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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Altair SmartSight

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ACarriots Analytics, and the later Altair SmartSight, was a cloud data analytics platform for embedded, Big Data, and IoT applications. It provided secure and rapid free-form data visualization and exploration, scalable throughout the enterprise in real time. The product is no longer available.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
    Altair SmartSightSigma
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Altair SmartSightSigma
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Contact us for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Altair SmartSightSigma
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Sigma Computing
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    118 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    77 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    116 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    77 Answers
    Features
    Altair SmartSightSigma
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued) and Sigma Computing
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Sigma Computing
    7.4
    163 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings5.3104 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.3161 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.6133 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued) and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    166 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.0155 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.0163 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.6162 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued) and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    156 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.2103 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.7130 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.0120 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.6132 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.968 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued) and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Sigma Computing
    6.8
    149 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.6147 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings5.626 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.218 Ratings
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    Cyfe
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Altair SmartSightSigma
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (170 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    7.6
    (48 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (47 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 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
    Altair SmartSightSigma
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    As per my knowledge and Altair Product experience, It is really a good product that comes with multiple features like IoT, BigData, dashboards, and other things. I personally really enjoyed using the services provided by Altair. It is well suited for the organizations who don't spend much time setting up their own platform, maintenance, and much more because Altair not only provides the platform but they will care about your products with good customer support and maintenance. I only found a bit low in the case of machine learning and AI products because I have checked different products that provide these services with good accuracy.
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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
    Discontinued Products
    • The global navigation bar with links to the library for easy access and management within the platform.
    • Simplified task viewer where we can find the profile, performance, help, resources and a link also to manage your account.
    • System administrators can define profiles for task execution.
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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
    Discontinued Products
    • Integration with other systems could be better.
    • Ability to handle large amount of data.
    • Expertise services might be better.
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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
    Discontinued Products
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    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
    Discontinued Products
    Very user-friendly UI and visual representation is also good for the price offered. Good tool but lacks some advanced and AI-based insights. It has an edge over other tools for the price of this tool. It has some great potential and i would consider this in my top 5 when considering tools of this domain
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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
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Discontinued Products
    I only had one problem with the software, and the support system response was very quick.
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    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
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Sigma Computing
    Was not involved in implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Altair smart sight stacks up against all the products mentioned above because it comes with a wide variety of applications and services like Big Data, IoT services, Embedded systems, cloud-based service, data visualization, Machine learning, dashboarding, and much more. I have used the other products like Logi Composer, Tableau CRM, and PowerBI but they only handle the specific use cases. So Because of that Altair Smartsight really provide a good and wide range of solution.
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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
    Discontinued Products
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    Sigma Computing
    It is a cloud service offering that is able to expand based on your usage
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • The workflow interface consists of the workflow canvas where we do our actual pipeline and workflow execution log, display information and each process.
    • You can use it to create a workflow and the available execution profiles in which to run them.
    • We currently have one session running for each workflow.
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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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