Sigma Computing Review
We use Sigma Computing for our brokerage, business development, ops, and product dashboards. They help us understand how our team is …
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What is Sigma?
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.
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- Drill-down analysis (150)8.585%
- Report sharing and collaboration (156)8.282%
- Customizable dashboards (155)7.777%
- Formatting capabilities (157)7.373%
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What is Sigma?
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.
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What is Sigma?
Sigma is a business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform purpose-built for the cloud. With Sigma, anyone can use the spreadsheet functions and formulas they already know to explore live data at cloud scale, down to the lowest grain of detail. Its familiar spreadsheet-like interface delivers SQL into the hands of any user while keeping data fresh and secure within cloud data warehouses.
Data-first companies can use Sigma to empower their employees, customers, and partners to break free from the confines of the dashboard and explore data for themselves to make better, faster decisions. The software was built to capitalize on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly – no coding required.
Sigma Features
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Predictive modeling
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
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What is Sigma?
Cohort analysis with Sigma
Sigma for Sales Teams Demo
Rapid Data Prototyping with Sigma
Building Pivot Tables with Sigma
Embedded Analytics with Sigma
Parsing JSON in seconds with Sigma
Sigma Demo at Snowflake Summit
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Sigma Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | United States, Canada |
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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.
Reviewers rate Report Versioning highest, with a score of 9.4.
The most common users of Sigma are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 07, 2024
Sigma Computing Review
We use Sigma Computing for our brokerage, business development, ops, and product dashboards. They help us understand how our team is performing, where to pursue future opportunities, and manage our internal data. Everyone in the org uses it
- Ease of use - I'm a non-technical user but have built out the bulk of our dashboards
- Their support is world class - their chat function is super quick to respond and knowledgeable
- Their tutorials and webinars are useful for new learnings
- There are occasional bugs
- Their AI functionality is still lacking
February 22, 2024
Great tool with some weird kinks
I'm using Sigma Computing primarily to capture and track all KPIs related to customer service. In addition to that, our organization is using Sigma to track all KPIs across multiple different systems. Sigma allows our business users to be able to create, view, and manipulate data how they feel like it is needed.
- Ability for a data analyst to upload a specific CSV to join on.
- Scheduling reports over slack/email/etc
- Create hidden tabs/charts to use as an intermediary table
- Create charts based off of any table, csv, other table, etc.
- Unable to search for a specific chart in a workbook
- No clear area to test or put one-off questions
- Search overall is really hard to use
February 19, 2024
Sigma Recommended.
We use it to embed onto our website for client-facing reporting and internal reporting for our teams that need to see our Sigma data but don't have access to our database. The client-facing reporting is being used to show customers specific data they want to see, but we don't want to give them Sigma access.
- Having different options for tables and their formatting.
- Data connection and keeping up to date.
- Having presets that are easy for other people to use.
- The errors that happen when the exporting comes.
- Making the embedding documentation clearer and more concise.
- Input tables being able to work as a regular table.
February 16, 2024
Sigma Rolling Out.
We use Sigma all day everyday to achieve our production goals and monitor current progress at just a glance. It aids us in planning and addressing issues that we may confront through out the day.
- Live data.
- Summarization of critical data.
- Organization of data.
- Improve the delay of data on the live reports.
- More customization with the reports.
- The ability to have more than one report open at once.
- The ability to have more tab open in a report.
February 13, 2024
My Sigma Review
Used for KPI dashboards, monthly/quarterly financial reporting, tracking data sets, and manipulating data. I have used Sigma to make dashboards interactive, creating input tables for different teams to adjust scenarios on the fly. I have also created many datasets in the background to improve the calculation and loading speeds of common Excel dashboards.
- Grouped aggregations
- Input tables
- Controlling level of access
- ETL processes
- Center justification of data
- Hiding input tables based on permissions
- Sending email updates when tickets are complete
February 08, 2024
Sigma Review
I use Sigma Computing to find patterns in my data and create dashboards to strategize business decisions based on my analysis. I enjoy using Sigma Computing because of the flexibility it gives me
to share my dashboards with other users and allow them to edit or view them as well.
to share my dashboards with other users and allow them to edit or view them as well.
- Customer Technical Support (Sigma Help)
- Addressing feedback from users (implementing requested features)
- Providing demo's on new product launches
- Sometimes my dashboard crashes if there are too many pages on it
- Ability to share dashboards externally (I'd like to add some to my public portfolio like I do with Tableau)
February 08, 2024
Nearly perfect, missing some nice to have features
Sigma Computing is used to monitor and display data used in our organization. We are also using Sigma Computing as a product alternative. Our business is an alternative data provider, and Sigma does a great job at allowing us to easily visualize and connect to live data in the Cloud Data Warehouse.
- Dashboard customization
- Exceptional support
- connection to live data
- there are some nice to have features that Sigma is missing
February 08, 2024
I tell everyone about Sigma!
Sigma is the hub for all of our organizations reporting and dashboarding needs. We use it for everything from quick questions about our data, to advanced analysis and projections. As a small data team, I use Sigma daily to create workbooks and answer questions of my internal team. Sigma's workbook functionality is some of the best I've seen in any BI tool. Advanced questions that would involve complicated query writing are very fast to develop in Sigma's formula and table editors.
- Interactive workbooks
- Data Table development
- Data Table reusability
- Document based report development
- Theming and styling
- Visualization types offered
January 26, 2024
Great BI tool loved by many business stakeholders
We use it to create reports for other teams to provide a more complete view of the company. We are able to create workbooks that report on a global level (not just D2C, E-commerce, etc) and be able to connect different sources of data that would've been separate otherwise.
- Our team loves Excel and it is very similar to excel
- User friendly UI
- Sigma team is responsive whenever we have questions or need to troubleshoot
- Be able to create more robust reporting - can't do window functions
- Sometimes we get a lot of loading errors. I don't think the query it optimized when Sigma is creating the reporting. When I look at the query it's thousands of lines long
January 11, 2024
A data analysis tool that is easy implement and easy to learn.
I utilize Sigma to visualize datasets that I have curated in Snowflake. Sigma allows us to identify issues within our products and services to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- 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.
- Improved period over period functionality within the KPI Visual that would allow me to compare one year to another without including all years in the visual. I.E. the primary value is 2022 and the comparison line is 2021.
- Greater ability to customize aspects of different visuals such as color, font and font size.
- The ability for certain elements or blocks of elements to move as one scrolls down the page. I.E. I would enjoy the ability to create a set of filter elements along one side of the dashboard that scrolls with the user as the user scrolls down the page to view various visuals.
January 10, 2024
Love Sigma
I create analytics reporting for many stakeholders. I make customer data available on a variety of dashboards to our account managers, I create internal reporting of platform usage data for custom partner billing arrangements, and I complete custom data requests for anyone from customer experience reps needing custom data exports to product managers seeking to learn more about our platform features.
- Allows easy use of the data flowing from our data pipeline - I can join more rapidly than I could using sql and create recyclable templates that anyone can export.
- Data visualization features are easy to use.
- User traffic metrics are helpful in gauging adoption.
- Pull last and pull first from a table of aggregated numbers - this feature seems to break often.
- Providing a place to link documentation or embed video documentation.
January 09, 2024
Getting data into your users' hands quickly and easily
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We're in the process of rolling Sigma out to our entire company as our "Analytics-endorsed" BI tool, replacing Domo. We're looking to facilitate easy self-service for business users to answer 80% of their own questions. For explorer and creator users, they have a ton of flexibility in slicing, grouping, and aggregating the data as they see fit.
- Easily connects to Snowflake.
- dbt Integration to show column level definitions and dataset metadata (freshness, size, rows, etc.)
- Very quickly create workbooks and content.
- Unlimited viewer model, so everyone in the company can have read-only access.
- 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.
September 19, 2023
Excellent Tool for Business Analysis
Using Sigma effectively as a replacement for MS Excel. Using it as a data analysis and presentation tool.
- Ease of manipulating data
- Tracking of version history
- Constantly pushing updates
September 14, 2023
Actionable and fun data analytics
We use Sigma to build data visualizations for our data warehouse. It allows us to consolidate information and build analysis tools such as reports and charts that empower our teams in their decisions making process.
- Charts
- Reporting
- Data Analysis
- Decision Making Tools
- Pricing
- UI is intuitive but powerful features require deeper knowledge of SQL
August 30, 2023
Sales Ops Usage
Key sales KPIs, stack-ranking sales people on activity and conversion. We also use it for executive reporting, distilling the health of the sales engine into digestible visuals, graphs, and charts.
I also use it to dissect specific problems. For example if we are seeing an issue during a specific point in the sales funnel, I’ll use sigma to dissect the problem and reach a solution.
August 28, 2023
Best computing program in the market!
We use Sigma Computing to query Snowflake data to run analysis on our clearinghouse data. One of our use cases is to identify pricing gaps with each of our clearing houses, instead of going to our AD to request for the underlying data from Power BI, these data are ultimately stored in Snowflake, we can utilize Sigma Computing to query the large set of data sat in Snow Flake on an on-demand basis. Sigma Computing is easy to use and intuitive, anyone who knows basic Excel is able to learn Sigma Computing quickly. The Sigma specialists are very helpful and good at follow-up with any issues users have.
- Customer services
- Workflow
- Easy to use
- To provide more trainings for new users
- To provide more graphic display
- Able to use formatting more easily
Dashboarding and ad hoc analysis
- Beautiful dashboards
- Functional Data
- Easy to use
- Dashboard organization
- Linking relevant data pieces
August 28, 2023
Nice usage of Sigma
We use Sigma to create dashboard and reporting: Data Analysts take care of this creation of dashboards, and they perform Market Analaysis, as well as Product Data analysis, to analyse the usage of some features, some AB tests results...
One of the business problem addressed could be the usage of the Marketplace, reorder rate, churn rate, along with segmentation of our users.
One of the business problem addressed could be the usage of the Marketplace, reorder rate, churn rate, along with segmentation of our users.
- Co-editing dashboards at the same time
- Materialization of tables
- History of dashboards
- Imrpoving the switch from explore to edit feature
- Having to publish your coworker edits when you want to publish a dash, and some of his changes have not been published
- Comments are not easily usable: you have to open the section comments, and you don't see easily on which report it is linked
August 21, 2023
Extremely powerful tool for reporting
Sigma allows us to preview and visualize data. All data visible in Sigma comes from our data warehouse, SnowFlake, which is our one and only source of truth for all data. Having Sigma helped us address discrepancies that we faced before, when teams were reporting out of different tools.
- Visualising reports in graphs
- Quick and efficient customer support
- Creating custom columns using formulas
- Building formulas can be complicated and time consuming
- Licensing model can be limiting for end users if they are on Viewer only permissions
August 21, 2023
Life saver for our firm
We have all kinds of data ranging from trades, transactions, accounts and static data that is all over the place. We primarily use sigma to create reports and dashboards for non technical users to make sense of all that data and efficiently perform their daily tasks.
- User friendly querying of data
- Exporting reports
- Data visualization
- Cloud exports
- Dynamic data refreshing
- Doing real time math on the front end
August 07, 2023
Sigma isn't that bad
Just like any other BI tool.
Addresses the issue of allowing unlimited users so all people in the org can access data.
We use it for KPIs and reports
Addresses the issue of allowing unlimited users so all people in the org can access data.
We use it for KPIs and reports
- Excel Like feel
- access snowflake data (if is table and not view)
- customer support
- Cross filtering
- Data Drill through
- User Attribution assignable to user level
August 02, 2023
Spreadsheets on Steroids
I use sigma to bring real-time analysis to my sales and marketing teams. I create dashboards that influence business decisions and allow my stakeholders to move our business in the appropriate direction. We track sales pipeline, sale performance, win-rates, and deal cycle times only with Sigma. We join desperate tables and datasources together to paint a clear picture of the metrics with a wholistic view.
- Visualizing datasets in a spreadsheet like format
- Ease of onboarding and general use
- Frequent implementation of new features
- Speed and usability
- Joining datasets together
- Breadth of visualization types
- Adding input tables to already existing tables
- Customizability
August 02, 2023
Sigma Computing is an amazing BI solution if you want to build self-serve data product
Provide self service data solutions to internal and external users. Dashboards to provide insights to internal teams like ops, sales, marketing, finance etc. Also have dashboards for external customers to understand their business with us.
- Export function in Sigma Computing is amazing.
- Speed compare to Tableau
- easy to get started for non technical users
- release updates all the time
- Love the live chat function
- some new features are released with a log of bugs
- aesthetically not as good as some of the competitors
- not addressing open requests fast enough. or at least provide some updates
July 31, 2023
Great for dashboarding and tracking metrics
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Sigma to create dashboards used across multiple teams, mostly for tracking marketing metrics and customer support requests.
- Customer support through office hours and the chat function are exceptional
- Easy drag and drop for both adding elements and rearranging what's on the dashboard
- It's missing a lot of the features of Excel so often we still have to use spreadsheets and switch back and forth
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is a Cloud based data analytics platform that enables organizations to visualize and analyze their data without the need of SQL or advanced coding skills. Some business problems and use cases it addresses:
Users can directly connect to various data sources to explore and query the real-time data
It offers data transformation and cleaning capabilities which helps users to prepare their data without the need of complex ETL tools
This platform controls and provide permissions, ensuring sensitive data is only accessible to authorized users. The use cases can be ranging from sales and marketing analytics, HR analytics, supply chain management and more.
Users can directly connect to various data sources to explore and query the real-time data
It offers data transformation and cleaning capabilities which helps users to prepare their data without the need of complex ETL tools
This platform controls and provide permissions, ensuring sensitive data is only accessible to authorized users. The use cases can be ranging from sales and marketing analytics, HR analytics, supply chain management and more.
- Security and Goverance
- Data Lineage and Versioning
- Native Cloud Connectivity
- Data Collaboration and Sharing among team
- Intuitive User Interface
- More visualizations
- Offline Data Access and Export
- More Connectivity for export to cloud storage
- Complex Joins and Data Blending
- Performance Optimisation for large datasets