Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sigma
Score 8.2 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
Sisense
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.N/A
Zoho Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Zoho Analytics is a self-service BI and analytics platform that uncovers patterns, spots emerging trends, tracks business metrics, and detects anomalies. Designed for ease of use, it enables business users to create reports and dashboards independently, without relying on IT.
$60
per month 5 users
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Standard
$60
per month Starts at 5 Users
Premium
$145
per month Starts at 15 Users
Enterprise
$575
per month Starts at 50 Users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SigmaSisenseZoho Analytics
Free Trial
YesYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsContact us for pricing.Must contact sales team for pricing.There is a 20% discount for all plans if subscribed yearly. Customers can buy add-on rows and users, in addition to the plans listed above.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Multiple Products
Sigma
Chose Sigma Computing
Sigma is easy to set up and can be used by people without any SQL knowledge. Sisense has the data modelling functions and the set up needs more effort and user training is needed for complicated calculation functions. We also use Tableau as BI tool for the users who want …
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 …
Chose Sigma Computing
ease of implementation , easy to train the resources to get used to the tool as it has very user friendly user interface, the 14 days trial where sales and sigma technical team helped us understand the advantages and the helpline chat which is always helpful . licensing when it …
Chose Sigma Computing
Easy entry tool that can grow with you as the data expertise and literacy grows within the org. Start up effort and cost is too high in the tools that are built for large corporate solutions.
Chose Sigma Computing
I think overall Sigma Computing is much better tool for Oracle Business Intelligence. It has newer feel and look, it is lighter and easier to use. There might be some complex areas where OBI does a better job, but overall I prefer using Sigma Computing. Especially for small …
Chose Sigma Computing
Sigma is better for us than our previous tools. Still, we are expecting more from them.
Chose Sigma Computing
Sigma has the best pricing model for a company between 50 and 200 employees. It also has the best data exploration toolkit for non-SQL users. Both of these were the key selling points that set Sigma apart from competitors. Sigma also integrates seamlessly with Snowflake and is …
Chose Sigma Computing
While the business decision to acquire and implement Sigma was not mine, it's benefits in speed, stability and user-friendliness (with some caveats as previously noted) make it an easy choice over similar products. I feel that the largest disadvantage to Sigma is the …
Sisense
Chose Sisense
Sisense does very well against most of the tools in the market. We chose this tool because of its great visualizations and easy to deploy procedures. The reports are very easy to generate and distribute them across departments and organization. It provides a great interface to …
Zoho Analytics
Chose Zoho Analytics
Zoho Analytics is more user-friendly than Sisense. It offers an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface that makes it easier for non-technical users to create reports and dashboards. Additionally, its pricing is highly competitive compared to Sisense, making it a more cost-effective …
Chose Zoho Analytics
Substantially more cost-effective and very similar functionality. The graphs and dashboards are definitely not as pretty as the ones mentioned above but we found it hard to justify tens of thousands of dollars more.
Chose Zoho Analytics
Quality of Support is superior to any other solution. Adding an unbeatable price, it's been a no-brainer for us to select Zoho
Chose Zoho Analytics
Zoho Reports has the features that we were looking for -
  • Import of data from an API endpoint in JSON format (no specific schema)
  • Scheduled imports
Features
Sigma ComputingSisenseZoho Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
7.7
163 Ratings
6% below category average
Sisense
9.7
47 Ratings
17% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.7
135 Ratings
6% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.1104 Ratings10.037 Ratings8.9106 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.3161 Ratings10.047 Ratings8.6135 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.8133 Ratings9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
7.6
166 Ratings
5% below category average
Sisense
8.8
47 Ratings
9% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.2
137 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.2155 Ratings10.047 Ratings8.1131 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.1163 Ratings9.047 Ratings7.7136 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.35 Ratings9.027 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.8162 Ratings7.33 Ratings8.7137 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
7.7
156 Ratings
7% below category average
Sisense
10.0
46 Ratings
20% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.5
129 Ratings
3% above category average
Publish to Web7.7103 Ratings10.036 Ratings8.4108 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.8130 Ratings10.046 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
Report Versioning7.3120 Ratings10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.9132 Ratings10.039 Ratings8.5112 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.868 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
6.8
149 Ratings
16% below category average
Sisense
9.5
45 Ratings
17% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.1
84 Ratings
1% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.6147 Ratings10.045 Ratings8.380 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization5.626 Ratings9.042 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.218 Ratings9.029 Ratings7.466 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
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Ratings
Sisense
10.0
45 Ratings
16% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.5
129 Ratings
0% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.045 Ratings8.7127 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings10.044 Ratings8.972 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.045 Ratings8.6122 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.930 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings00 Ratings8.674 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
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Ratings
Sisense
9.7
40 Ratings
23% above category average
Zoho Analytics
6.8
97 Ratings
13% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings10.040 Ratings7.671 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings10.025 Ratings5.073 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.034 Ratings6.486 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Sisense
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
8.4
65 Ratings
8% above category average
REST API00 Ratings00 Ratings8.161 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings00 Ratings8.653 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(170 ratings)
10.0
(58 ratings)
7.6
(139 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(6 ratings)
8.9
(14 ratings)
8.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(48 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(83 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(2 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(47 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
5.3
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
7.1
(3 ratings)
5.5
(3 ratings)
Configurability
7.3
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8.2
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Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(2 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
7.4
(71 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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Sisense Ltd
I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
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Zoho
Zoho Analytics is the best way to consume data created by Zoho products . It's robust and quick build formula libraries and auto generated reports. A data source can be integrated and be ready for consumption within minutes. This gives a well developed baseline for organizing to develop advance analytics. It's mobile dashboards are very intuitive and useful for leaders who are on the move.
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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.
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Sisense Ltd
  • Customization - lots of supported and community plugins available. Users can also adjust the look and feel through JavaScript.
  • Innovation - Sisense is continuing to push the envelope by developing new features through Sisense Labs.
  • Customer support - the commitment to excellent customer service and ensuring organizations get the most out of their investment.
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Zoho
  • Zoho Analytics’ predictive analytics capabilities can help forecast future trends, allowing for proactive planning and risk management.
  • Performance Monitoring: We can track key performance indicators (KPIs) across departments, such as sales, marketing, finance, and HR. This aids in identifying bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
  • Decision making regarding resource allocation.
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Cons
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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Sisense Ltd
  • The usability of the application on mobile devices needs some improvement, especially navigation and filtering.
  • Dashboards that are created by multiple users can be a bit of a hassle to share by Admins.
  • If you need to embed dashboards into your website, you are require to buy a license separate from the user and platform license. This is a norm on most BI visualization tools, but Sisense can seem a bit on the high side, cost-wide.
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Zoho
  • I'm guessing it's out there somewhere but I really could have used a 'quick start guide' or guided start.
  • Once I figured it out, it makes sense how to make sure the right data is provided in order to make dashboards quite flexible--- but without examples, I found it quite a challenge
  • The initial organization of Analytics is NOT intuitive. Once in context, the organizational features make sense, but (at least initially) it would have been most useful if the organization of Analytics reports in Zoho Analytics had saved me a lot of time.
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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
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Sisense Ltd
I think the business and myself as a user has come to rely on SiSense as a dashboarding and quick ad-hoc reporting tool. I am hoping to integrate SiSense dashboards into more parts of the business in the future. We have reduced our report turn-around time for the most part from hours/days to minutes and in some cases almost the speed of thought. Reports are also easier on the eye and more easily distributed. I would also like to say that the support and professionalism from the SiSense team has been excellent.
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Zoho
I'd give this an 11 if I could! As our business moves forward we hope to use Zoho Analytics more then we do now. Creating better reports and dashboards for our management team to evaluate the health of our business and to provide more insightful reports for our customers. The possibilities are endless with this tool
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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.
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Sisense Ltd
New V5 is ground floor of an exciting collection of possibilities. Weekly Sisense developers come up with new functionality that they share with us in their forums. The move to HTML5 has been pleasing in that widgets auto size themselves into appropriate forms in the board but everyone of them can be popped out to full page size to be looked at in more detail
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Zoho
For an end user, Zoho Analytics is pretty easy to use and very easy to access the dashboard. Linking data from multiple sources is very convenient. Multiple people can work on preparing and publishing the dashboards simultaneously, which helps delegate tasks.
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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
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Sisense Ltd
There are very few situations when there is unexpected downtime. Mostly during development, new dashboard implementation and during upgrades. other then that there were very few crashes.
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Zoho
ZOHO is a very reliable company/product. We never had any issues with downtime or inaccessibility to our data. Any type of maintenance that they had to perform was clearly communicated and never an issue. We use a lot of external hooks and we've never had any issues with getting ZOHO to communicate with any of those hooks.
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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
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Sisense Ltd
SiSense is usually performing better then other solutions even if going for complex reports/dashboards(of course within reasonable frames). I haven't noticed any bad influence on other systems, usually if something happens it stays within SiSense.
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Zoho
ZOHO has obviously invested a lot of time effort and money in to creating a reliable infrastructure with high availability. We've never had any issues with performance and all of our data crunching small to large has always been well within reason. We have come to appreciate the performance of ZOHO and will continue to use it for all of our data needs.
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Support Rating
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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Sisense Ltd
SiSense's support ninjas are very knowledgeable and are exceptionally responsive. So far, all of the issues we ran into were resolved within minimum time. My sense of dealing with the support staff at SiSense is that they are very focused on not just answering your immediate question, but also to delve into the cause of the matter.
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Zoho
The support team is honestly not that great. At times, it seems as if members of our own team know more about the product than the support team. They must not have a lot of training or the turnaround is quick
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In-Person Training
Sigma Computing
No answers on this topic
Sisense Ltd
Easy and free training that allowed us quickly understand basics in SiSense and start using them. More advanced features requires some browsing through SiSense forums, but there is always support to help, and SiSense support is one of the best whith which I worked so far.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Sigma Computing
No answers on this topic
Sisense Ltd
Many examples, videos and scenarios which you try on your own right away. This combined with in-person training gives you enough to utilize most of SiSense's power.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Sigma Computing
Was not involved in implementation
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Sisense Ltd
Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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Zoho
If your external data sources are previously organized and correlated (e.g.: in your datawarehouse or database) your implementation will be easier. Of cource some not previously predicted correlation would be necessary to be done during the implementation, but if your organization let it to be all done into Zoho Analytics, it will take more time from your team.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Sisense Ltd
1) Easy to use, really, there is nothing too much to say. The set up is easy and not confusing. You can use it internally or externally.
2) Customer Service, having spoken to various product reps from similar industry. Sisense rep provides you with the best support to get started, and it is really appreciated.
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Zoho
Zoho Analytics has the best UI and user friendly to create reports and dashboard along with features like Zia Assistance that guide in creating reports and dashboard and also help in the forecasting of the data based on the past records.
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Scalability
Sigma Computing
It is a cloud service offering that is able to expand based on your usage
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Sisense Ltd
Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.
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Zoho
As far as I know, Zoho Analytics has been able to fulfill every need we've had for it. Our reports have gotten better and more detailed with pretty much every new issue of our magazine. It just keeps getting better, and we keep feeding it more data to digest and present to us.
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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.
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Sisense Ltd
  • Report development time is reduced from 2~3 days to 2~3 hours.
  • Report querying time is improved from 0.5~10 mins to 2~30 seconds.
  • A 2-staff team delivers 10 times the BI output that we did on the old system.
  • We were able to deliver BI and data analysis for all business functions instead of a very limited group of users
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Zoho
  • Analytics has been the foundation of my role. I manage 2000 accounts myself, so I need analytics to help me know whom to serve first.
  • Analytics provides a lot of visualization options that I need to serve my customers.
  • Analytics has excellent options for accountability with our training team to know where each account is in their customer journey.
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Zoho Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of some of the available 500+ native integrations that unify data across a business for a holistic analysisScreenshot of the visual data pipeline builder used to create data flows with data stagesScreenshot of where to turn questions into insights with Ask Zia.Screenshot of an example of the actionable insights, powered by Zia insights's key driver analysis.Screenshot of Get instant, at-a-glance insights with dynamic dashboards.Screenshot of the interface to build and deploy ML models with the no-code AutoML platform