The initial setup was fine. It was pretty straightforward and not overly complex. That said, our environment was not that complex, which made it manageable.

We had three people involved in the implementation. It took a couple of months to have everyone on a level that they could work with it.

The initial setup was simple to medium. We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support.

The initial setup is simple but deployment complicity depends on scalability and features you need.

It is easily downloadable from the website. Tutorials are available on YouTube for installation of Pentaho, but it becomes difficult when your requirements are specific, such as the incorporation of Hadoop, when there is no tutorial available for that. Also, when you encounter a problem, there is not much support you can expect, but a good cloud team can definitely help resolve the installation issues.

I believe the software installation (client or server) is very straightforward.
However, complexity occurs when tuning properties for the Mondrian cubes.

It was straightforward and became complex later to our understanding of the existing structure and the use of the ETL to align with those.

Hard answer: both. We got up to delivering results in almost no time. However, a sizeable lot of little vicious details kept resisting to us - most issues with stability, latter associated with RAM limitations, and user management, tied to LDAP integration. Part of the said difficulties stemed from bugs, too, so there were only a matter of time waiting for Pentaho to fix them,

After that the customer kicked in a lot of small changes and adaptations, truly to the "since-we-are-at-it"-scope-creep-spirit (some rightful, some pure fancy), which had us and Pentaho scratching our mutual heads. In the end we kinda helped them advance some updates in the Server. And delivered all that was asked.

Pentaho is easy to deploy, easy to use and maintain. It’s low cost and a fully supported business intelligence solution. I have used Pentaho in small and large organizations with great success.

The initial setup was easy.

The initial setup was straightforward. The setup was done by my team, which had no expertise with the Pentaho BI Suite. In 2 days, I was presented with the first dashboards.

It was straightforward, as there was not much of configuration was involved.

The installation had medium complexity. There is good documentation, but you have to follow certain procedures before using it.

Difficulty: medium

To start, the first configurations were very difficult. I started with the CE version and without good documentation or support. I spent years learning for myself.

Depending upon the solutions nature, the initial setup for a basic data warehouse architecture is quite straightforward. But as with all solutions as the landscape grows and user requirements evolve, the complexity increases. I think that Pentaho suits well in today's demand for a continuous integration approach. With this in mind the initial setup is crucial in a way not to find yourself spending a lot of time and effort in refactoring the complete solution over-and-over again.

It was very much straightforward except at some points where we did our customizations which we had to take into account during new installations or upgrades.

It is easy

Simple, easy to install.

It was easy, and only took a few minutes.

It's very easy.

Pretty straightforward. Also the support Pentaho documents are self explanatory for installation guidelines.

It's straightforward and we haven't really encountered complexities in the initial setup that we can't handle.

It was complex to set-up.

The initial setup of the tool is very simple. In the last version we have a marketplace for installing new features in the product.

Yes, for the initial setup we had to understand database and some script xml.

Straightforward.

The set-up is very easy. For full installation, Pentaho provides a binary package with an installation wizard. Or alternatively, you can just download and extract file, then just work through it.

It's kind of complex if user wants to implement LDAP authentication, such as defining the scope and filters.