Sigma - Strong analytics for technical teams.
August 22, 2022
Sigma - Strong analytics for technical teams.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sigma Computing
We have many disparate data sets from website traffic, users signing up for our SaaS-based services, customer usage data, sign-up data from our community on slack, etc. We store all this data in a BigQuery.
Where Sigma comes in is trying to find the signal from the noise. We create a few "approved" workbooks/dashboards for everyone to see but the power of Sigma is in the self-service arena. We allow our teams to build their custom data views. Sigma is easy to use for slicing/dicing, and anyone who knows excel has a good chance of getting up to speed on Sigma. Don't want to oversell how easy it is. There is a learning curve, but it isn't that steep, and once the team is over, they can self-serve.
Where Sigma comes in is trying to find the signal from the noise. We create a few "approved" workbooks/dashboards for everyone to see but the power of Sigma is in the self-service arena. We allow our teams to build their custom data views. Sigma is easy to use for slicing/dicing, and anyone who knows excel has a good chance of getting up to speed on Sigma. Don't want to oversell how easy it is. There is a learning curve, but it isn't that steep, and once the team is over, they can self-serve.
- Excel-like formulas that are easy to use
- Simple table like metaphor that is easy to understand
- Complex SQL queries created automatically.
- Ability to automatically drill down into Day/Week/Quarter on one chart with no coding
- Search functionality - hard to find just dashboards/workbooks
- Ability to share components - eg create a visualization in one workbook, reuse this exact one in another workbook. Change it in one place updates everywhere.
- Create custom functions that can be used in calculations (eg: Fiscal Quarter = some complex formula) then in the workbook have ability to =FiscalQuarter([thedate])
- Reduced ad-hoc reporting requirements
- Enforced single view of the "truth"
- Found interesting business insights.
Do you think Sigma Computing delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Sigma Computing's feature set?
Yes
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?
Yes
Partial - we really have very technical people so this question isn't really relevant.
Conducting iterative, ad hoc analyses is one of Sigma's key strengths. We use it daily to drill down on the data and ask questions of the data. It would be awesome to have a "delete report after n days" because we do have a large "graveyard" of interesting-at the time data, but it becomes stale after a time.
Sigma has a good balance of affordability, self-service ability for technical teams, and ease of use. We chose it over the others basically based on ROI.