Sigma Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

289 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Sigma Reviews

32 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesAccounting1Information Technology & Services19Management Consulting1Marketing & Advertising5Market Research4Computer & Network Security2

An awesome and easy to learn analytical tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 24, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Sigma Computing to deliver multiple dashboards to client. The interface is very user friendly and the spreadsheet like features and calculations makes it easy to learn for the people who are working on spreadsheets. The ability to filter datasets using parameter and also the Row level security that can hide access to any rows from unauthorized access is a big add on. We have also implemented calendar heatmap using pivot table which was appreciated by the client as well.

Pros

Workbook Embedding
Dataset creation
RLS
Filters sync
Custom Operations
Sigma Computing Help and support
User Friendly interface
Easy to learn
Highlighting options
Gauge, Pie, Sankey charts in built options

Cons

Multiple joins with dataset.
Table formatting options

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma Computing is well suited where you want to save your time in building the dashboards and have a self service based UI where a person can make changes very easily to the dashboard and the people who are working with Spreadsheets and now want to switch to some BI tool it will be really easy to learn and work on.
Saving costs for the client in multiple ways like embedding, Running warehouse queries etc.

Alternatives

Tableau Desktop

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Sigma Computing - The best Analytical tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 10, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Sigma Computing to deliver dashboards. The interface is very user friendly and the custom options that Sigma Computing provides are very helpful. The power of using control IDs of the filters as the parameters directly in the SQL query is a big hit. We have connected our front end application filters with the Sigma Computing dashboard filters and made them communicate with each other.

Pros

Workbook embedding
Dataset creation
RLS
Usage of control_ids of the filters in various ways
Custom operations
Support Team
Easy User Interface

Cons

Multiple Joins in a dataset - not with Custom SQL

Likelihood to Recommend

If we have very huge data that has to be filtered based on the selection in the workbook filters, then passing the control IDs of the filters as the parameters directly in the SQL query is a great help. This way helps us in optimizing large SQL queries as well. If we want our front end application filters with the Sigma Computing dashboard filters to communicate with each other, we can certainly do that in embedding with the help of the control_ids.

Alternatives

Tableau Desktop and ThoughtSpot

maintianed is very user friendly. Its various ways of embedding helped us in various aspects. The usage of control ids of the filters as parameters helped us in optimizing very longSQL queries. The live Support team every weekday is a very great intiative that helped in quick solutions. The version tagging helps in maintaining multiple states of dashboards.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Sigma Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Sigma Computing to find patterns in my data and create dashboards to strategize business decisions based on my analysis. I enjoy using Sigma Computing because of the flexibility it gives me
to share my dashboards with other users and allow them to edit or view them as well.

Pros

Customer Technical Support (Sigma Help)
Addressing feedback from users (implementing requested features)
Providing demo's on new product launches

Cons

Sometimes my dashboard crashes if there are too many pages on it
Ability to share dashboards externally (I'd like to add some to my public portfolio like I do with Tableau)

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma Computing is very beginner friendly because of their technical support team, leveraging this at the beginning of my Sigma journey was immensely helpful. Even today, where I am more comfortable with Sigma i'll run into an issue and their support team will always be there to walking me through a solution. I also think it's easier to make more cohesive and clean dashboards on Sigma Computing.

Alternatives

Tableau Desktop and Tableau Public

Sigma Computing had better functionality and is beginner friendly. While Tableau is a more well known product, Sigma Computing has a better user interface that is easier to comprehend for those without a non-technical background. This makes it easier to showcase dashboards to stakeholders and walk them through your work flow processees.

Verified User

Analyst in Engineering (Management Consulting company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great BI tool loved by many business stakeholders

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 26, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to create reports for other teams to provide a more complete view of the company. We are able to create workbooks that report on a global level (not just D2C, E-commerce, etc) and be able to connect different sources of data that would've been separate otherwise.

Pros

Our team loves Excel and it is very similar to excel
User friendly UI
Sigma team is responsive whenever we have questions or need to troubleshoot

Cons

Be able to create more robust reporting - can't do window functions
Sometimes we get a lot of loading errors. I don't think the query it optimized when Sigma is creating the reporting. When I look at the query it's thousands of lines long

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Sigma is great for companies that have different teams with different needs.

Alternatives

Looker, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau Desktop

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 we want to do that more.

Verified User

Analyst (Information Technology & Services company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

A data analysis tool that is easy implement and easy to learn.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 11, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I utilize Sigma to visualize datasets that I have curated in snowflake. Sigma allows us to identify issues within our products and services to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Pros

Allows end users to easily dive into the data without having direct access to the table in our database management software.
Can easily turnaround dashboards that are detailed and visually pleasing.
Sigma is intuitive and as new features are rolled out it is easy to adopt and incorporate them into new and existing dashboards.

Cons

Improved period over period functionality within the KPI Visual that would allow me to compare one year to another without including all years in the visual. I.E. the primary value is 2022 and the comparison line is 2021.
Greater ability to customize aspects of different visuals such as color, font and font size.
The ability for certain elements or blocks of elements to move as one scrolls down the page. I.E. I would enjoy the ability to create a set of filter elements along one side of the dashboard that scrolls with the user as the user scrolls down the page to view various visuals.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma is intuitive to use and can be quickly understood i.e. versus tableau which is more complex. Sigma handles large datasets (10MM + rows) easily with limited load time.

Alternatives

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Cloud and Microsoft Power BI

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 can be, Sigma excels in its ability to handle larger, more complex datasets. In other words, tableau often requires a custom dataset that lacks certain details, while Sigma does not.

Verified User

Contributor in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Actionable and fun data analytics

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sigma to build data visualizations for our data warehouse. It allows us to consolidate information and build analysis tools such as reports and charts that empower our teams in their decisions making process.

Pros

Charts
Reporting
Data Analysis
Decision Making Tools

Cons

Pricing
UI is intuitive but powerful features require deeper knowledge of SQL

Likelihood to Recommend

Whenever there’s data that need to be analyzed, visualized or simply aggregated in a pivot table, Sigma is the perfect tool for the job: it helps build rich data dashboards, including charts, tables, colors and more. It connects with several alternatives of external sources such as Google BigQuery, Google Drive, other database engines or tabular data files.

Alternatives

Looker Studio

Sigma is easier to work with and faster than Looker Studio.

Jose F. Gomez

Director of Operations in Engineering at Koombea (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Sigma Computing: Empowering Data Discovery, One Query at a Time!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 25, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is a Cloud based data analytics platform that enables organizations to visualize and analyze their data without the need of SQL or advanced coding skills. Some business problems and use cases it addresses:
Users can directly connect to various data sources to explore and query the real-time data
It offers data transformation and cleaning capabilities which helps users to prepare their data without the need of complex ETL tools
This platform controls and provide permissions, ensuring sensitive data is only accessible to authorized users. The use cases can be ranging from sales and marketing analytics, HR analytics, supply chain management and more.

Pros

Security and Goverance
Data Lineage and Versioning
Native Cloud Connectivity
Data Collaboration and Sharing among team
Intuitive User Interface

Cons

More visualizations
Offline Data Access and Export
More Connectivity for export to cloud storage
Complex Joins and Data Blending
Performance Optimisation for large datasets

Likelihood to Recommend

It is easier for someone who is not well versed with advanced coding skills.
Suited when we have to work with real time data.
Native Cloud Data Integration makes it a seamless fit.
Scenarios where it is less appropriate:
Sigma is not best choice when comes to advanced statistical modeling or complex ML tasks
Where we have heavy customization and complex reporting demand
Where user requires offline data access.

Alternatives

Tableau Desktop

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.
Sigma Computing targets self-service data exploration and real-time data analysis.

Adi arora

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Kipi.bi (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great product for non-technical users and a value add to data teams.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 18, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Data democratization, enabling non-technical users to work with our company's business data; data engineering. We use Sigma for all of our data visualization needs, from ad hoc analyses to dashboards used by the whole company.

Pros

Provides a familiar data analysis format with its spreadsheet interface.
Fast; by querying the warehouse directly, it's much more performant than other cloud-based BI tools.
Allows non-technical users to interact with and analyze warehouse data without needing to know SQL.
Easy-to-use templates are great for monitoring aspects of our data stack.

Cons

UI is a little clunky; you'd expect a product that was developed in the last 5-10 years to have a snappier interface and a more polished product.
There really needs to be a way to weave custom SQL queries into a workbook to perform advanced aggregations and manipulations; currently, you can only use SQL to load data into a parent table.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for non-technical users, particularly managers who rely on the insights from the data but lack the technical skills to analyze the data via code. Definitely not for data science use cases; questionable use for data analyst and data engineering use cases as well.

Alternatives

Hex.tech, Tableau Cloud and Metabase

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 another analyst to free up. We selected Sigma because of its powerful feature base, great performance, and ease of use.

Verified User

Director in Corporate (Information Technology & Services company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Sigma review for weekly reporting and tracking.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 8, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Sigma for visual reporting on a daily basis. It allows my team to present complex datasets in an easy-to-digest format. We use it for weekly reporting, deep diving into large data sets, and presenting a coherent solution to complex problems. It also allows for easy sharing and tracking of key experiments across multiple stakeholders.

Pros

Dashboarding
Pulling SQL data.
Spreadsheet analysis.

Cons

Speed
Visualization
SQL query assistance.

Likelihood to Recommend

Weekly reporting and dashboarding for key metrics are really well organized on Sigma - Experiment tracking is helpful as it allows us to share impact and performance with key stakeholders - Querying from Snowflake tables is seamless - Speed is an area of improvement as sometimes loading data takes a long time.

Alternatives

Mode

Faster and easier to use that mode.

Verified User

Strategist in Corporate (Information Technology & Services company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Easy and fast! What is better?

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 5, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sigma provides self-service analytics, enabling users to perform complex data analysis without relying on IT or data teams. Sigma Computing offers various analytics use cases, including cohort analysis and spend attribution. Their mission is to empower everyone to explore data and make better decisions, and they have received funding and recognition for their analytics and AI products.

Pros

Support
UI
Data visualizations.

Cons

Price
New features.
Solution compatibility.

Likelihood to Recommend

It’s great for companies parsing data through multiple clouds with multiple customer types or personas. It also is great for companies with disproportionate statistics because of bot problems. Sigma is really top-notch in these scenarios, but it seems to be a worthwhile investment if you are only in one cloud as well.

Alternatives

Tableau CRM

Sigma Computing is easier for users, has less latency, and was a better experience working with the seller. It is a great solution that I am super impressed with. The alternatives we evaluated were more difficult and slower. Sigma is fast and easy and that is worth so much in my role.

Nick Healey

AE in Sales at F5 (Computer & Network Security, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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A data analysis tool that is easy implement and easy to learn.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 11, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I utilize Sigma to visualize datasets that I have curated in snowflake. Sigma allows us to identify issues within our products and services to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Pros

Allows end users to easily dive into the data without having direct access to the table in our database management software.
Can easily turnaround dashboards that are detailed and visually pleasing.
Sigma is intuitive and as new features are rolled out it is easy to adopt and incorporate them into new and existing dashboards.

Cons

Improved period over period functionality within the KPI Visual that would allow me to compare one year to another without including all years in the visual. I.E. the primary value is 2022 and the comparison line is 2021.
Greater ability to customize aspects of different visuals such as color, font and font size.
The ability for certain elements or blocks of elements to move as one scrolls down the page. I.E. I would enjoy the ability to create a set of filter elements along one side of the dashboard that scrolls with the user as the user scrolls down the page to view various visuals.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma is intuitive to use and can be quickly understood i.e. versus tableau which is more complex. Sigma handles large datasets (10MM + rows) easily with limited load time.

Alternatives

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Cloud and Microsoft Power BI

Verified User

Contributor in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience