Sigma Computing vs. Tableau Cloud

Sigma Computing

289 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Cloud

551 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Tableau Cloud	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.	$15 per month per user

Pricing

Sigma

Tableau Cloud

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Tableau Viewer: $15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer: $35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer: $42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer: $70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator: $75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator: $115
per month billed annually per user
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Pricing Offerings
Sigma	Tableau Cloud
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

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Key User Insights
	Sigma	Tableau Cloud
Considered Both Products	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? Verified User Chose Sigma Ease of use, access for teams, adhoc and iterative data analyses, from non-technical users, to experience data analysis teams. 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 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? 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? 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? 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? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma is definitely more user-friendly and has powerful built-in functions and capabilities for analyzing and visualizing data in a low-code fashion. It allows our non-technical users to jump in and use data to answer the questions they are asking without having to wait for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Faster and easier to use that mode. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma Computing is easier to use Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma N/A - I was not part of selection process. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma is like a unique combination of Excel and Tableau, in my experience. It combines both the heavy-duty data wrangling and data manipulation abilities of Tableau with the quickness and ease of use that Excel is known for having. I have relied on Excel a lot less now for ad … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Not involved in the selection process. 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. Additionally, … 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 Much easier to use as an end-user and quicker for report writing. 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 The following key factors led to the selection of Sigma: Ease of implementing row-level security in embedded dashboards. Ease of embedding; embedded explorations. Incentivized Helpful? Nick Lundgren Associate Director, Performance Marketing in Marketing at Manifest (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma Computing is significantly faster and more versatile than Data Studio integrations for marketing data. While it is less powerful than Tableau for data visualization, it is much easier to use due to its spread sheet like user interface. Microsoft BI is a middle ground but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma is easy to set up and can be used by people without any SQL knowledge. Sisense has the data modelling functions and the set up needs more effort and user training is needed for complicated calculation functions. We also use Tableau as BI tool for the users who want … Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas Monje Product Manager in Product Management at Teachable (E-Learning, 51-200 employees) Chose Sigma Sigma really was the powerful Swiss army knife for parsing and slicing all our data. A bit of the dark horse in our evaluation, against larger players (Tableau, Amazon) and the incumbent Looker, Sigma was at first almost overlooked but then quickly became my favorite by far, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sigma Sigma allows for speed and responsiveness Tableau was lacking without significant investment. Incentivized Helpful?	Tableau Kanchana Velaga Sr Software Engineer in Information Technology at Kipi.bi (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau Cloud is ery powerful and user friendly with minimal cost when compared with other BI tools.Its robust features like switching toggles, supporting SQL queries for buiding charts and all stands out as the best.It reduces time in creating difficult and complex dashbords … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Sigma

Tableau Cloud

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Sigma Computing and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Sigma Computing 8.9 160 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.0 69 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.8103 Ratings	7.051 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	9.2158 Ratings	8.069 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.7130 Ratings	6.058 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Sigma Computing and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Sigma Computing 8.6 163 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.9 69 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	9.5153 Ratings	8.069 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.3160 Ratings	6.066 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.35 Ratings	6.043 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.4159 Ratings	7.567 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Sigma Computing and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Sigma Computing 9.1 153 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.1 67 Ratings
Publish to Web	9.9102 Ratings	7.063 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.0127 Ratings	7.562 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.9117 Ratings	7.050 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	9.8130 Ratings	8.055 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	7.067 Ratings	6.034 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Sigma Computing and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Sigma Computing 6.6 146 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.8 65 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	7.9144 Ratings	7.562 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	5.626 Ratings	6.561 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	6.218 Ratings	6.553 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	00 Ratings	6.52 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Sigma Computing and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Sigma Computing - Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.0 64 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	00 Ratings	7.058 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	00 Ratings	7.051 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	00 Ratings	7.054 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	00 Ratings	6.52 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	00 Ratings	7.549 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Sigma Computing and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Sigma Computing - Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.4 54 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	00 Ratings	5.552 Ratings
Mobile Application	00 Ratings	6.039 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	00 Ratings	7.046 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Sigma Computing and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Sigma Computing - Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.4 36 Ratings
REST API	00 Ratings	6.031 Ratings
Javascript API	00 Ratings	6.529 Ratings
iFrames	00 Ratings	6.529 Ratings
Java API	00 Ratings	6.026 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	00 Ratings	6.530 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	00 Ratings	7.029 Ratings

User Ratings
	Sigma	Tableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (167 ratings)	8.0 (70 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.6 (48 ratings)	8.0 (23 ratings)
Availability	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (47 ratings)	8.7 (20 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	7.3 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (49 ratings)
Data Sources	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (49 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.3 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)