Avis clients sur Sigma Computing

Incredibly Useful Tool for data analysis and workflow

Avantages :

The speed with which I'm able to pull together disparate data and generate some useful insights. The Dashboard functionality has been particularly useful in creating reporting our teams can use with customers and prospects.

Inconvénients :

Version management and permissions. It's hard to keep everyone looking at the same version of a document, to view data, a document is created and generically named, so our folder system is getting very full and hard to navigate. Additionally, there's no way to tell if another user will be able to see a given document without asking them to try viewing it, and there's no way for them to request view access to that document.

Incredible power and flexibility

Commentaires : I am obsessed with Sigma, by far my favorite BI tool I've used. It let me do calculations myself that would usually require whole cycles of data requests, and affords me much more flexibility.

Avantages :

* Ability to pull any data I need or want * Complexity of calculations possible while being easy to use * Seriously those grouping levels are VERY powerful

Inconvénients :

* Pivot tables are the one thing they haven't aced yet - you can make them but then to calculate cased on them you need to make a new dataset and then a new sheet. You can do pretty much all the same work with just levels though so I don't miss them too often. * I wish my default permissions could be "public" - I'm never doing anything private, so why is that the default? * Maps could use some work. I want to color-map countries, not just display dots

positively mixed feelings

Commentaires : Overall I have access to more than our previous reporting system, which is a positive. However, as self serve as it is I wish connecting tables and validating was more straightforward as a user.

Avantages :

I like how customizable it is. From a good basic report I can move things around to suit my needs. In addition it has many options for how to export, which is great as I use excel for more complex files & google sheets for collaborating & sharing findings.

Inconvénients :

Load times to get to a report or filter can be killer for some reports that pull from many data sources, and have large amounts of information. The permissions are a bit annoying when a report is created for me by an admin, but I am the report owner (as it was made for my department), but I can't make my own changes (w/o admin privlidges) and archive the main one. In these cases, I have to request the admin to make the changes, or make a copy and publish my own report and again contact the admin to delete or move the report so that mine is the one the team goes to first.

Sigma plus Snowflake is a revelation!

Commentaires : It has exceeded my expectations in ease of use and the productivity my team has been able to achieve.

Avantages :

I love the secure cloud hosting, the ease of connecting to data sources, the fact that it queries the data directly, but most I like the grid based view of data that is always at hand. Being able to view, sort, filter, and create calculations on the data in a familiar spreadsheet-like interface is genius. The “Column Details” feature allows me to quickly understand the range of values in the system.

Inconvénients :

I’ve generated several feature requests for areas we’d like to see more detail.

Using Sigma as a Software developer

Commentaires : I think is a nice tool, is easy to use and it's fast. You can load your data and start analyzing it very fast, also, it's a nice tool for non technical users, but when I need more features or power I rather to use Data Studio

Avantages :

Is an easy to use software, I liked that it's very fast, I don't have to wait to start seeing the data

Inconvénients :

It needs more features, specially to migrate the worksheets to different environments, also it has a very limited number of functions. Sometimes the error messages are not very descriptives, so we can't know what's happening or how to solve it (we had a worksheet with an error like: "the joins are not efficient", something like that, so that message was kind of useless)

Powerful data visualization tool

Commentaires : As a data analyst, I've have had a lot of fun building dashboards and reports with Sigma. It's very flexible and has great usability

Avantages :

- You can easily add data sources, and then create datasets with the columns you need - It also lets you format the columns and process the data by using formulas, very similar to what you would do in a spreadsheet, but more streamlined - You can easily join different datasets and filter data - The new dashboards are very easy to use, with a clear interface to add widgets, filters and views - They also have quick and effective customer support

Inconvénients :

- It can be a little intimidating if you are not familiar with spreadsheets

Great product and better value

Avantages :

Compared to competitors I found Sigma to be much more straightforward with regard to database connections and dashboard building. No complex data warehousing layer, or reporting databases to instrument / sync, it simply reads from whatever db you assign and syncs in real time. While there is still a learning curve, the excel-like functions make it friendlier to business users who are not familiar with SQL to enable them to build custom reports rather than only viewing. While there isn't a "team" assigned to you for onboarding like other tools offer, I have found adhoc email and chat support to be good enough, and certainly worth the $ saved compared to other 'implementation costs' that often come with or are built in to the pricing of competitive products.

Inconvénients :

The team/user permissioning and management could be more straightforward.

Sigma shaved 5 hours off my monthly reporting

Commentaires : While Sigma could be great for a lot of use cases, there is one in particular that I use it for. Every month I have a summary report that I have to put together. I used to run multiple database queries, dump the data out into Excel, do some manual sorting and manipulation of the data, and then build out pivot tables so that I could see trends month over month. Sigma takes care of all of the data fetching, formatting, and styling for me (and lets me do it in a way that turns out better than I had in Excel).
Doing the reports this way, now saves me about 5 hours a month off of that monthly report that I was doing, which means that I have more time for data exploration, and spend less time with data garbage collection.

Avantages :

I love the ability to build out extra columns in my data visually, which lets me build pivot tables that I cannot even replicate in Excel. Having built out tables once, I can reuse them again and again with fresh data without having to pull and manually re-translate everything like I used to do. Having the ability to change the type of data in a column to a new structure saves me a lot of time. Extracting JSON from my tables is a snap!

Inconvénients :

While the documentation is good, I wish there was a little better messaging around error handling. Sigma formatting is slightly different from the PostgreSQL that I am used to. I wish that there was a little more visual punch to the charts I can make.

It's growing on me!

Avantages :

It works! We used Chartio before and it was always timing out. Sigma is reliable and accurate.

Inconvénients :

The way it auto sizes objects is annoying. I also feel like you need more technical data analysis skills to do some common things (like a year over year comparison).

Good product, becoming better every quarter

Commentaires : I was using Sigma increasingly over the last year or so. One thing that I am most pleased with is how in the new releases I can see the issues raised by me and my coworkers addressed and solved. It is becoming more and more usable with time.

Avantages :

Sigma is a quick and easy way to map from a SQL query through intermediate exploration to customer-ready visualization

Inconvénients :

No way to save the complete project as code, which can be edited, version-controlled, ported, etc

Turns non-technical business users into data power users

Commentaires : Stellar overall experience. The Sigma team makes a massive effort to truly understand and design around customer needs and use cases, as well as to provide hands-down the best customer support and training I have ever received from a B2B vendor, period.

Avantages :

The ability to connect to any data number of data sources across our enterprise data warehouse to extract useful insights for my team. Without a line of coding I can report, analyze, and visualize data from our CRM, IoT data streams, 3rd party APIs, and now .csv uploads. The full access is balanced by perfect row-level security controls so I can use the same system to power data dashboards and portals for internal teams as I do for external clients.

Inconvénients :

The upside of being able to access ALL data streams leads to a downside -- it can take a long time to process and load information. However I look forward to data materialization features in the works which will eliminate this problem.

Highly recommended!

Commentaires : Excellent! I use it on the daily.

Avantages :

It's easy to use and straight forward. I'm not not only handling reports for my team but for multiple departments as well.

Inconvénients :

I'm still learning the depths but it's one of the best programs that I've had the opportunity to use. I would say the only thing that can be annoying, is the load speed. Sometimes my tables and dashboards time out.

Simple Yet Powerful

Avantages :

Sigma presents data in a format users already understand... a spreadsheet. The result is a BI tool that is much less intimidating than alternatives because it doesn't force users to learn a new query language.

Inconvénients :

While the basic functionality is actually pretty easy to use, some of the features are hard to find, or not that intuitive especially around formulas or more advanced features.

It works!

Commentaires : I use Sigma to manage inventory company wide across the country and it's easy to see where things are and when.

Avantages :

easy to see all info in one place, for multiple needs

Inconvénients :

I have no complaints about anything sigma. but we also have someone who was able to walk me through how to create different reports at my workplace

Sigma helps

Avantages :

I really like how easily Sigma connects with our snowflake databases, and facilitates analysis. We are growing our data and analytics practice, and Sigma helps me to respond to the innumerable ad hoc questions from the business, while allowing our team to advance our capabilities.

Inconvénients :

Currently, I write SQL to execute the LIKE function when filtering on field values. It would be great to have this feature available with wild cards in the filter part of the software.

Great tool for non-IT users

Avantages :

Sigma makes non-IT users' access and manipulation of big data super convenient and intuitive. Works great.

Inconvénients :

I think some of the self-learning features of the tool can be improved. I had to relay on in-house experts for learning some of the features of the tool.

Increase the visibility of your data across teams and find your own answer to data questions

Commentaires : I am slowly getting up to speed with Sigma but can see already that as I commit to it we will greatly increase the speed at which my team can answer questions we have regarding all of the data we are collecting. There will be a day where I will no longer have a need for Excel and Google Sheets.

Avantages :

Really like the ease of being able to expose our data across teams and allow each individual user to be able to answer the questions they have with the tools supplied, grouping and filters being two of the easiest and most useful for me.

Inconvénients :

Up to the this point the visualizations aka charts have been difficult for me to create, but I will admit I haven't committed to taking a deep dive into learning. Also would like to be able to annotate from within a report (eg. cell) rather than at the top level within the description.

Up and Coming Software

Commentaires : [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] have been great to work with and always ready to help us. Support is not an issue :-)

Avantages :

Integration with Snowflake, Ability to load data files, Ability to analyze large data sets, Excel like functions

Inconvénients :

Dashboards are a little quirky and limited on drill down capabilities; heat maps are missing; and other features expected in a BI tool; need more training options

I appreciate the customization options.

Commentaires : My overall experience has been positive, there is definitely a learning cure for the non-analytical.

Avantages :

I appreciate being able to start with a report created by our analytics team and tweak it to suit my department's needs.

Inconvénients :

The filters can sometimes be confusing until you get the hang of how the software thinks.

Sigma

Commentaires : Still getting up to speed but generally happy and look forward to expand usage.

Avantages :

Pivot table capability with large data sets

Inconvénients :

getting up to speed on interface talking some time getting used to

Basic Reporting Tool

Avantages :

I like that I can pull my customer's usage with ease

Inconvénients :

I think this is mostly how our account is set up - like we haven't invested that much time to set it up but wish there were graphics pulling the data together.

Very Convenient Software to Use but have found less use for it as we've matured as a company

Commentaires : I used Sigma very often when I joined Lime in October through early 2019. However, I learned how to use SQL and was more flexibly able to use Snowflake. Going to Snowflake gave me more flexibility. So I moved away from Sigma

Avantages :

The software is very powerful allowing me to do things I couldn't have given my previous lack of SQL It made sharing queries in a useable way easy

Inconvénients :

Given that we constantly updated underlying queries, version control of various worksheets was hard. Also, sometimes Sigma was slow as I think the query ran everytime a manipulation happened

solid product

Avantages :

constant update and improve; great online support and customer service.

Inconvénients :

the navigation bar needs improvement, too many clicks every time.

Good product

Avantages :

Ability to connect to multiply databases

Inconvénients :

Not enough flexibility to edit tables like excel

As a non-data team member, I find Sigma navigable and intuitive

Commentaires : Great for a non-data team member accessing and pulling reports.

Avantages :

Pulling reports is easy, there are plenty of filters, and I can usually find what I need pretty quickly.

Inconvénients :

Haven't looked around enough to find challenges, but maybe more learning opps in app would help that.