Tata Steel received the Oracle - Exemplary Implementation Award for adopting technology to improve profitability. The award was conferred by Shekhar Dasdgupta, managing director, Oracle India and received by Varun Jha, chief information officer, Tata Steel at the 5th Oracle Customer Forum that was held in Kolkata on the October 22, 2003. 

Mr Dasgupta said, "Tata Steel for their cold rolling mill is using Oracle Database and Oracle9i Application Server, to run mission-critical planning and scheduling applications. Tata Steel's deployment of Oracle technologies is exemplary and path breaking. It has helped Tata Steel to increase profitability through enhanced efficiency and productivity."

Tata Steel has been using Oracle technology for the last eight years and has developed expertise on Oracle tools, such as forms, reports and discoverer-based applications. Tata Steel started its relationship with Oracle, with custom-developed solutions on the Oracle platform. Oracle based systems are presently being run on most of the non-mainframe OLTP applications at the mines, works, and other divisions such as bearings and tubes.

The most extensive use of the software has been the 9i Application Server in the cold rolling mill.