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Easy to use and build, Some time consuming aspects but updates keep rolling out
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use - as long as you have a team to organize the underlying tables, the tool is then very easy for users that may not have advanced SQL knowledge to then go in and build custom reporting and perform data analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
Scalability - when leveraging Sigma for customer reporting, there was not a way to dynamically schedule reports. What I mean by this is that we would send the same report to multiple customers but would drop in a unique ID so that the report would filter for only their data. This required us to create copies of the report and then schedule when it would be ideal to be able to apply the filter when scheduling the report.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Custom data analysis
Client facing reporting
Client facing reporting
Widely positive with a mix of small issues.
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma covers a large range of reporting which is simplified and intuitive once you have the data. It is relatively easy to jump into Sigma with little to no working knowledge and still produce something worthwhile. We like the ease of edit and the ability to have multiple workers change a single workbook or design without too much hassle. Intricate charts and designs are easy to produce and equally easy to modify. We can create new workbooks very quickly once the data is set up properly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Data manipulation within Sigma is not as easy for more complex issues. Some simple things such as column merging, mathematical formulas of data, and slicing are more time-consuming than needed which makes big workbooks for large issues time-consuming to initially set up. For workers who are not as savvy with SQL and other programming languages, this is particularly difficult as a lot of the data needs to be edited and queried first or else there won't be enough resources in Sigma itself for them to deal with the data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma solves the issues of quick reporting on an array of issues. Once the data is formatted many different teams can easily create workbooks and charts that provide plenty of insight into any issues they might be researching. The flexibility of quick reporting and ease-of-use is the big benefit of using Sigma over other competitors.
Sigma is a simple-to-use dashboard creation tool that can be used by business users of all levels
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to create dashboards & analysis
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not the most intuitive for power users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility with the business for stakeholders. Using creative methods to automate reports and present data in a way that has not been seen before for stakeholders in the company
All of your data in one place
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma's ability to present your data in a simple format while giving the opportunity to drill down on your categories.
What do you dislike about the product?
User Experience is a bit harsh when drilling down, filtering data isn't easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma solves our analytics, helping us to keep our data organized and easy to see
It has become much easier to see our sales figures, costs and efficiency in one place.
It has become much easier to see our sales figures, costs and efficiency in one place.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sigma is clean and fairly user friendly. The support from Sigma is unparalleled.
Great Tool and so easy use
What do you like best about the product?
It's very user-friendly and you don't need to know SQL etc, to build complex reports and gain great insights.
What do you dislike about the product?
no complaints so far. They have great support too that helps with troubleshooting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gaining more insight into our customer, defining key metrics, building dashboards, running quick querries for quick answers
Powerful and dynamic tool
What do you like best about the product?
Allows you to combine multiple data sources to draw cross functional conclusions
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be difficult to understand but just requires team to learn software
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've been able to more quickly identify patterns and issues, thus allowing us to pivot more quickly towards solutions
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What do you like best about the product?
The interface works well for those who already understand Excel and don't have much SQL experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the performance can be slow, especially if you're not on Snowflake.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a great lightweight visualization tool that lets you do 99% of what you generally need in BI. We've gotten more people to explore our data since starting with Sigma because of the more friendly UI than our past tools.
Flexible, SQL-friendly BI tool
What do you like best about the product?
A key feature is the ability to quickly adjust the data flowing into a report/worksheet. Many analyses I do are exploratory and pivoting to a different avenue is easy when the query lives right there. Sigma support is great and always there to help me troubleshoot issues or come up with a creative way to do something.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a worksheet-based tool, sometimes functionality can be limited compared to other BI tools. Graphing and visualizations sometimes can't go that one extra step to show what I need. Also, dashboard filtering can be confusing and not intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sigma helps with all of our analytics and using data to make decisions. As a fast growing organization, our needs, data sources, and questions are continually shifting and it allows us the flexibility to make the changes we need, when we need to. Whether it's reporting on marketing, website, or operational data, the worksheet-based setup is familiar to most end users and enables more democratization of analytics across the board.
One thing to consider is that this review was written prior to rolling out and switching to the new workbook interface. At a high level it seems like a positive focus on end user experience but having not tested it yet, can't confirm the impact of this new functionality.
One thing to consider is that this review was written prior to rolling out and switching to the new workbook interface. At a high level it seems like a positive focus on end user experience but having not tested it yet, can't confirm the impact of this new functionality.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A great option for small(er), growing companies whose data needs are shifting and evolving with the organization
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What do you like best about the product?
cost of user accounts is cheaper than competitor.
What do you dislike about the product?
limitations to visualizations compared to competition.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
standardization of story telling, KPIs, demand reports. reduction to BI staff demand by self empowering biz leaders.
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.
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