# Page 2 | Sigma Computing Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Sigma Computing the right Data Analysis solution for you? Explore 83 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/188405/Sigma/reviews --- Sigma Computing 4.3 (83) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/188405/Sigma/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Sigma Computing ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 83 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use AV Ayomide V. Human Resources and Data Analyst E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Sigma - Powerful cloud analytics with an easy spreadsheet interface" March 29, 2025 4.0 Sigma is a great choice; it enables me to analyze large datasets without much SQL expertise. As a Data analyst, I used Sigma to work with datasets in a spreadsheet-like interface integrating cloud data warehouses like Bigquery and Snowflake, and it connects directly without requiring complex setup. Pros I like Sigma spreadsheet interface, it makes it easy for me to explore data without needing advanced technical skills, and it integrates well with cloud data warehouses. Cons Sigma can be slow when working with very large datasets and some advanced analytical features are limited compared to other traditional BI tools. Review Source Joseph B. Principal Analytics Architect Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great model for rapidly evolving analytics" September 24, 2020 5.0 Sigma is the fastest and easiest BI tool to deploy. Iteration on the semantic layer is a cinch. Sigma is a delight to work with as a vendor. Their support is superbly responsive (during business hours - they don't have global timezone coverage yet). Sigma's pricing model is reasonable and very friendly to orgs where 80+% of the employees need live data access. Pros Sigma has the right model. From the user perspective, the columnar formula editing feels familiar enough, and the learning curve is friendly to anyone with spreadsheet experience. From an architect perspective, the semantic layer is lightweight and easy to adapt to ever-changing schemas. The UI covers most of the functionality you'll want, and for everything else you can fall back on writing your own code, like cron strings or SQL queries. I let Sigma do probably 95% of my querying, leaving the gnarliest 5% for me to write in their SQL runner. I do a significant amount of lightweight ELT work in Sigma as well. I like being able to write massive views that I know I'm going to have to update often, and just like Snowflake / Sigma materialize them for me. When I use Sigma to query S3 directly in the SQL runner - usually to POC some new data that hasn't made its way out to the business teams yet - this functionality is really convenient because those queries are not efficient. I just need to get new data in front of the business as quickly as possible. Cons Visual discovery is lacking when compared to mature tools like Tableau. Sigma needs to continue chipping away at the Tableau features around dashboarding and charting. Reason for choosing Sigma Computing In descending order: 1. Strength of self-service features 2. Ease of maintenance / speed of implementation 3. Adaptability of semantic layer features 4. Cost / vendor practices Review Source JB John B. Area Manager Environmental Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Sigma helps you analyze your numbers and visualize them to your team!" June 30, 2022 5.0 Overall, Sigma is a great product with plenty of options for viewing your data and presenting it. I cannot remember a time where it was this easy to show someone results in data form with accompanying graphs to help visualize the data in a palatable way. Pros Sigma is mostly easy to use, and has a very clean and simple presentation. The data is almost always accurate, and has little downtime for updates. My teams have no problems finding the info they need after I showed them where to look! Cons The dashboard/site could use with some personality and flair. The drab black/white can be somewhat monotonous. Offering classes/tutorials for how to find certain data sets, and analyze your results would be a huge bonus. Review Source Luke B. Managing Partner Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Excel for your data warehouse" July 18, 2019 5.0 I help B2B SaaS startup founders and CMOs with their customer data platforms and reporting. The ability to create additional columns on your data containing custom formulas and the ability to sort and filter on multiple columns is great. One of my clients uses Sigma and I’ve been extremely impressed at how easy and quickly it is to build reports on multiple tables of data without writing any complex SQL. For example, sessionization of page view and event time series data is a complex SQL query which can be performed within a few minutes in Sigma without any knowledge of SQL. It’s a great tool for business users. Pros I’ m very impressed at Sigma’s ease of use for building reports from my clients data warehouse running on Snowflake. If you can use Excel, and understand the data in your database you can be up and running extremely quickly without having to write SQL queries or any code to describe your database. The ability to create additional columns on your data containing custom formulas and the ability to sort and filter on multiple columns is great. Cons As with any tool there is a learning curve to the interface, but since it’s similar to a spreadsheet, it’s quick to learn. Theres no feature yet to save custom formulas to be used across worksheets so you’ll have to copy and paste them for now. Review Source SS Scott S. Business Analyst Sports Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Sigma - making SQL a visual effort" June 27, 2019 5.0 It has been great. The tool fit very naturally into my companies data flow and getting \_explorable\_ data into stakeholders hands. We also have a more static dashboarding tool that excels at that, but is weak for exploration. Sigma also makes my job as an analyst easier by making data sets explorable using point-n-click tools vs code Pros Makes 'easy' queries very easy to work on and see results visually immediately. Natural way to think about grouping objects but still showing the 'row' level data is amazing and a huge selling point on getting non data people to use the sheets shared with them. Makes the mental structuring of large undertakings choppable into smaller to-do's and then joining sheets together Cons Expanding on my point in my pro's about chunking down large undertakings to smaller conceptual efforts per sheet.... this is not very performant. I have two projects where I create a base sheet and then have 2-6 sheets built off of it before potentially joining them back together to combine the aspects I've added. This however, results in the base sheet/query being run numerous times and is often times a time consuming query to begin with. In a code based environment this could be made more performant by using a WITH statement so it only has to execute once and can then be used multiple times Joins have to be exact matches (no date comparison) and can only be on original columns from the data source. Therefore, if a column must be switched from integer to string, you have to create a reference to the sheet before being able to join to other tables. Review Source Sam J. Senior Product Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Incredibly Useful Tool for data analysis and workflow" June 27, 2019 5.0 Pros 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. Cons 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. Alternatives considered [Tableau](https://www.capterra.com/p/208764/Tableau/) Review Source MO Mia O. Business Intelligence Manager Automotive Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Turns non-technical business users into data power users" June 26, 2019 5.0 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. Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Manager of Customer Education E-Learning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "It's growing on me!" August 28, 2022 4.0 Pros It works! We used Chartio before and it was always timing out. Sigma is reliable and accurate. Cons 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). Review Source SP Sean P. Manager, Data Insights Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Revolutionary Data Tool" July 8, 2019 5.0 The most significant impact of Sigma has been exposing data to so many people around the business who would otherwise have had to go through the data team bottleneck, both slowing their access to data and limiting the explorability and agility of the results. However, this can be accomplished in a controlled manner with Sigma, ensuring that stakeholders only have access to vetted sources of truth procured by the data team. Pros \- ability to explore and inspect the source data and perform sophisticated SQL functions via GUI (group, join, aggregate, etc.) - ability to create single source of truth worksheets and build all related content off of that, instead of reinventing the wheel with every new query - unlimited reader accounts allows usage to really take off and flourish instead of hamstringing itself Cons \- pricing still unclear as to what constitutes an author vs a reader - based on recent conversations with Sigma I'm afraid that we are going to be upcharged on items that were never made clear to us (I am still unclear) - new software still has its share of bugs Reason for choosing Sigma Computing The dashboarding tool Mode Analytics pre-existed Sigma at Peaksware and they continue to operate side by side. However, very few new reports are being created with Mode compared to Sigma, given the greater value to the end user who wants to dig deeper. Review Source SH Shawn H. Data and Strategy Analyst Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Sigma shaved 5 hours off my monthly reporting" June 27, 2019 4.0 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. Pros 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! Cons 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. Review Source RB Rostyslav B. Data Scientist Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good product, becoming better every quarter" May 13, 2020 4.0 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. Pros Sigma is a quick and easy way to map from a SQL query through intermediate exploration to customer-ready visualization Cons No way to save the complete project as code, which can be edited, version-controlled, ported, etc Review Source SH Shamaas H. Software Engineer Market Research Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great team and a good product" October 20, 2022 5.0 Pros The team is very willing to grow and shape out any new improvements, they also have great turnaround. However, i love how it is a web application and easily integrates with databricks. Cons The functionality is somewhat funky sometimes, but they are constantly improving. Review Source MC Marissa C. Merchant Retail Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Sigma Review" June 26, 2019 3.0 I use sigma multiple times a day, 5 days a week and with the exception of a few internal tweaks, I am generally happy with the program. Pros Easy exporting into excel, formula customization, overall data customization, saving personal reports Cons Dragging and dropping columns in the sidebar isn't the most efficient. Also, the loading time when changing filters is so long! I find myself exporting the data dump into excel for easier and faster use. Also the constant formula adjusting to achieve the correct data - I've been using the program for about 6 months and reporting isn't 100% yet. Review Source Alaia S. Sales Ops and Strategy Analyst Real Estate Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Lots of functionality" May 14, 2020 5.0 Pros Great UI and incredible functionality! Been very happy with the product so far. Cons Definitely a learning curve at first -- lots to learn. Review Source KS Krystyna S. Marketplace Operations Manager Real Estate Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Highly recommended! " May 13, 2020 5.0 Excellent! I use it on the daily. Pros It's easy to use and straight forward. I'm not not only handling reports for my team but for multiple departments as well. Cons 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. Review Source AL Ashley L. Product Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Unintuitive" September 28, 2020 2.0 I can easily see high-level insights, like how many users of a certain type are utilizing our software, some usage trends, etc. However, when trying to do a deep dive to understand user health aspects over time, I don't have the skill or patience to create a report to track this type of usage in Sigma. Pros Some of the charts are nice for visuals and I can create high-level reports. Cons I dislike the process in trying to to create reports. I have some development experience and I much prefer running searches with SQL - I find it much more intuitive than Sigma's interface. Due to this and my limited time, I haven't taken much time to learn Sigma and get comfortable with it, especially when I'm familiar with SQL. It creates a bit of a bottleneck for our company in that our data analysts are the only ones who seem to really be able to create reports with Sigma. I want a tool where I can easily create a report as well. Review Source LK Leon K. Director of Product Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A useful tool for specific problems" July 3, 2019 4.0 Monthly compliance reporting handoff to non-technical individuals. Pros For someone who is not particularly tech savvy, Sigma is a great way to take SQL queries written by someone who is, and then be able to modify the data in real time using the sort of functionality we're all used to via Excel. Sigma also is easy to export data from, and the scheduling functionality is quite useful for recurring reports. Cons Because Sigma has to re-pull data every time you open a sheet, it is incredibly slow. Certain reports can take multiple minutes to load, and once any filters are applies, it has to re-pull the report, causing those minutes to be lost again. Because of this, it's often easier to just download all the data and then do the filtering/etc in excel/google sheets. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer FP&A Manager Retail Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Sigma" May 13, 2020 5.0 Very positive in my daily work. Pros Sigma allows us to have instant access to the data that are ingested into snowflake. It allows me to access all the raw data, which is what I need, rather than concise dashboard data. Cons Data tables can be a little difficult to learn at first, but just like anything, you can learn it over time with enough familiarity with the product. Review Source Ashlie R. Customer Service Manager Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "I appreciate the customization options." July 3, 2019 5.0 My overall experience has been positive, there is definitely a learning cure for the non-analytical. Pros I appreciate being able to start with a report created by our analytics team and tweak it to suit my department's needs. Cons The filters can sometimes be confusing until you get the hang of how the software thinks. Review Source DM Drake M. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Simple Yet Powerful" September 15, 2020 5.0 Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Technology Capital Markets Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great tool our needs - fast and easy navigation of snowflake data, quick reporting, data validation" May 13, 2020 4.0 Pros Easy and intuitive user interface. Licensing is for creators, viewer usage unlimited. Visual designer for lookups and joins. Fast learning curve for non technical users. Team is super responsive. Works very well with snowflake. Cons Not a tableau/power bi replacement, some features still immature Review Source Jose F. G. Director of Operations Internet Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Excellent alternative to pivot tables and spreadsheets" May 20, 2020 5.0 So far, we've managed to simplify our business metrics visualization and enabled querying that information to non-technical users which is a big win. Pros I like that it's easy to create customized views of Data without having to expose unnecesary information as noise. I love the simple UI to build new reports and the smart filters. Cons Getting the data into Sigma can be daunting at first, but it's worth it in the end. If you're struggling I recommend to keep trying. Review Source JD Jen D. Director of Merchandise Operations Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "It works!" July 3, 2019 5.0 I use Sigma to manage inventory company wide across the country and it's easy to see where things are and when. Pros easy to see all info in one place, for multiple needs Cons 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 Review Source MC Meg C. Associate Editorial Director Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A self-service resource with a few quirks" February 17, 2022 4.0 Pros This software enables me to analyze the performance of our content on demand, reducing the need to tap teammates to get the data I need. This greatly speeds up the process. Cons While admins can adjust search parameters, users don't have the ability to set and save things like data ranges. You'll either have to adjust your dates every time you use the program (which is a pain) or make sure your admin is on the ball about updating parameters. Review Source HM Hugo M. Project Manager Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good software to organize your KPIs" September 15, 2020 3.0 Good enough to push SIGMA as an organizational tool. We are currently active using it, and it has helped give our \[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN\] enough visibility on where our challenges are. Pros I like the flexibility on displaying the information that makes sense the most on our organization. Cons There were some restrictions when showing text alongside graphs, and the toolbars didn’t allow for enough flexibility to our liking. Other than that, pretty good experience overall Review Source Similar Products Featured