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Better than some tools, but lots of room to grow
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to create Sigma-specific logic functions that really help with reducing the time it takes to do calculations.
In addition to that, Sigma's documentation is pretty on-point and allows me to build whatever I need to build out quickly. It seems pretty rare that I can't find the specific function I'm looking for.
In addition to that, Sigma's documentation is pretty on-point and allows me to build whatever I need to build out quickly. It seems pretty rare that I can't find the specific function I'm looking for.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is hard to create on-off data reports. It is pretty often that I get a request as a question that has an answer I don't necessarily need to continue tracking. In this sense, the only way I've noticed that I can do this is to create a new workbook and the platform forces me to save it. This causes my documents section to get pretty messy. Ideally I would love for end-users to be involved in being able to create their own data models and worksheets, however the platform is too complicated for regular end-users to be able to empower themselves leading to a data analyst needing to work on any given request.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma is allowing me to create the data that I need and report it out to the rest of the team. We've had a hard time consolidating our data together and Sigma allows me to do that.
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.
Sigma Review
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of creating visualizations, faster query response for short queries
What do you dislike about the product?
Not good for large queries that may require more execution tile, Auditing capability for Administration, combining data from different databases not possible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
reporting needs, reducing snowflake costs as per credit usage
review
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.
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