Ratings Breakdown
User Reviews Overview
Feature Ratings
Ease-of-use
4.0 / 5
Value for Money
4.5 / 5
Customer Support
4.5 / 5
Functionality
4.0 / 5
Pros
"It's easy to use and straight forward. I'm not not only handling reports for my team but for multiple departments as well. "
"Sigma offers a great way for me to explore tables in our database and visualize those insights. Building worksheets and converting those sheets into dashboards have been very valuable for me."
"Love the simplicity of creating reoccurring reports and setting them up for automated delivery."
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"
"The filters can sometimes be confusing until you get the hang of how the software thinks. "
"Some UI elements could be improved, but once you know where to find certain things you'll pick it up."
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September 2020
Joseph from Migo
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2020
Great model for rapidly evolving analytics
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.
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
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
Analytical features, wanted a hosted service.
December 2020
Nicholas from Teachable
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: E-Learning
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2020
Incredible power and flexibility
I am obsessed with Sigma, by far my favorite BI tool I've used. It let me do calculations myself that would usually require whole cycles of data requests, and affords me much more flexibility.
Pros
* Ability to pull any data I need or want * Complexity of calculations possible while being easy to use * Seriously those grouping levels are VERY powerful
Cons
* Pivot tables are the one thing they haven't aced yet - you can make them but then to calculate cased on them you need to make a new dataset and then a new sheet. You can do pretty much all the same work with just levels though so I don't miss them too often. * I wish my default permissions could be "public" - I'm never doing anything private, so why is that the default? * Maps could use some work. I want to color-map countries, not just display dots
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
I liked it most for the complexity and flexibility of computation that I could do easily within the platform. I think a combination of that and cost went into why the Data team (the final decision maker) went with them.
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
Wanted more flexibility than we had with Looker at the time.
July 2019
martha from olivela
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Apparel & Fashion
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
5.0
July 2019
positively mixed feelings
Overall I have access to more than our previous reporting system, which is a positive. However, as self serve as it is I wish connecting tables and validating was more straightforward as a user.
Pros
I like how customizable it is. From a good basic report I can move things around to suit my needs. In addition it has many options for how to export, which is great as I use excel for more complex files & google sheets for collaborating & sharing findings.
Cons
Load times to get to a report or filter can be killer for some reports that pull from many data sources, and have large amounts of information. The permissions are a bit annoying when a report is created for me by an admin, but I am the report owner (as it was made for my department), but I can't make my own changes (w/o admin privlidges) and archive the main one. In these cases, I have to request the admin to make the changes, or make a copy and publish my own report and again contact the admin to delete or move the report so that mine is the one the team goes to first.
December 2020
Andy from Computer Software
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
December 2020
Sigma plus Snowflake is a revelation!
It has exceeded my expectations in ease of use and the productivity my team has been able to achieve.
Pros
I love the secure cloud hosting, the ease of connecting to data sources, the fact that it queries the data directly, but most I like the grid based view of data that is always at hand. Being able to view, sort, filter, and create calculations on the data in a familiar spreadsheet-like interface is genius. The “Column Details” feature allows me to quickly understand the range of values in the system.
Cons
I’ve generated several feature requests for areas we’d like to see more detail.
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
See above. Good feature set. Engaged support team. Price. Ease of onboarding and getting staff productive. Ease of connecting data sources.
May 2020
Jordan from Payload Technologies
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2020
The BI tool of the future
Love it. We previously had Looker as our BI tool and this is a HUGE improvement over that tool. Ease of use, clarity of features, flexibility of the system are all significantly improved. Couldn't be happier with our switch, I know my whole team would say the same thing.
Pros
Ease of use, especially the ability to write custom SQL queries to build datasets and reports. The visualization builder is also very user friendly and has made throwing together dashboards for internal or external use significantly easier. Saves me and my colleagues a ton of time!
Cons
There have been some features identified by the team that we need for Enterprise-level software that were missing, many have been addressed though. A major bugbear of mine is that the filters don't seem to react to each other if there are multiple on a dashboard, they filter independently of other inputs.
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
Price point, willingness to work with us on feature development, enterprise options, and ease of use of product among others.
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
Looker was very onerous to work in due to LookML language that you had to write in to delineate different objects from the database. SQL is much easier to work in and simpler to learn, so the barrier to access is much lower with Sigma.
June 2019
Tania from Wizeline
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
3.0
June 2019
Using Sigma as a Software developer
I think is a nice tool, is easy to use and it's fast. You can load your data and start analyzing it very fast, also, it's a nice tool for non technical users, but when I need more features or power I rather to use Data Studio
Pros
Is an easy to use software, I liked that it's very fast, I don't have to wait to start seeing the data
Cons
It needs more features, specially to migrate the worksheets to different environments, also it has a very limited number of functions. Sometimes the error messages are not very descriptives, so we can't know what's happening or how to solve it (we had a worksheet with an error like: "the joins are not efficient", something like that, so that message was kind of useless)
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
i suggest Google Data Studio, but they choose Sigma because it's a lot easier to use
September 2020
John from Numerated
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2020
Quick route to collaborative BI (especially for Excel users)
Sigma got my business to the point of insightful, collaborative BI in a couple of weeks, and it instantly was our most critical performance monitoring tool.
Pros
Love the dataset -> spreadsheet -> dashboard usage model Seamless integration with Snowflake
Cons
User admin/roles functionality is not as easy and consistent to administer as it should be
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
It was the easiest and most cost-effective to link to our Snowflake instance.
May 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2020
Powerful data visualization tool
As a data analyst, I've have had a lot of fun building dashboards and reports with Sigma. It's very flexible and has great usability
Pros
- You can easily add data sources, and then create datasets with the columns you need - It also lets you format the columns and process the data by using formulas, very similar to what you would do in a spreadsheet, but more streamlined - You can easily join different datasets and filter data - The new dashboards are very easy to use, with a clear interface to add widgets, filters and views - They also have quick and effective customer support
Cons
- It can be a little intimidating if you are not familiar with spreadsheets
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
Price and overall functionality. UI was also very similar to what our end users were used to (Spreadsheets)
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
It was getting hard to import, maintain and visualize the data in an Spreadsheet. As a company we decided to move all of our data to a warehouse and we selected Sigma as the visualization tool
July 2019
Michell from Zagster
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
Good price, needs more features
This has been a net positive for our org.
Pros
Sigma allows viewers for free, even viewers from outside your organization.
Cons
The dashboard feature is not fully built out - many features seem to be missing. For example, I can't put percents on a pie chart.
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
Price. Chartio charged for viewers, Sigma did not.
May 2020
Jad from Flowspace
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
May 2020
Decent features, need to cater to code-less users
Pros
the customer service chat button was nice
Cons
the way of drag and drop report building is not intuitive
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
cost
June 2019
Sam from Teikametrics
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2019
Incredibly Useful Tool for data analysis and workflow
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.
June 2019
Scott from Peaksware
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Sports
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2019
Sigma - making SQL a visual effort
It has been great. The tool fit very naturally into my companies data flow and getting _explorable_ data into stakeholders hands. We also have a more static dashboarding tool that excels at that, but is weak for exploration. Sigma also makes my job as an analyst easier by making data sets explorable using point-n-click tools vs code
Pros
Makes 'easy' queries very easy to work on and see results visually immediately. Natural way to think about grouping objects but still showing the 'row' level data is amazing and a huge selling point on getting non data people to use the sheets shared with them. Makes the mental structuring of large undertakings choppable into smaller to-do's and then joining sheets together
Cons
Expanding on my point in my pro's about chunking down large undertakings to smaller conceptual efforts per sheet.... this is not very performant. I have two projects where I create a base sheet and then have 2-6 sheets built off of it before potentially joining them back together to combine the aspects I've added. This however, results in the base sheet/query being run numerous times and is often times a time consuming query to begin with. In a code based environment this could be made more performant by using a WITH statement so it only has to execute once and can then be used multiple times Joins have to be exact matches (no date comparison) and can only be on original columns from the data source. Therefore, if a column must be switched from integer to string, you have to create a reference to the sheet before being able to join to other tables.
June 2019
Mia from Volta Charging
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Automotive
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
June 2019
Turns non-technical business users into data power users
Stellar overall experience. The Sigma team makes a massive effort to truly understand and design around customer needs and use cases, as well as to provide hands-down the best customer support and training I have ever received from a B2B vendor, period.
Pros
The ability to connect to any data number of data sources across our enterprise data warehouse to extract useful insights for my team. Without a line of coding I can report, analyze, and visualize data from our CRM, IoT data streams, 3rd party APIs, and now .csv uploads. The full access is balanced by perfect row-level security controls so I can use the same system to power data dashboards and portals for internal teams as I do for external clients.
Cons
The upside of being able to access ALL data streams leads to a downside -- it can take a long time to process and load information. However I look forward to data materialization features in the works which will eliminate this problem.
September 2020
Kyle from Upfront Ventures
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2020
Great product and better value
Pros
Compared to competitors I found Sigma to be much more straightforward with regard to database connections and dashboard building. No complex data warehousing layer, or reporting databases to instrument / sync, it simply reads from whatever db you assign and syncs in real time. While there is still a learning curve, the excel-like functions make it friendlier to business users who are not familiar with SQL to enable them to build custom reports rather than only viewing. While there isn't a "team" assigned to you for onboarding like other tools offer, I have found adhoc email and chat support to be good enough, and certainly worth the $ saved compared to other 'implementation costs' that often come with or are built in to the pricing of competitive products.
Cons
The team/user permissioning and management could be more straightforward.
July 2019
Sean from Peaksware
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
July 2019
Revolutionary Data Tool
The most significant impact of Sigma has been exposing data to so many people around the business who would otherwise have had to go through the data team bottleneck, both slowing their access to data and limiting the explorability and agility of the results. However, this can be accomplished in a controlled manner with Sigma, ensuring that stakeholders only have access to vetted sources of truth procured by the data team.
Pros
- ability to explore and inspect the source data and perform sophisticated SQL functions via GUI (group, join, aggregate, etc.) - ability to create single source of truth worksheets and build all related content off of that, instead of reinventing the wheel with every new query - unlimited reader accounts allows usage to really take off and flourish instead of hamstringing itself
Cons
- pricing still unclear as to what constitutes an author vs a reader - based on recent conversations with Sigma I'm afraid that we are going to be upcharged on items that were never made clear to us (I am still unclear) - new software still has its share of bugs
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
The dashboarding tool Mode Analytics pre-existed Sigma at Peaksware and they continue to operate side by side. However, very few new reports are being created with Mode compared to Sigma, given the greater value to the end user who wants to dig deeper.
June 2019
Shawn from Palo Alto Software
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
3.0
June 2019
Sigma shaved 5 hours off my monthly reporting
While Sigma could be great for a lot of use cases, there is one in particular that I use it for. Every month I have a summary report that I have to put together. I used to run multiple database queries, dump the data out into Excel, do some manual sorting and manipulation of the data, and then build out pivot tables so that I could see trends month over month. Sigma takes care of all of the data fetching, formatting, and styling for me (and lets me do it in a way that turns out better than I had in Excel). Doing the reports this way, now saves me about 5 hours a month off of that monthly report that I was doing, which means that I have more time for data exploration, and spend less time with data garbage collection.
Pros
I love the ability to build out extra columns in my data visually, which lets me build pivot tables that I cannot even replicate in Excel. Having built out tables once, I can reuse them again and again with fresh data without having to pull and manually re-translate everything like I used to do. Having the ability to change the type of data in a column to a new structure saves me a lot of time. Extracting JSON from my tables is a snap!
Cons
While the documentation is good, I wish there was a little better messaging around error handling. Sigma formatting is slightly different from the PostgreSQL that I am used to. I wish that there was a little more visual punch to the charts I can make.
July 2019
Luke from Logan Bussey
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
July 2019
Excel for your data warehouse
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.
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.
May 2020
Rostyslav from Juvo
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
3.0
May 2020
Good product, becoming better every quarter
I was using Sigma increasingly over the last year or so. One thing that I am most pleased with is how in the new releases I can see the issues raised by me and my coworkers addressed and solved. It is becoming more and more usable with time.
Pros
Sigma is a quick and easy way to map from a SQL query through intermediate exploration to customer-ready visualization
Cons
No way to save the complete project as code, which can be edited, version-controlled, ported, etc
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
Neither Looker nor Sigma matched our needs 100%, but Sigma was actually trying to become better and it's way better value for the money.
September 2020
Gary from Curvature
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2020
Two month review
So far, I have loved it. For a month of experience, I feel very empowered to create the reports necessary to drive the business.
Pros
Love the simplicity of creating reoccurring reports and setting them up for automated delivery.
Cons
Some of the more complex formulas can be difficult to create, however the support has helped immensely. Only other con would be some of the output formats. one of the largest issues I still have is to output to a format that includes the entire list of (pick a column)
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
Not sure....and not completely sure we are getting rid of it.
June 2020
Alec from TrainingPeaks
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2020
Sigma is a powerful tool
I have been able to expand my personal skillset with sigma and work towards better data insights.
Pros
Sigma offers a great way for me to explore tables in our database and visualize those insights. Building worksheets and converting those sheets into dashboards have been very valuable for me.
Cons
There is a learning curve here. It may take a while to get completely comfortable using the product. Once you do, the possibilities for data analytics expand.
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
Cost
May 2020
Krystyna from Roofstock
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Real Estate
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
May 2020
Highly recommended!
Excellent! I use it on the daily.
Pros
It's easy to use and straight forward. I'm not not only handling reports for my team but for multiple departments as well.
Cons
I'm still learning the depths but it's one of the best programs that I've had the opportunity to use. I would say the only thing that can be annoying, is the load speed. Sometimes my tables and dashboards time out.
May 2020
ivan from Media
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Media Production
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
May 2020
Integration Pipeline
Best email marketing pipeline integration when it comes to metrics and conversion goals
Pros
It's very effective on the email marketing and CRM.
Cons
pricing can be lower but totally works.
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
better on metrics and conversion goals
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
Better on the metrics and goal performance
July 2019
Leon from Lime
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
A useful tool for specific problems
Monthly compliance reporting handoff to non-technical individuals.
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.
September 2020
Drake from Yesware, Inc.
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2020
Simple Yet Powerful
Pros
Sigma presents data in a format users already understand... a spreadsheet. The result is a BI tool that is much less intimidating than alternatives because it doesn't force users to learn a new query language.
Cons
While the basic functionality is actually pretty easy to use, some of the features are hard to find, or not that intuitive especially around formulas or more advanced features.
Reasons for Switching to Sigma
Sigma offered a familiar interface in the way of tabular data which was more familiar to users without BI/data science experience.
August 2019
Austin from Volta Charging
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Oil & Energy
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
August 2019
Great Product
Pros
Ease of use and visibility is great! Love the data that we are able to pull and how easy the interface is to use.
Cons
There are a few features that I would love to see added. Mainly that when you are working with large data sets, it can be hard on the system and lead to slow processing time.
July 2019
Jen from Olivela
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Apparel & Fashion
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
It works!
I use Sigma to manage inventory company wide across the country and it's easy to see where things are and when.
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
September 2019
Juan from Lime
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2019
Review
Pros
Great charts, filters and databases, easy to use and learn
Cons
Layout and colors, not nice or fancy first experience
June 2019
Kevin from Delphix
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
June 2019
Great analytics product, easy to set up and use
Pros
Awesome team behind the product, always responsive and helpful. They've taught me a lot not only about their tool but also about data analytics.
Cons
Some UI elements could be improved, but once you know where to find certain things you'll pick it up.
May 2020
Jose F. from Koombea
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Internet
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2020
Excellent alternative to pivot tables and spreadsheets
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.
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.
July 2019
Sean from Lime
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
Sigma Daily Use
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.
May 2020
Samuel from TSAV
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2020
Sigma - Ease of use
Sigma is a great way to share smaller sets of data. It allows me to prepare for my clients by pulling together reports quickly in an easy format.
Pros
The software is pretty easy and intuitive, except for the UI, at first. You don't really need much training on instruction, making it easy for you to play around with until you get the idea.
Cons
Sometimes when I have put things into the CSV filter they end up in the wrong place. Also the UI is kind of weird if you've never used it, but I was able to get used to it fairly quickly.
July 2019
Yuting from Clover network inc
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
Good BI for basic data visualization
Pros
1. excel like so it's easy to pick up 2. can connect to the live database and without writing SQL query 3. can share the worksheet and schedule to send out the worksheet via email
Cons
1. it's not easy to use if you want to do a complicated report: once you aggregate multiple worksheets / refer other worksheet and apply multiple filters, it's hard to verify your result and make it in the correct format. 2. the articles to discuss the Sigma features or best practice are not comprehensive.
June 2019
Eric from Marketing and Advertising
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2019
Good platform with potential
I like the trajectory the company is heading, and would recommend depending on fit to objective.
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.
May 2020
Alaia from Roofstock
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Real Estate
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
5.0
May 2020
Lots of functionality
Pros
Great UI and incredible functionality! Been very happy with the product so far.
Cons
Definitely a learning curve at first -- lots to learn.
December 2020
Dhimitra from Teachable
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: E-Learning
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2020
Great software that's easy to use and visualizes data in an easy-to-digest way
Pros
Visualizations, charts, tables, filters for columns
Cons
Understanding how to add certain columns, the different layers within the data
May 2020
Virgil from Precision Nutrition
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2020
Sigma helps
Pros
I really like how easily Sigma connects with our snowflake databases, and facilitates analysis. We are growing our data and analytics practice, and Sigma helps me to respond to the innumerable ad hoc questions from the business, while allowing our team to advance our capabilities.
Cons
Currently, I write SQL to execute the LIKE function when filtering on field values. It would be great to have this feature available with wild cards in the filter part of the software.
July 2019
Wallace from JetClosing
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Real Estate
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
Solid BI Tool to use for Enterprise Analytics
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.
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.
May 2020
Ibrahim Gurdal from Seattle Genetics
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
5.0
May 2020
Great tool for non-IT users
Pros
Sigma makes non-IT users' access and manipulation of big data super convenient and intuitive. Works great.
Cons
I think some of the self-learning features of the tool can be improved. I had to relay on in-house experts for learning some of the features of the tool.
June 2019
Marissa from Olivela
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Retail
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
2.0
Functionality
2.0
June 2019
Sigma Review
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.
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.
July 2019
Frank from TrainingPeaks
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
Increase the visibility of your data across teams and find your own answer to data questions
I am slowly getting up to speed with Sigma but can see already that as I commit to it we will greatly increase the speed at which my team can answer questions we have regarding all of the data we are collecting. There will be a day where I will no longer have a need for Excel and Google Sheets.
Pros
Really like the ease of being able to expose our data across teams and allow each individual user to be able to answer the questions they have with the tools supplied, grouping and filters being two of the easiest and most useful for me.
Cons
Up to the this point the visualizations aka charts have been difficult for me to create, but I will admit I haven't committed to taking a deep dive into learning. Also would like to be able to annotate from within a report (eg. cell) rather than at the top level within the description.
September 2020
Kera from North American Bancard
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
3.0
September 2020
Customized Reporting
Allows independent reporting and analysis to meet recurring business needs.
Pros
Enjoy the ability to customize reports and drill down data to your specific needs. Can update and refresh data month after month without starting from scratch.
Cons
A little overwhelming for first time users and requires a lot of hands on practice to establish a comfort level. Download time increases as more data is being manipulated.
June 2019
Heather from Bitmo
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Consumer Goods
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
5.0
June 2019
Great for comprehensive reporting
Pros
As a marketer, Sigma is an incredibly valuable tool that allows my team to aggregate data to inform our decisions and scale up. I like the ability to drill app activity down to the user level in order to identify trends and specific user behaviors.
Cons
It can be very overwhelming! Not instantly intuitive but not hard to learn either. My biggest complaint is that it was often very slow.
July 2019
Caroline from Yesware
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
July 2019
Sigma for Usage Reports
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.
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
Cost
September 2020
Hugo from Wizeline
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2020
Good software to organize your KPIs
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.
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
May 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2020
Sigma
Very positive in my daily work.
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.
June 2020
Joanne from Integress
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2020
Up and Coming Software
[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] have been great to work with and always ready to help us. Support is not an issue :-)
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
September 2020
Ashley from MakeMusic, Inc.
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
2.0
Value for money
2.0
Functionality
2.0
September 2020
Unintuitive
I can easily see high-level insights, like how many users of a certain type are utilizing our software, some usage trends, etc. However, when trying to do a deep dive to understand user health aspects over time, I don't have the skill or patience to create a report to track this type of usage in Sigma.
Pros
Some of the charts are nice for visuals and I can create high-level reports.
Cons
I dislike the process in trying to to create reports. I have some development experience and I much prefer running searches with SQL - I find it much more intuitive than Sigma's interface. Due to this and my limited time, I haven't taken much time to learn Sigma and get comfortable with it, especially when I'm familiar with SQL. 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. I want a tool where I can easily create a report as well.
December 2020
yanwu from PLOS
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
December 2020
Great tool without sql requirements
We use this tool to send dashboards and reports to external clients.
Pros
This tool is very easy to set up and very intuitive for end users. Sql knowledge is not necessary, but Sigma offers the option of writing SQL statement to generate data set. The queries is sent back to cloud to execute which make Sigma allow you to quickly query vast amounts of data. The row level data security allows us to distribute the same dashboards to different clients and each client only can see their own data.
Cons
I only use this product in a short time period and have not found anything I dislike.
Reasons for Choosing Sigma
This product is very suitable for non-sql users and can be adopted very quickly.
July 2019
Blake from Zagster, Inc.
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
A vast improvement over our previous product
Using Sigma as a tool to prioritize asset service and inspection has been a game changer. Much better visualization tools than the competitor's product we previously used.
Pros
It is much faster and easier to read than our old reporting software
Cons
I would like the ability to modify the sort on the fly. Currently an admin has to adjust it, if it is needed
May 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2020
Great tool our needs - fast and easy navigation of snowflake data, quick reporting, data validation
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
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