Sigma Computing

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

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Sigma Computing

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Community Pulse
	Sigma Computing
Considered Both Products	Sigma MS Matt Shen Business Operations Manager Chose Sigma Computing Retool is a much more technical tool, it requires a deep understanding of SQL before being able to build out dashboards. Sigma Computing was much more user friendly and useful for non-technical users. Incentivized Helpful? Randall Hidajat Director Of Customer Service Chose Sigma Computing I'd rate Sigma to be extremely similar to Sisense except it looks not as nice. I would say that as a tool, Sigma is more user-friendly than Tableau, Power BI, Trevor, and Metabase. I do feel that Looker is far more powerful and looks great, but I also recognize that Looker does … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Sigma Computing Sigma computing has better pricing than the competitors. We're always looking for what is good for the price but also gives us all we need to complete our reporting. It also brings about a lot of updates that are nice to see. The embedding helps other BI tools sometimes. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Sigma Computing We did not have any similar reporting system like Sigma. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Sigma Computing Sigma has a better view of tables and it is much easier to create new data sets/aggregations. Tableau is better in some visual aspects because there is more customization available, albeit more confusing than Sigma to do. Sigma is very intuitive and did not take long to learn … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Sigma Computing Sigma Computing had better functionality and is beginner friendly. While Tableau is a more well known product, Sigma Computing has a better user interface that is easier to comprehend for those without a non-technical background. This makes it easier to showcase dashboards to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Sigma Computing Sigma is better than Tableau in my opinion because Sigma has the connection to live data, rather than stale csv files. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Sigma Computing Sigma is the easiest to use from a workbook developer perspective, and from a non-technical end user perspective. Everything from administration, semantic layer setup, to creating dashboards is easier in Sigma than these other tools. Developing content in Sigma is enjoyable, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Sigma Computing Sigma has the capabilities of the other BI tools. I think it's pretty user friendly and easy to learn. Many of our stakeholders are used to using Excel so it's nice that it is a smooth onboarding process for them. We haven't looked into much of the visualization capabilities so … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Sigma Computing I have found that Tableau can be used to create a greater variety of custom and complex visuals, though these visuals are far more difficult to create in a quick turnaround. While Sigma may be more limited in terms of what types of visuals can be create or how customized they … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose 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, … Helpful? Jose F. Gomez Director of Operations Chose Sigma Computing Sigma is easier to work with and faster than Looker Studio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Sigma Computing Less visually appealing. Feels like fewer pixels. Harder to make graphs and visuals. Really good integration with Snowflake and intuitive usage for custom equations and filters. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Schultz VP of Analytics Chose Sigma Computing 2 biggest reasons for Sigma were easy of use for power users, and cost of having a large amount of viewers of the data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Sigma Computing Much more customizable than Looker Studio Some features are way better than Cluvio. But Cluvio search bar was better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Sigma Computing I was not involved in the buying and decision-making process. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Sigma Computing Not even a comparison, Sigma is a far superior BI and data visualization tool Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Sigma Computing sorta in the middle. One thing that differs than Domo or power bi, is that those softwares bring in the data into the platform, instead of how sigma runs a query against our data warehouse each time a user interacts with the dashboard (there is some small caching, so not always) Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Lawson Director of Analytics Chose 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Sigma Computing flexibility, works really well with Snowflake, export capability, level of support, the fact that Sigma Computing is a start up and improving so quickly. Web based software Incentivized Helpful? AA Adi arora Senior Software Engineer Chose Sigma Computing Sigma is user-friendly and target non technical users as well. Sigma focuses on native cloud integration. Sigma Computing also emphasizes collaboration, enabling multiple users to work together on the same data sets and share insights. Helpful? Verified User Vice-President Chose Sigma Computing Much easier to navigate and create the visualizations I need to conduct business. Incentivized Helpful? IS Igor Stoin Development and Integration Manager Chose Sigma Computing microstrategy is too complex and expecting data warehouse in perfect Snowflake layout, otherwise all automated joins are getting messed up. Power BI requires to do tons of complex DAX transformations for even getting simple answers and has power limitations. Incentivized Helpful? MS Michael Sprague Director Chose Sigma Computing Sigma beats them all in terms of ease of use and interface. Tableau is more customizable than Sigma, particularly with custom graphics. Sigma is far more feature-rich than Metabase as a basic reporting tool. Sigma makes PowerBI look like a 1980s desktop tool. Dataiku is more … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Business users Pro Data warehouse
Top Cons	Minus Learning curve Minus Screen size Minus Calculated fields

Features

Sigma Computing

BI Standard Reporting

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Sigma Computing 7.2 157 Ratings 13% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports	7.0100 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	7.7155 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	7.1127 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Sigma Computing 7.8 160 Ratings 4% below category average
Drill-down analysis	8.5150 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.3157 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.35 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	8.2156 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
	Sigma Computing 8.8 150 Ratings 5% above category average
Publish to Web	9.399 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.1124 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.4114 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	9.2127 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	8.364 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
	Sigma Computing 6.4 143 Ratings 23% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	7.3141 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	5.626 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	6.218 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Sigma Computing
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (164 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (48 ratings)
Availability	8.2 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (45 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)
Configurability	7.3 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.2 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.3 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Sigma Computing
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	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 Siddique Chaudhry, CCSK Program Manager, Information Security Read full review
Performance	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 Siddique Chaudhry, CCSK Program Manager, Information Security Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Sigma Computing Was not involved in implementation Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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 Incentivized Tyler Lawson Director of Analytics Read full review
Scalability	Sigma Computing It is a cloud service offering that is able to expand based on your usage Incentivized Siddique Chaudhry, CCSK Program Manager, Information Security Read full review
Return on Investment	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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