Already a solid product, but a great company that continues to improve the product and cares about its customers.
July 17, 2023
Already a solid product, but a great company that continues to improve the product and cares about its customers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sigma Computing
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.
- Built-in data transformation and formulas.
- Intuitive interface.
- Embedding in web pages and portals.
- Visualization has great growth, but expansion is needed in chart/graph customization.
- More rapid deployment of dashboards.
- The expanded base of people who can create dashboards.
- Greater use of our data warehouse data across campus.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Sigma Computing go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Sigma Computing again?
Yes
Adoption of our previous platform (Tableau) was slow. Developers found it difficult to use, and our end users could only view the reports. Sigma has brought an elevated level of data access to our business users. We are able to embed Sigma reports in our portals and Web pages without exorbitant licensing costs, which allows us to expand exposure and usage. We're also able to provide extra functionality to power users without needing to train them or provide a desktop client. This has resulted in more informed decision making throughout the company.
The ease of use of Sigma has allowed us to extend power user functionality to our Institutional Research team, and they can quickly respond to ad hoc requests. We provide a data mart of basic structured data, and they can easily generate custom reports for specific questions or needs.
Sigma beats them all in terms of ease of use and interface. Tableau is more customizable than Sigma, particularly with custom graphics. Sigma is far more feature-rich than Metabase as a basic reporting tool. Sigma makes PowerBI look like a 1980s desktop tool. Dataiku is more focused on data science and predictive analytics. It is stronger in that area than Sigma, although Sigma is working on extending their data science functionality.