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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 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 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.

6.5
Avg 8.0
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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

Sigma Technical Details

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

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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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Easy Access to Data Warehouse

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 20, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
It's used across the whole organization for internal and external purposes.
  • Connecting to our internal data
  • Customer Service
  • Ability to update data in real-time
Cons
  • Visualizations lack features
  • Dashboards aren't as customizable
  • Not great for external facing clients
In general, Sigma helps with both internal and external use cases.

Democratizing Data: From a Non-Data/Engineering Perspective

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 24, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
We are beginning to implement it across the organization as a way to democratize access to data. Decentralize the access so that it's not just within the data/engineering team and so that it's accessible and workable for other departments like sales and marketing management to use as a way to power informed decisions as well as identify key insights.
  • Clean UI makes the powerful system approachable and inviting to begin sandbox testing.
  • Modular approach. You can pivot and pull and plug away so much. The permutations are endless with lots of visualizations and integrations to keep the data and insights flowing.
  • Great for multi-user and getting people set-up across the org.
Cons
  • Though the tutorial click through at initial sign-up is done great, I wish there were some additional ways to learn about the product at the early stages. It's almost as if they begin with lots of help and support and then expect you to be great on your own and help becomes overly technical. Probably not bad for data scientists but definitely affected the want to use the tool daily (it kind of plateaued).
  • I'd like to see better sales material/education. My org has lots of people familiar with Mode & Tableau, so we wanted to have clearer comparisons of why it's worth switching over to this new tool. Why is it so much better? That needs to be clearer.
Great for smaller businesses and tech startups to get the data stood up and democratized across an organization. Lower cost of getting started and easy to get it going.

great for visualizing data

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 25, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Data deep dives, weekly metrics tracking, long term forecasting.
  • Visualization of data
  • Query running speed
  • Sharability
Cons
  • Manually configuring visualizations
  • More aesthetic options
Very user friendly, very easy to share

Sigma highly recommended

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 17, 2023
IS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
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
Cons
  • More flexibility and ability to connect traditional on-premise data warehouses as needed
Merging multiple data sources, very easy formula building engine comparing to other tools

Actionable and fun data analytics

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 14, 2023
JF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
3 years of experience
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
Cons
  • Pricing
  • UI is intuitive but powerful features require deeper knowledge of SQL
Whenever there’s data that need to be analyzed, visualized or simply aggregated in a pivot table, Sigma is the perfect tool for the job: it helps build rich data dashboards, including charts, tables, colors and more. It connects with several alternatives of external sources such as Google BigQuery, Google Drive, other database engines or tabular data files.
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