Great product for non-technical users and a value add to data teams.
Data democratization, enabling non-technical users to work with our company's business data; data engineering. We use Sigma for all of our …
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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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- Customizable dashboards (155)7.777%
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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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| 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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August 30, 2022
Great for viewers, not for builders
Sigma Computing is used to make our data sharable with people that don't have SQL expertise and to create easily accessible reports to track client statistics/metrics. Most reports are either used on a weekly basis for business reporting purposes or ad-hoc as tools to pull relevant data or information based on specific inputs.
- Great visualization
- Nice color themes / visual representations
- In my opinion, it is a poor tool for those that actually want to see the source code behind visualizations
- loading time takes forever
August 26, 2022
Sigma - The New Data Analysis Movement.
Our company deals with millions of transactions on a daily basis that requires analysis which is unachievable with Excel unless possessing SQL knowledge to limit datasets. We have several databases and individuals that do not know SQL. Sigma allows for seamless integration of databases in an Excel-like interface that is comfortable and quite intuitive. Sigma is used to build daily distributed reports for multiple departments as well as management dashboards and Adhoc query/report requests.
- Multi-database management.
- Highly efficient processing of large datasets on the fly (million/billion transaction range).
- Excel like familiar interface.
- Excellent support team.
- Improvement of the Workbook feature (ongoing development).
- Integration of Network Drives for Report Distribution.
August 26, 2022
Heading in the right direction
Sigma Computing is used for all of our reporting and analytics in the organization. It is used daily by many users in the company to track KPIs and other more detailed facets of the business as well. Sigma is also used for external presentations and leave behinds for our teams.
- Data focused presentation
- Drill down capability
- Basic visualizations
- Pixel perfect reporting
- Multi user editing
August 26, 2022
Sigma is a game changer
Score 8 out of 10
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I use Sigma for all of my reporting needs and analyzing data from all sources within the company. I love that it is pretty flexible but it has gone down several times and when that happens we cannot do our jobs. I would also love it to be more spreadsheet-like with multiple sorts and other options.
- Flexible reporting
- Easy to use
- Lots of options
- It is slow with big data sets
- Goes down a lot
- Even more spreadsheet-like flexibility with the charts and be able to add or avg a highlighted selection
August 25, 2022
Simplicity and power in one tool. Fast dynamic and powerful dashboards without the troubles of other tools.
We use Sigma Computing on a daily basis to monitor the health of our business. We track the main KPIs, the results of the different experiments, how are our campaigns performing, the conversion funnel, etc. Also, we monitor some operational items, like data conciliation between different sources with an alarm to inform us when a difference is found.
- Excellent tool to quickly visualize your business results
- Flexibility to create charts and different options to import/export data
- Excellent customer support, I asked for some features and they were implemented!
- In the formula bar, if you try to use a non-compatible data type, it simply doesn't let you, instead of giving you the reason and a way to solve it.
- Sometimes the filters don't work. When you create a filter using a worksheet as a source for the values, the column you are trying to use simply doesn't appear. This forces you to use some tricks to achieve the desired behavior.
- When creating a duplicate of a worksheet, the default location to save it is your home folder. Why??? It should be in the same folder as the worksheet!!!
August 25, 2022
Sigma is simply amazing! The product and the team.
We've built our newest product, WageScape, a labor market analytics application, using Sigma Computing. WageScape helps you see what’s coming on the horizon for pay trends and labor market intelligence by collecting and presenting important data points from public-facing sources in easy-to-use data visualizations.
- Great UI.
- Intuitive and easy to use.
- Incredible performance.
- Features that would make it easier to work with multiple workbooks/workspaces.
- More design customizations.
August 25, 2022
Sigma: Democratizing access to data
Sigma Computing allows us to give our employees easy access to our data. We use this data to determine marketing channel efficacy, measure the success of new product features, and track usage information. We have set up Sigma Computing as the central location to combine data from the product, marketing spend, and revenue to give us a holistic view of LTV and CAC. The spreadsheet-like interface has made it easy for non-technical users to get up to speed quickly and makes it approachable to dig into the deeper capabilities.
- Quick creation of core KPI overview dashboards
- Approachable for users new to data analysis
- Analysis and Exploration of large datasets without knowing SQL
- Support documentation is still being developed for many use cases
August 25, 2022
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I use Sigma to build debugging tools to check the configuration and metadata input by Ops and Customers. I am quite proficient in writing SQL and query data, but not everyone is. It's really handy and let people use the tools so that they can figure out the issue on their own, instead of leveraging engineers time.
- I like the conditional highlight feature.
- I like the flexibility I can change the width and height of the widget.
- I constantly update the dashboard so I'd like to see version somewhere in the view.
- The query is a bit slow but I don't know if that's Sigma's issue or the query engine we are leveraging on.
- flexibility change the UI layout
- clear permission level
- a bit slow (updating the permission view, query, changing the tabs)
August 25, 2022
Good enough, worth spending time with.
We use Sigma as our primary data visualization tool for delivering operational metrics throughout the company. Astronomer is a fast growing cloud-based software startup and we faced the typical scaling issue of delivering a wide range of operational metrics to a broad audience. The metrics covered platform health, customer activity and behavior, trouble tickets, contracts and order, HR activity. For the most part employees are generally sophisticated data consumers and wanted the ability to parametize and drill into the metrics that help them run the business – Sigma a good fit for this use case.
- Pivot tables, allowing user control for navigating summary/detail views of data
- Visualization
- Speed to delivering dashboard, we have generally been quick to at least prototype dashboards
- Smart comprehension and options for date, numeric and text fields.
- The interface is busy with multiple modes to accomplish similar tasks, so not always intuitive to do some tasks
- While a more specific case of my first point, the relationship between different screen elements is particularly not obvious
- On chart annotation, allowing comments that overlay chart data
We use Sigma to do deep dives into how a store is performing and to find other account details a lot easier.
- Pulls high level information in a matter of minutes.
- Provides accurate information about an account.
- Helps identify an issue that is underlying.
- Sigma can run a bit slow sometimes.
- When searching for a specific market, it is hard to find the one needed without putting the exact wording.
August 25, 2022
Quick Metrics for Faster Results
We use Sigma to easily mockup new visualizations, metrics and full dashboards for clients who use our marketplace platform. This way the business development team can work on new client analytics features without software development team resources. Once the features are tested and approved by the client in Sigma, we can refine them & add them to our own analytics platform, confident that they're exactly what our clients need!
- Easy to learn
- Plug n Play
- Great Customer Support Staff
- Prettier visualizations & aesthetics for sharing externally
- More visualization options (heat maps especially)
- Some menus are hard to find, very small buttons that lead to features that aren't accessible from other places.
- Have to ask support where to find features, help docs are often not for the version/exact product you're using.
- Aggregates vs total rows vs aggregating data yourself - unclear which is correct or what they do exactly
August 25, 2022
great for visualizing data
Data deep dives, weekly metrics tracking, long term forecasting.
- Visualization of data
- Query running speed
- Sharability
- Manually configuring visualizations
- More aesthetic options
I use it primarily to measure the effectiveness of a content marketing program consisting of multiple media brands. This includes overall site traffic analytics and conversion activity, as well as specific marketing tech platforms in my tech stack. I use Sigma Computing to create dashboards for my internal analytics team, as well as other (non-analytics) editorial staff. I also create several visualizations that can be used for client reporting deliverables.
- Great support / help desk content found online
- Newer workbook functionality allows for more user-friendly dashboards with robust functionality (drilling down, etc.)
- Very easy to get started, perhaps the easiest & most intuitive platform in our tech stack off the hop.
- I will sometimes run into long load times or visuals will crash - oftentimes a hard refresh will take care of the issue.
- Lacking some key visualization options, including bubble charts & radar maps.
- Most of my dashboards seem to lack responsive design - visualizations won't always render properly or don't appropriately scale with the browser window.
August 25, 2022
Solid product and good for non-technical users
Build business dashboard for different stakeholders. Report KPIs and make the dashboard self-serve to marketing department
- easy to navigate across different tables, databases
- a variety of charting options
- speed is not favorable
- some limitations of available functions
August 24, 2022
Traditional BI is Dead; Long Live Sigma!
I use Sigma along with the rest of the Data Team to design dashboards and derive key insights for several internal teams at our company. Sigma makes the insights discovery process much, much easier due to its ability to perform easy calculations via more Excel-centric language rather than custom SQL. While custom SQL is a powerful skill, I have found it is easier to assist stakeholders in using data/dashboards when they do not have to use SQL to find them.
- Create custom datasets without the need for SQL.
- Easily manipulate/transform workbooks using Excel-like language.
- Fast calculations with much lower wait time for data to load or be transformed.
- When writing custom SQL, there should be an option to merely call the database at the beginning without having to do so throughout the query (similar to Snowflake).
- Sigma should allow uploads of .kml files.
- Make it flexible so that there are more ways to resize workbook elements.
August 24, 2022
DoorDash Data Scientist Reviews Sigma.
I am currently a Data Scientist at Doordash. Around one year ago, we switched our dashboarding vendor from Chartio (Atlassian) to Sigma. I use Sigma on a near-daily basis to build data reports for my teammates. The main use cases for my dashboards include: Providing experiment result updates Provide high-level metrics around my focus area. Some of my teammates do not know how to use SQL, so they are unable to retrieve even basic functions out of our database. This means that any tables/charts that I produce in Sigma are extremely valuable.
- I really like the tabs feature, which allows the creation of several different sections within the same worksheet.
- Their support has been extremely helpful. We have a Slack channel with them.
- The dashboards are extremely easy to share via link to coworkers.
- The dragging feature is pretty buggy - sometimes, I'll drag something, and the adjacent graph does not adjust alongside it.
- I'm not aware of a feature that allows me to delete multiple tables/graphs at once, meaning I have to manually click through a bunch of them to delete them.
- No Markdown support for text boxes.
August 24, 2022
Let's get Sigma'd!
We use Sigma as the front-end data modeling and aggregation tool that allows us to perform analysis and create visualizations.
- User interface.
- SQL load/query handling.
- Customer support.
- Data visualizations.
- Version editing among shared users.
- Workbook(s) load time.
August 24, 2022
A comprehensive but simple platform for developing sophisticated reports and dashboards
We use Sigma to deliver reports and dashboards to the entire company — especially executives, department leads, and functional leads. We provide insights and metrics for financial reporting, operations, and product usage.
- Sigma is particularly well integrated with Snowflake, and developing reports on top of Snowflake data is very straightforward.
- Sigma has improved our productivity. The authoring features for creating new charts and dashboards are intuitive and simple but still rich enough to handle the majority of visualizations that we need to produce.
- Sigma guides our development priorities. By providing usage data out of the box, it lets me see who is most engaged, which reports are most popular and which are failing to gain an audience.
- Versioning and branching could be easier.
- More productivity tools, e.g., improving the templating capabilities, allowing graph reuse, copy-pasting between dashboards, etc.
- Users who want to explore the reports need a more expensive license. This seems just a little more restrictive than we would like.
August 24, 2022
Fast but.. Lacking.
Data Analytics around our trading team. Tracking KPI progress, Individual contribution, learning insights to improve efficiency and comparing attributes of different time series.
- Sorting related analytics, such as percentiles and bins.
- Easy to quickly manipulate large data sets.
- Responding to questions Via the Live Chat.
- Allowing for Relative Values between columns, in tables, and pivot tables (% difference, for example).
- Allowing visuals to be fully customized, such as moving data labels, allowing a bar chart to have a color mark based on a column even if it's a combo chart, and Allowing for Water Fall Charts (possibly stacked visuals and transparent color options).
- Being able to use a lookup between built out tables instead of only raw tables.
- Offline Functionality (Sigma Extract??)
- Formatting of Tables and Pivot Tables (e.g. Particular font for particular column).
August 23, 2022
Sigma Computing : for the modern Data Driven world
Sigma Computing is at the center of our Data-Driven model within the organization. We use it for everything from displaying the state of the business on screens to automated report generation, providing our internal users the ability to quickly make data-driven decisions. Everyone from power users to regular users within our organization is utilizing the analytics, and business insights my department provides via Sigma Computing which reduces duplicate work and promotes self-service
- Ease of use when creating and implementing new worksheets
- Quick iterative development of datasets
- Adoption metrics of new datasets
- Access to query our own metrics
- Having workbook visualizations to pull from 1 source yet provide different information
- Usage metrics of workbooks and any tabs contained within them
August 23, 2022
Sigma gets everyone involved with data.
We use Sigma as an analytics platform for our citizen data analysts. Outside the core data team, everyone in the company is able to get access to Sigma if they want. This is great because we can leverage SQL and query our data warehouse rather than exporting CSVs and spreadsheets to create our presentations and reports. I use Sigma regularly to create charts/dashboards that reflect my KPIs and objectives.
- Dashboard & Chart management is easy.
- Dashboard parameters work well.
- SQL Editor is decent.
- SQL Editor could be better.
- Dashboard loading could be optimized.
- Exported reports are only in PDF which can be hard to read.
August 23, 2022
Sigma Encourages Your Organization To Be More Data Driven.
Provide an accessible and approachable solution for all data-related needs at the organization.
- User friendly.
- Embedding
- Support
- More room for developers.
- Robust embedding features (hyperlinking # tiles etc.).
- Less service outages.
August 23, 2022
Sigma review from BA.
Visualization and automation of analyses.
- Speed of loading.
- Formatting workbook.
- Syntax is confusing.
- Not as flexible as excel for table manipulations.
We use Sigma to create visualizations and dashboards for data that is stored on Snowflake. We also embed Sigma's dashboard into our business intelligence platform. Sigma is used to create joins on data tables too to create data sets.
- Filtering
- Row Access Controls.
- Embeds.
- Summaries on pivot tables get strange.
- comparisons on truncated dates.
- local caching often have to refresh page to pull correct data.
August 23, 2022
SIGMA Fast and Easy to use.
SIGMA is an amazing tool. It has allowed us to consolidate data across multiple shipping locations to view sales, inventory, and product shorts. The tool is saving our sellers about 3 hours a day. Prior to Sigma, the sellers gathered the information from each location and consolidated the data to review. It is now consolidated for them.
- Runs data extremely quickly.
- Data sets are easy to manipulate.
- Data is presented in an easy way to use to analyze.
- Data is downloadable to Excel.
- No recommended changes at this time.