Native Cloud Data Warehouse Analytics & Business Intelligence Software

What do you like best about the product?

Sigma combines the familiarity of a spreadsheet with the power of an enterprise analytics platform, making it easy for both technical and non-technical users to work with data. The seamless integration with Snowflake allows us to analyze large datasets without having to move or duplicate data, while the self-service capabilities enable business users to create reports, dashboards, and ad hoc analyses with minimal IT support. Sigma's collaborative features, intuitive interface, strong governance controls, and ability to deliver both detailed operational reporting and executive-level insights have made it a valuable tool for actuarial reporting and data analytics.

What do you dislike about the product?

While Sigma is a powerful platform, some advanced reporting and visualization requirements may require additional configuration or a deeper understanding of the tool. Users transitioning from highly specialized BI platforms may find certain advanced visualization capabilities less extensive than dedicated dashboarding tools. However, these limitations have generally been outweighed by Sigma's ease of use, flexibility, and strong integration with Snowflake, making it an effective solution for most reporting and analytical needs.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma enables our business users to access and analyze Snowflake data without relying heavily on IT teams. It has helped us speed up reporting, improve data accessibility, and make faster, more informed business decisions through self-service analytics and reporting.

What do you like best about the product?

From a product perspective, they try to be on the cutting edge, offering numerous AI features and workbooks as code. Writeback is also great. They also have great support and take recommendations we offer seriously and help us find solutions.

What do you dislike about the product?

They feel somewhat limited in what you can do visually. Some parts of the UI can also be a bit challenging to figure out, and it takes extra time to understand where certain options or settings are.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It’s helping us create workbooks faster than ever by using workbooks as code. Being able to easily build data apps through input tables has also let us quickly create applications that we previously would have needed to build through other means.

What do you like best about the product?

Sigma brilliantly blends the familiar simplicity of a spreadsheet with the immense power of cloud data warehouses, making true self-service possible without having to write any SQL.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't have personal feelings, so I don't genuinely experience likes or dislikes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma overlays a traditional spreadsheet interface directly on top of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks. Users who know basic Excel formulas can manipulate and pivot massive datasets instantly without needing to learn SQL.

What do you like best about the product?

Sigma can handle a high volume of data, and its write-back feature makes it a great tool for creating data apps—not just dashboards.

What do you dislike about the product?

The UI features still feel like they’re catching up to other BI tools on the market.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Because Sigma uses live data, it eliminates the need to schedule refreshes. As a result, our users can always work with the most up-to-date information.

What do you like best about the product?

With Sigma, I can accomplish a vast majority of the BI activities needed in a significantly shorter timeframe. Beyond that, their support efforts and capabilities (live chat, dedicated resources to work through complex use cases, etc.) are unrivaled in the BI space.

What do you dislike about the product?

The core product's enhancements have slowed of late as they have ramped up AI support; however, the core product is already at a wonderful place regarding features and usability.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Sigma, we have been able to step out of the Microsoft BI ecosystem and its "old-feeling" legacy tools, leading to improved rate of development and updating as well as performance improvement getting us to insights more quickly.

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Sigma automates what used to be manual tasks, transforming external Excel work into a comprehensive and single source of truth. I appreciate the direct access it provides to our data lake and how it manages write-back forms and budget management with ease. It stands out as a financial BI tool that allows me to cut and slice data effectively. I find its general UI straightforward once I learned it and enjoy the accessibility it offers. The MCP connection is a key feature for me, enabling efficient data reporting and storage in a more private location. The initial setup was very easy too.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some of the visuals feel too simplistic. Even though I can use custom plug-ins, I dont feel it offers the same level of polish as a first part visualization UI and I wish it was more expanded of a visualization offering.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma automates manual reporting, provides data lake access, AI-enabled quick analysis, and BI tools for data slicing. It turns Excel files into a single source of truth, enhancing ease and accessibility.

What do you like best about the product?

I love the usability of the system. It is so easy for non-tech oriented people to pick up and use and to even join and create their own reports and dashboards.

Sigma also has an unbelievably great "user chat". Most systems don't help their users to the extent of all of their questions, but the help center that Sigma has is the best I have ever seen, they have so many incredibly knowledgeable agents that figure out your problem in a timely manner every time.

What do you dislike about the product?

The performance/loading of workbooks and very large datasets sometimes lags when there is a lot of dating that is being loaded, or memory is being used up by another application such as zoom.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma makes our data accessible to everyone in our company and gives them an easy way to download, embed to clients, or use themselves for KPIs. It is also great to integrate with slack for exports and seems like there will be some AI workbook creation in the future - which sounds very exciting.

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Sigma is very user-friendly, making it easy to navigate the interface in a relatively short amount of time. It's intuitive and easy for people to use, even if they are not technically savvy. The setup was also very straightforward, which contributed to our decision to switch from Tableau. Overall, it's very easy to use and quick to learn.

What do you dislike about the product?

Inability to see history of exported reports that were sent via an automated email schedule

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma makes data accessible, solving reporting challenges by visualizing data in insightful ways and offering live access through Snowflake.

What do you like best about the product?

Sigma has been an innovator and disruptor in a BI space that has become fairly conventional, with tools like Tableau and Power BI no longer feeling as progressive as they once did. As a Snowflake customer, the integration has been excellent, with a direct connection to the warehouse that has proven to be much faster than our experience with Tableau. Their approach, positioning the platform as a true data analyst tool where users can explore data directly in the UI and then build a full data app around it, is a refreshing take on the traditional BI model. Their input tables are excellent and open up a lot of possibilities for what can be built. They are constantly shipping new features, and their approach to integrating AI has been genuinely impressive. Their customer support has also been outstanding from the start, very accommodating during the initial onboarding, and they have continued to be just as supportive through every buildout since.

What do you dislike about the product?

Wish they had a dark mode on their UI. There is some table schema syncing from the data warehouse that can be a little unpredictable at times.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma has solved our business's need for interactive data applications that are highly customizable, efficient, and robust, all without requiring a long build-out time and a whole backend team to manage.

What do you like best about the product?

Sigma gives me an incredibly easy way to provide important operational data to a wide variety of internal teams via an web-based SSO platform. I also love how seamlessly it connects to our Snowflake data warehouse. It shines where other BI visualization platforms, like PowerBI fail.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are a few features that are still in beta mode at Sigma that I'd like to be in GA right now, particularly some of their features that facilitate automation within our CICD pipeline. With that being said, I greatly appreciate Sigma listening to my team's feedback about these features in attempt to make them better fit our needs.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sigma is helping me to provide visibility into key operational metrics for our hundreds of Cloud customer environments in an easy to use one stop shop.