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It has a simple UI.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy UI, and we can quickly get insights into different complex datasets without writing code.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such. But while loading a dataset from the internet it is somewhat slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma is solving an essential thing for big businesses, like getting insights with just drag and drop without being technical.
Great tool, few limitations
What do you like best about the product?
Next to no learning curve with prior Excel experience vs Tableau
What do you dislike about the product?
Only web-based, can't use offline. Can get pretty slow if many calculated fields are added to a table.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to answer questions using pivot tables. Data visualization also useful, but being able to pivot large datasets is great
Sigma is Best
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma is easy to use. Easy to access and very easy to understand, unlike its other competitors. It has some good features and some best ones. Some inbuilt formulas are best to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
A few Downsides I observed are the errors aren't mentioned properly, we have to google them. It is slow sometimes and warehouse-dependent. But still, it is evolving and has been getting good updates and new features with each version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Exception Aggregation is one thing Sigma is solving. It is one of the main things involved in our project. It benefits me by making my work simpler and getting users' approval.
Good data visualization w/o coding
What do you like best about the product?
The workbook functionality is a big help. Most end users will not need prior coding knowledge to perform data analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still a few bugs and UX issues with the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating reports as well as exploring and editing dashboards without coding experience.
Perfect for the Price
What do you like best about the product?
It's constantly innovating to add new features. The direct access to engineers and easy way to watch tickets is also very convenient.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's behind on a lot of things that BI has already accomplished. A lot of things have to have work arounds because the sql supported in the actual interface is spotty.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's solving our need for a UI way of presenting our data without costing a lot. We are more productive because we're able to drill into data now, instead of constantly running reports.
Thumbs Up
What do you like best about the product?
I like that sigma is easy to follow and pick up. The functionalities work and I like how my SQL queries are saved and I can edit and add filters to any visualizations. I like that even though I had never used sigma in the past I was able to learn how to use it quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the downsides of sigma are the downtimes/ lag issues. Occasionally my dashboards will crash or take a while to load. Also, if I have noticed that entering functions when building specific value columns or pivot table calculations can get tricky. For instance, when I replace columns in a query with the same column name they do not always populate over to my calculations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma solves a lot. For instance, because of Sigma, I can display data in a readable and understandable format to my stakeholders. It benefits me because I can create different types of visualizations and functions to make the data digestible for the end-user. Simplifying large queries into easy-to-read data points is the best part of sigma.
I like the way content is presented in Sigma, but I dont have experience creating it.
What do you like best about the product?
ability to create tables and charts and to integrate multiple non-departmental variables into a single department's views.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish building in Sigma was more intuitive for a less experienced user. I've used Looker in the past which I eventually picked up because it was more user-friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma creates easy ways for our teams to analyze our client base, and allows us to think creatively and problem solve with reliable data.
Combines the best of BI and data notebooks
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma does a great job handling analytics up and down the pipeline. As an architect, I can expose very raw (even semistructured) pipeline data and crowd-source the semantics. Sigma has really elegant ways of treating semistructured data in a first-class, business-user-friendly data type, as well as an intuitive foreign key "data type" that makes rough and / or normalized data easy to traverse for non-data professionals.
From there, we can make an *educated* decision on what to leave as an ad hoc investigation and what to invest in and mature into a proper BI schema.
From there, we can make an *educated* decision on what to leave as an ad hoc investigation and what to invest in and mature into a proper BI schema.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some basic visual discovery features that Sigma should lift from Tableau - they've had decades to perfect this game. I think Tableau is a mess today, but some of the core data discovery features are still tough to beat. Sigma has closed the gap over the past couple years, but there's a bit farther to go.
Another gap I'd like to see closed is with Sheets / Excel. Supporting an additional data source type which is simply an empty spreadsheet would bring things like targets / projections / goals / what-if parameters / mappings under the data team jurisdiction, while still enabling ownership of the numbers themselves by the business teams. Quarterly targets are volatile, sales territory mappings are volatile, what-if scenarios are volatile ... we need to enable the domain experts to own and maintain these numbers, while meeting basic data platform governance requirements of governance, version control and centralization. No BI tool has cracked this feature, but Sigma seems closest.
Finally, the Dataset feature needs to be brought into the upgraded UX of the workbook.
Another gap I'd like to see closed is with Sheets / Excel. Supporting an additional data source type which is simply an empty spreadsheet would bring things like targets / projections / goals / what-if parameters / mappings under the data team jurisdiction, while still enabling ownership of the numbers themselves by the business teams. Quarterly targets are volatile, sales territory mappings are volatile, what-if scenarios are volatile ... we need to enable the domain experts to own and maintain these numbers, while meeting basic data platform governance requirements of governance, version control and centralization. No BI tool has cracked this feature, but Sigma seems closest.
Finally, the Dataset feature needs to be brought into the upgraded UX of the workbook.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The unique service that Sigma provides is that domain experts without deep data experience can traverse the data and participate in the modeling, soup to nuts. Learning Sigma is fast and easy because it mimics spreadsheet formulas.
Sigma makes data exploration easy with features including json extracts and beautiful reports!
What do you like best about the product?
Json extracts
Easy to use interface
Visuals
Team member flexibility
fast and friendly support
Easy to use interface
Visuals
Team member flexibility
fast and friendly support
What do you dislike about the product?
ux bugs still occur
some weird functionality occurs
some weird functionality occurs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Empowering all team members with the truth!
I like this soft. But it still need improve.
What do you like best about the product?
There are a lot of necessary options which make a manager's life easier. Information in the dashboard is well visible and understandable. The application doesn`t need a high-speed internet connection.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some options are "hidden" deep enough in settings and it`s difficult to find them or figure out where to find them. The menu for access is not enough graduated, for example, why does the person who needs to make a refreshable dashboard need Administrator access?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Access to the database is easy and fast, It gives me the opportunity to create and use a dashboard for getting information for myself and make presentations and explanations for our employees.
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