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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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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Cohort analysis with Sigma
Sigma for Sales Teams Demo
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Building Pivot Tables with Sigma
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Parsing JSON in seconds with Sigma
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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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July 21, 2023
Sigma
Score 6 out of 10
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It will replace our excel reports
- Easy calculations
- excel like look
- live support
- Grand total
- Ability to edit user names
- Less navigations
We use Sigma to organize, track, and display data across every team at our organization. I am in Sigma every single day to track utilization of our services for our clients. We use Sigma to identify trends, create reports for internal and external use, and track KPIs.
- Visualization of Data
- Ability to Drill Down to Data
- Exporting Data is very easy
- Creation of new data elements, tables and visualizations is easy
- Ability to download a table as an image instead of taking a screenshot
July 17, 2023
Sigma highly recommended
Visualizing our data warehouse data and building dashboards. Eventually, we will be migrating business users there and using as unified reporting platform.
- Very flexible and powerful tool of visualizing data
- Very scalable and reliable tool
- Has a lot of advanced analytics capabilities comparing to other BI tools that I've used
- More flexibility and ability to connect traditional on-premise data warehouses as needed
July 17, 2023
Already a solid product, but a great company that continues to improve the product and cares about its customers.
Sigma is our primary delivery method for data and dashboards built on top of Snowflake data. We originally purchased Sigma as a supplement to Tableau's lack of ability to generate quality non-visual reports (Excel style reports). Sigma excelled at that. As Sigma has grown over the last couple of years, it has rapidly replaced Tableau as a visualization tools for us as well. Now, almost all of our dashboards and reporting for business intelligence run through Sigma. The product just keeps expanding and getting even better.
- Built-in data transformation and formulas.
- Intuitive interface.
- Embedding in web pages and portals.
- Visualization has great growth, but expansion is needed in chart/graph customization.
July 14, 2023
Sighing In To Sigma
i have worked on multiple use case using sigma. first and foremost advantage is ease of use and simple for user to get used to it. i have worked on health care and finance data with sigma being completely different use case sigma was able to fulfill the needs. The flexiblity in embedding is very good with capabilities to have tags and user attributes. Sandbox help in testing.
- Application Embedding
- scheduling exports
- ability to use sql
- linking datasets
- variety of charts
- more room for customizations in chart attributes
- currency symbols in charts
July 12, 2023
First time Sigma User
For me its about creating views without sharing IP for some external customers as well as using it to analyze data in multiple CRM and ITSM Tools. It is also having the ability to have unlimited viewers which is a clear differentiator compared to other products and thats one of the key things.
It integrates seamlessly with Snowflake and thats making the life easier for data analysis and manipulation.
It integrates seamlessly with Snowflake and thats making the life easier for data analysis and manipulation.
- Working in tandem with Snowflake
- Customer Support when there are issues
- Allowing free view accounts keeps the cost down
- Visualization Options
- Further Customization of Visualizations
- Dashboard Display and Out of the box embedding to none web platforms
July 04, 2023
Sigma Computing as a Data Management System
Sigma Computing makes it much easier for us to analyze data from your software. It is an easy-to-use solution and with very good technical support, they are always at your disposal. We are a company that sells short-term rental data and using their software has made it a lot easier for us to develop tools.
- Tech support - they are always there for you.
- Ease of use - it is really intuitive what each tool they provide does. They also provide multiple tools depending on the needs of their users.
- Great documentation - most of the times I've had a doubt about how to do something, their docs are good enough to answer those questions.
- Solve the tickets quicker - they fix bugs or add features from users feedback
We use sigma reporting to track client performance metrics, the data allows me to segment and breakdown silos of opportunities to help increase client lead volume. I strategically utilize Sigma to help clients generate a measurable ROI against their investments, I would recommend signa computing to anyone looking for deep source analytics data
- identifies opportunities
- quantifies data accuracy
- validates strategy
- helps optimize spend
- More future forecasting visibility
- the ability to see future scenario's with a scenario calculator, where you input data to achieve a result
Data democratization, enabling non-technical users to work with our company's business data; data engineering. We use Sigma for all of our data visualization needs, from ad hoc analyses to dashboards used by the whole company.
- Provides a familiar data analysis format with its spreadsheet interface.
- Fast; by querying the warehouse directly, it's much more performant than other cloud-based BI tools.
- Allows non-technical users to interact with and analyze warehouse data without needing to know SQL.
- Easy-to-use templates are great for monitoring aspects of our data stack.
- UI is a little clunky; you'd expect a product that was developed in the last 5-10 years to have a snappier interface and a more polished product.
- There really needs to be a way to weave custom SQL queries into a workbook to perform advanced aggregations and manipulations; currently, you can only use SQL to load data into a parent table.
We use it as our dashboard solution
May 31, 2023
Sigma powers progress
We use Sigma to deliver curated analytics directly to our clients via an embedded workbook. The Sigma product has shifted delivery and product development to the product team, and allowed our technical team to focus on data aggregation, transform, QA and analytics. We use Sigma to completely overhaul our product offering and streamline our operations.
- Sigma has plenty of onboarding documentation
- Sigma has excellent customer support
- Sigma is powerful, they have features I need before I realize I need them
- Sigma can have a steep learning curve for the un-initiated
- Sigma can sometimes deprecate features or stop supporting them without much notice
May 08, 2023
Sigma review for weekly reporting and tracking.
I use Sigma for visual reporting on a daily basis. It allows my team to present complex datasets in an easy-to-digest format. We use it for weekly reporting, deep diving into large data sets, and presenting a coherent solution to complex problems. It also allows for easy sharing and tracking of key experiments across multiple stakeholders.
- Dashboarding
- Pulling SQL data.
- Spreadsheet analysis.
- Speed
- Visualization
- SQL query assistance.
May 05, 2023
Easy and fast! What is better?
Sigma provides self-service analytics, enabling users to perform complex data analysis without relying on IT or data teams. Sigma Computing offers various analytics use cases, including cohort analysis and spend attribution. Their mission is to empower everyone to explore data and make better decisions, and they have received funding and recognition for their analytics and AI products.
- Support
- UI
- Data visualizations.
- Price
- New features.
- Solution compatibility.
My team and I use Sigma Computing every day to present KPIs, business metrics, long-term tracking, and troubleshooting of our services. It allows use to easily present information to the executives at our company and convey data in a way that is more digestable for them and others who are not as familiar with the deep data.
- makes it easy to quickly see changes to our tables reflected in dashboards and reports
- makes visualizing data over time easy to do with quick line graphs
- makes it easy to view data in tabular form before performing aggregate operations
- formulas in workbooks. Right now you can't use the equal sign in a text box without it thinking it's a formula
- more aesthetically pleasing workbook formatting options
- add descriptions to workbook/worksheet files so the person opening it can know what they're getting before they open and load all the data
January 14, 2023
The necessary last part of the Data stack!
- Intuitive interface
- Live chat
- Ease of joining tables
- Simplifying the interface - too many areas to do the same action
- Joining queried data with warehouse data
- Better looking visualizations
January 04, 2023
Sigma at a startup
I use Sigma to create queries joining multiple data sources to create dashboards, reports, and surface key business metrics and insights.
- robust technical support
- data querying capabilities are strong
- formula writing feature is intuitive
- formatting dashboards/visuals is terrible and buggy
- design capabilities are very limited
- various menus are complicated and difficult to understand
January 04, 2023
Sigma Update
We are currently using Sigma for KPI reports and Histograms to determine how select models are performing as well as certain brands.
- switch functions
- bar graphs
- Input tables
- More visualizations such as Sankey chart
- display a toolbar at all times
January 04, 2023
Absolutely Love Sigma Computing. Huge Time Saver!
Our BI team suggested we start using Sigma Computing to help save time on all of our requests every day. Once we moved over we discovered the amazing possibilities it offers and currently use it daily to review daily customer transactions and insights, overall business trends, and automated reports for sales and leadership teams. Sigma Computing has helped ramp up our productivity and internal insights in a way no other platform has been able to. It also saved countless hours we used to spend manually tying data together from different sources across our databases.
- Email alerts and scheduling
- Visualization
- Ease of use
- The biggest request across our teams and one that would instantly add more users would be to be able to carry over colors and formatting into google sheet exports.
January 04, 2023
Great, but Limited for Now.
It is our main business intelligence tool, and is used in tandem with Google BigQuery to be a connection point where teams and stakeholders can draw analysis and create reporting from our multiple data sources. The business problems this address includes ranges from internal analysis (such as providing cohesive reporting for our finance teams) to external problem solving (product, customer success, sales, and marketing).
- Disseminate workbooks and information through user profiles and features with a relatively low learning curve.
- Customization tools for colors/branding.
- Limitation in visualizations that lead to long workarounds to get features we want, or to be able to display data in the way we like it.
- Limit choices in customization when it comes to fonts, text size, and element sizing.
- Difficulty in handling complicated dashboard designs that require multi-element/section movement and a higher number of elements.
January 04, 2023
Review of Sigma Computing
I use Sigma Computing to measure delivery quality and volume on a daily basis with a huge number of metrics day over day and week over week.
- Similar functions to Google Sheets/Excel
- I like conditional formatting options
- quick and easy chat support
- Data loading can take way too long with large quants of data
- Permissions issues when scheduling exports can cause problems and headaches for unknown reasons.
January 04, 2023
Sigma: As easy to use as Excel, as powerful as Tableau.
The team I am on, has a small headcount for the number of clients we're supporting. Sigma has helped us massively reduce the amount of time it takes for us to compile reports and actionable business intelligence from dozens of hours a week down to 1-3 hours. Moreover, it's helped us in supporting our sales reps with information on their specific clients. The scope of use for our team has only continued to grow as other teams realize use cases based on what I've built so far for my team.
On a daily basis, use it to determine a broad range of things:
Product performance:
On a daily basis, use it to determine a broad range of things:
Product performance:
- Observing past trends and predict future trends in product usage
- Identify broad trends that could lead to product improvements
- Help clients get the maximum potential from our product by observing how its being used
- Identify areas where costs to us, or the client, may be unnecessarily high and address
- Proactively identify issues and reach out to clients for troubleshooting and resolution
- Reach out to clients who are not using the product to its maximum potential and assist in helping their projects succeed
- Maximize delivery to our clients by identifying the causes of shortfalls
- Customer Support: They've always been very quick to respond, willing to help work to come up with solutions for anything I'm stuck on.
- Very quick and easy to create reports with, once a solid dataset has been built.
- Low Code/No Code UX is intuitive to any excel users.
- Many options for joining different data sources.
- Adding new features regularly
- Formatting: On workbooks and dashboards, it can sometimes be difficult to make the page elements align correctly.
- When creating and setting up datasets, having a temporarily row-limiting option when editing would help a lot, particularly on anything with a large number of rows.
- Scheduling reports to be sent out can be tricky if the request is something like "Last Monday of each month".
- Being able to export an xls with conditional formatting would be helpful in some cases.
December 14, 2022
Sigma Computing Review
I use Sigma Computing to build dashboards to show results to collaborators and broader groups. My use case is to set up daily updating dashboards that can track and visualize data in order to help the Ops team track the status of our experiments and markets. It also helps people in the company to check the live status of my work.
- manipulate data using simple functions
- visualization templates
- color selection
- The ability of setting up updating frequency instead of auto updating
- More updating frequency options including weekly, daily
- More manual functions like ordering
November 08, 2022
Sigma is Success for Any Size Data Program
Sigma is a toll that works in the same way a spreadsheets work. But with data joining functionality similar to SQL and far easier to create visualizations. We chose Sigma because it makes data easy to access and use for a business user. IT resources are scarce for creating new reports and versions of reports.
- Guides business type users through a JOIN
- Allows for some types of data engineering in the dataset creation.
- Provides instantaneous user help and support
- The Join functionality in worksheets is incredibly useful but that same view is not available in worksheets. Is there a way to combine that?
- Make the datasets about data engineering models. Leave worksheets to using those models and other data.
September 06, 2022
If you're looking for an intuitive data solution, choose SIGMA
We use Sigma Computing as an embedded solution for our users. We use Sigma to help our customers see high level overview how they are doing in terms of the jobs they completed within the day. If the user is looking at the reports from a management perspective, the reporting shows how their employees are doing at a high level.
- Sigma does very well in terms of aggregation of data points.
- Sigma is awesome with support. LOVE the live chat feature.
- Sigma is great in terms of being very intuitive during the dataset build process.
- I love how easy it is to build visualizations.
- The bubble chart feature is very hard to configure.
September 06, 2022
Sigma Computing Tailors Data to What You Need!
I use Sigma to track employee performance as well as deep dive inventory issues. I also use Sigma to audit employee actions and also use Sigma data to lead performance evaluations with my team. Additionally, I can also use Sigma to compare my site's performance with that of other sites across the nation. Sigma does a great job at compiling all relevant information onto one easy-to-read spreadsheet.
- Making data easy to read
- Holds employees accountable by tracking specific inputs
- Aggregates nationwide data and displays all on one table
- Load time when being used heavily by multiple users
- Updating data would be great if it happened in real-time
- Making charts and graphs downloadable instead of just raw data