Its initial setup is straightforward. It is just like on-prem. It took around one to one and a half hours because we had to spin up the Azure wheel. There are a couple of prerequisites that you need to do that takes around half an hour. After that, it is straightforward.

The setup can be a little quirky. You need to have experience navigating IIS and setting permissions in IIS. Once this is out of the way, it is straightforward.

The initial setup is straightforward. It is not a difficult product to install. 

It is fairly straightforward as the Excel plug-in makes the initial data load very simple.

The tool's deployment is straightforward and takes only half an hour to complete. 

I was not a part of the installation. I have not done it, but it should be simple. 

It's similar to any SQL server installation.

Implementing with the cloud was a little bit complex. 

There was an issue with the production version.

I set it up on my own laptop and I did not think it was that difficult. The challenging part is making sure you are matched up with the right version and patch level of SQL Server and IE.

It's important to remember that when you're installing the SQL Server, you have to select MDS. Once that's done MDS has to be enabled and the MDS database has to be created. For that purpose, you have to open MDS configuration and create the MDS database. Finally you have to build a few services of Microsoft Windows - Windows 10, Windows Server or something else - to enable multiple services and open multiple ports to enable DevOps MDS service. You then need a Microsoft Silverlight for MDS use. Finally, the MDS developer must have the admin rights of the system as well as the database.

The initial setup of Microsoft MDS is simple. After thoroughly planning and gathering all necessary information and instructions, the implementation took one day.

I didn't handle the initial setup; it's dealt with by a different team. I believe it's very straightforward in terms of an installer having a model object package which contains all of the entities, attributes, groups, hierarchies, business rules, etc. And this is deployed as a package via an XML file. That's the standard way of doing it. 

The initial setup of this solution is not complex.

The solution took us approximately one month to develop, and then one day to deploy.

We used Azure Cloud service to set it up, and it was very easy to setup and configure. Cloud setup is the way to go.

The setup was very straightforward. The installation wizard and the configuration manager are simple and intuitive.