Looker vs. Sigma Computing

Looker

426 Reviews and Ratings

Sigma Computing

289 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Looker	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Looker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.	N/A
Sigma	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Sigma Computing headquartered in San Francisco provides a suite of data services such as code free data modeling, data search and explorating, and related BI and data visualization services.	N/A

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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Key User Insights
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Considered Both Products	Google No answer on this topic	Sigma Computing Aaron Curtiss Senior Director of Technology in Information Technology at CredibleMInd (Mental Health Care, 11-50 employees) Chose Sigma I am not an expert in any of these, though from my brief exposure to Looker it felt like a steeper learning curve, more appropriate to companies with dedicated and skilled BI engineers, whereas Sigma (and Tableau, and Looker Studio) offer a quicker and more intuitive interface … Incentivized Helpful? Randall Hidajat Director Of Customer Service in Customer Service at HelloTech Inc. (Consumer Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Sigma I'd rate Sigma to be extremely similar to Sisense except it looks not as nice. I would say that as a tool, Sigma is more user-friendly than Tableau, Power BI, Trevor, and Metabase. I do feel that Looker is far more powerful and looks great, but I also recognize that Looker does … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma With Looker, to be effective, a substantial amount of coding & modeling needs to happen in LookML. Being another language to learn, users have to context switch again from at a minimum either SQL or Python into LookML. The concept of being able to source control, code review, … Incentivized Helpful? Jose F. Gomez Director of Operations in Engineering at Koombea (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma is easier to work with and faster than Looker Studio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Much more customizable than Looker Studio Some features are way better than Cluvio. But Cluvio search bar was better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma I was not involved in the decision-making process, and we stopped using chartio because it was discontinued. Chartio was great for looking under the hood at individual queries. Sigma is superior in the visualization aspects - it looks more professional and clean-cut. I've … Incentivized Helpful? Ken MacMann Analytics Manager in Engineering at ButterflyMX (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Sigma Chartio was discontinued, and Looker + Sisense were too expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma We considered Looker when purchasing a BI tool, Looker seemed like it was less user friendly and support wouldn't be as responsive as Sigma. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma I prefer Google Sheets, Looker, and Tableau over Sigma Computing. I was not involved in the purchasing decision but if it were up to me, we would use a different tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma has the capabilities of the other BI tools. I think it's pretty user friendly and easy to learn. Many of our stakeholders are used to using Excel so it's nice that it is a smooth onboarding process for them. We haven't looked into much of the visualization capabilities so … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Schultz VP of Analytics in Finance and Accounting at Brandless (Consumer Goods, 201-500 employees) Chose Sigma 2 biggest reasons for Sigma were easy of use for power users, and cost of having a large amount of viewers of the data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma flexibility, works really well with Snowflake, export capability, level of support, the fact that Sigma Computing is a start up and improving so quickly. Web based software Incentivized Helpful? Ennio Maldonado Data Engineer in Engineering at Mynd (Commercial Real Estate, 501-1000 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma service is superior. In terms of feature set it does not fall behind. Incentivized Helpful? Pat Chong Data Scientist at Candid (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees) Chose Sigma Pro: More user-friendly. Con: not as nice looking Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma offered a novel approach to data analysis with its Excel-like functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Mendy Shallman Director Operations at Prodege, LLC (Market Research, 501-1000 employees) Chose Sigma Data Studio was used in the past but Sigma Computing is far more powerful, customizable, and sharable across teams. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Easy entry tool that can grow with you as the data expertise and literacy grows within the org. Start up effort and cost is too high in the tools that are built for large corporate solutions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Google Data Studio is free, intuitive and easy to use but the analytics are limited. In-table calculations can't be done easily and it lacks a native connector for Snowflake. Moreover, table columns cannot be arranged in any order--they must be dimension first, and metrics … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma It doesn't have its own language (like lookML) this is positive. Web dashboards, you don't need to send attached spreadsheets by e-mail Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma was chosen for three reasons. 1. Excel-like workflow. Many of our researchers have a background in excel, and the excel-like workflow Sigma offers enabled them to get up and running quickly. 2. Embeds. We can easily embed dashboards into our SAS platform 3. Price. Sigma … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Herring CM0 in Marketing at Pachyderm (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Sigma 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. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Sussman Director of Data Analytics at ItsaCheckmate (Restaurants, 201-500 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma Computing was the best bang for the buck and employed modern cloud-based computing while providing an easy-to-use Excel-like UI. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma Computing was our top choice due to the ease of use of the platform for end users doing self-exploration of data. The structure of the platform for how datasets are created and access provisioned was much better than other products we considered. Sigma Computing may not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma 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). Incentivized Helpful? David Novakovic Head of data in Information Technology at Foresight Insurance Group (Insurance, 51-200 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma's combination of key features from each of these with native dB access under a UI that makes collaboration easy has made it an easy choice for us. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

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Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker and Sigma Computing
Feature	Looker 8.8 117 Ratings	Sigma Computing 8.9 160 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.996 Ratings	8.8103 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	9.0115 Ratings	9.2158 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.499 Ratings	8.7130 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker and Sigma Computing
Feature	Looker 8.5 116 Ratings	Sigma Computing 8.6 163 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.2112 Ratings	9.5153 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.9114 Ratings	8.3160 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.947 Ratings	7.35 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.2116 Ratings	9.4159 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker and Sigma Computing
Feature	Looker 8.8 112 Ratings	Sigma Computing 9.1 153 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.494 Ratings	9.9102 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.1100 Ratings	9.0127 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.775 Ratings	9.9117 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	9.297 Ratings	9.8130 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	00 Ratings	7.067 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker and Sigma Computing
Feature	Looker 7.0 113 Ratings	Sigma Computing 6.6 146 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.2109 Ratings	7.9144 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.297 Ratings	5.626 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	4.66 Ratings	6.218 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker and Sigma Computing
Feature	Looker 8.3 112 Ratings	Sigma Computing - Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.7106 Ratings	00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.293 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.2106 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	8.245 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker and Sigma Computing
Feature	Looker 6.3 84 Ratings	Sigma Computing - Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.681 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Application	5.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.575 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Looker	Sigma
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (117 ratings)	8.0 (167 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.5 (7 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (12 ratings)	7.6 (48 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (14 ratings)	10.0 (47 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.5 (51 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sources	7.3 (51 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Professional Services	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)