The initial setup of this solution is very simple.

Three people are suitable for maintenance.

I'm not sure what to compare it to. I am a DBA. For me to set it up, it would be a fast setup. If I'm not a DBA, then it would totally take a little bit of time. For someone who is new to Netezza, it's not complex but it requires prerequisite knowledge. That's it.

I would rate the setup as medium complexity, given that we have somebody who knows a little bit of database administration. I would not say the full administration. I would rate setup around two and a half out of five.

DBA set it up, but it seemed very simple. I helped with designing the overall architecture. If you stick with NZA as a “function repository DB” concept and do not put data on it (as recommended in the install manual) you will be ok.

I wasn't involved in the initial setup, I joined it in between. My role was to support the BAU and then to set up a Cloud Data Hybrid Platform. On the data side, I was much more involved.

Straightforward.

I didn't participate in the installation, but I believe the process is easy. The installation instructions, from what I understand, are easy to follow. Even the integration from another platform, from DB2 and Microsoft SQL, was no problem for us.

SAS server (Unix) and data storage only.

It is very easy to setup.

The initial setup was straightforward. It's really easy. Deployment for us took about three months. We used about four team members during implementation.