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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®
Description

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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Verified User in Automotive
UA
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

I like that Sigma is able to aggregate all of the data I need in one dashboard/report. It's fairly easy to use as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

It takes forever to load reports and that is very frustrating. It makes it almost a useless service for me. Also, the dashboards aren't very pretty. Geckoboard has a much nicer design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sigma:

I would look at all of your options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am experience problems with load time. It takes forever to load reports and they sometimes time out. Benefits are that the information is useful and digestable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Karleen T.
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Senior Quality Control Specialist
Real Estate
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

Easy to use, configure and personalize. Also, a great support staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

I can't think of anything functionally but better accessibility to shared docs would be nice. I guess I can just put them under favorites? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Tracking efficiency and timing, we're able to target and design optimal operational procedures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

easy to get the sense of the table and do the simple join. The visualization it's easier and intuitive and more powerful than excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

People without SQL concept tend to find it difficult to use Sigma. For those complicated join or want to make it into certain format, it's hard to use Sigma than just write SQL query... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sigma:

BI tool without writing SQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Daily transactional / revenue / usage report and share with internal stakeholders via Schedule (email) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

Sigma as a company is very easy to work with and responsive to our needs/concerns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

Sigma is not at enterprise-level yet, missing some of the key (basic) functionalities and intuitions needed for cross-functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sigma:

Be specific on your needs and verify with their roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We've been able to streamline some of the basic calculations and functions that formerly lived within Excel. However, because of the lack of inputting options, this is well short of full development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddique C.
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Program Manager, Information Security
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

The ability to create dashboards that anyone can read easily! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

It is difficult in the beginning and requires a bit of practice! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have used Sigma to analyze internal security data to help increase our security posture! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Electronics
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

Sigma's user interface is very intuitive, making it simple for someone with no SQL experience to pull data. The filters are great and the ability to download as csv/excel/etc is excellent too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

It's hard to figure out how to perform some basic functions. For example, I've been unable to save specific filters. My colleague is also unable to figure out how to download as Excel: I have the option but can't find where the button is in her interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am using Sigma to download data on a weekly basis for a report that I put together. This helps me save time jiggering with SQL in Snowflake instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It make querying data simple and aesthetically pleasing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

The dashboarding need to be improved. We also use Looker and in many ways looker does a better job of visualization but it's much more difficult to work with.

My other complaints have more to do with SQL. I don't like using SQL for data manipulation because it's too restrictive. Unless Sigma later integrates spark, there is nothing Sigma can do about this issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We mostly use sigma to communicate internally. For more complete/complex work we still use Jupyter notebooks and Spark. But I mostly use it to communicate ideas via dashboards that I show internally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

Sigma allows me to perform data analysis without knowing how to write SQL queries. This is extremely freeing and provides independence knowing that I will not have to rely on data analysts. The dashboard tool allows my team to provide clear, concise and up to date data to company executives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

The biggest downside to using Sigma is the inability to share sheets directly with my peers, and requiring that the sheets be moved to shared folders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sigma allows my team to perform analysis on the data collected on the type of orders that my company has fulfilled Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Recreational Facilities and Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

Charts are much easier to read, download, and print than our previous program. Appreciate the simplicity of the dashboard display and how accessible the information is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

Better built-in sorting features would make it more useful for our application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Very helpful in keeping my daily tasks on track. It's great to have the information that I need in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Online Media
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sigma?

How easy it is to pull data and build a visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sigma?

The lack of features to customize visualization and format tables Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sigma:

Be aware that sigma has basic visualization features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Custom reportings for clients in a scalable way. Time savings so I don't have to pull data and import it into a visualization tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.