San Francisco, CA, September 23, 2013 -- Oracle today awarded KPI Partners with its 2013 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in two categories: Business Intelligence (BI)/Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Education.

KPI has won the award over three consecutive years within the business intelligence space. KPI Partners was honored with the 2012 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year in Business Intelligence Applications. KPI was also the 2011 recipient of the award, formerly known as the Oracle North America Titan Award.

KPI Partners was presented the 2013 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in the BI & EPM category for demonstrating an outstanding and innovative solution based on Oracle products and successfully executing a large implementation of Oracle Human Resource Analytics for the largest financial services company in the United States.

KPI was also presented the 2013 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in the Education Industry category for revolutionizing the way higher education thinks about curriculum planning and management with the use of Oracle Business Intelligence at the world's premier public university.

The award reflects KPI’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.

The Oracle Excellence Awards for Specialized Partner of the Year - North America encourages innovation by Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members, who use Oracle’s products and technology to create value for customers and generate new business potential.

"We are, once again, overwhelmed and humbled by this honor,” said Jeremiah Johnson, Senior Director of Marketing & Business Development at KPI Partners. “We are grateful to the judges for recognizing the passion our team members have for analytics. We are also especially grateful to our clients and partners who allow us the opportunity to practice our craft.”

“KPI Partners has demonstrated an outstanding level of innovation in delivering proven, Oracle-based decision support solutions that help solve our joint customers’ most critical business challenges,” said Lydia Smyers, group vice president, Worldwide Alliances & Channels Programs and Communications, Oracle. “We congratulate KPI Partners in achieving the 2013 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in two categories. These achievements are a testament to their dedication to excellence and to providing customers solutions that drive real business value and results.”

About KPI Partners:
KPI Partners is an experienced Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) and Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems implementation partner. Service offerings include consulting services, training, and exclusive pre-built analytical applications. As a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, the experts at KPI Partners have successfully completed many complex implementations of Oracle BI and EPM. Along the way, KPI has been honored with the Oracle Titan Award, the Oracle Excellence Award, and as Oracle Specialized Partner of the Year. Find them at kpipartners.com.

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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Jeremiah Johnson
KPI Partners, Inc.
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Newark, CA, 94560
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