Amazon QuickSight vs. Sigma Computing

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon QuickSight
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$5
per month
Sigma
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
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.N/A
Pricing
Amazon QuickSightSigma Computing
Editions & Modules
Readers
$5.00
per month
Authors
$24.00
per month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon QuickSightSigma
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsContact us for pricing.
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Community Pulse
Amazon QuickSightSigma Computing
Considered Both Products
Amazon QuickSight

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Sigma
Chose Sigma Computing
Sigma Computing was our top choice due to the ease of use of the platform for end users doing self-exploration of data. The structure of the platform for how datasets are created and access provisioned was much better than other products we considered. Sigma Computing may not …
Chose Sigma Computing
Sigma really was the powerful Swiss army knife for parsing and slicing all our data. A bit of the dark horse in our evaluation, against larger players (Tableau, Amazon) and the incumbent Looker, Sigma was at first almost overlooked but then quickly became my favorite by far, …
Chose Sigma Computing
Largely most of the tools we looked at have a per-user access model of pricing. So sharing out a report means making a static non-updating snapshot of it in an "exported" kind of way that is painful to make available to users who do not need actual access to use visualization …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Amazon QuickSightSigma Computing
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
8.0
5 Ratings
1% below category average
Sigma Computing
7.4
147 Ratings
9% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.04 Ratings7.292 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.05 Ratings7.6145 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.05 Ratings7.6120 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
7.2
5 Ratings
10% below category average
Sigma Computing
7.9
150 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.05 Ratings8.3140 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.05 Ratings7.4147 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.03 Ratings7.35 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.05 Ratings8.4146 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
6.9
5 Ratings
18% below category average
Sigma Computing
8.7
140 Ratings
5% above category average
Publish to Web8.03 Ratings8.891 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.32 Ratings8.5116 Ratings
Report Versioning6.04 Ratings9.0105 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.04 Ratings9.0118 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.03 Ratings8.257 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
5.8
5 Ratings
33% below category average
Sigma Computing
6.4
135 Ratings
23% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.05 Ratings7.3133 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.04 Ratings5.726 Ratings
Predictive Analytics3.52 Ratings6.218 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
8.0
5 Ratings
6% below category average
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
3.9
4 Ratings
68% below category average
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access4.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application3.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
6.0
3 Ratings
27% below category average
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
REST API6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon QuickSightSigma Computing
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.3
(154 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(5 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.1
(48 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(60 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon QuickSightSigma Computing
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Amazon Quicksight is a truly cloud-based solution so it works perfectly fine and saves a lot of expense in terms of hardware and maintenance. We can maintain it by ourselves by giving commands on UI. If you have connectivity issues then it can cause headaches because it's a cloud platform and it's a bit costly as compared to other services
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Sigma Computing
Whenever there’s data that need to be analyzed, visualized or simply aggregated in a pivot table, Sigma is the perfect tool for the job: it helps build rich data dashboards, including charts, tables, colors and more. It connects with several alternatives of external sources such as Google BigQuery, Google Drive, other database engines or tabular data files.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Easily to set up for data sources, already supports quite a few of AWS and non-AWS data sources
  • Cost friendly since users are charged only for basis of usage
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Sigma Computing
  • Provides a familiar data analysis format with its spreadsheet interface.
  • Fast; by querying the warehouse directly, it's much more performant than other cloud-based BI tools.
  • Allows non-technical users to interact with and analyze warehouse data without needing to know SQL.
  • Easy-to-use templates are great for monitoring aspects of our data stack.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • It is still immature as a cloud-based BI tool.
  • Its functionality is about 40-50% of its competitor's products.
  • Application is still a little buggy and non-intuitive at times.
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Sigma Computing
  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Sigma Computing
Because we are very satisfied with the product and would most likely renew because of the services it provides. It is a tool that you bring into your organization and let it change the way you analyze your data, present your data and share you date within the Respective teams
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Usability
Amazon AWS
It is easy to use and set up no need to put in so much effort. Once build, the dashboard can be used with multiple clients with the same domain. It provides multiple connectivity options which makes it a versatile option for reporting.
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Sigma Computing
It has a clean and modern interface. However, it is not completely intuitive. I think it would be better and easier to navigate with more Windows style drop down menus and/or tabls. There is a significant learning curve, but that may be due in part to the technical nature of this type of software tool.
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Reliability and Availability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Sigma Computing
Yes, as long as you don’t conduct user error sigma is always up and running and waiting for you to complete your dashboards
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Performance
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Sigma Computing
It depends, it loads quickly for smaller dashboards but when loading larger amounts of data it takes more time to do so
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
They provide proper support when needed. They are always ready to provide the box solution and make things easier for users.
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Sigma Computing
Support team is helpful in answering questions and providing help with using the UI. There are knowledgeable people within the support team. There are also good online support tools. There are significant community support resources available. There is however lack of a live support. It would be useful to have live phone number or chat to use.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Sigma Computing
Was not involved in implementation
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
All of the other reporting platforms my organization has used previously were within our CRM and not a standalone program. In that we were very limited in being able to slice and dice the data the way that we wanted to
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Sigma Computing
Sigma is by far the best. It is easiest to learn and easiest to use on a day to day basis. I never have to wait for dashboards to load and it's very easy to understand the variables that are going into my visualizations. Best of all I can manipulate the data within Sigma very easily. In these other platforms data manipulation is difficult or must be done in the data warehouse
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Sigma Computing
It is a cloud service offering that is able to expand based on your usage
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Reduce lots of setup and maintenance cost.
  • Latest technology in market.
  • Full eco system provided under on roof.
  • Cost effective.
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Sigma Computing
  • Monitoring health of cloud platform has allowed the company to anticipate issues before they affect customers – Sigma prompted us building a canary monitoring process that provides customer container health.
  • Customer success has used an activity report to discover customers running runaway processes that they were unaware of, creating an alert to contact the customer and prevent an embarrassing situation.
  • Customer success uses the activity report to prompt conversations regarding increases or declines in behavior that led to increasing contract limits or addressing churn concerns.
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ScreenShots

Sigma Screenshots

Screenshot of Custom calculations that can be added to tables and visualizations – no SQL skills necessary.Screenshot of Visualization tableScreenshot of Custom bins to drive complex cohort analysis built without SQL code.Screenshot of Complex cohort analyses built without code.Screenshot of Lookups provide familiar spreadsheet functionality to business users.Screenshot of A Sigma Workbook, that brings together spreadsheets, charts, and data narratives onto a live, collaborative canvas.