Google Charts vs. Sigma Computing

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Charts
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Google Charts provides a way to visualize data on your website - for free. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types. The most common way to use Google Charts is with simple JavaScript that you embed in your web page.N/A
Sigma
Score 9.1 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
Google ChartsSigma Computing
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google ChartsSigma
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Features
Google ChartsSigma Computing
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Google Charts
8.7
50 Ratings
7% above category average
Sigma Computing
7.2
157 Ratings
12% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.145 Ratings7.0100 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.448 Ratings7.7155 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.744 Ratings7.0127 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Google Charts
9.2
51 Ratings
13% above category average
Sigma Computing
7.8
160 Ratings
3% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.645 Ratings8.5150 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.451 Ratings7.3157 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.437 Ratings7.35 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.646 Ratings8.2156 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Google Charts
9.0
51 Ratings
8% above category average
Sigma Computing
8.9
150 Ratings
7% above category average
Publish to Web9.549 Ratings9.399 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.546 Ratings8.1124 Ratings
Report Versioning8.643 Ratings9.4114 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.637 Ratings9.2127 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.730 Ratings8.364 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Google Charts
8.8
50 Ratings
9% above category average
Sigma Computing
6.4
143 Ratings
23% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.949 Ratings7.3141 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.847 Ratings5.626 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.739 Ratings6.218 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Google Charts
8.8
45 Ratings
3% above category average
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.844 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.739 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.841 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.831 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Google Charts
9.0
48 Ratings
13% above category average
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access9.546 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application9.529 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.744 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Google Charts
8.8
40 Ratings
11% above category average
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
REST API8.932 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API8.839 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames8.826 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API8.926 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.828 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.728 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Reveal
Reveal
Score 9.9 out of 10
Reveal
Reveal
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Jaspersoft Community Edition
Jaspersoft Community Edition
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google ChartsSigma Computing
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(61 ratings)
8.8
(164 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(8 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(33 ratings)
7.3
(48 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Performance
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(33 ratings)
8.9
(45 ratings)
Online Training
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google ChartsSigma Computing
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
We can easily recommend Google Charts to any company that needs a way to visually represent their data. Another great thing about Google Charts is that it is free to use and does not require any membership fees. Although it requires a skilled used to be able to use the charts, the results are great and can be beneficial to any company who is looking to make better decisions.
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Sigma Computing
Its a great tool to have. The ability to come in the morning and by using the report being able see how the day will go. Seeing the goal and the current inventory and also to be able to adjust as the day goes on. With the report updates the report as changes to the inventory happen live or if any issues arise. being able to see that live and being to react quickly.
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Pros
Google
  • they're free with Google suite and they have backing in terms of powerful Google apps which can be plugged in to perform multiple actions like using Google sheets to import raw data into Google Charts
  • they're the most simple app to use when it comes to creating charts and visual dashboards
  • ease of customization
  • ease of using custom APIs from developers side to help make any types of charts and dashboards you want
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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
Google
  • I would like a couple more introductory videos or a live chat option for when you run into an issue. I think this is a Google-wide problem, not only linked to Google Charts.
  • I have run into some issues with the Dynamic Data but also admittedly could potentially dive in deeper and investigate.
  • It would be great if Google Charts made it possible to integrate Google Chat into the platform.
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Sigma Computing
  • Viewer level license is quite limited. These users can't download data or even add filters on datasets. Something to keep in mind.
  • Directly querying the underlying data warehouse will lead to increased usage. Not a big deal on something like Redshift, but your Snowflake consumption will increase, potentially by a lot.
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
Google Charts is a good product. It's widely supported with deep documentation and a large community. But for me, it wasn't customizable enough. When we started with simple charts, it was great, but as we got deeper and more complex, our needs outgrew the library. If I was going forward, I would choose a more barebones library with more freedom and extensibility.
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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
Google
Google Charts is about as easy to use as the rest of their applications. The UI is very well thought out, allowing you to add what you need, and customize it to your exact liking. The default theme is actually really nice, which helps as most of the time, customizing is not needed.
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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
Google
Google charts is always available and provides fast output.
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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
Google
Connectivity is occasionally very slow.
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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
Google
As a free tool with massively powerful, infinitely customisable charts that can be dynamically updated - Google Charts is my favourite data visualisation tool. However, my hatred of JavaScript does jade my view on it. This is the price of the tool though, and I'm glad it's available for me.
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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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Online Training
Google
The online training was solely done through self training on google's guide to charts.
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Sigma Computing
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Google
Easy to implement
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Sigma Computing
Was not involved in implementation
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Alternatives Considered
Google
Google Charts stacks up better since it is free and does not have the constant pressure for cost overruns, add-ons, annual maintenance and implementation services. The speed of using Google Charts is quick, saving users potentially weeks in getting up and going. For the readers of websites with limited resources, the application shows up nicely is look and feel with charts. Great way of showing data visually.
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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
Google
Google Charts is essential for quick, easy, reporting. There are opportunities for advanced features.
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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
Google
  • teams were easily able to create charts and find out progress on our learning courses and thus take actionable insights to their managers, professors
  • students could also know their progress on various courses from one single view, same for instructors in terms of imparting education
  • sales team could learn which kind of courses sold more to focus more on those areas
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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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