Centroid Awarded Prestigious Oracle Excellence Specialized Partner of the Year

Oracle today recognized Centroid, a national technology firm and provider of Consulting, Managed Services, Cloud Services and Resell of Oracle products, with its 2014 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in engineered systems. Centroid is a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

The Oracle Excellence Awards for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America encourage innovation by OPN members, who use Oracle’s products and technology to create value for customers. The award reflects Centroid’s success in adopting OPN’s Specialized approach which is aimed at enabling partners to establish industry recognition by following a formal process to become Specialized in key Oracle solution areas.

Centroid was presented the 2014 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in the category of engineered systems for demonstrating excellence in implementing and supporting complex infrastructure, technologies and applications.

From infrastructure planning and optimization, technology deployments to application configuration and support, Centroid has been recognized with this special excellence award for its focus and expertise in providing Oracle’s customers with a value-based approach to “solutioning” the right Oracle technologies for successful deployments.

Centroid’s expertise was showcased when they provided a solid architecture and deployment plan consisting of the right Oracle solution that the customer had confidence in and that simplified the way they were currently installing, deploying, and managing systems/infrastructures. Centroid’s team utilized a unique and dedicated approach to understanding the customer’s objectives, putting the right teams together, working side by side with Oracle to address all customer challenges to prove the value of Oracle-on-Oracle Engineered Systems that resulted in delivering the solution ahead of the customer’s timelines and within budget.

“We are pleased to have been recognized with an Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in engineered systems,” said Jim Brull, Centroid, Managing Partner. “We are particularly pleased that we have firmly maintained our customer focus and quality delivery that is reflected in our successes with driving incremental business, obtaining new customers with Oracle and delivering solutions that provide real business benefit to our customers. Our team’s skillset is extensive in Oracle engineered systems and we utilize those skills to create unique and valuable solutions for our customers. We offer many thanks to Oracle for this great honor along with extended gratitude to our customers and the entire Centroid team. We’ve succeeded in setting the bar high for ourselves and will continue to strive to achieve similar honors in the coming years.”

“Centroid has demonstrated an outstanding level of innovation in delivering proven, Oracle-based solutions that solve our joint customers’ most critical business challenges,” said Tom LaRocca, Senior Vice President, North America Sales, Alliances and Channels, Oracle. “We congratulate Centroid in achieving the 2014 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in engineered systems. This achievement is a testament to their dedication to excellence and to providing customers solutions and services that drive real business value and results.”

About Centroid

Centroid is one of Oracle’s Top 25 Strategic Partners and a Platinum level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). We are a national technology firm focused on Consulting, Managed Services, Cloud Services and Resell of Oracle products that span the entire enterprise. From Applications to Technology to Infrastructure our Apps-to-Iron capabilities deliver the highest quality services from end-to-end providing our customers with an optimized environment. We focus on extending the value of systems, information, processes, technology and business.

We facilitate greater return on Oracle investments by driving higher performance, integration, flexibility and response from your systems.

Our Technology and Business Services Include:

• Consulting Services that target the core challenges businesses have with technology
• Technology Services that provide system health checks, IT optimization asset assessments, performance & tuning, database administration to engineered systems deployments and infrastructure planning and refreshes
• Managed Services that provide cost-effective solutions to support Oracle database and applications
• Cloud Services that provide full enterprise hosting and disaster recovery and backup plans and extensive coverage for service level agreements
• Resell of Oracle products/licenses
• Business Intelligence (BI) Applications that turn data into real information
• Infrastructure Solutions that ensure your data is completely manageable and secure

Centroid Media Contacts:

Rebecca Portela
Sr. Director Marketing and Business Development
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Loretta Wagner
Marketing Manager
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About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle’s partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle’s growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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