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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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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

Sigma Computing - The best Analytical tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 10, 2024
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

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

Sigma Computing Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 7, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 opportu...
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Matt Shen
Manager - Corporate
Business Operations Manager
Limit
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

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • 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.

7.8
Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8
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.

6.4
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

Sigma Downloadables

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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Excel-like features without the intuitiveness. Bad value for the money.

Rating: 1 out of 10
Incentivized
November 05, 2021
Verified User
Team Lead in Product Management
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sigma is arguably used by the whole organization. We have lots of viewers, but very few regular users. As far as I can tell, Sigma was selected on the basis of its usefulness in gatekeeping data from the organization, rather than encouraging transparency. In my assessment, Sigma makes it extraordinarily difficult to find reporting and analysis that has already been done... which is useful if you're on the gatekeeping side of the gatekeeping-vs-transparency trade-off spectrum.
Cons
  • Managing and editing data sources is unintuitive.
  • Findability of previously done work.
  • Calculated fields always added to visualizations as a sum, and then you have to fix them, which duplicates them. [I feel this is] stupid and sucky.
  • [In my experience,] crap-tacular visualization capabilities.
  • [In my experience,] weirdly inconsistent behavior between viz types. Stop making me learn contextual rules between pivot tables and tables! That's so dumb.
  • Linking data sets doesn't appear to give any tangible benefits. Where's my access to those other fields?
  • You mean to tell me a Creator license is HOW MUCH? For THIS product?!
Likelihood to Recommend
Sigma is not appropriate for companies looking to build a data-informed culture. In a landscape full of products that are not super intuitive, [in my experience,] Sigma really outshines the competitors for being truly a painful experience. Does it make it up with amazing capabilities, like Tableau does? No. Does it make it up by being easier to learn, like Power BI does? No. [In my opinion,] It's just an Excel knock-off that loses the intuitiveness of Excel, and the capabilities of a better BI Tool. Hard pass on Sigma if I'm making the decision.

A User-friendly way to immediately begin automating manual processes

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 22, 2022
Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My team uses Sigma to gain better access to our firm's internal datasets and to be less reliant on data engineers to produce reports and analyses for us. These reports have given the finance team faster and more flexible access to data that drives our external financial reporting, internal FP&A functions, regulatory reporting and responses, and in some cases have replaced manual processes that existed to facilitate operations.
Pros
  • Reduced learning curve compared to other products
  • User friendly interface
  • Very responsive support chat
Cons
  • Communicating errors and why they happen
  • Preventing users from performing functions that commonly cause errors
  • East coast support times
Likelihood to Recommend
Sigma has been very easy to pick up and share with others, people catch on quickly because the calculated fields tool is very similar to Excel. I also have the ability to schedule exports to excel for those who do not want to use the platform.

Moving date filters have been tough for Sigma to handle with the nature of our datasets. We have daily ledgers that are only useful one day at a time (and bank dates only), but the preset dates filters are better suited for date ranges (i.e. the "last month" filter is 7/1/2022 to 7/31/2022, while we would just want 7/31/2022). We tend to need to get creative with our functions to get moving dates to work.

Good BI tool for cross functional teams

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 19, 2020
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Non-profit Organization Management Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Sigma Computing as our secondary Business Intelligence (BI) tool. It is used to create sales reports for external customers to track their records. Our internal sales team uses the reports to manage the sales budget and revenues. It is being used by across the company. The target users are people who likes spreed sheets and no technical background is required.
Pros
  • It is very easy to set it up. To connect the cloud data source, you only need to provide a credential of the could database.
  • It provides the options to upload CSV files and SQL runner which you can create customized SQL query.
  • It can generate reports which has row level access level. which makes it possible to share one report with multiple different clients and each client only can see their own data.
Cons
  • It does not provide the same amount of features as the marketing leader such as Tableau.
  • There are limited calculated fields.
  • A data quality tool can help visualize data before you analyse it , which are super helpful. So far it is not available in Sigma yet.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sigma can connect all three cloud platforms ( Google BigQuery, AWS, and Snowflake). It connects to multiple database sources in the cloud data warehouse. The dashboard load speed will be affected by the computing resources provided by the cloud. To fully utilize the computing power, it is better to put the heavy calculating part in cloud data warehouse and save the results as a table in DW instead of [writing] the complicated SQL queries in Sigma.

An excellent tool for fostering BI Self-Service Culture

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
November 01, 2021
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's the main BI platform used across the board. We made datasets available for the people to build their own analysis as well as build ready-to-use dashboards.
Pros
  • Calculate aggregations.
  • Easy-to-use interface.
  • Managing roles and users.
Cons
  • LOD calculations.
  • Filtering in dashboards.
  • Joins in workbooks.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it's a really powerful platform because it mixes the best of a professional BI tool for the Analytics team with an easy-to-use UI that inexperienced users can seamlessly understand.

Constantly Improving with Sigma Computing

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 19, 2022
Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
- We use it a lot to share spreadsheet-like data with "power users" - Use it to distribute hourly, daily metrics through Slack based on workbooks built in Sigma Computing- Use it to create dashboards to distribute analytics tools with business users for their own analysis and data exploration - It's starting to be an alternative to Tableau for analytics tools since it can run custom SQL in the existing connections.
Pros
  • Easy visualization creation
  • Customizable charts
  • Relationships between dataset fields
Cons
  • Cross database datasets
  • Filtering using the charts (Like Actions in Tableau)
  • Usage of containers within Workbooks / Dashboards to organize content
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios where is well suited:
- Easily sharing spreadsheets (usually heavy) with business users that will be automatically updated
- Creating simple dashboards for easy data exploration

Scenarios where is less appropriate:
- Heavy lifting scenarios where more complex calculations are needed
- Scenarios where cross database joins for datasets are needed or querying big tables
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