Domo Initial Setup

James John Wilson - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at Freelancer

I was able to have my PMO executive dashboards up and running in a couple of weeks. It's straightforward. If what you want to do, it's swift and easy. Like my data is projects, the tasks, the projects, and the action items. If I have budget data, I pull in budget data as well. Then, I just need to make sure I know how those three link up on the keys. And if that's done correctly, then you can immediately start building the dashboards and linking in all the data. To get it to work out what the executives want to see is just iterative, but you can have something that an executive can see very rapidly, just in a couple of weeks, if not sooner. If that was the only thing I had to do, I could get something up and running very quickly.

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SB
Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

The setup was exceptionally easy because it's cloud-based, it's software as a service. That's one of the reasons we chose Domo over the competition, because our IT group is buried in a backlog of work. With Domo it's pretty much "Oh, here you go." In fact, the environment that they set up for us for our pilot — which took them a single day — is what we migrated to for use as our production environment once we decided to go with Domo. It couldn't have been easier.

The environment, the infrastructure, all of that was set up instantaneously. But we had built a core team and we wanted to establish naming conventions for files, rules, security policies, etc. With that very small, core team of passionate people, we did it in a week or two.

So there's the technical setup, and then there's the business side of things where you want to make sure you have a scalable solution once you launch. Thank God we did it that way because it went from a handful of users on day one to many users now. There is some thoughtful preparation that needs to happen to make sure that you set up your environment in a way, from the business side, that's scalable.

We did the implementation in something of in an Agile scrum-type way, although it was a hybrid because our company is used to Waterfall. We wanted to get some quick wins under our belt and let it grow organically. So we picked a couple of key measurements for each of the engineering group, the quality group, and the sales team, and we rolled them out in a month-and-a-half. We had been tinkering with it during the pilot so it wasn't like we were starting completely from square one. We carried over the results of our pilot.

We left ourselves some room for training. We thought that as we developed we'd decide what training was necessary. We actually did pay for a little bit of training but we haven't used it yet because we haven't needed it. It's that easy.

Our strategy has proven to be very successful. We started out small. We didn't over-commit or try to boil the ocean all at once. We grabbed a bucket of salt-water and "heated it up." We got everyone to like it and then come to us for more. It continues to grow on a daily basis.

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KiranMarri - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at CSS Corp

The solution’s initial setup is very easy.

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Ajeet-Sachan - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at Sony Pictures Entertainment

There needs to be a proper setup trial provided for the solution. The data processing happens daily for around six hours, followed by report generation. Accordingly, the solution gets deployed with the changes every day.

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Ron Splittgerber - PeerSpot reviewer
Rice Board of Directors and Kuali Coeus Functional Council at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward compared to similar solutions we have set up, and we focused on many available data sets. We had one person that led the project that implemented it.

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RM
Business Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The deployment was very easy. You don't have to buy your own server. These visualizations are nice because they have their own structure to handle these things, which is a good feature. 

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LR
Manager of Program Operations at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was very straightforward. Their team was very helpful in walking us through it and training us. They were willing to come onsite to assist. But the documentation available through their website is very user-friendly, straightforward, and geared towards someone who is a business user and not necessarily an IT-type person. I'm a businessperson and I found it pretty straightforward.

Aside from some structural changes that we've had, it was about a six-month process, but it really depends on what you want to get done. It's a matter of what you consider to be "fully deployed," because I'm still doing things now, years later. So it depends on the scope of the project that you want to implement. We were doing several things at one time so it was a larger project. But if you just want to connect things from one service over to another, I don't even think you need an implementation team for that. It's something that can really be done by business users on their own.

We had a few projects on the table that we wanted to get up and running from the get-go. Because we had a couple of structural changes in our company at the time, my timeline probably isn't reflective of Domo. It definitely didn't have anything to do with them. It was more on our side, so it took a little bit longer.

From our side, it was mainly me involved, and I got some help on a few small things. But it only took me to get it done. On their side, there were four team members assisting.

I'm the only one who deals with maintaining it. The maintenance depends on how much you want to put in there. I could sit here and create new cards all day if I wanted to, but it's pretty straightforward. I set up all of the connections. The only time I have to go in there and modify something is if I think of a new way that I want to display it. It's very easy for one person to be the main admin and set up and monitor everything.

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Sumit  Chakraborty - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at Indium Software - Independent Software Testing Company

The setup is straightforward and self-explanatory. We do not have to go through a lot of complex steps. The installation was very fast just a couple of minutes.

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NaveenKumar24 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at GWC

The initial setup for Domo is very simple because it's a serverless approach where you don't have to maintain a server. You don't have to have the hardware. You don't need a support team or admin team for its setup. It's just a subscription model. When you want to buy this tool, you can directly contact Domo. I run an analytics company, so I'm a partner of Domo, and it's very easy to implement the tool in the initial stage. Setting the tool up is a very simple process.

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AP
Manager of Data Analytics & CRM Operations at a tech company with 201-500 employees

The initial setup really depends on your native structure and what you have built previously. If you already have a really good understanding of your data setup, and you have flattened your data a bit for it to be absorbed by any other tool, it's going to be really straightforward, really easy. Users are going to be able to take advantage of it really quickly. 

If you have to go through the process of flattening out all the data and getting everything correct, the prep work could take a couple of months. They do provide a lot of help from their side, if you have questions or for getting the data in. They provide a lot of hands-on from their team. That was good.

For our deployment, to get it out to the 12,000 users, it took about three to four months.

We didn't have an implementation strategy at first. About a month into it, we got a new CIO and he implemented a strategy for us to get it done. A lot of it was guided, before that, by our CEO. He wasn't necessarily great in that area; he was more of a finance guy. Domo also helped a lot, getting us onboard and running as soon as possible.

It was hands-on for me. I had to do a lot of collecting of ideas and what they actually needed. I had to do a little bit of the project management myself, as well. I had to do some pulling of strings everywhere to collect everything that they really needed so we could translate it to what the user needed to see. Half the time I was developing, the other half I was chasing down what exactly was needed.

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SS
Senior Software Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is very straightforward. All you need to do is have Workbench set up in an on-prem server, and you need Domo access, the cloud link. That's it, and you're ready to develop or publish any report. It doesn't take much time. All you need to do is create a data set and, once your data set is available, you create cards. However long it takes you to create a card is how long it takes until you have results.

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FS
Managing Director at TokenMarket Capital

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. We bought it as a yearly package and got ten licenses to begin with and then a bunch of U-licenses. The setup was included in that. They set it up according to what we wanted included in the price. They didn't come back to us at any point and say, "You've run out of hours." They did it quite elegantly. We got up and running nicely.

The initial deployment took two to three weeks. That's one of the crazy things about Domo. If I have a huge database or an ERP or a CRM, and it's in an SQL or another database, it's about a two-hour process to connect it to Domo. It's not complicated. If I want to get all my Twitter, Facebook, and analytics into Domo and into dashboards, that's something I can do, and it will take me about 15 minutes. It is "next-level." It is pretty amazing. 

There is an app in Domo - the Workbench - that picks up the information. You connect your LinkedIn or your Facebook to Domo and it just picks up all the relevant data. There's a ready-made dashboard for it and you can modify it if you want. But for most companies, the dashboards that they've already built are good enough to begin with.

It's a super quick process.

In terms of an implementation strategy, we talked with the implementation team about what's important, what's not, etc. We thought about it and discussed it over a couple of Skype calls and then we made it happen.

The deployment speed is one of the biggest advantages that they have.

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it_user720018 - PeerSpot reviewer
NA Lead Business Intelligence Systems at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Straightforward.

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KG
Manager - Talent Acquisition Analytics at a wholesaler/distributor

It's relatively complex to implement. 

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PratikSavla - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Product Security Officer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

The initial setup was straightforward.

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RC
Software Developer at CapitalVia Global Research Limited

The setup was straightforward, easy. You have to directly connect it with the database. We have a database for our internal application and integrated directly with that database and it was good to go. That process took one to two hours.

We started by creating one report, then another report. The initial R&D I did on Domo took me between ten and 15 days, and then I moved on to creation of the reports. After that, I was able to create the dashboards in a month.

I was the only one who developed the entire dashboard in our organization. I am the entire owner of Domo.

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AV
Freelance DBA

Domo was already installed and configured when I started.

It's pretty simple to configure within a database and with another IP, like Google. It provides a step-by-step explanation of how to do something using stickers in the questions. Clicking on the sticker, it tells you more information about what you need to to do to configure something, which is pretty simple. It takes a minute to a minute and a half to set up.

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it_user5259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Data Analytics at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Setup was very straightforward.

  • Plug-in credentials for pre-built connectors
  • Load data files
  • Setup ODBC connections to existing databases.

All just take minutes and you won't have a dependency on IT (unless you want to).

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it_user243891 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence & Analytics Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

SaaS platforms remove any initial setup problems and it is ready to go out of the box.

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SB
Business Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was never part of the initial setup, but I think it's straightforward. As with anything that you're getting from the cloud, you only have to establish your data connections to the tool. We use several things, including Excel files. It should be a straightforward exercise, instead of taking time.

I have read about how it is done in other companies and what I've seen is that implementation took less than two days.

There is no specific maintenance for the solution. Two people can do the job for a large organization, because the only thing that you need to determine is how you want to give access and what kind of access. That is done by our customer success manager, and there is a product manager who takes care of who should be given a Domo license and who should not be, in our company.

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SA
Senior Reporting Analyst at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees

The setup is simple for someone who knows the system. If it's the first time doing it, the setup will be tricky. 

We go with a four-week implementation strategy, wherein we gather requirements from the clients, we have a brainstorming session to understand what kind of system they are using and what sources they are using. We'll extract and build the dashboards for them. And then we come to the documentation, where we document the details of requirements and then we deliver it, based on the timeline. This is all done within the four-week period, and we give them the standard set of cards.

From our end, for the reporting from Domo, we need just one person involved and that same person handles the day-to-day maintenance.

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it_user243885 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Analyst at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We were vastly over-sold. Domo was sold as an easy-to-implement-yourself product, but this is completely unrealistic.To be fair, I know that their approach has changed since then, and they now recognize the need for a proper implementation resource, whether internal or external.

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YM
BI Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I was not involved in the initial setup.

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it_user247299 - PeerSpot reviewer
SQL Server Database Administrator at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

The initial set up was pretty straightforward after we were told that it’s best to use the Domo workbench instead of the SQL connector. The SQL connector did not work at all.

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it_user234786 - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Manager with 51-200 employees

It was highly complex. They had to connect to the APIs of various systems which was beyond the ability of a layperson to do. Clearly, it was complex for their team given that we only got two of our four promised systems implemented over more than six months. And those took more than two months each.

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HK
DW/BI Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The setup of Domo was straightforward. Their online resources are quite extensive, which was something I wasn't expecting. They have a Knowledge Base and a lot of online learning materials.

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it_user245406 - PeerSpot reviewer
MIS Analyst at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think it was pretty straight forward. When I got stuck, I was able to find some documentation. The hardest part was knowing what the tools are called for the tasks I was trying to perform (Workbench, Beast Mode, DataFusion, etc.).

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it_user817749 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Manager at a retailer with 51-200 employees

Like with any product, there will be a learning curve. With Domo it was simple, once we got the hang of the platform. Additionally, support was always available to help us on the back-end or the front-end, to develop what we were aiming for.

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it_user241092 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Analyst at a media company with 10,001+ employees

It was straightforward as the IT team knows how to install it remotely.

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March 2024
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