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Powerful tool, but a lot of room for feature growth
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it is to pull data and build a visualization
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of features to customize visualization and format tables
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Custom reportings for clients in a scalable way. Time savings so I don't have to pull data and import it into a visualization tool.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be aware that sigma has basic visualization features.
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
Promising but not quite there
What do you like best about the product?
Sigma as a company is very easy to work with and responsive to our needs/concerns.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sigma is not at enterprise-level yet, missing some of the key (basic) functionalities and intuitions needed for cross-functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've been able to streamline some of the basic calculations and functions that formerly lived within Excel. However, because of the lack of inputting options, this is well short of full development.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be specific on your needs and verify with their roadmap.
Intuitive and powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, configure and personalize. Also, a great support staff.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of anything functionally but better accessibility to shared docs would be nice. I guess I can just put them under favorites?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking efficiency and timing, we're able to target and design optimal operational procedures.
Easy way to run a report of metrics or audits
What do you like best about the product?
I was able to jump into sigma without knowing how it works to create a report. Simple user experience
What do you dislike about the product?
The naming convention of items, but that has more to do with our company I believe.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Metrics, and audits
I'm happy with it.
What do you like best about the product?
It make querying data simple and aesthetically pleasing.
What do you dislike about the product?
The dashboarding need to be improved. We also use Looker and in many ways looker does a better job of visualization but it's much more difficult to work with.
My other complaints have more to do with SQL. I don't like using SQL for data manipulation because it's too restrictive. Unless Sigma later integrates spark, there is nothing Sigma can do about this issue.
My other complaints have more to do with SQL. I don't like using SQL for data manipulation because it's too restrictive. Unless Sigma later integrates spark, there is nothing Sigma can do about this issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mostly use sigma to communicate internally. For more complete/complex work we still use Jupyter notebooks and Spark. But I mostly use it to communicate ideas via dashboards that I show internally.
Learning curve
What do you like best about the product?
Amount of flexibility with handling the database and what you can create on it
What do you dislike about the product?
The very intense learning curve with relatively unclear help
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
combining elements of different databases and elements within those databases that have been improved.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Learn what you're doing before you take on a big project
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
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