Sigma Usability, Reviews & Ratings 2023

Sigma Computing

Overview

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.

The necessary last part of the Data stack!

9 out of 10

January 14, 2023

Sigma at a startup

6 out of 10

January 04, 2023

I use Sigma to create queries joining multiple data sources to create dashboards, reports, and surface key business metrics and insights.

Sigma Update

7 out of 10

January 04, 2023

We are currently using Sigma for KPI reports and Histograms to determine how select models are performing as well as certain brands.

Absolutely Love Sigma Computing. Huge Time Saver!

10 out of 10

January 04, 2023

Our BI team suggested we start using Sigma Computing to help save time on all of our requests every day. Once we moved over we discovered …

Great, but Limited for Now.

8 out of 10

January 04, 2023

It is our main business intelligence tool, and is used in tandem with Google BigQuery to be a connection point where teams and …

Review of Sigma Computing

6 out of 10

January 04, 2023

I use Sigma Computing to measure delivery quality and volume on a daily basis with a huge number of metrics day over day and week over week.

Sigma: As easy to use as Excel, as powerful as Tableau.

10 out of 10

January 04, 2023

The team I am on, has a small headcount for the number of clients we're supporting. Sigma has helped us massively reduce the amount of …

Sigma Computing Review

7 out of 10

December 14, 2022

I use Sigma Computing to build dashboards to show results to collaborators and broader groups. My use case is to set up daily updating …

Sigma is Success for Any Size Data Program

9 out of 10

November 08, 2022

Sigma is a toll that works in the same way a spreadsheets work. But with data joining functionality similar to SQL and far easier to …

If you're looking for an intuitive data solution, choose SIGMA

9 out of 10

September 06, 2022

We use Sigma Computing as an embedded solution for our users. We use Sigma to help our customers see high level overview how they are …

Sigma Computing Tailors Data to What You Need!

8 out of 10

September 06, 2022

I use Sigma to track employee performance as well as deep dive inventory issues. I also use Sigma to audit employee actions and also use …

Great for viewers, not for builders

4 out of 10

August 30, 2022

Sigma Computing is used to make our data sharable with people that don't have SQL expertise and to create easily accessible reports to …

Sigma - The New Data Analysis Movement.

10 out of 10

August 26, 2022

Our company deals with millions of transactions on a daily basis that requires analysis which is unachievable with Excel unless possessing …

Heading in the right direction

9 out of 10

August 26, 2022

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 …

Sigma is a game changer

8 out of 10

August 26, 2022

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 …

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How Sigma Differs From Its Competitors

Everyone can easily go into Sigma Computing, view tables, and analyze what they need to accomplish. And because everything is in spreadsheet format, people can build their reports quicker, leading to faster decision-making.

Ad Hoc Analytics

The comment section has helped keep the conversation in one place, so people don't lose thoughts and ideas stay in one place.

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma has made data reporting more accessible for non-technical users but there is still a learning curve. Sigma has made decision making more efficient for sure.

Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma has a lot of filtering and drill down capabilities that are quite useful for large and complicated datasets.

Self-Service Analytics

We are still building all of our reports in Sigma and have not had users test it yet but I would suspect users will be content with the end product.

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma Computing allowed me to easily and seamlessly hold account-level reviews on a dime with day-to-day clients. In addition, I can pull data in real-time and with ease during meetings to help the team make decisions at the moment instead of having to wait days for a BI pull and then a follow-up …

Ad Hoc Analytics

The daily dashboards, drill-downs, and ease of use has made life 10x easier from a leadership perspective.

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma Computing has enabled a wide spread of teams to be able to view the same data/views since user management is easy with Sigma Computing. In our team, the data team is the one who creates the views/dashboards while the non-technical users remain as viewers. So far, the results have been …

Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma Computing has enabled us, along with BigQuery, to view our data from multiple sources in a cohesive manner. This has proved to be very useful in decision-making.

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma Computing is incredibly helpful, as I outlined in my prior question. As long as the dashboards are built well, they're easy to view and use for informed decisions.

Ad Hoc Analytics

I don't recommend Sigma Computing for this. It takes too long to sort thru data and the drill-down features include more datapoints than just want you wanted to drill down on, in my opinion.

Self-Service Analytics

Prior to implementing Sigma, we were downloading query results and analyzing them in a spreadsheet, which was time-consuming and error-prone. Sigma has sped up this process significantly and increased the quality and consistency of the reports by automating the process.
This helps us inform …

Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma has made a positive impact on our ability to conduct iterative ad-hoc analyses by making it quick and easy to create new reports when one is requested, or thought of. If the report identifies a continuing trend, it's trivial to convert it to an ongoing report or dashboard to track the impact …

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma Computing gives fast data access to the business users and gives business users an easy way to set up simple dashboards and plots to present their work, check and show the market status. Its ability to visualize data easily helps people to understand the results, which fastens the business …

Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma Computing saved me a lot of time by auto updating the results of queries and showing the result all the time. By having the Sigma Computing dashboard, I can directly send a link to some ad-hoc ask instead of re-run the query every time. Also, its live updating informs the breakdown and helps …

Self-Service Analytics

Previously users did not have access to the data that we are now providing through Sigma. Or they didn't have access they knew how to use. The only access was through sheets or BigQuery console.
Sigma allows IT to provide data from outside sources in a way that was not possible before.

Ad Hoc Analytics

The ad hoc analysis is soooo easy to do in Sigma. I love quickly building a dataset and immediately being able to "Explore" how the dataset looks like as a visualization.

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma has been great for our business, especially when dealing with multiple stores and comparing between them. We're able to track improvements made and also track where opportunities are arising for specific locations. Additionally, pulling Sigma data and creating Google Sheets has been …

Ad Hoc Analytics

Based on personal experience and dealing not with just one store but with three stores that all use Sigma, I can use Sigma to track an item's path through the warehouse and see which associates "touch" the item. This helps us track where something went wrong with the product and ultimately may …

Self-Service Analytics

It's fine for most people honestly. If you are just a user of sigma dashboards and not creating them or responsible for the data integrity (/ what the query behind a visualization actually looks like) it's great! However, in my role data integrity is quite important and it's impossible to lift the …

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma has opened a new world to those that do not know SQL as with a nearly database-only driven company, analysis of data would have to begin with someone that could provide a dataset small enough for the end user to use with Excel, for example. This has saved money (and time) as it is a domino …

Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma has GREATLY impacted the ability to perform ad hoc analyses due to the efficiency it provides. For example, the time it would take to run a SQL query to narrow a dataset and subsequently analyze/run pivot tables/charts within Excel has been reduced by at least 25%. It has been my first …

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma makes our data more easily accessible to users and, along with lots of training and time spent, is helping to improve data literacy with the less savvy users. It fits well into the processes we already have built that allow users to facilitate ingest and analysis of data in near real time.

Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma has only been used at this level with our most technical users. It makes diving into data and analysis really simple for a tech savvy user and can easily drill in to find what you need once you identify a subset of data you want to explore. The ability to quickly filter (right click, include …

Self-Service Analytics

It has helped with our day-to-day analysis of data and made some things faster in that area. We have more reports and more flexibility so that helps with making decisions. We have also found more reports to use and data to analyze because of the flexibility. The only bad thing is the downtime and …

Self-Service Analytics

Always up-to-date dashboards, they don't depend on the Analysts to send the reports by e-mail. Once you are used to it, it's really easy to create a new dashboard with filters, multiple selections, etc.

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma made it possible for us to have full control of our product and to be able to offer it to our clients in under six weeks.

Ad Hoc Analytics

With Sigma, we are able to easily look at our entire dataset and depict trends in the labor market.

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma has made it easier for non-technical users to lead their own data explorations. This has allowed us to spread out and speed up our data analysis across the board.

Ad Hoc Analytics

Sigma's ability to deal with large tables has helped speed up our analyses and ultimately our ability to quickly make decisions.

Self-Service Analytics

We are finally able to provide fundamental metrics throughout the organization on customer behavior, platform health, financial results, HR, and other areas. Having a single delivery mechanism helps with training and onboarding new users. The product team has been able to use the platform activity …

Ad Hoc Analytics

Our focus has been on dashboards, not as much on ad hoc. However, our customer activity dashboard, with its pivot table support and visualizations does help the customer success team look at any customers and drill into what might be behind changes in customer behavior. The dashboard was designed …

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma is very easy to use, so people with less technology experience have an easier time finding the information needed through this platform.

Ad Hoc Analytics

It allows for internal teams to quickly pull the information that would reflect the issue at hand. This way, it can be fixed in a timely manner.

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma has substantially increased or business users' ability to analyze data w/o distracting engineering team. Its easy-to-learn, excel-like interface has a very soft learning curve so we can get up and running in a few hours with the tool. With more metrics available faster, we're able to adjust …

Ad Hoc Analytics

We can make decisions much faster now, since we can have new analytics ready for a project on day one. With KPIs easily available to our admins and clients throughout the program, we can easily steer our project with more granularity than before. Faster access to the data directly results in …

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma Computing dashboards I have created have made content performance data easier to access for a broad group of non-technical editors & authors. Now that they no longer need to reach out to the analytics team for that data (& potentially wait for a turnaround), we find that they are leveraging …

Ad Hoc Analytics

It's allowed me to flag more things that are happening and a broader set of patterns, but I often find myself doing the full ad hoc analysis & exploration in the respective platform, such as Adobe or Google Analytics.

Self-Service Analytics

non-technical users can also build charts/tables in Sigma Computing. It provides timely info for users to make business decisions

Ad Hoc Analytics

There is a feature in Sigma Computing that breaks down chart-building into steps. So when some errors happen, it's relatively easy to spot-check which step goes wrong.

Self-Service Analytics

For business users who are not on the Data/Engineering Team, Sigma has been exceptionally good at allowing them to use Excel-like language to find insights. I may have mentioned this already, but this is a time saver for business intelligence engineers/data analysts. The fewer time data team …

Ad Hoc Analytics

Depending on one's level of permissions, Sigma will allow stakeholders to do a "drill down" analysis. This empowers users to take the initiative in searching for insights into data they may be already familiar with but not sure how to access what they need. In addition, the drill down option also …

Self-Service Analytics

Sigma is used broadly by data roles at my company. It has definitely allowed for a more data-transparent culture, in which many people are using Sigma not just for dashboarding purposes, but also for ad hoc analyses as you can easily translate SQL code into visualizations and tables.

Ad Hoc Analytics

I mainly use Sigma for dashboarding purposes, which needs to be shared with my business partners and stakeholders. For this, Sigma is extremely useful. For Adhoc analyses, I actually tend to use Snowflake directly or work in R. In R; the visualization functionalities are much more feature-rich.

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Popular Features

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Report sharing and collaboration (117)
8.9
89%
Customizable dashboards (116)
7.9
79%
Drill-down analysis (112)
7.9
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Formatting capabilities (118)
7.5
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Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Ease of joining tables
Simplifying the interface - too many areas to do the same action

Pat Chong

Data Scientist

Candid (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees)

data querying capabilities are strong
various menus are complicated and difficult to understand

Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Renewables & Environment Company, 201-500 employees

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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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