Microsoft Power BI vs. Sigma Computing

Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

Sigma Computing

289 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Power BI	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.	$10 per month per user
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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Microsoft Power BI	Sigma
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Key User Insights
	Microsoft Power BI	Sigma
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Tanner Ingalls Data Product Manager & Data Scientist in Product Management at REDX (Real Estate, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is free. If I didn't want to create a custom platform (i.e. my organization insisted on an existing platform that I had to use), I'd use Microsoft Power BI. For any start-up or SMB, I'd just use Claude & Grok to build it quickly, also for free. Would … Incentivized Helpful?	Sigma Computing 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 Sigma computing has better pricing than the competitors. We're always looking for what is good for the price but also gives us all we need to complete our reporting. It also brings about a lot of updates that are nice to see. The embedding helps other BI tools sometimes. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma is the easiest to use from a workbook developer perspective, and from a non-technical end user perspective. Everything from administration, semantic layer setup, to creating dashboards is easier in Sigma than these other tools. Developing content in Sigma is enjoyable, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma I have found that Tableau can be used to create a greater variety of custom and complex visuals, though these visuals are far more difficult to create in a quick turnaround. While Sigma may be more limited in terms of what types of visuals can be create or how customized they … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Less visually appealing. Feels like fewer pixels. Harder to make graphs and visuals. Really good integration with Snowflake and intuitive usage for custom equations and filters. 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 sorta in the middle. One thing that differs than Domo or power bi, is that those softwares bring in the data into the platform, instead of how sigma runs a query against our data warehouse each time a user interacts with the dashboard (there is some small caching, so not always) Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Lawson Director of Analytics in Corporate at Workato (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma is by far the best. It is easiest to learn and easiest to use on a day to day basis. I never have to wait for dashboards to load and it's very easy to understand the variables that are going into my visualizations. Best of all I can manipulate the data within Sigma … 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? Adi arora Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Kipi.bi (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma is user-friendly and target non technical users as well. Sigma focuses on native cloud integration. Sigma Computing also emphasizes collaboration, enabling multiple users to work together on the same data sets and share insights. Incentivized Helpful? Igor Stoin Development and Integration Manager in Information Technology at Alice & Olivia (Apparel & Fashion, 51-200 employees) Chose Sigma microstrategy is too complex and expecting data warehouse in perfect Snowflake layout, otherwise all automated joins are getting messed up. Power BI requires to do tons of complex DAX transformations for even getting simple answers and has power limitations. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Sprague Director in Information Technology at Hamilton College (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Sigma 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Yuktha Raman Senior Software Engineer at kipi (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Sigma ease of implementation , easy to train the resources to get used to the tool as it has very user friendly user interface, the 14 days trial where sales and sigma technical team helped us understand the advantages and the helpline chat which is always helpful . licensing when it … Incentivized Helpful? Dilruwan Madubashitha Associate Director - Operations in Customer Service at Madmobile (Restaurants, 201-500 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma isnt as strong in Scripting compared to above but with the seamless integration with Snowflake I can utilize the full power of SQL, Python etc. Sigma also doesn't have a 3rd party marketplace to get visualizations and other customizations compared to these products 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? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma offered a novel approach to data analysis with its Excel-like functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma still has a long ways to go compared to Power BI or Tableau. There needs to be more functionality features added to Sigma. Incentivized Helpful? Daniela Chita-Perez Senior Product Manager in Product Management at Greenwich.HR (Market Research, 11-50 employees) Chose Sigma We selected Sigma computing because it fully integrates with Snowflake (the platform our data currently sits on), and with Sigma, we don't need external technical resources. We have full control over our product development. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma N/A - I was not part of selection process. Incentivized Helpful? Leo Perez Ramos Reporting Manager in Corporate at Emerge (Logistics & Supply Chain, 201-500 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma Computing is the best at adaptability in terms of how easy it is for an organization to adopt and derive value from without being technically apt. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Not involved in the selection process. 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? Verified User Chose Sigma The decision to move to Sigma was mainly a business decision based on cost, as the vast majority of our users are external customers of ours. Sigma is basically on par with the others for its core functionality but still falls short in pure customization options. 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Features

Microsoft Power BI

Sigma

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Sigma Computing
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.8 140 Ratings	Sigma Computing 8.9 160 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.5120 Ratings	8.8103 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	10.0140 Ratings	9.2158 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.0128 Ratings	8.7130 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Sigma Computing
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.2 140 Ratings	Sigma Computing 8.6 163 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	7.0139 Ratings	9.5153 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	9.0138 Ratings	8.3160 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.0103 Ratings	7.35 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.0135 Ratings	9.4159 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI and Sigma Computing
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 134 Ratings	Sigma Computing 9.1 153 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.0129 Ratings	9.9102 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.0122 Ratings	9.0127 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.0102 Ratings	9.9117 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.0104 Ratings	9.8130 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	9.074 Ratings	7.067 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI and Sigma Computing
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.7 136 Ratings	Sigma Computing 6.6 146 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	9.0131 Ratings	7.9144 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.0122 Ratings	5.626 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	9.0102 Ratings	6.218 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	9.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI and Sigma Computing
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 127 Ratings	Sigma Computing - Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.0121 Ratings	00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.0102 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	10.0111 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.394 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft Power BI and Sigma Computing
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 117 Ratings	Sigma Computing - Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.0111 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.793 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.7112 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI and Sigma Computing
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.4 80 Ratings	Sigma Computing - Ratings
REST API	8.072 Ratings	00 Ratings
Javascript API	9.956 Ratings	00 Ratings
iFrames	8.055 Ratings	00 Ratings
Java API	8.046 Ratings	00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.163 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.444 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft Power BI	Sigma
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (142 ratings)	8.0 (167 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (58 ratings)	7.6 (48 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (53 ratings)	10.0 (47 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.5 (82 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sources	9.0 (81 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)