Wouldn't recommend
August 19, 2022
Wouldn't recommend
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sigma Computing
I use Sigma to analyze company data as well as creating dashboards to support other employees in understanding company data.
- Charts look pretty good, not as good some other bi tools
- Its somewhat easy to work with very simple datasets
- It does a good job of making it take much longer to develop visualizations than any other bi tool I've used, and I've used a lot
- No support for any kind of scripting, everything must be done via gui which makes it harder to re-use previous work
- Copying from one dashboard to another is not supported. Which is weird
- Logic for a calculation is difficult to see, it gets lost in "children" datasets
- Lots of minor ui issues, hover over in charts often stick on the screen obscuring other things, long column names are cutoff
- Filters can be applied upstream of a table making it difficult to tell which filters are impacting a given output
- Would be helpful to pass input parameters to SQL queries.
- Version control approach is baffling. If you click edit you might go to a previous unpublished version from months prior, ui is somewhat confusing to get to the current version. Also very problematic if working on the same workbook as a coworker
- Its much harder than it should be to view sql for a dataset, and most users roles do not have access to view it
- Its led to a lot more time spent developing reports than a better designed BI tool would have required.
Do you think Sigma Computing delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Sigma Computing's feature set?
No
Did Sigma Computing live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Sigma Computing go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Sigma Computing again?
No
Sigma was implemented prior to my start at the company, but I see no advantages to it over other modern BI tools, with plenty of disadvantages
I would not recommend Sigma for ad hoc analysis. I use other tools that allow for reproducibility, flexibility and deeper analytical technicques
Sigma is my least favorite BI tool I have used. Its unintuitive, takes longer to develop on, and has very limited functionality to re-use work (ie scripting, copying to a new project).