Sigma Computing vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an AI-Powered Analytics company, that aims to create a more fact-driven world with an easy to use analytics platform. ThoughtSpot enables users to leverage natural language search powered by large language models to ask and answer data questions. Users within an organization can limitlessly engage with live data in any popular cloud data platform to create and interact with granular, hyper…
$95
per month
Pricing
Sigma ComputingThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot Analytics Team
$95
per month flat subscription
ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro
starts at $30,000
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Pro
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SigmaThoughtSpot
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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Community Pulse
Sigma ComputingThoughtSpot
Considered Both Products
Sigma
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 …
Chose Sigma Computing
Sigma Computing was the best bang for the buck and employed modern cloud-based computing while providing an easy-to-use Excel-like UI.
Chose Sigma Computing
Most legacy BI tools are just that--built in and for a time that has mostly passed. Each tool seems to have strengths in certain areas, but can be overly complex to take full advantage of and can make some of the most basic tasks difficult to discover and use. Sigma Computing …
Chose Sigma Computing
The following key factors led to the selection of Sigma:
  • Ease of implementing row-level security in embedded dashboards.
  • Ease of embedding; embedded explorations.
ThoughtSpot

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Sigma ComputingThoughtSpot
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
ThoughtSpot
6.7
78 Ratings
20% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.0100 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.7155 Ratings6.378 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.1127 Ratings7.725 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
ThoughtSpot
6.8
79 Ratings
18% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.5150 Ratings7.479 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.3157 Ratings5.778 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.35 Ratings6.345 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.2156 Ratings7.677 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
ThoughtSpot
7.7
73 Ratings
8% below category average
Publish to Web9.399 Ratings7.647 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.1124 Ratings8.168 Ratings
Report Versioning9.4114 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.2127 Ratings8.656 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.364 Ratings6.629 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
ThoughtSpot
6.7
75 Ratings
19% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.3141 Ratings7.474 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization5.626 Ratings7.170 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.218 Ratings6.058 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.27 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.7
74 Ratings
11% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings7.872 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.465 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.569 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.77 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.061 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.7
45 Ratings
4% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.943 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.427 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.939 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.0
43 Ratings
12% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.134 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings6.828 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.127 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sigma ComputingThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(164 ratings)
7.9
(79 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(5 ratings)
9.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(48 ratings)
8.1
(74 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(2 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(45 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(2 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sigma ComputingThoughtSpot
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.
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ThoughtSpot
Well suited for my clients for a Macro view of business insights, credit risk, ESG insights, etc. However, I think ThoughtSpot needs to make exploring underlying data easier, adding a feature where you can click on charts and filters will help users and especially business users to easily understand the granularities as well.
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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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ThoughtSpot
  • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
  • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
  • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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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.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Ability to build a single dashboard tile containing the main value, a sparkline, and a percent change over time
  • Easy way to build a user experience that allows for selecting different metrics to trend from a drop-down on a multi-axis graph
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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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ThoughtSpot
I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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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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ThoughtSpot
The tool is easy to use if you know what you are doing and looking for. I know as they work towards improvements and simple language it will become even easier, but as of now they are doing a great job but there is room for improvement.
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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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ThoughtSpot
it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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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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ThoughtSpot
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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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.
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ThoughtSpot
I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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In-Person Training
Sigma Computing
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
Sigma Computing
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
Sigma Computing
Was not involved in implementation
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ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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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
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ThoughtSpot
We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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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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ThoughtSpot
Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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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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ThoughtSpot
  • Positive ROI immediately seen for first POC.
  • Saved an immense amount of time for a sole analyst on a team by enabling the end-users to ask their own questions instead of always turning to her, allowing her to focus on other priorities.
  • Immediate answer to question on second POC that led to personnel changes.
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ScreenShots

Sigma Screenshots

Screenshot of Custom calculations that can be added to tables and visualizations – no SQL skills necessary.Screenshot of Visualization tableScreenshot of Custom bins to drive complex cohort analysis built without SQL code.Screenshot of Complex cohort analyses built without code.Screenshot of Lookups provide familiar spreadsheet functionality to business users.Screenshot of A Sigma Workbook, that brings together spreadsheets, charts, and data narratives onto a live, collaborative canvas.

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

Screenshot of ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of A Liveboard for drill downScreenshot of Live query, to connect to cloud data platformsScreenshot of Search to analyze and visualize dataScreenshot of A look at queries runScreenshot of Consuming insights on iOS app