Sigma Computing vs. Zoho Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sigma
Score 8.3 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
Zoho Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Zoho Analytics (formerly Zoho Reports) is a self-service BI and analytics platform that allows users to analyze their business data and create reports and dashboards. It is designed to help users create and share reports quickly, without IT assistance.
$30
per month 2 users
Pricing
Sigma ComputingZoho Analytics
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$30
0.5M rows, 2 users
Professional
$30
per user per month billed annually
Standard
$60
1M rows, 5 users
Premium
$145
5M rows, 15 users
Enterprise
$575
50M rows, 50 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SigmaZoho Analytics
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsContact us 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
Sigma ComputingZoho Analytics
Considered Both Products
Sigma
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 …
Zoho Analytics

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Features
Sigma ComputingZoho Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
7.9
163 Ratings
3% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.8
135 Ratings
8% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.8104 Ratings8.9106 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.2161 Ratings8.7135 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.8133 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
7.8
166 Ratings
3% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.3
137 Ratings
4% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.4155 Ratings8.2131 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.3163 Ratings7.8136 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.1162 Ratings8.8137 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
8.0
156 Ratings
2% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.7
129 Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web8.3103 Ratings8.6108 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.9130 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
Report Versioning7.7120 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.3132 Ratings8.7112 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.668 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
Zoho Analytics
8.2
84 Ratings
3% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.5147 Ratings8.480 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization5.626 Ratings8.872 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.218 Ratings7.466 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
8.6
129 Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.8127 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.972 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.7122 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.830 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.674 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
7.2
97 Ratings
8% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.871 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings5.873 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.986 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
8.4
65 Ratings
9% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.261 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.653 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sigma ComputingZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(170 ratings)
8.0
(139 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(6 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(48 ratings)
8.2
(83 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(47 ratings)
5.3
(18 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
5.5
(3 ratings)
Configurability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(2 ratings)
7.8
(71 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sigma ComputingZoho Analytics
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Implementation Rating
Sigma Computing
Was not involved in implementation
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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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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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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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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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ScreenShots

Zoho Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of Zia Insights, which provides contextual intelligence with detailed diagnostics.Screenshot of where OpenAI's large language models (LLMs) are leveraged within Ask Zia to build complex queries, construct metrics and formulas, and discover public datasets.Screenshot of key metrics with KPI charts.Screenshot of streaming data, which is available for real-time insights. Users can process streams from Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, PubNub and APIs.Screenshot of reports accessed from iPad and Android tablets.Screenshot of custom machine learning models, available with a no-code assistant.