It is done by IBM support in a day or two. The use of the appliance to implement the data model require for knowledgeable development and database resources. Prior working knowledge of Netezza would be an added advantage.

Implemented this through a vendor team. As there is no need to spend time on partitioning and indexing, a lot of vendor time was saved. Table scripts for partitioned oracle tables run into hundreds or thousands of lines of code and we used to be charged accordingly. But a Netezza table script is much much simpler and we saved money there. Review of table scripts for performance and best practice was also easier as there is only a limited set of best practices to be implemented for high performance. So even vendor teams having low or medium level of expertise can deliver properly as long as they understand how MPP works - governance effort is definitely lesser with Netezza compared to Oracle or SQL Server.

We used a third party to do the implementation of the solution. There were approximately 25 people for the operation and it took approximately eight months.

We have two people who do the maintenance for IBM Netezza Performance Server.

I was a consultant from the system implementation vendor.

We implemented it in house. My advice would be to follow the tool, and not try to force a schema designed for another system on it.

We worked with the vendor to implement it.

We implemented by ourselves, my team and I implemented everything.

Netezza servers are installed by IBM but implementations are sometimes handled in house and for others it maybe a mixture with BI vendors. We are a BI vendor and do implementations.

Netezza themselves set up the machines. We implemented our business rules using a vendor team to get us up to speed on MPP processing.

Build a strong relationship with your technical account manager as you will be referring to them quite a lot. Could save many man hours in the long term.

Both ways, as the box got setup by us and IBM provided a huge set of documents, which made life easier.

We did it in-collaboration with IBM, and in my opinion, this is the best way to embrace new technology. Once you gradually build up your capability in new technology, you should then take control of it with your in-house talented experts.

It was done by an in-house team.

I was not part of the initial set up but I know that the main challenge was to set up IBM CDC to transfer data to the Netezza appliance

It was done by an in-house team with assistance from some IBM consultants who had very good knowledge about Netezza.

In house - have a person trained on Pure Data - it will pay off