We used an integrator because we lack in-house expertise with Oracle ERP. 
We have a technical team and a business analyst, but we don't have the knowledge to handle Oracle ERP onboarding.

The bigger organizations tend to go for system integrators because they have the budget for projects and their projects are a little bit bigger. I would recommend in-house implementation if you have a special team.

We contacted Deloitte to deploy the solution.

The initial setup was handled by Oracle partners. 

We implemented the solution with assistance from developers and a consultant. The process was gradual and took three years. We implemented some modules and then continued to others. We found issues and had to fix them along the way. 

Our consultant was not dedicated to the project. He was an external resource, busy with another customer, and only worked part time on our implementation. 

We need an experienced consultant to focus on these issues, investigate them, and fix them. We have many bugs and issues that shouldn't happen in the solution.

The first time Oracle E-Business Suite was implemented, configured, and integrated with our systems, we worked with a third party who was an expert, so we won't run into cost overruns.

We used consultants for the implementation of the solution, it is not simple to do. The process is not similar to installing Microsoft Office.

We have 50 people for the support of this solution, such as developers and coders.

We used a third-party to implement Oracle E-Business Suite.

As we are system integrators for this solution, we have implemented it in various locations using our own in-house team.

We jointly did the implementation with an integrator.

The maintenance and support are done by a special team of six analysts. It's a corporate system, you cannot leave it alone.

For implementation, it took about two years. It took a lot of time because of so much duplicate data. Application-related setups were relatively easy. The main challenge was to identify the right data because we had about one million records.

We implemented it in a two-phased approach. First, pulling in the clean data, which we spent near one year. And then, we moved the creation and maintenance process to a master header system, which took another year.

We used an integrator that was quite good.

We used a consultant for the deployment. It was from an Oracle partner in Pakistan.  

Even though we used the services of a consultant, we have an in-house support team. We do not require any support from outside and no longer require or include any external vendors. So we have a team of around 25 people supporting this application.  

If you work in a comfortable environment and have deadlines, the solution can be deployed in two weeks.

I have deployed this solution in many companies in difficult countries in the world.

For deployments, we have streamlined the processes and migration. We have also streamlined the migration process, whether it is a VM migration or either it is cloning. We streamline everything.  

I am a member of the Oracle Implementation Team and implement the solution for customers. 

I did the deployment myself. Deployment of this solution took a lot of time, because I was using my own laptop, and only had 16GB RAM. I experienced some errors, so deployment took almost a day to a day and a half.

In most cases, I was on the vendor team that implemented the projects. In my experience, Oracle partners who are specialized in this area can be classified as experts with knowledge and real life expertise.

Its implementation was very difficult. We used an implementer, but he was bad.

Oracle E-Business Suite requires maintenance.

Most of our customers have deployed it on-premises.

Here's a possible rephrased version, based on my understanding:

We have a team responsible for deploying and installing Oracle ERP for our customers.

My team consists of both DBAs (Database Administrators) and other technical professionals with various specialties.

Training for APEX goes through several steps like anything else. You start as a beginner, go through intermediate and become senior. It's very easy to take that first step and become a very good confident beginner because it is a declarative environment all you need to do to get started with APEX is a little bit of SQL knowledge and not even PL/SQL when you start because it's all declarative. Oracle gives you some very good starting documentation. There are some good books now by the A press publisher, beginning Oracle Application Express. There's a couple of very good introduction books. If you work through those you'll be able to be very productive APEX developer.

APEX by itself is easy to learn and it's extremely powerful because it sits right sort of in the mid-tier between the Oracle backend and the JavaScript front end. The backend you since it's got a very easy interface into PL/SQL you've got all the rich environment like SQL analytics, very powerful Oracle engine underneath you and you can reach all of that stuff very, very easily from APEX. On the front end the tool gives you a lovely set of themes and templates for putting out your HTML and cascading style sheets and your JavaScript for the front end stuff. You can use APEX out of the box and get a very good user interface but if you want to customize it or brand it's nothing more than HTML, CSS and JavaScript which is all under your control.

We had outside help, but what causes problems is the fact that when you're a company and you're looking for new software, you are sitting there and you're saying, "OK my old software doesn't quite do what I want," so you want to buy something else. You go out, you do your RFP, you decide you're going to get E-Business Suite. The problem is, the experts at the company know their business. They also know their business using their old system. The consultants that they get to come in, they know E-Business Suite, but they don't know your business. The two don't always mesh correctly. What I've noticed over the years is you end up re-implementing the old system you just came off of. You're not utilizing all of the neat features that E-Business Suite has.

We used an in-house team.

We require 15 people for the maintenance and deployment of the solution for one project. The people needed include managers, developers, administrators, and engineers.

We had three partners that helped us with the implementation.

We used Oracle Professional Services for our implementation. The team was extremely knowledgeable.

I think we implemented via both vendor and in-house teams, and it's worked fine.

Regarding a deployment team. It depends on the project. For instance, for a big-sized financial company, I need two or three financial consultants. If it's for a logistics company, I need, again, two or three logistic consultants. If it's for a small or mid-sized company, one consultant is enough to implement the project. However, these functional consultants, because they set up the system according to business needs, they need technical support. So we have a technical support team for customization, et cetera. Five or six technical consultants is good enough, usually. If there are lots of integrations, et cetera, I need a technical team of 10 people team.

Currently, we have three projects going on now. Two of them are upgrade projects and we have five consultants involved in each project. One of them is a scratch project, an implementation project. We have 15, 16, 17 people working on that project.

We had our hosted partners and DBA team install it. I think a lot of things we had to match back were business processes from our ERP. Whatever ERP you're going to pick, there's going to be little hits against it. There are going to be a lot of things it does well and a lot of things it doesn't do so well. We seem to match up pretty good for what we're wanting to accomplish with it.

Getting the right consultant is key, and sometimes rapid implementation doesn't pay.

Vendor plus in-house.

We had implementors come on-site to assist us with the initial setup.

I provide technical support to the HR department.

We implement this solution for our customers.

We outsourced for the implementation.

The maintenance is being done by our in-house group of four people.

The E-Business Suite, there is certainly, if you're operating or implementing, from a set-up standpoint, usually from an upgrade standpoint, the set-ups are minimal. You're always going to have some type of set-up in the application. If you're doing a fresh implementation, the setup material's available for you, step-by-step set-up documentation by Oracle. It doesn't mean that you'll get a perfect solution by the end of the day, but it'll lead you down that path of being successful.

We use a vendor who is really great.

When we did the first implementation we used a third-party team, for further installations our internal team did the implementation.

The initial setup and deployment were done by another team in our company. We call them the DBA team (Database Administrators).

We used an integrator and a consultant to assist us in the implementation. The consultants were from Oracle and the integrator was IBM. We needed them both due to the complex nature of the setup.

I completed the installation myself. I did not use the help of an integrator or consultant.

I implemented Oracle E-Business Suite by myself.

We ended up going with an outside firm to do our deployment of EBS. We just simply provided data at the time because we didn't know much about Oracle. Over time, we've become experts in some areas.

We had third-party help in some regards, but then our DBA and our system admin knew most of the areas that we needed to for setup to convert from 11i to 12.1.

I have implemented, supported, maintained, and looked after all of the different deployment types (on cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises).  

We have an in-house team of five engineers for maintenance.

We implemented it with our in-house team.

We implemented through an SI.

It takes us a while, but we do things very methodically. We have not typically had outside consultants and we typically do our own upgrades. I think that that's a good thing.

We partnered with a consulting firm, and we came in on time and under budget. Can't ask for much better than that.

We implemented it with a combination of our in-house team and outside consultants.

When we implemented it, we used another company, AST. Their two-year contract has ended, which is why I chose Emtec. Overall, AST did a very good job. They do the job from scratch: so many app servers, so many test environments, dev environments, and production environment. We use Hyperion; we use BI; we use the EBS. That integration is very complex to understand, initially. Overall, we understand the whole thing.

We did the implementation of Oracle EBS internally without a vendor.

I'm sure we used a third-party implementation team or consulting firm.