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Like excel on top of a database
What do you like best about the product?
Making Sigma available to our internal customers has cut down tremendously on simple requests that would previously have been the job of our analytics team. By making our most commonly asked for data available across departments, a much greater portion of the requests our analytics team receives require deeper exploration and thinking.
What do you dislike about the product?
Glitches and issues are not infrequent. Sigma is still new to the game so I can forgive them and only with the global Snowflake outage did we have problems that prevented usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Sigma primarily for daily and one-off reporting. Most of our users take one or two sources and combine them, filter down and export. We are also building out more and more visualizations with Sigma dashboarding that we previously had to create in Salesforce. The connection from Snowflake to Sigma makes it easy to create a new dataset for reporting or visualization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Onboarding with Sigma has been one of the best decisions our team made. The Sigma team is generally great to work with, quickly answers questions and is great about setting up organization-specific training. We are now pushing 80 users, 60 of them active and it has scaled very well too.
Powerful, Flexible BI Tool
What do you like best about the product?
There's a lot of flexibility. It gives end-users the ability to tap into a database, pull in a CSV for ad-hoc analysis, etc. There are also plenty of training materials and an active support team there to help when necessary.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some quirks around aggregation levels, filtering, etc. that cause it to have a bit of a steeper learning curve. Overall the experience has improved significantly in the last 1-2 years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It significantly improves the amount of time we can update and deliver a standardized report. It also gives us the flexibility to provide custom reporting on a client-by-client basis if the standardized report isn't sufficient.
Amazing BI tool for Data Analysts
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma's data exploration tool is amazing for non-SQL users. Users can quickly join and filter datasets with an Excel-style interface. This process is so fast and smooth that even SQL users often use it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Visualizations capabilities are limited compared to other BI tools. Occasinally I find myself exporting data to visualise in another tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma is our BI tool. We are using Sigma to create tables, dashboards, and reports to share data throughout our organization (and in some cases with our partners). We also use Sigma to quickly perform adhoc analyses, which can be done by users who have no background in SQL.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Amazing tool for early stage companies. Extremely easy to use and set up. Great customer support. Visualizations are functional but do not have advanced options other BI tools have.
Reviewing G2 8/2/21
What do you like best about the product?
Dynamic platform with lots of versatility
What do you dislike about the product?
Can at times be very slow in churning through a large database.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Pulling various data from database for clients. Create tables and representations for that data.
Valuable Data Tool
What do you like best about the product?
We use Sigma in our organization to gather usage data for our customer base. It is easy to use for this purpose and easy to export the data into a CSV/Excel file so that our customers can utilize the data in a usable format.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes we face long load times or lagging when trying to pull a report. This may be because our data set is large, but it can be frustrating
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Sigma to pull usage data for the most part. We also use it to pull data on user profiles (what version of the tool they're using, what version of Windows are they running, etc.) It has been very helpful for us to have access to this data outside of our own environment, via a web browser, especially while remote. It has also drastically reduced overhead and internal Engineering efforts.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We have had a positive experience and a lot of this is due to the excellent Support team. Take advantage of that!
My experience with Sigma
What do you like best about the product?
The focus feature really helps to concentrate when its time to work
What do you dislike about the product?
Possibly to have a mobile app which can be downloaded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to keep up with my work, especially because it has certain reminders.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just go for it
Quick queries w/o the need for SQL knowledge; fantastic support staff.
What do you like best about the product?
- It increases the number of employees that can effectively use out company's data. Knowledge of querying languages isn't necessary, but I love that Sigma still offers the option of using SQL (particularly for those that are more familiar with them and/or highly complex queries).
- Sigma allows you to quickly query vast amounts of data. This cloud-based solution integrates seamlessly with our Snowflake aggregator.
- Option to export Google Sheets, .csv, and .xlsx
- Sigma allows you to quickly query vast amounts of data. This cloud-based solution integrates seamlessly with our Snowflake aggregator.
- Option to export Google Sheets, .csv, and .xlsx
What do you dislike about the product?
- When adding values to include/exclude in a filter, it's not obviously that clicking away from the field entry will initiate the application of the filter.
- Unable (to my knowledge) to eliminate rows of data with duplicate entries.
- The UI could use a color-scheme change to differentiate visuals. For example, a user's tables/folders cannot be organized (alphanumeric ordering is a workaround), nor can they be color coded for easy navigation. Most of the UI is gray or various shades of blue.
- There is a 150k row limit on exports.
- Unable (to my knowledge) to eliminate rows of data with duplicate entries.
- The UI could use a color-scheme change to differentiate visuals. For example, a user's tables/folders cannot be organized (alphanumeric ordering is a workaround), nor can they be color coded for easy navigation. Most of the UI is gray or various shades of blue.
- There is a 150k row limit on exports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As noted above, Sigma greatly increased the population of colleagues that could effectively access and query data--I'd estimate that it's grown our 'proficient' data consumers by 30-40% company-wide. Non-data pros now have the ability to peruse and export data as they please.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sigma is well suited for companies/business units that are >20-30 people--those that require broad access to data company-wide will see the most immediate benefit. Sigma doesn't make too much sense for companies with a very limited population of data users, or if all data/analysis is routed directly through one small team (e.g., a 1-3 person team that specializes in-/is solely dedicated to data).
Those that have already implemented Snowflake have a large advantage for roll-out, but Snowflake is not a necessity.
Those that have already implemented Snowflake have a large advantage for roll-out, but Snowflake is not a necessity.
A fantastic analytics tool, but difficult to navigate UI.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to quickly and easily apply filters and export to excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
The ramp to being proficient with Sigma is a fairly long road. I'm an occasional user and I often find my self hunting and pecking for various tools/icons/buttons in the UI--the limited color scheme exacerbates this issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest issues I'm resolving/benefits are:
1) my lack of SQL proficiency.
2) the ability to easily join tables from differing databases.
1) my lack of SQL proficiency.
2) the ability to easily join tables from differing databases.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
To really reap the benefits of Sigma, you need full buy-in from your data/analytics team.
Multiple Function Solution for My Business
What do you like best about the product?
The easy to read/understand and create Excel functionality. Connecting to our warehouse is very seamless, and a lot of the functionality is intuitive and requires little training.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not all advanced excel functionality is there - things like forecasting, sorting capabilities, etc. The visualization side of the product still has some work to do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed the ability to combine large sets of data together to create simple visualizations. Sigma has cut our loading speeds from Tableau by over 50%. Additionally we've found that sometimes our users need simpler answers than a visualization might require - the pivot like functionality has been a life saver. Being able to filter or adjust datasets while in the worksheet has provided exploratory and functional analyses that would've normally taken much longer or wouldn't have been able to be done given the size of our data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Find a use case that requires some level of automation and is currently a pivot table or relatively simple graph. Build it in a POC, and you'll be able to determine it's strengths versus your current product or software immediately.
good information from sigma!!
What do you like best about the product?
daily updates for sellers is great for business
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes its not as accurate as id like
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
lets me see in real time where my sellers are going with goals
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