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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.
Sigma provides an easy way to get started on your reporting needs
What do you like best about the product?
- Connecting to snowflake directly
- ability to write reports using SQL
- fairly intuitive and easy to use
- ability to write reports using SQL
- fairly intuitive and easy to use
What do you dislike about the product?
- performance can be slow at times, can be smarter at how data is fetched
- you need to know sql to be able to leverage it easily, the non-technical option to create reports wasn't very intuitive
- can have more report types
- you need to know sql to be able to leverage it easily, the non-technical option to create reports wasn't very intuitive
- can have more report types
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- sigma allows us to view all our data consolidated from different sources in one area
- this allows us to get more value from our data and helps us make better business decisions
- this allows us to get more value from our data and helps us make better business decisions
Sigma Review
What do you like best about the product?
Very powerful analytics tool and it is our main source of info, analysis and decision-making on FAST channels. It gets upgraded very quickly and the support is amazing,
What do you dislike about the product?
The graphs can be improved and allow users to choose bars, charts or visualise raw data and tables better directly on the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing us almost in real-time to see the performance of our channel, content, ad deliveries and many other crucial and detailed information which helps with strategies and decision making.
Useful software for quick dashboarding
What do you like best about the product?
It's relatively fast, comprehensive and I like the element design
What do you dislike about the product?
Lacks formatting capabilities, especially in the mapping visualizations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Build quick dashboards
Great Data Visualization Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma is relatively easy to learn to use if you have used other data viz tools. In some ways, it is simpler because it functions like a spreadsheet and you can use spreadsheet functions. This makes it simple for people who are not as savvy in using sql functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
There was a learning curve, though not too steep. There are some functions that you have to kind of force by using work-arounds. You cannot use 'or' with filters and other similar issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing us to create data visualizations and share them at different accessibility levels with other teams.
Easy connections to database and great customer service
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma makes it easy to connect to your database and start creating charts quickly. While the tool is on the newer side, I love the how easy it is to get help from customer service as well as the transparency about feature requests. It is also awesome that viewer licenses are free.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a little bit of a learning curve because the setup is different than a tableau like BI tool, but after you get through the learning curve, the tool can pretty much do most things that the other tools can.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to get everyone at the company on because the viewer licenses are free. Doesn't require any data engineering work, as long as you know sql you are good to go.
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