# Design and Practices for OEMs

> Four essential areas that underpin scalable, maintainable, secure, and efficient OEM deployments.

*Source: https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/oem-design-and-practices.htm*

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Last updated: June 10, 2026

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In today’s data-driven landscape, delivering embedded analytics or white-labelled business intelligence to customers requires more than just a powerful analytics engine. For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) — companies that integrate, brand, and deliver analytics as part of their solution — success hinges on carefully considered architectural, operational, and lifecycle practices. The following topics are four essential areas that underpin scalable, maintainable, secure, and efficient OEM deployments:

- The right [OEM Architecture](https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/oem-architecture.md) — deciding how to partition resources and data across tenants (or customers), balancing isolation, performance, and cost.
- Robust [Automation and Scaling](https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/automation-and-scaling-for-oems.md) — leveraging automation (APIs, scripting) to manage users, data models, dashboards, and deployments at scale, and to enable frictionless growth as your OEM customer base expands.
- Effective [Version Control for OEMs](https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/version-control-for-oems.md) — treating analytics assets (data models, dashboards, configurations) as code: versioning them, promoting changes across dev/staging/production, and enabling reliable deployments and rollbacks.
- A set of [Best Practices for OEMs](https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/best-practices-for-oems.md) — encapsulating strategic, architectural, security, and operational guidelines to ensure your OEM offering is maintainable, secure, performant, and aligned with your business needs.

The following sections explore each of these four areas, explaining what they are, why they matter for OEMs, and how to apply them in practice.