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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    TIBCO Data Virtualization

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO Data Virtualization is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the datasets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any solution.N/A
    Pricing
    SigmaTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    SigmaTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SigmaTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Considered Both Products
    Sigma Computing
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    118 Answers
    78%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    77 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    77 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Features
    SigmaTIBCO Data Virtualization
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Sigma Computing and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    163 Ratings
    8% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
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    Pixel Perfect reports5.4104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.3161 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.7133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Sigma Computing and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    166 Ratings
    6% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
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    Drill-down analysis8.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.0163 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.7162 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Sigma Computing and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    156 Ratings
    9% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
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    Publish to Web7.3103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.7130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.0120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.6132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.968 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Sigma Computing and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Sigma Computing
    6.8
    149 Ratings
    16% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.6147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization5.626 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.218 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SigmaTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (170 ratings)
    7.1
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (48 ratings)
    5.4
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    6.6
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (47 ratings)
    7.9
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SigmaTIBCO Data Virtualization
    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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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO Data Virtualization is well suited for customers who are challenged to deal with extracting data from dozens of different sources and systems, and do not have the time and liberty to hire data engineers and/or ETL developers to write dozens or hundreds of complex ETLs. However, there are situations where TIBCO Data Virtualization severely underperforms, and those are where we are dealing with large volumes of data, in tera bytes or peta byte scale system. For example, a messaging queue which sends 200 million messages every hour will choke TIBCO Data Virtualization if the technology is chosen to route the data.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    • Connecting to different data silos and presenting the data as a singled unified layer of data.
    • Exposing data to Technical and non technical users through Web UI or reporting tools
    • Secured exposure of data as web services.
    • Row level and column level data security
    • Multi tenancy data security.
    • Real time data by connecting to the operational databases
    • Historical data generation
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    • Performance of TDV Studio (its own IDE) is poor.
    • Performance of TDV repository database is rather poor for larger numbers of objects .(Note: We have approx. 9tsd objects introspected in TDV and approx. 20tsd objects generated in upper DV layers.)
    • Propagation of privileges to parent/child dependencies does not work when applying recursively on a folder. (It's a huge setback when working with large number of objects organized semantically into subfolders.)
    • Lack of command line client interface for scripting at the time of version 8.4 (I had to write my own CLI.)
    • TDV Studio does an absolutely horrible job with its own code editors when indentation is in place. Also, the editor is brutally slow and feature-poor.
    • Tracking privileges on the level of table/view columns causes occasional problems when regranting.
    • TDV's stored programs ("SQL scripts" in their own terminology) compiler leaves out many syntactic and semantic checks, making them hugely prone to run-time errors.
    • TDV Server's REST API is a very poor (in terms of features) and flawed cousin to its SOAP API (at the time of version 8.4).
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    It is useful for us to see the data and do analysis. Also we use it to generate reports and see trends or gather insights
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    TDV's interface is a bit dated and not entirely intuitive. Would recommend some UX design review as the interface leaves a bit to be better understood to be used by users without inherent knowledge of Tibco. Overall I'd suggest more improvement here to ensure usability by a lesser tech audience.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    We have never encountered issues where it was unavailable when we needed it.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    This product's performance is very consistent. It is extremely rare for templates to fail. I've been using this software for 5 years and find it to be both simple and powerful. The impact within the company has been very positive as different processes in different areas, such as data analysis, development, and integrations, have been improved, and, best of all, it has not affected the users. Various systems with which it is connected in order to obtain information.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    On a few occasions I have asked TIBCO technical support for help because I have adapted perfectly to their tools, but in those few that I have communicated with their technical team I have received personalized, attentive, responsible attention and I am always assisted by an expert staff the topic. A TIBCO technical support technician spent more than an hour helping me to solve a problem in the initial stage of implementation in my department and this is something that I always appreciate.
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    Online Training
    Sigma Computing
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    The training was helpful. I was able to understand how to use TIBCO for the data load process that we implemented and how to perform various troubleshooting steps based on the training I received. The technician was thorough and took the time to answer any questions. Once we were shown how to use TIBCO in the test environment, we were able to configure the production environment ourselves.
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    Implementation Rating
    Sigma Computing
    Was not involved in implementation
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    Cloud Software Group
    Other vendors have clearer, more visual implementation documentation. We also did not have our data architect and and server administrator available full-time for implementation. In the future, we will secure the necessary internal resources.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    We did not need to evaluate another technology in the same category for data virtualization, since we are 100% sure of the capabilities and benefits that we would have with TIBCO Data Virtualization, both for market positioning as well as success stories from other companies. great renown worldwide. From the first day of use, it meets our needs to provide the expected solutions.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    Good scaling
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    • We took spreadsheets that took hours a month to update and made them update automatically using TDV, saving hours a month of analyst time
    • The incremental cost of TDV relative to straight spotfire licensing made it a no-brainer due to the ease of data management
    • We continue to automate legacy business processes in TDV, saving time all over the organization.
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