural Retail Excellence Awards at this week’s Retail Executive Forum at The Boulders Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz.

And the winners are…

(Drumroll.)

Wal-Mart Stores for Outstanding Program Implementation!

Nordstrom for Greatest Financial Impact!

And The Children’s Place Retail Stores, Inc. for Innovator of the Year!

The Oracle Retail Excellence Awards were launched this year to recognize “customers’ outstanding achievements in maximizing business value through innovative best practices and efficient operations leveraging technology.”

Winners were selected by a committee which included Oracle Retail’s Duncan Angove, this prestigious group included AMR Research Vice President Rob Garf, Bain & Company Global Retail Practice Director Darrell Rigby, Harvard Business School’s Walter Salmon, Loeb & Associates President Walter Loeb, IBM Partner Fred Balboni, and Accenture Partner Andy Hogenson.

Congratulations to all the winners! To everyone else, well, there’s always next year! And finally, our sponsor would like to remind you that “Oracle is the world’s largest enterprise software company.”

Thank you and good night! Surf carefully.