What are you trying to integrate with? As far as effort required, overall it is designed to be straight forward but can vary depending upon the details you are trying to accomplish. For example is Lyra going to be host driven or not. In either case the effort required is different but not extensive.
In a nutshell, Lyra is a built application that you can configure to fit your visualization needs. The level of configurability is extensive and is well documented to aide in that understanding.
Have you purchased Lyra?
