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Sigma Overview

What is Sigma?

Sigma is an award-winning modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform purpose-built for the cloud. With Sigma, anyone can use the spreadsheet functions and formulas they already know to explore live data at cloud scale, down to the lowest grain of detail. Our familiar spreadsheet-like interface delivers the full power of SQL into the hands of any user while keeping data fresh and secure within cloud data warehouses. Data-first companies use Sigma to empower their employees, customers, and partners to break free from the confines of the dashboard and explore data for themselves to make better, faster decisions. Our software was built to capitalize on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly – no coding required.

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Give business teams the freedom to analyze cloud data in real time without limits. Sigma provides the full power of SQL without coding, cloud flexibility, and an intuitive spreadsheet interface.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Traditional analytics & BI tools work well when data teams can predict business requirements ahead of time and the data is not of massive scale. Yet, when those things change, traditional tools begin to struggle. That’s where Sigma comes in. Sigma was purpose-built with fresh code for the cloud. Our platform connects directly to cloud data warehouses and does not remove any data, allowing your data and business teams to leverage the scale of all available data without summarizing or creating extracts. Unlike traditional BI tools, Sigma does not require data to be heavily modeled to support unanticipated questions. Instead, end users can freely explore and analyze live, governed datasets within a cloud data warehouse using our intuitive spreadsheet-like interface.


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2014
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San Francisco, California
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661 employees on LinkedIn®
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Sigma is not another Business Intelligence tool. Sigma is the only Cloud Analytics solution with a spreadsheet-like interface that enables anyone to explore data at cloud scale and speed. Discover what happened, why it happened, and what will happen.


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5.0 out of 5
"Great software for understanding key metrics"
Aeshtetically sigma is nice to use, and functions well.
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Niklaus W.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Sigma review - Work perspective"
Consolidation of data all in one page, easily access all relevant and necessary data required for day to day operation. Accurate temperatures do...
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Jeremy K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great place for information"
I can compare numbers and KPI from across many departments
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Sigma Media

Sigma Demo - Sigma Workbooks
Give everyone direct, governed access to live data at cloud data warehouse scale.
Sigma Demo - Pivot Tables
Pivot tables at true cloud scale without the rigidity or constraint of a cube.
Sigma Demo - Sigma Datasets
Create granular datasets without scale limitations.
Sigma Demo - User-Defined Insights
Anyone can add custom calculations to tables and visualizations – no SQL skills necessary.
Sigma Demo - Pivot Tables
Use spreadsheet formulas to add calculated fields to pivot tables without coding.
Sigma Demo - Building a Sigma Workbook
No need to ever summarize your underlying data, no matter the size.
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Avi S.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

The functinality that is very similar to Excel is a game changes and incredibly user friendly and has allowed me to do so much more than other BI tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

nothing that i can think of now but will let you know if it comes up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

saving hundreds of manual hours of work by automating a ton of various processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

Ease of use, implementation, customer support, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

Would like to have more control on the UI, there are too much of white spaces around, no good borders as the 'divider' come with spaces as well. Would like to have panels which could be hidden and on click so we can effectively use spaces Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Make data for accessible to all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sigma?

The design of Sigma is very easy to navigate and quick to learn how to make charts. The support team is the best for all business vendors we have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

Can have more tutorials and guides on the website to help us learn about the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collaborative data visualization. Easy to manage workspace and sharing dashboards across the company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jacqueline Wang of Sigma

Hi Claire, thank you for your review!

We have been doubling on efforts to create more tutorials and guides like you asked to make it easy for anyone to learn Sigma. Here are some resources you can explore:

Maximize your investment in Sigma with easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorials: https://quickstarts.sigmacomputing.com/

Read Sigma’s guides to learn more about BI, sales dashboards, data visualizations: https://www.sigmacomputing.com/resources/learn

Sigma's help desk with a wealth of resources: https://help.sigmacomputing.com/hc/en-us

Feel free to reach out to our support team if you ever need help!

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Verified User in Retail
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

I like how easy it is to export files as google sheets for easier quicker edits and access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

How long data takes to load and how many different sigmas there are for the same concept Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making decisions and answering questions via sigma and demonstrating that to my team on a daily basis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Farheen T.
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Data Analyst
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

How user friendly the app is, and the customer support it provides which is different that any other BI tool in the market. This tool is better than Tableau which is not that user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

Better GEO mapping and some charts are not easily editable. Some version control and collaboration issues are there which could be preventable if version history is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automation of report and easily sharable to the peers for visibility definety helps and makes the more productive . Yes. IT has help us track the stuff on a timely manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

Ease of use but still maintains complex visualization functionality. Also their support team is next level good. Always on hand to answer any question that I have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

Pivot tables can be a bit slow when not using materialized queries. Would also like to see more visualization tools built into the platform. For example, having combo visualization for multiple groupings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma solves our need for a BI and Data Visualization tool. Sigma dashboards allow anyone in the company to understand how the company is performing. As well as answer complex queries, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

The most helpful things about Sigma is that it works for all different levels of experience and people with more or less SQL/programming epxerience can still use Sigma. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

Sometimes I feel a bit limited by the tools that Sigma provides unfortunately which can feel frustrated to have to find workarounds to do certain things but overall it's not bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma is helping me solve problems with visualizing data and showing the data in innovative and meaningful ways to extract certain insights. It can also handle a lot of complicated processes which is really great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jacqueline Wang of Sigma

Hi there. Thank you for your review!

This is Jacqueline, Customer Marketing Manager at Sigma. Our product team at Sigma would like to learn more about these frustrations and understand how we can make our product better. What are some of the workarounds you are using? How can we improve the tool to make things easier for you?

Verified User in Commercial Real Estate
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

Sigma is like Excel on steroids! Very powerful, dynamic, saves me time, and I'm able to convey data driven insights directly to my customers. No code is needed to find value in Sigma. Sigma also has a very robust customer support team to answer questions whenever you need help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

The one immediate challenge I've found is for a ConvertTimeZone function, it is a static function. That said, the support agent linked me to an existing ticket and they are working on a solution in the tool for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma takes all of our data, allows me to add helper fields, and then provides me automated analytics and reporting functionality that I can use to better run our operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Sigma?

It's extremely easy for someone familiar with Excel to pick up and use. No need to be blocked by your data analytics resources or gated by tools that require use of SQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

The charts and vizualizations are sometimes slow and take a while to materialize. It may be annoying for end users if you don't optimize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma is helping me solve the problem of getting access to data for general business users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eileen N.
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Account Management
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What do you like best about Sigma?

I like the ease of access. I wish there were more user-level training and modules available for boots-on-the-ground employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

I need certain parts of multiple sheets to be reincorporated into one workbook. There isn't an easy way that I know of to do this for the end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previous to Sigma, we had difficulty accessing daily data updates. Sigma has improved upon the time suck that was our last data analytics resource. However, I am excited to see what else Sigma can do for us, especially given I am in account management and want to be able to forecast better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.