It's quite user-friendly and easy to deploy.

The initial setup is easy. 

The initial setup is very easy, especially when in comparison with other competitors. The whole process takes about fifteen minutes.

The consultant we used was not as competent as we had expected, so it was a bit of a drag and took some time. At some point we changed consultants and that helped. The migration period from Sage to SAP took a while but we got there - it wasn't a very smooth ride. For a while, management was concerned about the bumpy ride to implementation. 

The initial setup was a bit complex. Deployment didn't take more than two months.

In my view, the official initial setup guide is very well-documented and anyone can find this information on 'The SyBooks Online' infocenter (definitive source for Sybase documentation on the internet). As a result, the initial setup is very straightforward in most cases. However, some difficulty can be experienced with the SAP ASE servers that are configured with a failover in a high availability system, but most companies don't use this very often.

Compared to other database engines, I think it's one of the easier ones, in terms of initial setup.

Installation and setup is straightforward above version 12.x. Learn usage, too.