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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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Recent Reviews

Sigma Recommended.

8 out of 10
February 19, 2024
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We use it to embed onto our website for client-facing reporting and internal reporting for our teams that need to see our Sigma data but …
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Sigma Rolling Out.

9 out of 10
February 16, 2024
Incentivized
We use Sigma all day everyday to achieve our production goals and monitor current progress at just a glance. It aids us in planning and …
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My Sigma Review

10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Incentivized
Used for KPI dashboards, monthly/quarterly financial reporting, tracking data sets, and manipulating data. I have used Sigma to make …
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Sigma Review

10 out of 10
February 08, 2024
Incentivized
I use Sigma Computing to find patterns in my data and create dashboards to strategize business decisions based on my analysis. I enjoy …
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Love Sigma

9 out of 10
January 10, 2024
Incentivized
I create analytics reporting for many stakeholders. I make customer data available on a variety of dashboards to our account managers, I …
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Sales Ops Usage

7 out of 10
August 30, 2023
Incentivized
Key sales KPIs, stack-ranking sales people on activity and conversion. We also use it for executive reporting, distilling the health of …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Drill-down analysis (150)
    8.5
    85%
  • Report sharing and collaboration (156)
    8.2
    82%
  • Customizable dashboards (155)
    7.7
    77%
  • Formatting capabilities (157)
    7.3
    73%

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Pricing

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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.

7.2
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

7.8
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.8
Avg 8.4

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 8.1
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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 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 Screenshots

Screenshot of Custom calculations that can be added to tables and visualizations – no SQL skills necessary.Screenshot of Visualization tableScreenshot of Custom bins to drive complex cohort analysis built without SQL code.Screenshot of Complex cohort analyses built without code.Screenshot of Lookups provide familiar spreadsheet functionality to business users.Screenshot of A Sigma Workbook, that brings together spreadsheets, charts, and data narratives onto a live, collaborative canvas.Screenshot of Visualizations, that can be sorted, filtered, and drilled into, to the unconstrained underlying data.Screenshot of Spreadsheet formulas, that can be used to add calculated fields to pivot tables without coding.

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 Report Versioning highest, with a score of 9.4.

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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sigma to organize, track, and display data across every team at our organization. I am in Sigma every single day to track utilization of our services for our clients. We use Sigma to identify trends, create reports for internal and external use, and track KPIs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma is our primary delivery method for data and dashboards built on top of Snowflake data. We originally purchased Sigma as a supplement to Tableau's lack of ability to generate quality non-visual reports (Excel style reports). Sigma excelled at that. As Sigma has grown over the last couple of years, it has rapidly replaced Tableau as a visualization tools for us as well. Now, almost all of our dashboards and reporting for business intelligence run through Sigma. The product just keeps expanding and getting even better.
July 14, 2023

Sighing In To Sigma

Yuktha Raman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
i have worked on multiple use case using sigma. first and foremost advantage is ease of use and simple for user to get used to it. i have worked on health care and finance data with sigma being completely different use case sigma was able to fulfill the needs. The flexiblity in embedding is very good with capabilities to have tags and user attributes. Sandbox help in testing.
Dilruwan Madubashitha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For me its about creating views without sharing IP for some external customers as well as using it to analyze data in multiple CRM and ITSM Tools. It is also having the ability to have unlimited viewers which is a clear differentiator compared to other products and thats one of the key things.

It integrates seamlessly with Snowflake and thats making the life easier for data analysis and manipulation.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing makes it much easier for us to analyze data from your software. It is an easy-to-use solution and with very good technical support, they are always at your disposal. We are a company that sells short-term rental data and using their software has made it a lot easier for us to develop tools.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use sigma reporting to track client performance metrics, the data allows me to segment and breakdown silos of opportunities to help increase client lead volume. I strategically utilize Sigma to help clients generate a measurable ROI against their investments, I would recommend signa computing to anyone looking for deep source analytics data
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 hoc analyses to dashboards used by the whole company.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sigma to deliver curated analytics directly to our clients via an embedded workbook. The Sigma product has shifted delivery and product development to the product team, and allowed our technical team to focus on data aggregation, transform, QA and analytics. We use Sigma to completely overhaul our product offering and streamline our operations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Sigma for visual reporting on a daily basis. It allows my team to present complex datasets in an easy-to-digest format. We use it for weekly reporting, deep diving into large data sets, and presenting a coherent solution to complex problems. It also allows for easy sharing and tracking of key experiments across multiple stakeholders.
Nick Healey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma provides self-service analytics, enabling users to perform complex data analysis without relying on IT or data teams. Sigma Computing offers various analytics use cases, including cohort analysis and spend attribution. Their mission is to empower everyone to explore data and make better decisions, and they have received funding and recognition for their analytics and AI products.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team and I use Sigma Computing every day to present KPIs, business metrics, long-term tracking, and troubleshooting of our services. It allows use to easily present information to the executives at our company and convey data in a way that is more digestable for them and others who are not as familiar with the deep data.
Mendy Shallman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 the amazing possibilities it offers and currently use it daily to review daily customer transactions and insights, overall business trends, and automated reports for sales and leadership teams. Sigma Computing has helped ramp up our productivity and internal insights in a way no other platform has been able to. It also saved countless hours we used to spend manually tying data together from different sources across our databases.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is our main business intelligence tool, and is used in tandem with Google BigQuery to be a connection point where teams and stakeholders can draw analysis and create reporting from our multiple data sources. The business problems this address includes ranges from internal analysis (such as providing cohesive reporting for our finance teams) to external problem solving (product, customer success, sales, and marketing).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 time it takes for us to compile reports and actionable business intelligence from dozens of hours a week down to 1-3 hours. Moreover, it's helped us in supporting our sales reps with information on their specific clients. The scope of use for our team has only continued to grow as other teams realize use cases based on what I've built so far for my team.

On a daily basis, use it to determine a broad range of things:

Product performance:
  • Observing past trends and predict future trends in product usage
  • Identify broad trends that could lead to product improvements
  • Help clients get the maximum potential from our product by observing how its being used
  • Identify areas where costs to us, or the client, may be unnecessarily high and address
Operations/Customer service:
  • Proactively identify issues and reach out to clients for troubleshooting and resolution
  • Reach out to clients who are not using the product to its maximum potential and assist in helping their projects succeed
  • Maximize delivery to our clients by identifying the causes of shortfalls
December 14, 2022

Sigma Computing Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Sigma Computing to build dashboards to show results to collaborators and broader groups. My use case is to set up daily updating dashboards that can track and visualize data in order to help the Ops team track the status of our experiments and markets. It also helps people in the company to check the live status of my work.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 create visualizations. We chose Sigma because it makes data easy to access and use for a business user. IT resources are scarce for creating new reports and versions of reports.
Kimi Vu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 doing in terms of the jobs they completed within the day. If the user is looking at the reports from a management perspective, the reporting shows how their employees are doing at a high level.
Christopher Lamarca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 Sigma data to lead performance evaluations with my team. Additionally, I can also use Sigma to compare my site's performance with that of other sites across the nation. Sigma does a great job at compiling all relevant information onto one easy-to-read spreadsheet.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sigma Computing is used to make our data sharable with people that don't have SQL expertise and to create easily accessible reports to track client statistics/metrics. Most reports are either used on a weekly basis for business reporting purposes or ad-hoc as tools to pull relevant data or information based on specific inputs.
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