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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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Recent Reviews

Sigma Recommended.

8 out of 10
February 19, 2024
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We use it to embed onto our website for client-facing reporting and internal reporting for our teams that need to see our Sigma data but …
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Sigma Rolling Out.

9 out of 10
February 16, 2024
Incentivized
We use Sigma all day everyday to achieve our production goals and monitor current progress at just a glance. It aids us in planning and …
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My Sigma Review

10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Incentivized
Used for KPI dashboards, monthly/quarterly financial reporting, tracking data sets, and manipulating data. I have used Sigma to make …
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Sigma Review

10 out of 10
February 08, 2024
Incentivized
I use Sigma Computing to find patterns in my data and create dashboards to strategize business decisions based on my analysis. I enjoy …
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Love Sigma

9 out of 10
January 10, 2024
Incentivized
I create analytics reporting for many stakeholders. I make customer data available on a variety of dashboards to our account managers, I …
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How Sigma Differs From Its Competitors

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma has enabled business users to jump in and start analyzing data themselves when they need to. They don't need to wait for a data analyst to free up, which can often be weeks, depending on the data team's workload. Importantly, they are able to analyze data that they trust because they are …
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Still exploring this use case. There is definitely a learning curve for Sigma, and I haven't found it to be as easy as using a tool like Hex where everything is SQL and Python. I would imagine that as we move up the learning curve, ad hoc analyses will become faster than writing fresh code each …
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Self-Service Analytics

Yes, and the data is made digestible so that all business users can access and analyze the data. The tutorials make it easy for any users to ramp up using the platform, and the collaboration functions allow everyone to be on the same page when making business decisions
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Self-Service Analytics

Sigma allows us to use all our data sources together which has been impossible before. Allowing our customer service operations to be able to access the data on a regular basis along with removing the need for manual agent reporting has been a game-changer. In a high paced environment of customer …
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Because there is still a learning curve, there are not that many people in our organization that can utilize Sigma to build out their own reporting. We still have many different blockers regarding ad hoc analyses or why something happened in order to make decisions.

We are currently only at a …
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Self-Service Analytics

It has made it easier to keep access to our reporting in a singular place and organized and allowed us to share our reporting in a much easier and safer way so that other people not from our organization can see what we see.
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Ad Hoc Analytics

The live reports helps us see and address any changes that occur. Be it new inventory or why a unit may not be moving. We are able to see it and be reactive or proactive and plan ahead.
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Self-Service Analytics

It has helped users enter their own scenarios and thresholds on the fly to see different results. It has helped our teams have a more up-to-date financial analysis of the companies we are invested in. This allows quicker decision-making on investment performance. The team loves the input tables
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Ad Hoc Analytics

This has helped me dig into my Snowflake data sets to identify problems in how our data has been pushed, or problems in our pipeline between table creation. We have data coming from many sources that is connected in Snowflake, and it is easier to comb through tables in Sigma rather than write a …
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Self-Service Analytics

Sigma Computing has allowed me to expand my data knowledge with new tools like input tables and control filters. For those with a non technical background, they can click on visualizations and see where the data is coming from and and review the overall structure of how these visualizations are …
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Control filters have allowed me to analyzebig chunks of data and find hidden patterns within it. I am
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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Self-Service Analytics

In the past, non-technical users did not have a way to access our organization's data without manual intervention from the Business Intelligence team.

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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Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma's table and dataset creation capabilities make it easy to create time-series based reporting to understand not only why something happened, but the history behind when it happened. We use this functionality in many of our reports. Having the ability to join tables created in Sigma, back to …
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Self-Service Analytics

Many of our business stakeholders use Sigma regularly. Mostly viewing reports but some savvy users use the explore functions to go deeper into the data to get a better understanding of what is happening currently in the business.
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Personally, my role does more building out the reports for stakeholders to use and to create data pipelines to make it feasible to make that happen. However, sometimes more for personal edification of better understanding certain trends in the business I look into the data.
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Self-Service Analytics

Sigma has allowed me to quickly spin up accurate and detailed dashboards. These dashboards are intuitive and allow non-technical end users to easily digest and manipulate complex datasets. Prior to Sigma, the turn around time between conception and publication took upwards of 2 months but with …
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma allows for datasets to be quickly and easily ported from our database management software, Snowflake. In other words, a sample dataset can easily be published in Snowflake and copied to Sigma for small scale, adhoc analysis that needs to be performed quickly. Alternatively, our team can also …
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Self-Service Analytics

Since we're still in the midst of our rollout, this is a bit of "yet to be seen". We intend on rolling viewer access out to the whole company, so every person will have read-only access to certain company wide content, such as dashboards showing our level 1 metrics. For power users, they will have …
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Since creating Sigma content is quite quick and easy, our analysts can create Sigma content to answer ad-hoc questions, if the user thinks they'll need the data more than once. We can easily revert back to earlier versions of dashboards to see what the state of the data would have been in a …
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Self-Service Analytics

Sigma has enabled our employees to access and explore critical business data, relevant to their processes. It allows for faster, more efficient and accurate decision making by providing data within valuable context in a timely and friendly manner. Managers and Directors are now aware of their …
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma has helped us by getting intertwined deeply in our weekly processes so that we are able to continuously visualize business behavior by looking at the data. It helps us understand and identify trends early and react to potential impacts, it lets us prepare for a negative outcome and come out …
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Self-Service Analytics

Anyone with SQL skill set has very easily adopted sigma and saved time for the data team. It has allowed biz users a new degree of independence and speed for answering their own questions. And initiated a culture where finding your own answers is expected and importantly cheered on, which is great
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Ad Hoc Analytics

I pull data from sigma into gSheets still. Sigma is helpful for structuring the data into a table and making it easily accessible. However, I’m not quick enough in sigma to do the actual analysis and look for correlations all the time so i still will do a lot of the analysis in gSheets
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Self-Service Analytics

This year, our team incorporated Sigma Computing in our deep dive analysis for coverage and any Adhoc analysis. It's much easier to spot data issues and pricing gaps in our user case analysis by using Sigma Computing. For example, we can identify whether our third-party pricing vendors are …
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma Computing is easier to use and help our team to streamline our analysis on pricing gap from our third party pricing vendors. Also, we can quickly identify where and what exactly had gaps in the pricing coverage. We can also use graphs to quickly show case our result to senior management to …
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Self-Service Analytics

By having the data available to the leadership team in an easy to understand way, it's changed the context of meeting from "what happened" to "why did this happen"? Which leads to much more time focused on solutions than problems.
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Self-Service Analytics

When people got used to it, the materialization tables and datasets, it helped a lot.
The non-technical users can access the data, but the rights sharing could be improved.
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Self-Service Analytics

Sigma brought transparency to the company. Everyone has access to numbers and data they need and we stopped dealing with discrepancies compared to before when users were reporting in multiple tools.
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Self-Service Analytics

the unlimited users allows for all users to access the data.
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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Ad Hoc Analytics

i dont do ad hoc analyses in sigma (thats what using python or R is for).
But sigma is better than Power BI in the sense of quickly collaborating on a worksheet
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Self-Service Analytics

Sigma is very easy to use for non-technical users. If they have any experience working with spreadsheets at all Sigma will come very easily to them. I've found that to be Sigma's strongest feature when compared to other platforms. I don't feel like I need to learn something entirely new, it's very …
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Ad Hoc Analytics

Because Sigma is so easy to use it's really easy to create quick reports on questions I may have about my data and get answers into the hands of stakeholders via easy sharing. Because of it's spreadsheet like interface it's really easy to drill down into charts to see the underlaying data and …
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Self-Service Analytics

the load time for dashboard helped user to utilize dashboards more often and improved user experience compare to Tableau. The easy way to export underlying data to google sheet allow business user to do more in-depth Analysis without reaching out to data team
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Ad Hoc Analytics

the load time for dashboard helped user to utilize dashboards more often and improved user experience compare to Tableau. The easy way to export underlying data to google sheet allow business user to do more in-depth Analysis without reaching out to data team

for some more technical user, we can …
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Self-Service Analytics

Improved the ability to track important metrics over time, segment metrics and do drilldowns, and improved consistency in metrics across cross functional teams
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Ad Hoc Analytics

We typically don't use Sigma for ad hoc analysis; it's primarily used for tracking metrics and keeping an eye on trends over time. We use a combo of SQL and Excel to conduct ad hoc analyses.
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Drill-down analysis (150)
    8.5
    85%
  • Report sharing and collaboration (156)
    8.2
    82%
  • Customizable dashboards (155)
    7.6
    76%
  • Formatting capabilities (157)
    7.3
    73%

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Pricing

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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional

Offerings

  • 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.

7.2
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.8
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.9
Avg 8.3

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.

6.4
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

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.)

Sigma Videos

What is Sigma?
Cohort analysis with Sigma
Sigma for Sales Teams Demo
Rapid Data Prototyping with Sigma
Building Pivot Tables with Sigma
Embedded Analytics with Sigma
Parsing JSON in seconds with Sigma
Sigma Demo at Snowflake Summit

Sigma Integrations

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Sigma Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, Canada

Sigma Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Cloud, and Looker are common alternatives for Sigma.

Reviewers rate Report Versioning highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Sigma are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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September 23, 2020

Sigma has eliminated the common barriers to entry for our data--the door has been opened for those that have never heard of SQL

Verified User
Team Lead in Other
Consumer Electronics Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing Pricing Model
This model as allowed for efficient use of company resources. Those that are data specialists are able to maximize use of the tool/advanced reporting, and those that simply need to view the results aren't left in the dark. The beneficial combination of a responsive analysis tool combined with the ability to share the analysis across our organization cannot be over-stressed.
October 01, 2019

Sigma Computing mostly solves a very difficult problem with a few notable shortcomings

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing Pricing Model
We have relatively few people writing reports and relatively many people consuming them, so this pricing model does match our use case well. We have had trouble with other systems where we would like an equivalent pricing model but end up paying for many full licenses that are not utilized fully.
October 01, 2019

Great Price and Great Support! Look no further!

Verified User
Professional in Customer Service
Internet Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing Pricing Model
Yes! Pricing was a huge factor in our decision to move away from Mode to Sigma analytics. Further, our experience with sales and customer support teams confirmed our decision. The pricing model is incredibly cost-effective for our team at a small startup company. Especially since some of the team only uses the tool in a limited capacity.
October 01, 2019

Sigma Saves Time

Verified User
Representative in Customer Service
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing Pricing Model
I did not make the decision to acquire this product, but I imagine that free access for non-analyst employees was a major factor in our choice. This pricing model makes Sigma Computing an incredibly sustainable tool for our company, from my point of view.
September 30, 2019

Good Support but Difficult UI

Verified User
Account Manager in Customer Service
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing Pricing Model
I wasn't involved in the decision-making process to acquire this product but I know that the product we replaced Sigma with was super expensive at the time. So it tells me that Sigma was more affordable compared to the other option we had and pricing is one of the factors.
September 24, 2019

Democratizing Data: From a Non-Data/Engineering Perspective

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing Pricing Model
Ok, the pricing model is so smart. It empowers the people that need to be head deep in the data to do their job well while providing transparency to the broader organization. If we had to pay for 'view' licenses differently that would be an issue. We see this happen with other pricing models where you essentially pay for stagnate or never used licenses but can't afford to cut those folks off because access to the data is technically critical to them doing their job.
September 21, 2019

A non-technical, user friendly analytics tool

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing Pricing Model
The pricing model was a key factor in choosing to use Sigma Computing. However, the understanding of what it means to be doing the "perform interactive analyses" still needs work. Sharing a report with a user, who then has a need to filter the results by date, or product segment or some other vector in the report is not "interactive analyses". So there needs to be a more crisp understanding of what the "Analyst user" means.
September 19, 2019

Save yourself a few hours a week, use Sigma instead of command line DB queries.

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing Pricing Model
This pricing model was very important to us. As a company we are constantly monitoring what we are spending on tools. Having something that just myself can pay for, and yet can help many other groups was a huge selling point for us. If the cost had been much higher, I would not have gotten sign off.
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