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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ayasdi Core

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAyasdi Core is a business intelligence software offering from Ayasdi.N/A

    Sigma

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASigma 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
    Ayasdi CoreSigma
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    Ayasdi CoreSigma
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Ayasdi CoreSigma
    Considered Both Products
    Ayasdi
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    Sigma Computing
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
    118 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    77 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    116 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    77 Answers
    Features
    Ayasdi CoreSigma
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Ayasdi Core and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Ayasdi Core
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    163 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports9.01 Ratings5.4104 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.01 Ratings9.3161 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.01 Ratings7.7133 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Ayasdi Core and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Ayasdi Core
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    166 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Drill-down analysis7.01 Ratings8.0155 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities6.01 Ratings7.0163 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.01 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.01 Ratings7.7162 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Ayasdi Core and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Ayasdi Core
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    156 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Publish to Web9.01 Ratings7.3103 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.01 Ratings7.7130 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.01 Ratings7.1120 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.01 Ratings7.6132 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.01 Ratings7.968 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Ayasdi Core and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Ayasdi Core
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    6.8
    149 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.01 Ratings8.6147 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.01 Ratings5.626 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.01 Ratings6.218 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Ayasdi Core and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Ayasdi Core
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Cyfe
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Ayasdi CoreSigma
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (170 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (48 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (47 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 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
    Ayasdi CoreSigma
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ayasdi
    Well suited: 1. If data set is not yet well organized. 2. Hypothesis is not yet established. 3. Need to visually explore to find patterns of data (often when analysts have no good understanding of data) 4. When [you need] to analyze events with a timeframe (specifically a sequence of events as a transaction) Less appropriate 1. If a data set is very large, such as Hadoop data, it becomes hard to manage data pipeline and process to feed the data into Ayasdi. To be feed into Ayasdi, data should be aggregated or organized to some level.
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    Sigma Computing
    We were able to set up client-facing embedded reports with ease and security. The interface is not difficult to learn, although we may not be aware of or lack the necessary expertise to utilize more advanced features that would likely benefit us.
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    Pros
    Ayasdi
    • Ayasdi Core provides an easy way to get some insight on data. Typically analytics may require having a model or hypothesis before starting to look into the data, but Ayasdi lets you just feed the data first then start seeing what the data looks like.
    • Ayasdi Core's topological network visualization is quite unique. It allows you to explore patterns and potential relations between multiple data elements. A user can also dynamically navigate data with different aspects on the web.
    • The Web version of Ayasdi is easy to use, stable, and fast. It hasn't crashed even when we feed it a lot of data sets, although it took time.
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    Sigma Computing
    • Allows end users to easily dive into the data without having direct access to the table in our database management software.
    • Can easily turnaround dashboards that are detailed and visually pleasing.
    • Sigma is intuitive and as new features are rolled out it is easy to adopt and incorporate them into new and existing dashboards.
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    Cons
    Ayasdi
    • Use of Python SDK is required to feed data into Ayasdi, but it lacks training materials or sample codes for a novice to get started.
    • Although Web UI of Ayasdi is looking good, often it freezes when the user runs an analysis. It doesn't crash but the web page needs to be refreshed to see the progress of analysis.
    • Algorithms provided by Ayasdi, such as metrics types, lens types need to be explained (what they are and what their strengths and weaknesses are). We had to Google or do research on our own to understand what they are.
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    Sigma Computing
    • Sigma Computing does not allow custom ordering of pivot fields in pivot tables easily
    • Sigma Computing lacks functionality for creating tables or sections that dynamically adjust to the browser window's height while maintaining a fixed height textbox at the bottom
    • Sigma Computing does not provide straightforward options for formatting totals in tables, such as renaming 'Total' to 'Average', 'Team Total', etc
    • Sigma Computing does not support searching by individual tab names within a workbook
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ayasdi
    No answers on this topic
    Sigma Computing
    Sigma has helped us a lot and has become an integral part of our daily workflow. It would be difficult to switch to another platform and have to rebuild the numerous metrics and performance reports that we have already established
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    Usability
    Ayasdi
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Ayasdi
    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
    Ayasdi
    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
    Ayasdi
    No answers on this topic
    Sigma Computing
    They are very friendly and informative. They are quick in resolving our queries and help us understand very minute things as well. They are quick in creating feature tickets based on our custom requirements, and they would also create a bug ticket if there is any discrepancy and get that checked on time.
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    Implementation Rating
    Ayasdi
    No answers on this topic
    Sigma Computing
    Was not involved in implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ayasdi
    We had a working group that has been using R studio for the general purpose of statistical analysis in our organization. Although it is a great tool that provides enriched function sets, it is time-consuming for our clinical analysts to learn the tool to see the first result. R is somewhat of a developer-oriented/friendly tool. Ayasdi is friendly to a domain analyst or end users. Plus, support and consulting from Ayasdi were excellent so that we could get knowledge from them immediately whenever we needed.
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    Sigma Computing
    With Looker, to be effective, a substantial amount of coding & modeling needs to happen in LookML. Being another language to learn, users have to context switch again from at a minimum either SQL or Python into LookML. The concept of being able to source control, code review, and deploy your models is a plus though.
    Tableau is the gold standard for data visualization, no question. Power users will be able to create dazzling content that Sigma won't necessarily be able to easily match. However, since development usually happens via an extract, helping other users troubleshoot is an arduous process. Trying to re-do or un-do all the transformations and calculations that cause a certain number is very difficult.
    With Sigma, all the queries happen directly against Snowflake and you can see the query logs. The data modeling happens right in a tabular, spreadsheet-like manner, so within only a few minutes, substantial transformations can happen, with visualizations just a few more clicks away.
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    Scalability
    Ayasdi
    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
    Ayasdi
    No answers on this topic
    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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