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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.

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

7.7
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8
Avg 8.1

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 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 9.6.

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

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Familiar Spreadsheet Interface: Users have appreciated the familiar spreadsheet interface in Sigma, making data analysis more accessible for them.

Fast Performance when Querying Warehouse: Some users have noted that Sigma is fast, especially when querying the warehouse directly, leading to enhanced performance compared to other cloud-based BI tools.

Exceptional Customer Support: The exceptional customer support provided by Sigma, including quick responses and knowledgeable assistance through the chat function, has been highly valued by users.

Easy-to-Use Templates for Data Monitoring: Many users have praised the effectiveness of easy-to-use templates in Sigma for monitoring various aspects of the data stack.

Valuable Learning Resources: Users find tutorials and webinars in Sigma valuable for learning new features and functionalities effectively.

Limited User Management: Users have expressed a need for improved user management features to better control access levels, streamline collaboration, and enhance security protocols within the platform. For instance, having granular permission settings can prevent unauthorized data access and ensure compliance with industry regulations.

Lack of Customization Options: Reviewers have highlighted the absence of customization options as a drawback, limiting their ability to personalize interfaces, workflows, and reporting tools according to their unique requirements. This lack of flexibility may hinder users from optimizing their work processes efficiently.

Impact on User Experience and Adoption: Several users have suggested that enhancing user management and customization options is crucial for improving overall user experience, boosting productivity, increasing user satisfaction, and ultimately driving higher adoption rates among teams.

Reviews

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Sigma Computing - The best Analytical tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 10, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
maintianed is very user friendly. Its various ways of embedding helped us in various aspects. The usage of control ids of the filters as parameters helped us in optimizing very longSQL queries. The live Support team every weekday is a very great intiative that helped in quick solutions. The version tagging helps in maintaining multiple states of dashboards.

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 03, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Sigma is definitely more user-friendly and has powerful built-in functions and capabilities for analyzing and visualizing data in a low-code fashion. It allows our non-technical users to jump in and use data to answer the questions they are asking without having to wait for another analyst to free up. We selected Sigma because of its powerful feature base, great performance, and ease of use.

Sigma Computing Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 07, 2024
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Retool is a much more technical tool, it requires a deep understanding of SQL before being able to build out dashboards. Sigma Computing was much more user friendly and useful for non-technical users.

Great tool with some weird kinks

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 22, 2024
RH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
I'd rate Sigma to be extremely similar to Sisense except it looks not as nice. I would say that as a tool, Sigma is more user-friendly than Tableau, Power BI, Trevor, and Metabase.

I do feel that Looker is far more powerful and looks great, but I also recognize that Looker does have a steeper learning curve.

Sigma Recommended.

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
2 years of experience
Sigma computing has better pricing than the competitors. We're always looking for what is good for the price but also gives us all we need to complete our reporting. It also brings about a lot of updates that are nice to see. The embedding helps other BI tools sometimes.

My Sigma Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Sigma has a better view of tables and it is much easier to create new data sets/aggregations. Tableau is better in some visual aspects because there is more customization available, albeit more confusing than Sigma to do. Sigma is very intuitive and did not take long to learn compared to the other mentioned systems.

Sigma Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 08, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Sigma Computing had better functionality and is beginner friendly. While Tableau is a more well known product, Sigma Computing has a better user interface that is easier to comprehend for those without a non-technical background. This makes it easier to showcase dashboards to stakeholders and walk them through your work flow processees.

I tell everyone about Sigma!

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 08, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Sigma is the easiest to use from a workbook developer perspective, and from a non-technical end user perspective. Everything from administration, semantic layer setup, to creating dashboards is easier in Sigma than these other tools. Developing content in Sigma is enjoyable, and you feel like you can do what you expect to intuitively without hassle.

Great BI tool loved by many business stakeholders

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 26, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
2 years of experience
Sigma has the capabilities of the other BI tools. I think it's pretty user friendly and easy to learn. Many of our stakeholders are used to using Excel so it's nice that it is a smooth onboarding process for them. We haven't looked into much of the visualization capabilities so we want to do that more.

A data analysis tool that is easy implement and easy to learn.

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 11, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
2 years of experience
I have found that Tableau can be used to create a greater variety of custom and complex visuals, though these visuals are far more difficult to create in a quick turnaround. While Sigma may be more limited in terms of what types of visuals can be create or how customized they can be, Sigma excels in its ability to handle larger, more complex datasets. In other words, Tableau often requires a custom dataset that lacks certain details, while Sigma does not.

Getting data into your users' hands quickly and easily

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 09, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
With Looker, to be effective, a substantial amount of coding & modeling needs to happen in LookML. Being another language to learn, users have to context switch again from at a minimum either SQL or Python into LookML. The concept of being able to source control, code review, and deploy your models is a plus though.

Tableau is the gold standard for data visualization, no question. Power users will be able to create dazzling content that Sigma won't necessarily be able to easily match. However, since development usually happens via an extract, helping other users troubleshoot is an arduous process. Trying to re-do or un-do all the transformations and calculations that cause a certain number is very difficult.

With Sigma, all the queries happen directly against Snowflake and you can see the query logs. The data modeling happens right in a tabular, spreadsheet-like manner, so within only a few minutes, substantial transformations can happen, with visualizations just a few more clicks away.

Sigma isn't that bad

Rating: 6 out of 10
August 07, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
sorta in the middle.
One thing that differs than Domo or power bi, is that those softwares bring in the data into the platform, instead of how sigma runs a query against our data warehouse each time a user interacts with the dashboard (there is some small caching, so not always)

Spreadsheets on Steroids

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 02, 2023
TL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Sigma is by far the best. It is easiest to learn and easiest to use on a day to day basis. I never have to wait for dashboards to load and it's very easy to understand the variables that are going into my visualizations. Best of all I can manipulate the data within Sigma very easily. In these other platforms data manipulation is difficult or must be done in the data warehouse.

Sigma Computing: Empowering Data Discovery, One Query at a Time!

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 25, 2023
Aa
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience
Sigma is user-friendly and target non technical users as well.
Sigma focuses on native cloud integration.
Sigma Computing also emphasizes collaboration, enabling multiple users to work together on the same data sets and share insights.
Sigma Computing targets self-service data exploration and real-time data analysis.
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