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    Powerslide (discontinued)

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/ACreated in 2019, Powerslide was a data storytelling and data visualization solution. This software helped business users to create usages around data in a solution for data analysis, visualization and presentation. The product was discontinued, and the company has shut its doors.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
    Powerslide (discontinued)Sigma
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
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    Powerslide (discontinued)Sigma
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Powerslide (discontinued)Sigma
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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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
    Powerslide (discontinued)Sigma
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Powerslide (discontinued) and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Powerslide (discontinued)
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.4
    163 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.52 Ratings5.3104 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.02 Ratings9.3161 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.02 Ratings7.6133 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Powerslide (discontinued) and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Powerslide (discontinued)
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    166 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Drill-down analysis9.52 Ratings8.0155 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.52 Ratings7.6162 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.0163 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Powerslide (discontinued) and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Powerslide (discontinued)
    9.2
    2 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    156 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Publish to Web9.02 Ratings7.2103 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.52 Ratings7.7130 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.01 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 Powerslide (discontinued) and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    Powerslide (discontinued)
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Sigma Computing
    6.8
    149 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.02 Ratings5.626 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.6147 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.218 Ratings
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    Score9.5 out of 10
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Powerslide (discontinued)Sigma
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (2 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)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Powerslide (discontinued)Sigma
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    It has allowed us as an organization to clearly deliver our numbers to our collaborators, but above all to the heads of our teams and company. Not being entirely professional, it is easy to use for someone who does not understand the function of these numbers or hard data.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Collaborative fractures helped a lot.
    • Dashboards are really unique.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Increase the variety of fonts
    • Make templates less serious or business
    Incentivized
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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
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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
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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
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
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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
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Sigma Computing
    Was not involved in implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Powerslide stands out for having templates that help you easily organize hard data and more delicate information such as numbers and statistics. By having many ways to present and edit it in one place, it makes this a page with variety and empathy with its user.
    Incentivized
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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
    • Our collaborators do not get bored in meetings and even if it is a lot of information, seeing it in an interesting design makes them pay attention and like to be informed of the numbers they manage to obtain with their work.
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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.
    Incentivized
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