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Rating: 9.1 out of 10
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9.1 out of 10

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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.

Reviews

170 Reviews

Robust easy to get started - recommended.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Sigma for internal reporting on client traffic and behavior, enabling us to understand the differences among various sectors and demographics. It is also used in an embedded context for client-facing reports on similar metrics.

Pros

  • Data connections.
  • High quality visualizations.
  • Good documentation.

Cons

  • PDF exports do not format well.
  • Conditional display of visualizations or content blocks.
  • Data sets are difficult to work with.

Likelihood to Recommend

We were able to set up client-facing embedded reports with ease and security. The interface is not difficult to learn, although we may not be aware of or lack the necessary expertise to utilize more advanced features that would likely benefit us.

Sigma Computing Saves the Day

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Sigma Computing to discover, interpret and analyze business trends, that then influence where efforts are directed in expanding business.

Pros

  • Very easy to set up re-occurring reporting on your schedule- for yourself or your team
  • Simple to follow instructions and guidelines on setting up new boards
  • Powerful data analysis that influences every facet of business

Cons

  • Utilization of AI to help sales teams strengthen their story
  • More free trainings for Sales and account management teams on boards and board management
  • Suggestions when building boards so teams don't lose the thread of data- help make the interpretation of data easy to digest

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma Computing is easy for your data team to manage, provide access to, and compartmentalize access and information sharing when needed. It provides quick and easy snap shots to share with your Board, financiers, and/or customers allowing you to spend time on pitching/fixing/bettering your product.

Vetted Review
Sigma Computing
4 years of experience

Sigma Computing A Robust BI and Data Integration Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Vetted Review
Sigma Computing
2 years of experience

An awesome and easy to learn analytical tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Vetted Review
Sigma Computing
2 years of experience

Data Democratization with Sigma Computing

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Great data visualization tool without having to be a data expert! Combines the best parts of Excel and Power Bi in one.

Pros

  • Customer Service
  • Cloud Computing
  • Business Analytics

Cons

  • More visual options for dashboarding. Decomposition charts
  • Enhanced data modeling
  • Prioritize databricks CDW features

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma Computing is the perfect tool for those looking for excel / spreadsheet user interface that comes with all the power of a cloud data warehouse. It provides end users with a low code environment to build and access all the rich data our data engineering team has created without needing to know complex data wrangling techniques.

Vetted Review
Sigma Computing
2 years of experience

Sigma Computing - The best Analytical tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Vetted Review
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience

Great tool with some weird kinks

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm using Sigma Computing primarily to capture and track all KPIs related to customer service. In addition to that, our organization is using Sigma to track all KPIs across multiple different systems. Sigma allows our business users to be able to create, view, and manipulate data how they feel like it is needed.

Pros

  • Ability for a data analyst to upload a specific CSV to join on.
  • Scheduling reports over slack/email/etc
  • Create hidden tabs/charts to use as an intermediary table
  • Create charts based off of any table, csv, other table, etc.

Cons

  • Unable to search for a specific chart in a workbook
  • No clear area to test or put one-off questions
  • Search overall is really hard to use

Likelihood to Recommend

As long as you have data experience, Sigma Computing is a pretty straight forward tool. The ability to embed charts, workbooks, and different assets publicly is very useful especially when needing to send something over to a user. This is a better and cleaner way than to just send over a screenshot of a chart.

Sigma Computing is hard to use however when you are building so many different charts and workbooks, it is impossible to search for a chart that exists inside a workbook. In addition to that, when needing to answer a one-off question, the only option to create is to create a workbook or a new dataset. This means that the best way to test or find a one-off question is to create a workbook called "sandbox", or something temporarily which is not so clean.

Sigma Recommended.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Vetted Review
Sigma Computing
2 years of experience

Sigma Rolling Out.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sigma all day everyday to achieve our production goals and monitor current progress at just a glance. It aids us in planning and addressing issues that we may confront through out the day.

Pros

  • Live data.
  • Summarization of critical data.
  • Organization of data.

Cons

  • Improve the delay of data on the live reports.
  • More customization with the reports.
  • The ability to have more than one report open at once.
  • The ability to have more tab open in a report.

Likelihood to Recommend

Its a great tool to have. The ability to come in the morning and by using the report being able see how the day will go. Seeing the goal and the current inventory and also to be able to adjust as the day goes on. With the report updates the report as changes to the inventory happen live or if any issues arise. being able to see that live and being to react quickly.

Vetted Review

My Sigma Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used for KPI dashboards, monthly/quarterly financial reporting, tracking data sets, and manipulating data. I have used Sigma to make dashboards interactive, creating input tables for different teams to adjust scenarios on the fly. I have also created many datasets in the background to improve the calculation and loading speeds of common Excel dashboards.

Pros

  • Grouped aggregations
  • Input tables
  • Controlling level of access
  • ETL processes

Cons

  • Center justification of data
  • Hiding input tables based on permissions
  • Sending email updates when tickets are complete

Likelihood to Recommend

Sigma is well suited in table creation and showing aggregations at different levels. I enjoy using it to create clean tables that automatically update based on datasets/snowflake tables that they are connected to. It is less appropriate for external reporting because you are not able to adjust column colors and some other nuances in formatting in its current state.

Vetted Review
Sigma Computing
1 year of experience