Item: Sigma Computing
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Sigma for external users, we create and embed dashboards in our application.

We try to replace all our existing tabular reporting with Sigma's new good-looking workbooks. For this we have set up a new warehouse, which is directly used by Sigma for presenting production data.

Pros and Cons

Support
Ease of use
Embedding

Visualizations
Tabular reports
Customization

Return on Investment

Increased customer satisfaction
Improved self-service for business users
Overall Increased Costs (Sigma, additional Warehouse, etc)

Self-Service Analytics

As we use Sigma for external users, currently we do not have enough feedback from them and can not evaluate if those dashboards had a big impact for them in analyzing data. It has couple of month since we implemented our first dashboard and feedbacks are quite good, they like ease of exploring data.

Ad Hoc Analytics

I could not say that Sigma Computing had impact on this for me. Because I mostly had ready database scripts which I used for creating dashboards. And there was no need for ad hoc analyses. But if I had this kind of experience, I think Sigma would have done good job.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (discontinued)

I think overall Sigma Computing is much better tool for Oracle Business Intelligence. It has newer feel and look, it is lighter and easier to use. There might be some complex areas where OBI does a better job, but overall I prefer using Sigma Computing. Especially for small sized companies.

Key Insights

Do you think Sigma Computing delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Sigma Computing's feature set?

Did Sigma Computing live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Sigma Computing go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sigma Computing again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop, Sisense

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma is quite good BI Tool.

Main disadvantage is that as it is a new product, and has no long history, there are plenty of features that are missing(Linking objects, customization of tabular reports).
In my experience, business user are constantly asking things that can not be done by Sigma.
Also I am facing bugs quite often.

However, Sigma is improving quite fast and they are working on new features. Support is very quick and quite helpful, they have live chat which really is a good way to have answers on your questions. Also I think they have reasonable pricing, especially if you want to use it for application embedding. You should really check your requirements, before choosing them, but I have a feeling that Sigma will be better and better time to time.

Sigma Good and Bad

Overall Satisfaction with Sigma Computing