Sigma Computing mostly solves a very difficult problem with a few notable shortcomings
October 01, 2019
Sigma Computing mostly solves a very difficult problem with a few notable shortcomings

Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sigma Computing
We're using Sigma Computing in parallel with other reporting tools to allow business users to define and modify reports without having to learn SQL or submit a ticket to an analyst who does. It's used across the organization but has not been fully adopted yet.
Pros
- Sigma displays tabular data and particularly pivot tables very well. The formatting options are very flexible and fairly intuitive.
Cons
- Sigma's mechanism for defining and using filters in reports and dashboards is very far behind their competitors. Filter behavior is often inefficient and counterintuitive.
- The queries Sigma generates for non-trivial operations seems to be relatively inefficient, and it makes extensive use of machine-generated column identifiers that make it difficult to diagnose which parts of the query are causing trouble.
- We have only completed a full rollout of a small number of reports but in these cases the results have been a significant reduction in manual work to compile and format data in spreadsheets. The cost of the system and development time involved with delivering reports to end users are relatively small.
This list of comparison products does not have the necessary options for me to describe the actual evaluation we did.
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