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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
Easy to use once you get the hang of it
What do you like best about the product?
The filters are the best parts. I like being able to pick what cities I want to see.
What do you dislike about the product?
The loading time can take a bit long and make wait.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Use sigma to pull data about trips
Great tool for data visualization and analysis
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma allows me to perform data analysis without knowing how to write SQL queries. This is extremely freeing and provides independence knowing that I will not have to rely on data analysts. The dashboard tool allows my team to provide clear, concise and up to date data to company executives.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest downside to using Sigma is the inability to share sheets directly with my peers, and requiring that the sheets be moved to shared folders.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma allows my team to perform analysis on the data collected on the type of orders that my company has fulfilled
Excellent tool to track and analyze various metrics necessary for the business
What do you like best about the product?
The different opportunities to analyze the data in an easy to read report with the option to deep dive into the data when necessary. It has allowed me to have multiple reports in just one Sigma report, saving time and money.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not the most intuitive layout and sometimes it's a bit difficult to understand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has allowed me the opportunity to get in one report what took multiple reports to get, plus the opportunity to deep dive into the data from the same report has saved me a lot of time.
Make the Snowflake experience that much better
What do you like best about the product?
Integrates great with Snowflake! Drag and drop for non technical users and sql for power users! Ability slice and dice data in seconds rather than minutes as it would take in spreadsheets and other tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the visualization customizations are still being built out (i.e. color changes) and also how dashboards are shared isnt always the most simple. Also, not having access to someone else's dashboard to tweak hurts efficiency in crowd sourcing dashboards.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to generate reports to satisfy for compliance requirements. We are in the process of building out visibility into how we satisfy compliance in real time through a Sigma dashboard.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use Snowflake and put Sigma on top of it. You will be able to visualize data in minutes
Easy and comprehensive visualization tool
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy for any technical and non-technical user to make a visualization out of data we have.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a limit to the changes one can do on visualization graph in terms of separating certain rows withina column and so forth.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working on user activity in a region. I could essentially get a complete graph of all the data processed and not just a sample of it. Thus pretty accurate in producing results.
Sigma for Account Usage
What do you like best about the product?
Fast, easy to change filters, access via web
What do you dislike about the product?
We are experiencing some internal issues with our data, resulting in issues in sigma. That said, this is through no fault of Sigma
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
looking at usage data for our customers
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