--- title: "Sigma Computing Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Sigma Computing. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Sigma Computing is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/sigma-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Data Analysis Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/data-analysis-comparison/) / [Sigma Computing](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/sigma-profile/) / Sigma Computing Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/sigma-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/sigma-profile/alternatives/) # Sigma Computing User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.3/5 - Total reviews: 83 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.9/5 - Customer support: 4.7/5 - Value for money: 4.7/5 - Functionality: 4.0/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 34 reviews (41%) - 4 stars: 37 reviews (45%) - 3 stars: 11 reviews (13%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - I like Sigma spreadsheet interface, it makes it easy for me to explore data without needing advanced technical skills, and it integrates well with cloud data warehouses. - The customer support is superb, since you can resolve roadblocks in real time. - I am very very pleased with the visualization and data manipulation abilities of Sigma Computing. ### Most mentioned cons - The way it auto sizes objects is annoying. - It creates a bit of a bottleneck for our company in that our data analysts are the only ones who seem to really be able to create reports with Sigma. - one of the largest issues I still have is to output to a format that includes the entire list of (pick a column) ## Sigma Computing customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 83 (page 1). ### Great model for rapidly evolving analytics - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joseph B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Sigma is the fastest and easiest BI tool to deploy. Iteration on the semantic layer is a cinch. Sigma is a delight to work with as a vendor. Their support is superbly responsive (during business hours - they don't have global timezone coverage yet). Sigma's pricing model is reasonable and very friendly to orgs where 80+% of the employees need live data access. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Sigma has the right model. From the user perspective, the columnar formula editing feels familiar enough, and the learning curve is friendly to anyone with spreadsheet experience. From an architect perspective, the semantic layer is lightweight and easy to adapt to ever-changing schemas. The UI covers most of the functionality you'll want, and for everything else you can fall back on writing your own code, like cron strings or SQL queries. I let Sigma do probably 95% of my querying, leaving the gnarliest 5% for me to write in their SQL runner. I do a significant amount of lightweight ELT work in Sigma as well. I like being able to write massive views that I know I'm going to have to update often, and just like Snowflake / Sigma materialize them for me. When I use Sigma to query S3 directly in the SQL runner - usually to POC some new data that hasn't made its way out to the business teams yet - this functionality is really convenient because those queries are not efficient. I just need to get new data in front of the business as quickly as possible. #### Cons Visual discovery is lacking when compared to mature tools like Tableau. Sigma needs to continue chipping away at the Tableau features around dashboarding and charting. #### Reasons for choosing Sigma Computing In descending order: 1. Strength of self-service features 2. Ease of maintenance / speed of implementation 3. Adaptability of semantic layer features 4. Cost / vendor practices #### Reasons for switching to Sigma Computing Analytical features, wanted a hosted service. --- ### Excel for your data warehouse - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Luke B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I help B2B SaaS startup founders and CMOs with their customer data platforms and reporting. The ability to create additional columns on your data containing custom formulas and the ability to sort and filter on multiple columns is great. One of my clients uses Sigma and I’ve been extremely impressed at how easy and quickly it is to build reports on multiple tables of data without writing any complex SQL. For example, sessionization of page view and event time series data is a complex SQL query which can be performed within a few minutes in Sigma without any knowledge of SQL. It’s a great tool for business users. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I’ m very impressed at Sigma’s ease of use for building reports from my clients data warehouse running on Snowflake. If you can use Excel, and understand the data in your database you can be up and running extremely quickly without having to write SQL queries or any code to describe your database. The ability to create additional columns on your data containing custom formulas and the ability to sort and filter on multiple columns is great. #### Cons As with any tool there is a learning curve to the interface, but since it’s similar to a spreadsheet, it’s quick to learn. Theres no feature yet to save custom formulas to be used across worksheets so you’ll have to copy and paste them for now. --- ### Sigma Review - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Marissa C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use sigma multiple times a day, 5 days a week and with the exception of a few internal tweaks, I am generally happy with the program. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Easy exporting into excel, formula customization, overall data customization, saving personal reports #### Cons Dragging and dropping columns in the sidebar isn't the most efficient. Also, the loading time when changing filters is so long! I find myself exporting the data dump into excel for easier and faster use. Also the constant formula adjusting to achieve the correct data - I've been using the program for about 6 months and reporting isn't 100% yet. --- ### Incredibly Useful Tool for data analysis and workflow - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sam J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The speed with which I'm able to pull together disparate data and generate some useful insights. The Dashboard functionality has been particularly useful in creating reporting our teams can use with customers and prospects. #### Cons Version management and permissions. It's hard to keep everyone looking at the same version of a document, to view data, a document is created and generically named, so our folder system is getting very full and hard to navigate. Additionally, there's no way to tell if another user will be able to see a given document without asking them to try viewing it, and there's no way for them to request view access to that document. --- ### It's growing on me! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It works! We used Chartio before and it was always timing out. Sigma is reliable and accurate. #### Cons The way it auto sizes objects is annoying. I also feel like you need more technical data analysis skills to do some common things (like a year over year comparison). --- ### Lots of functionality - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alaia S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great UI and incredible functionality! Been very happy with the product so far. #### Cons Definitely a learning curve at first -- lots to learn. --- ### Sigma - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very positive in my daily work. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Sigma allows us to have instant access to the data that are ingested into snowflake. It allows me to access all the raw data, which is what I need, rather than concise dashboard data. #### Cons Data tables can be a little difficult to learn at first, but just like anything, you can learn it over time with enough familiarity with the product. --- ### Great tool our needs - fast and easy navigation of snowflake data, quick reporting, data validation - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Capital Markets - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy and intuitive user interface. Licensing is for creators, viewer usage unlimited. Visual designer for lookups and joins. Fast learning curve for non technical users. Team is super responsive. Works very well with snowflake. #### Cons Not a tableau/power bi replacement, some features still immature --- ### Excellent alternative to pivot tables and spreadsheets - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jose F. G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. So far, we've managed to simplify our business metrics visualization and enabled querying that information to non-technical users which is a big win. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like that it's easy to create customized views of Data without having to expose unnecesary information as noise. I love the simple UI to build new reports and the smart filters. #### Cons Getting the data into Sigma can be daunting at first, but it's worth it in the end. If you're struggling I recommend to keep trying. --- ### Easy use for non-SQL experts - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. - Easy to use - Easy to learn - Great for non-SQL writter #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I work for tech companies and one of my main challenges was always not beign able to write my own queries. It was veyr useful to be able to create Joins more viasually without actually writting the script. This allowed to created my own results without depending on other. #### Cons Although this is not my feedback (since most of my experience with sigma was SUPER positive), my compnay says it's quite high (cost) for the benefit --- ### Great team and a good product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shamaas H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Market Research - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The team is very willing to grow and shape out any new improvements, they also have great turnaround. However, i love how it is a web application and easily integrates with databricks. #### Cons The functionality is somewhat funky sometimes, but they are constantly improving. --- ### A useful tool for specific problems - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Leon K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Monthly compliance reporting handoff to non-technical individuals. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros For someone who is not particularly tech savvy, Sigma is a great way to take SQL queries written by someone who is, and then be able to modify the data in real time using the sort of functionality we're all used to via Excel. Sigma also is easy to export data from, and the scheduling functionality is quite useful for recurring reports. #### Cons Because Sigma has to re-pull data every time you open a sheet, it is incredibly slow. Certain reports can take multiple minutes to load, and once any filters are applies, it has to re-pull the report, causing those minutes to be lost again. Because of this, it's often easier to just download all the data and then do the filtering/etc in excel/google sheets. --- ### It works! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jen D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use Sigma to manage inventory company wide across the country and it's easy to see where things are and when. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros easy to see all info in one place, for multiple needs #### Cons I have no complaints about anything sigma. but we also have someone who was able to walk me through how to create different reports at my workplace --- ### Good software to organize your KPIs - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Hugo M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good enough to push SIGMA as an organizational tool. We are currently active using it, and it has helped give our [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] enough visibility on where our challenges are. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the flexibility on displaying the information that makes sense the most on our organization. #### Cons There were some restrictions when showing text alongside graphs, and the toolbars didn’t allow for enough flexibility to our liking. Other than that, pretty good experience overall --- ### Sigma Daily Use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Sean A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It was easy to store data and share with partners. #### Cons The user dash is a bit basic. It would be great to see a wider variety of tools and functions. --- ### Good platform with potential - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Eric K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I like the trajectory the company is heading, and would recommend depending on fit to objective. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Sigma is a dynamic and agile system, helping us remove the use of Excel for day-to-day calculations. Their team is supportive and hands-on, which is probably the best part of the company. #### Cons Still very basic and could stand to invest further into UI. --- ### Solid BI Tool to use for Enterprise Analytics - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Wallace S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The customer support has been very nice and prompt. The product has even evolved with ideas that we have asked for. The overall product and development team is very receptive and responsive to customer needs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ease of hook up to my database. Ease of report building. Use of functions and how it can interpret dates. #### Cons Dashboard to dashboard they cannot communicate and dashboards have a little different functionality than worksheets. Sigma is still very young in age and I am sure things will change. --- ### Sigma for Usage Reports - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Caroline M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We are using sigma to pull usage data from our customer base. We rely heavily on this data in order to measure the value that the customers are getting from Yesware, identify churn risks and areas for adoption. Without Sigma, I would not be able to do my job to the best of my ability. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Access directly from the browser, quickly pulls the results I need #### Cons Sometimes it is difficult to sift through the different dashboards - this could be an internal issue #### Reasons for switching to Sigma Computing Cost --- ### Up and Coming Software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Joanne P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] have been great to work with and always ready to help us. Support is not an issue :-) #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Integration with Snowflake, Ability to load data files, Ability to analyze large data sets, Excel like functions #### Cons Dashboards are a little quirky and limited on drill down capabilities; heat maps are missing; and other features expected in a BI tool; need more training options --- ### Integration Pipeline - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: ivan s. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Best email marketing pipeline integration when it comes to metrics and conversion goals #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's very effective on the email marketing and CRM. #### Cons pricing can be lower but totally works. #### Reasons for choosing Sigma Computing better on metrics and conversion goals #### Reasons for switching to Sigma Computing Better on the metrics and goal performance --- ### Sigma Computing Review - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Lauren M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. it's been ok, better than the system i was using before but certainly not the best i have used. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros The options are nice to have. We also have been able to compute what we need from the report. #### Cons It is the slowest thing on the face of the earth #### Reasons for switching to Sigma Computing Not too sure --- ### Basic Reporting Tool - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Courtney M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like that I can pull my customer's usage with ease #### Cons I think this is mostly how our account is set up - like we haven't invested that much time to set it up but wish there were graphics pulling the data together. --- ### Very Convenient Software to Use but have found less use for it as we've matured as a company - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nathan C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I used Sigma very often when I joined Lime in October through early 2019. However, I learned how to use SQL and was more flexibly able to use Snowflake. Going to Snowflake gave me more flexibility. So I moved away from Sigma #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The software is very powerful allowing me to do things I couldn't have given my previous lack of SQL It made sharing queries in a useable way easy #### Cons Given that we constantly updated underlying queries, version control of various worksheets was hard. Also, sometimes Sigma was slow as I think the query ran everytime a manipulation happened --- ### Decent - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Shae R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros For the tools that it provides, Sigma is very useful. Whether it is better than other options remains to be seen, but it is a decent choice for data collection and analysis. #### Cons It is not the most user-friendly and takes a fair amount of time to set up reports in exactly the way you need. It could be far more flexible. --- ### Ease of pull - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Weilynn T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Hardware - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The sigma worksheets are easy to filter and sort as well as export for the purposes of my use. #### Cons Jumping head first into the deep end having little experience with Sigma made it hard. Dedicated tutorials and information as I click through worksheets in the first few uses that I can dismiss over time as I become more comfortable with using sigma might be helpful. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/sigma-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Sigma Computing Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice