The initial setup is easy and takes a week to complete. To deploy, prepare the hardware and open the firewall. Two admins are enough for the deployment and maintenance of the solution.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

The initial setup is a little tricky and takes around two to three months to complete.

The solution is straightforward to set up. I'd rate the simplicity of implementation nine out of ten. 

It only takes a couple of hours to deploy the solution. 

The deployment can be done by one person. However, it usually requires a team, depending on the size of the department.

The ease of setup depends on the customer's requirements, how many datasets and tables they have, and how many different databases we have to connect. It also depends on whether the data repositories are on-premise or cloud. However, whether the deployment is simple or complex, the tool supports everything. We follow a typical software deployment.

For on-prem deployment, the installation and configuration aren't a tall order. They can be done within three weeks for each environment. That's not a problem. One can do the configuration by following the best mechanisms and the best configuration parameters, etc. That's not an issue. The challenge is the actual implementation. For a data warehouse of medium size, the implementation timelines would be around 9 to 10 months with proper integration and proper standardization. For a big data warehouse, it'd be slightly more. If you want to do it quite quickly, within 3 months or so, then you would not possibly go for technology as costly as Informatica. You can go for it, but you may want to choose other technologies in the market.

I have not faced much of a challenge with its implementation. The issue comes only when a person doesn't know how PowerCenter has to be set up with the repository, the underlying metadata structures, etc. I'd rate it a nine out of ten in terms of the ease of the setup.

The product is easy to install. I can deploy the tool and do whatever I want with it. Informatica has a platform that we use to teach people. It is effective. The learning curve is good.

The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it.

The deployment process includes steps like identifying how much capacity the tool would require, dataflows, the kind of services required, and the platforms on which you need certain services.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

The time required to deploy the solution depends on the kind of servers users want to use with the product. Sometimes, the deployment needs to be planned out properly when you need more servers in your environment. If you have to deal with only simple use cases in your company, you just need to install the product onto any of your servers or nodes and run it in your environment. If you need to deal with simple or straightforward use cases, the product can be deployed in your environment in a day or two. Depending on whether you need to deal with simple or complex use cases, the product's deployment process may take time, as multiple products need to be integrated with the server on which Informatica PowerExchange is deployed.

Deploying PowerExchange is average. It's not an easy GUI-based setup, but it's not that complicated, either. It requires some effort, but I wouldn't say it's difficult. The installation took a few days, but full end-to-end implementation takes around a month.

It requires some maintenance because there is no automatic failover and high availability. If it crashes, a qualified engineer has to take care of the instance and turn it on again or manually intervene to start it on a new machine. 

The initial setup was a little difficult to configure.

The initial setup and deployment were very simple for us. It takes approximately a week's time to complete.

Our development team manages the environment.

This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours.

It's easy to set up, but it's not that flexible to maintain. It does not have easy interfaces to use, to manage the product. Setup was a little stressful, but the operational tasks and the developer tasks need to be improved as well. It took about a month to deploy.

The initial setup has a moderate amount of difficulty. It's not straightforward, but it's not too complex. Our deployment was a scheduled deployment. We planned it so that it happened incrementally.