We have an Oracle consultant who helps with the implementation part. Moreover, we are also comfortable doing the implementation process with the help of our in-house staff.

We implemented the solution in-house while doing the proof of concept.

Around five to six key individuals, mainly senior executives like CFO, CIO, and CEO, use Oracle OBIEE in our team. We handle maintenance internally and don't rely on third parties for troubleshooting or deployment.

I implemented Oracle OBIEE, so one staff is enough for its implementation. I also implemented the BIApps at the time. However, I also had the help of four consultants during the Oracle OBIEE implementation, mainly financial and supply chain consultants and a database administrator.

You can deploy it with one person. I've deployed an entire OBIEE installation entirely by myself. It's not recommended, and it's not the best way, but it can be done. I know, I've done it. To administer or manage it once it's in place, the ideal team would be at a minimum a three to four-person team. Some companies, when they say, "We need to put in BI, and we need people to do that," they're also, without saying it, asking for someone to set up a data warehouse, run ETL, build and maintain that, run the BI, build the interface, do the reports, and teach or train the employees, which is something I've done. In that kind of situation, you need a three or four-person team at minimum to distribute everything from the data warehouse work, ETL, report development, training, and so on. If the person you're asking to maintain the BI system is not asked to train users, you don't need that skill either. So, it can be done by one person. It depends on what the client desires and is expecting.

We do these kinds of implementations ourselves. We are an Oracle SI.

The implementation of Oracle OBIEE can be done in-house. If the company implementing the solution is not experienced then a consultant can be used.

We have multiple technical staff working on Oracle OBIEE. However, the exact number is based on the needs of the project. In our previous project, we had three to four technical staff that was needed; in the current project, we have more than 20.

We used the vendor to help us with the deployment of the solution. We used two to three people for the deployment.

The installation process was quick. The deployment was handled by the vendor.

We did it ourselves. For its deployment and maintenance, we need a whole team of people. We probably have about three or four managers, and we've probably got 15 to 20 technical personnel or developers because many different business units are using it.

I implemented the solution in-house.

The solution's implementation process was carried out by an integrator who helped us.

Oracle can help set up the solution.

We set up the solution in-house. We didn't need to hire an integrator or consultant.

It was implemented in house.

I helped implement it as part of the vendor-side team.

I have implemented through consulting companies . 

We implemented it ourselves with our in-house team.

We implemented it with our in-house team.

We implemented it in-house.

Both sides need to be part of the team at each stage of deployment so that knowledge transfer is effective. The tendency for most vendors, however, is to avoid too much knowledge transfer for obvious reasons.

I typically handle the initial setup for clients. 

We implemented with the help of a third-party contractor.

In-house

The technical team is actually divided between us and our clients. Some of the reports are being built by the client engineering team, so I am not aware of the relevant account. There are around five to ten people who manage the auxiliary activities concerning the reports or donate any data entry forms to them. This is the type of working we have been undertaking. 

We did an in-house implementation, but had experienced ex–Oracle contractors on the team. I would say a good set up of your RPD and a well planned design of your dashboards/reporting framework is essential – and that takes experience.

We did it ourselves.

We had a mix of vendor team and in-house resources and both teams were working simultaneously. The vendor team worked well at the time of initial setup but recently we decided to roll off the majority of the vendor resources because of cost concerns.

We take assistance from a third-party vendor.

We had an Oracle consultant come in to help us. The DBAs actually installed OBIEE and set up the RPD. I'm not sure that, even now, that was set up optimally. We learned a lot as we went along. It's like, "Now we're this far down the road, and it sure would have been nice to know this back here," because I found that going back and trying to really change some of the structure is difficult.

It was done in-house.

In-house

It was done in-house. Analyze the requirements do a POC to get the sign off of what is going to be delivered. Analyze the complexity and technical challenges, and look for workarounds to implement the solution if needed.

We used a mixed team. The vendor had guys that knew what they were doing, even at some point, better than the Oracle team.

We used a consulted to assist us with deployment.

Through a vendor team. 7/10.

We did it in-house.

My team did the implementation and integration.

We used a mixed team, and when the vendor team implemented it, they had satisfactory skills to do it.

We implemented it in-house.

Two external vendors, one from the US with a high level of expertise and one from Australia with a medium level of expertise.