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What do you like best about the product?
Best for data extraction and trasformation
What do you dislike about the product?
but for large data it is taking time to load
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma is leading tool in data engineering and solving many problem related to data
The tool's performance was smoother than the others.
What do you like best about the product?
The tool was very user-friendly, and the performance was way better compared to its competitors. The tool was faster, more durable and supported most of the functionalities needed by me as the user.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool offered a variety of functionalities, however, it would be a great addition if the tool starts supporting more sources and provides in-built functionalities such as data type formatting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's easier to debug the operations as sigma provides detailed descriptions of the errors and supports data types such as Geography/geometry which is rare in tools.
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.
Limited visualization options
What do you like best about the product?
The seamless integration with snowflake, the ability to have role-level security matching our snowflake role schemas, and the ability to share workbooks and visualizations with the entire organization or selected groups.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited visualization options, no geographical visualizations, no sankey diagrams. No way to create visualizations programmatically, and version history is limited. Would be great to have an easier way to share our workbooks with clients as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma helps share our data with people in our organizations who would otherwise not like to engage with our relational databases directly in snowflake, and create some high-level summary workbooks with basic visualizations of indicators to share across the team.
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.
Love using sigma to deep dive data for my site
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can find all relevant information on sigma. It loads pretty quickly. I use multiple sigmas an hour.
What do you dislike about the product?
When the sigma times out or does not load the query. The fact that a version needs to be update frequently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deep dive into my KPIs and helping me understand my business on a higher level
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
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