A Cloud-Native Start With Sigma

Sigma's generational differentiator from traditional BI tools is being born in the cloud, keeping the modern cloud data platform in mind. Sigma will never hold or persist any of your data. Sigma’s spreadsheet-like interactions produce machine-generated SQL code that is executed live against your warehouse. Sigma's cloud-native architecture allows us to provide lower cost per user at scale and rapidly deploy innovative features such as: 

• Billions of rows, enterprise scale
• Drill Anywhere
• Live Edit Collaboration
• "Bring Your Own Data" with Input Tables

A Language and Interface Teams Already Know and Love

Whether data experts know spreadsheets or SQL, Power BI requires knowing M, DAX, MDX, Dataflows, and even more of the Microsoft stack.

In contrast, Sigma gives analysts the option to leverage their existing expertise, saving time and resources while working with one platform. Sigma gives everyone—including non-technical users—the ability to query the data warehouse directly using an intuitive spreadsheet-like UI with familiar formulas and functions.

Flexible Data Curation With Zero Pre-Modeling Required

‍With Power BI, data must be appropriately transformed before business users can access it—even when similar transformation has already been performed with tools like dbt. Sigma’s spreadsheet experience allows even non-technical users to freely explore, calculate, filter, and sort through billions of rows of data directly from the cloud data warehouse with no modeling required. Users can also endorse and curate datasets for collaborative analytics on trusted data.