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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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Sigma Computing - The best Analytical tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 18, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We used Sigma Computing to deliver dashboards. The interface is very user friendly and the custom options that Sigma Computing provides are very helpful. The power of using co...
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Verified user
Engineer
Sigma Computing1 year of experience

An awesome and easy to learn analytical tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 2, 2025
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We used Sigma Computing to deliver multiple dashboards to client. The interface is very user friendly and the spreadsheet like features and calculations makes it easy to learn...
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Verified user
Engineer
Sigma Computing2 years of experience

Data Democratization with Sigma Computing

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 21, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Great data visualization tool without having to be a data expert! Combines the best parts of Excel and Power Bi in one.
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Verified user
Manager
Sigma Computing2 years of experience

Great product for non-technical users and a value add to data teams.

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 3, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ho...
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Verified user
Director
Sigma Computing1 year of experience

Great tool with some weird kinks

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 22, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 mu...
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Randall Hidajat
Director - Customer Service
Director Of Customer Service
HelloTech Inc.
Sigma Computing1 year of experience
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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.9
Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.1
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.8
Avg 8.3

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

6.5
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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 Platform Features

  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Snapshot of External Data
  • Supported: ETL Capability

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.)

Sigma Videos

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 TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, Canada

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Cloud, and Looker are common alternatives for Sigma.

Reviewers rate Publish to Web and Report Versioning highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Sigma are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Sigma is a powerful and easy to use tool that puts analytics level data capabilities into a package that is easily handled by business users.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 28, 2021
Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sigma [Computing] is being used across our entire organization as our Business Intelligence hub for all of our data across all of our business functions. For marketing we use Sigma for business performance reporting, campaign performance reporting, customer segmentation, cost monitoring and a range of other ad hoc analysis.
Pros
  • Easy to use for business users
  • Powerful and fast
  • Great self service tools for education and troubleshooting
Cons
  • There's lots of room for improvement for flexibility and ease of use for data visualization
  • Room for improvement for CSV file upload limits
Likelihood to Recommend
Sigma [Computing] is by far the easiest to use and most powerful business intelligence tool that I've ever used. It really puts the power of huge databases in the hands of business users in an interface that is familiar, easy to learn and easy to understand.

Satisfied user

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 23, 2020
Verified User
Administrator in Sales
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sigma Computing provides a vital link in our ticket reissuing process, allowing a link that greatly reduces the time to find this information when working on customer service issues. We have trained all our agents on this process so if they ever need to use it they can access it readily. This reduces the need for them to send this on to a supervisor. Previously we would have to search the system to try and find this information and often not be able to retrieve it.
Pros
  • Links together a reissued ticket with the original confirmation number and vice versa
  • Shows incidents on a trip readily without having to contact dispatch
  • Easy-to-use interface
Likelihood to Recommend
Compiling data and showing connections that are usually not as easy to find in the system.

User Friendly

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 04, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Real Estate Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sigma is the main reporting tool that is being used at Roofstock, in addition to Tableau. It is being used across the organization answering all our data questions.
Pros
  • Easy to build , even the novice reporting users can use.
  • Visualizations are easy to build.
  • User friendly, they have the capability of applying the filters and explore the data as needed.
Cons
  • Add joins to the workbook.
  • We will migrate all the reports from tableau to Sigma eventually once we have all the visualization capabilities setup in Sigma. For example: there are no indicators in sigma, which are used in our current tableau dashboards.
  • Add more details in the help, for self-learning. E.g.: Add examples as needed for each visualization.
Likelihood to Recommend
For all the basic reporting needs, Sigma is very useful and easy. But for advances reporting capabilities like MoM / WoW including indicators , summaries is not possible at this point.

Sigma user survey

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
August 25, 2022
Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • flexibility change the UI layout
  • clear permission level
Cons
  • a bit slow (updating the permission view, query, changing the tabs)
Likelihood to Recommend
well suited:
- building tools and be available for non-engineers

less appropriate
- just for analysis purpose. Jupyter is probably better tool. The main reason is Sigma takes quite a few steps to add a UI module. There is a learning curve for beginner in my opinion.
- i don't see a lot of charts support compared to similar products

Great for new users

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 20, 2022
Verified User
Analyst in Customer Service
E-Learning Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Sigma Computing for the internal dashboard, to report on how key metrics across the company are performing.
Pros
  • Easy to use for new users
  • Loads pretty fast
Cons
  • Could use more built-in documentation of changes
  • Could use better tools to manage multiple editors of workbooks
Likelihood to Recommend
Sigma Computing is most appropriate for serving up quick dashboards, or for providing a way for non-analyst to perform basic analysis. It is less appropriate for larger-scale projects where multiple users might be using it or for deeper analysis.
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