Overview
What is Sigma?
Sigma Computing headquartered in San Francisco provides a suite of data services such as code free data modeling, data search and explorating, and related BI and data visualization services.
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Nearly perfect, missing some nice to have features
I tell everyone about Sigma!
Great BI tool loved by many business stakeholders
A data analysis tool that is easy implement and easy to learn.
Love Sigma
Getting data into your users' hands quickly and easily
Excellent Tool for Business Analysis
Actionable and fun data analytics
How Sigma Differs From Its Competitors
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able to turn a filter on and off to compare different results based on different categories. This has been immensely helpful when comparing different products and their analyzing their efficiency. …
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Now, Sigma is the go to location for data access. The UI is clear enough that users can immediately start using data once they start using Sigma …
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The non-technical users can access the data, but the rights sharing could be improved.
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It would be nice though if there was the ability to add a meta user id to each user in sigma so that we could easier link them to our other softwares
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But sigma is better than Power BI in the sense of quickly collaborating on a worksheet
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for some more technical user, we can …
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Awards
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Popular Features
- Drill-down analysis (150)8.585%
- Report sharing and collaboration (156)8.282%
- Customizable dashboards (155)7.676%
- Formatting capabilities (157)7.373%
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Pricing
What is Sigma?
Sigma Computing headquartered in San Francisco provides a suite of data services such as code free data modeling, data search and explorating, and related BI and data visualization services.
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- Setup fee optional
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 7Pixel Perfect reports(100) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 7.6Customizable dashboards(155) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 7Report Formatting Templates(127) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 8.5Drill-down analysis(150) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 7.3Formatting capabilities(157) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 7.3Integration with R or other statistical packages(5) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 8.2Report sharing and collaboration(156) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 9.3Publish to Web(99) Ratings
- 8Publish to PDF(124) Ratings
- 9.4Report Versioning(114) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 9.2Report Delivery Scheduling(127) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 8.3Delivery to Remote Servers(64) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 7.3Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(141) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 5.6Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(26) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 6.2Predictive Analytics(18) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Product Details
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What is Sigma?
Sigma is a business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform purpose-built for the cloud. With Sigma, anyone can use the spreadsheet functions and formulas they already know to explore live data at cloud scale, down to the lowest grain of detail. Its familiar spreadsheet-like interface delivers SQL into the hands of any user while keeping data fresh and secure within cloud data warehouses.
Data-first companies can use Sigma to empower their employees, customers, and partners to break free from the confines of the dashboard and explore data for themselves to make better, faster decisions. The software was built to capitalize on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly – no coding required.
Sigma Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: ETL Capability
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Predictive modeling
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
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Sigma Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | United States, Canada |
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Reviews
(1-2 of 2)Sigma: As easy to use as Excel, as powerful as Tableau.
On a daily basis, use it to determine a broad range of things:
Product performance:
- Observing past trends and predict future trends in product usage
- Identify broad trends that could lead to product improvements
- Help clients get the maximum potential from our product by observing how its being used
- Identify areas where costs to us, or the client, may be unnecessarily high and address
- Proactively identify issues and reach out to clients for troubleshooting and resolution
- Reach out to clients who are not using the product to its maximum potential and assist in helping their projects succeed
- Maximize delivery to our clients by identifying the causes of shortfalls
- Customer Support: They've always been very quick to respond, willing to help work to come up with solutions for anything I'm stuck on.
- Very quick and easy to create reports with, once a solid dataset has been built.
- Low Code/No Code UX is intuitive to any excel users.
- Many options for joining different data sources.
- Adding new features regularly
- Formatting: On workbooks and dashboards, it can sometimes be difficult to make the page elements align correctly.
- When creating and setting up datasets, having a temporarily row-limiting option when editing would help a lot, particularly on anything with a large number of rows.
- Scheduling reports to be sent out can be tricky if the request is something like "Last Monday of each month".
- Being able to export an xls with conditional formatting would be helpful in some cases.
The scenarios where Sigma is less appropriate are when a task needs to be confirmed. If we reach out to a client regarding an issue, we can't indicate it was done in Sigma. I don't consider this a Sigma issue, as it's not meant to be a workflow tool.
- Pixel Perfect reports
- N/AN/A
- Customizable dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- N/AN/A
- Drill-down analysis
- 100%10.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 50%5.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 100%10.0
- Publish to PDF
- 50%5.0
- Report Versioning
- 80%8.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 40%4.0
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- N/AN/A
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 80%8.0
- Easy to spin up a new ad-hoc report or dashboard
- Recovered a lot of revenue that had previously not been invoiced or noticed.
- Improved customer service by allowing us to proactively notice issues and correct them for clients.
- Decreased time and error rate when by switching to Sigma vs compiling reports in spreadsheets
- Building parameters to identify common or key issues has greatly helped us maximize delivery to clients
This helps us inform stakeholders and decision-makers on business decisions and client discussions.
For example, we've been tracking how a recent business decision has been impacting revenue by creating a new report in Sigma that we can monitor continuously and see how our clients have responded to the change, and the impact on revenue and quality of deliveries. There have been many instances where a stakeholder or decision maker has requested specific information, and Sigma has allowed us to turn around the report within an hour vs a day or two using our previous methods
- Google Data Studio, Tableau Desktop and QlikView
Currently the business functions represented are decision-makers, operations teams across several product divisions, sales, supplier relations and quality management teams.
- Streamlining customer service by proactively identifying issues and reaching out to client
- Real-time and accurate financial reporting
- Identifying client trends and addressing as needed
- Bringing in CRM data from another platform to monitor their team's workloads
- Creating parameters to help us respond to project setups that specifically require our team's intervention
- Reduce the amount of revenue loss by creating a "Quality" report that allows the viewer to set specific KPIs and identify projects that are at high risk
- Creating a specific dashboard with selectable parameters that help our support team quickly identify projects that may have issues and proactively reach out to the client
- Bring in additional data from other financial reporting and CRM platforms to create higher level reports
- Merge the data with operational data for more granular observation of trends
- Other
- Implemented in-house
- Not involved in implementation
- Easily creating in-table calculations and pivot tables
- Using parameters to create "filters" based on specific metrics or KPI
- Date calculations involving the number of days from the beginning of the year or month (I think this is the case for any similar platform)
- Formatting pie chart legends
- Certain types of if-then statements that involve multiple parameters
Sigma is definitely worth a try!
- Easy graphs
- Easy to share and display
- Easy to learn and code into a new dashboard
- Requires an account to view
- Need to be code savvy
- Can be slow based on amount of data
- Pixel Perfect reports
- 90%9.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 90%9.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 90%9.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 90%9.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- 90%9.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 80%8.0
- Publish to Web
- 90%9.0
- Publish to PDF
- 80%8.0
- Report Versioning
- 80%8.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 80%8.0
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- 80%8.0
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 80%8.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 80%8.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 80%8.0
- Positive: easy to share with leadership
- Positive: works with Snowflake for our customers
- Positive: helps tell stories better than reports do.
- Creating dashboards to view data in a picture
- Exporting reports of just the data we need
- Sharing dashboards, reports and idea via sigma
- Using Sigma to share security dashboards rather than the security tools themselves
- Easy export such as csv
- Ingesting more data to create even more dashboards that speak to each other
- Including more teams and their data problems
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
- Don't know
- Learning curve
- Compatibility with systems
- no training
- Ingesting/connecting data
- Creating dashboards
- Creating rules in SQL
- Loading the dashboards with a lot of data
- Making small changes
- Snowflake!
- No
- No
- No
- Single Signon
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- ETL tools
- Can’t speak to this as I do not know.
- I would love to see faster load times when pulling open a dashboard.
- More export functionality to maybe . JSON