Sigma Computing vs. Zendesk Explore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sigma
Score 9.1 out of 10
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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
Zendesk Explore
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Zendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SigmaZendesk Explore
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Sigma ComputingZendesk Explore
Features
Sigma ComputingZendesk Explore
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
8.9
Ratings
9% above category average
Zendesk Explore
9.0
Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.80 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.20 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.70 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
8.6
Ratings
7% above category average
Zendesk Explore
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Drill-down analysis9.40 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.30 Ratings4.80 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
9.1
Ratings
9% above category average
Zendesk Explore
8.4
Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web9.90 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning9.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.80 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
6.6
Ratings
19% below category average
Zendesk Explore
7.1
Ratings
12% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.90 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization5.60 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.20 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
9.1
Ratings
7% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
7.8
Ratings
0% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Sigma Computing
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
5.9
Ratings
28% below category average
REST API00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.60 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sigma ComputingZendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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9.5
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
7.6
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10.0
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Availability
8.2
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Performance
9.1
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Support Rating
10.0
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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Configurability
7.3
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Ease of integration
9.1
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Product Scalability
8.2
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Vendor post-sale
7.3
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User Testimonials
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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
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Compared to other analytics functions of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is the easiest to learn. Moreover, the learning curve is high. Once you pick up the fundamentals, you will be able to create all types of analytic reports. In addition, if you know basic coding or SQL, you can create your own metrics and attributes to capture extremely specific elements such as the tickets that contain a certain word or etc.
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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.
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  • As with most "suite" products, if you already use other Zendesk features (Chat, Talk, etc), then Zendesk Explore adds an extra facet to the customer experience. The more we know about our clientele, the better we can understand/anticipate their needs.
  • I like that we can get as in-depth as we feel is necessary. For example, is just one customer having an issue? Or are many experiencing a similar problem? We can better rack this type of trend using Explore.
  • Our team can dive deep into the data based on exactly what we're looking for. If the marketing team wants a certain kind of segment, we can give them that info. If we want to sort by date or another set of parameters, we can do that as well.
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Cons
  • Viewer level license is quite limited. These users can't download data or even add filters on datasets. Something to keep in mind.
  • Directly querying the underlying data warehouse will lead to increased usage. Not a big deal on something like Redshift, but your Snowflake consumption will increase, potentially by a lot.
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  • More detailed pieces of training on where to find datasets/queries.
  • Have demo reports to do live trainings; instead of watching videos.
  • Have a key as to what all of the datasets mean.
  • Have a pop-up that analyzes the data "looks like your csat dropped this week!" etc...
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Likelihood to Renew
Because we are very satisfied with the product and would most likely renew because of the services it provides. It is a tool that you bring into your organization and let it change the way you analyze your data, present your data and share you date within the Respective teams
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Usability
It has a clean and modern interface. However, it is not completely intuitive. I think it would be better and easier to navigate with more Windows style drop down menus and/or tabls. There is a significant learning curve, but that may be due in part to the technical nature of this type of software tool.
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I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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Reliability and Availability
Yes, as long as you don’t conduct user error sigma is always up and running and waiting for you to complete your dashboards
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Performance
It depends, it loads quickly for smaller dashboards but when loading larger amounts of data it takes more time to do so
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Support Rating
They are very friendly and informative. They are quick in resolving our queries and help us understand very minute things as well. They are quick in creating feature tickets based on our custom requirements, and they would also create a bug ticket if there is any discrepancy and get that checked on time.
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Zendesk Community is extremely useful for Zendesk Explore beginners. The live support provided by Zendesk will also help a lot. If you don't know anything you can ask live support right away. However, one drawback of Zendesk Community and Support is the creation of complex reports on Zendesk Explore. Zendesk Community and Support cannot really help you much if you are trying to build a complex report as they are not a complete expert on it as well.
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Implementation Rating
Was not involved in implementation
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Alternatives Considered
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 for smaller companies like ours without dedicated BI resources on staff.
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Zendesk Explore stands out against Freshchat and Freshdesk for it's deeper analytics capabilities and seamless integration with Zendesk ecosystem. While Freshdesk offers reporting, it lacks on the same level of granular insights and customization that Zendesk Explore provides. Compared to Freshchat which focuses more on live chat and conversational analytics Zendesk Explore excels in historical trend analysis and comprehensive dashboarding. We choose Zendesk Explore for it's robust reporting and drill down capabilities.
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Scalability
It is a cloud service offering that is able to expand based on your usage
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Return on Investment
  • Monitoring health of cloud platform has allowed the company to anticipate issues before they affect customers – Sigma prompted us building a canary monitoring process that provides customer container health.
  • Customer success has used an activity report to discover customers running runaway processes that they were unaware of, creating an alert to contact the customer and prevent an embarrassing situation.
  • Customer success uses the activity report to prompt conversations regarding increases or declines in behavior that led to increasing contract limits or addressing churn concerns.
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  • Positive impact of around 5 hours/week in Dashboard building and visualization
  • 10 hours from Product to review dashboards and find potential patterns
  • Enabler to find opportunities based on agents´ occupancy rates
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