Sigma Information Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

289 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Sigma Computing are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Familiar Spreadsheet Interface: Users have appreciated the familiar spreadsheet interface in Sigma, making data analysis more accessible for them.

Fast Performance when Querying Warehouse: Some users have noted that Sigma is fast, especially when querying the warehouse directly, leading to enhanced performance compared to other cloud-based BI tools.

Exceptional Customer Support: The exceptional customer support provided by Sigma, including quick responses and knowledgeable assistance through the chat function, has been highly valued by users.

Easy-to-Use Templates for Data Monitoring: Many users have praised the effectiveness of easy-to-use templates in Sigma for monitoring various aspects of the data stack.

Valuable Learning Resources: Users find tutorials and webinars in Sigma valuable for learning new features and functionalities effectively.

Reviews

43 Reviews

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Sigma Computing A Robust BI and Data Integration Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sigma Computing majorly to create detailed data-driven reports and dashboards which are then used by various departments to make informed business decisions. From Sales department to internal IT, Sigma Computing helps address the BI needs and solve problems with data representation. Sigma Computing at our org is used for human resource utilisation analysis, which is vital for understanding and planning for additional workloads without compromising on performance and stability.It is also used for performance metrics and KPIs tracking ensuring that senior management and relevant stakeholders have access to vital performance data.

Pros

Helps in identifying and resolving discrepancies in data
Generating dashboards for tracking key performance indicators
Supports internal operations such as project management and product analytics with data-driven insights
Scheduling automated exports and embedding reports

Cons

Sigma Computing does not allow custom ordering of pivot fields in pivot tables easily
Sigma Computing lacks functionality for creating tables or sections that dynamically adjust to the browser window's height while maintaining a fixed height textbox at the bottom
Sigma Computing does not provide straightforward options for formatting totals in tables, such as renaming 'Total' to 'Average', 'Team Total', etc
Sigma Computing does not support searching by individual tab names within a workbook

Likelihood to Recommend

Scenarios where Sigma Computing is well suited: - Data Reporting and Visualisation : It is suitable for dashboards that integrate data from multiple back-office systems - Search and Filtering Capabilities: It provides a robust platform for searching through datasets and visualisations. Scenarios where Sigma Computing is less appropriate: Handling of null values and dynamic table adjustments

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Sigma Recommended.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to embed onto our website for client-facing reporting and internal reporting for our teams that need to see our Sigma data but don't have access to our database. The client-facing reporting is being used to show customers specific data they want to see, but we don't want to give them Sigma access.

Pros

Having different options for tables and their formatting.
Data connection and keeping up to date.
Having presets that are easy for other people to use.

Cons

The errors that happen when the exporting comes.
Making the embedding documentation clearer and more concise.
Input tables being able to work as a regular table.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma computing is great for customers looking for easy BI solutions that offer various ways to show reporting for their company. It doesn't work for customers looking for much more in-depth and aesthetically severe reporting. Like the layering that Tableau offers and the very specific changes you can make to graphs.

Verified User

Analyst in Engineering (Telecommunications company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Nearly perfect, missing some nice to have features

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sigma Computing is used to monitor and display data used in our organization. We are also using Sigma Computing as a product alternative. Our business is an alternative data provider, and Sigma does a great job at allowing us to easily visualize and connect to live data in the Cloud Data Warehouse.

Pros

Dashboard customization
Exceptional support
connection to live data

Cons

there are some nice to have features that Sigma is missing

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma is well suited if you are looking to created dashboards from live data in a Cloud Data Warehouse. Sigma also works well with application embedding.

Verified User

Analyst (Information Services company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

I tell everyone about Sigma!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sigma is the hub for all of our organizations reporting and dashboarding needs. We use it for everything from quick questions about our data, to advanced analysis and projections. As a small data team, I use Sigma daily to create workbooks and answer questions of my internal team. Sigma's workbook functionality is some of the best I've seen in any BI tool. Advanced questions that would involve complicated query writing are very fast to develop in Sigma's formula and table editors.

Pros

Interactive workbooks
Data Table development
Data Table reusability

Cons

Document based report development
Theming and styling
Visualization types offered

Likelihood to Recommend

I have recommended Sigma to colleagues who are looking for a BI tool that is hosted and who are utilizing Snowflake. While I think Sigma could be good for analysis purposes for any organization, if the consumption of the reports is primarily focused around interactive dashboards, I think it is a very good fit.

I would not recommend Sigma for organizations that have requirements for document based reports.

Verified User

Analyst in Engineering (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Love Sigma

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 22, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I create analytics reporting for many stakeholders. I make customer data available on a variety of dashboards to our account managers, I create internal reporting of platform usage data for custom partner billing arrangements, and I complete custom data requests for anyone from customer experience reps needing custom data exports to product managers seeking to learn more about our platform features.

Pros

Allows easy use of the data flowing from our data pipeline - I can join more rapidly than I could using sql and create recyclable templates that anyone can export.
Data visualization features are easy to use.
User traffic metrics are helpful in gauging adoption.

Cons

Pull last and pull first from a table of aggregated numbers - this feature seems to break often.
Providing a place to link documentation or embed video documentation.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma works great for building out team resources for internal stakeholders who need to leverage data for a variety of needs.

Verified User

Analyst (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Extremely powerful tool for reporting

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 21, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sigma allows us to preview and visualize data. All data visible in Sigma comes from our data warehouse, SnowFlake, which is our one and only source of truth for all data. Having Sigma helped us address discrepancies that we faced before, when teams were reporting out of different tools.

Pros

Visualising reports in graphs
Quick and efficient customer support
Creating custom columns using formulas

Cons

Building formulas can be complicated and time consuming
Licensing model can be limiting for end users if they are on Viewer only permissions

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma allows us to visualize and analyze complex data without coding skills. The UI is intuitive once you spent some time in the app, but they provide great training where they teach you everything you need. They offer a lot of customization to create compelling charts and dashboards to communicate insights effectively. However, the highlight for me is their support team. They offer live chat and the team is knowledgeable enough to help you build just about everything you can think of, in just a short chat. If things get more complex they often hop on a call during this chat and help you build what you need. It is really impressive!

On the other hand, due to the way how you can create new columns (using functions), it can be difficult to motivate end users to start creating their own reports or exploring what you built.

Verified User

Administrator (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Spreadsheets on Steroids

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 2, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use sigma to bring real-time analysis to my sales and marketing teams. I create dashboards that influence business decisions and allow my stakeholders to move our business in the appropriate direction. We track sales pipeline, sale performance, win-rates, and deal cycle times only with Sigma. We join desperate tables and datasources together to paint a clear picture of the metrics with a wholistic view.

Pros

Visualizing datasets in a spreadsheet like format
Ease of onboarding and general use
Frequent implementation of new features
Speed and usability
Joining datasets together

Cons

Breadth of visualization types
Adding input tables to already existing tables
Customizability

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe Sigma is well suited for almost all use cases. The platform can handle simple reports with small amounts for lean startups all the way up to Enterprise wide data management and reporting. I would be confident running analytics for any company on Sigma. Sigma is very cloud friendly so the only situation in which you might find difficulties is if your company stores all their data on-prem.

Tyler Lawson

Director of Analytics in Corporate at Workato (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Sighing In To Sigma

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

i have worked on multiple use case using sigma. first and foremost advantage is ease of use and simple for user to get used to it. i have worked on health care and finance data with sigma being completely different use case sigma was able to fulfill the needs. The flexiblity in embedding is very good with capabilities to have tags and user attributes. Sandbox help in testing.

Pros

Application Embedding
scheduling exports
ability to use sql
linking datasets

Cons

variety of charts
more room for customizations in chart attributes
currency symbols in charts

Likelihood to Recommend

sigma is well suited for huge number of users, live dashboards, embedding in your application and less maintenance overhead use cases where you can have different versions of same dashboards connecting to different data sources
Not suited where you need much customizations in chart visuals and chart attributes or chart structures with multi attribute in single axis

Yuktha Raman

Senior Software Engineer at kipi (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Sigma Computing as a Data Management System

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 4, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sigma Computing makes it much easier for us to analyze data from your software. It is an easy-to-use solution and with very good technical support, they are always at your disposal. We are a company that sells short-term rental data and using their software has made it a lot easier for us to develop tools.

Pros

Tech support - they are always there for you.
Ease of use - it is really intuitive what each tool they provide does. They also provide multiple tools depending on the needs of their users.
Great documentation - most of the times I've had a doubt about how to do something, their docs are good enough to answer those questions.

Cons

Solve the tickets quicker - they fix bugs or add features from users feedback

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a large data warehouse and want to build tools from this data, Sigma Computing is a great tool to achieve this quickly and efficiently. It's easy to implement in your codebase if needed and it's really versatile. I think the best scenario for using Sigma Computing is when you strictly want to focus on your data treatment and processing rather than on user interfaces, so if this is what you are looking for, this is a great tool.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Sigma powers progress

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sigma to deliver curated analytics directly to our clients via an embedded workbook. The Sigma product has shifted delivery and product development to the product team, and allowed our technical team to focus on data aggregation, transform, QA and analytics. We use Sigma to completely overhaul our product offering and streamline our operations.

Pros

Sigma has plenty of onboarding documentation
Sigma has excellent customer support
Sigma is powerful, they have features I need before I realize I need them

Cons

Sigma can have a steep learning curve for the un-initiated
Sigma can sometimes deprecate features or stop supporting them without much notice

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma is great if you already have a cleaned set of data that needs to be unleashed in the hands of your users. It is well suited for building curated workbooks and is flexible for various implementation needs. Sigma is also great to help QA your data.

Verified User

Employee (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Sigma Computing A Robust BI and Data Integration Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Helps in identifying and resolving discrepancies in data
Generating dashboards for tracking key performance indicators
Supports internal operations such as project management and product analytics with data-driven insights
Scheduling automated exports and embedding reports

Cons

Sigma Computing does not allow custom ordering of pivot fields in pivot tables easily
Sigma Computing lacks functionality for creating tables or sections that dynamically adjust to the browser window's height while maintaining a fixed height textbox at the bottom
Sigma Computing does not provide straightforward options for formatting totals in tables, such as renaming 'Total' to 'Average', 'Team Total', etc
Sigma Computing does not support searching by individual tab names within a workbook

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience