Sigma vs.
Tableau
Maintaining too many extracts & refresh cycles?
Sigma delivers true self-service analytics live in your cloud data platform.
DATA-DRIVEN BUSINESSES USE SIGMA FOR FAST, EASY, AND POWERFUL ANALYTICS
Sigma vs.
Tableau
Pivot away from pretty pictures
End the extract
- Spreadsheet Functions
- Drill Anywhere
- Enterprise Pivot Tables
- Collaborate Live
- Bring your own Data
Sigma
- Empowers self-service analytics in a governed familiar UI: the spreadsheet.
- Frees data and BI teams from managing an additional model on top of dbt.
- Enables business users to freely drill down to row level data at massive scale.
- CSAT: 4.8. Real-time dedicated in-app support for your entire organization in minutes. 30-min dedicated office hours over Zoom to all accounts.
Tableau
- Built for previous on-premise generation of analysis.
- Visual exploration and ad-hoc ends without reaching the root cause.
- Business users still export the data to work in spreadsheets.
- No dedicated technical support unless purchased separately.
Real time support in minutes, not days
The support team is nailing it, it's really good support. Please keep it and even if you make it "VIP Treatment," then we want to be VIP. We love your live support.
Nan Xiao
CTO, Greenland Capital Management
There hasn't been a single data question I haven't been able to answer in Sigma once I engage the support team for help.
Mathew Jennings
Director, Orennia
What really helped make my life easier in making the case for Sigma was the thought, effort, and responsiveness that your team put in whereas the competition simply lacked that level of depth!
Orr Sergev
Director of Analytics, OpenWeb
Where Sigma “Excels” Over Tableau
A Cloud Native Start with Sigma
Sigma's generational differentiator from Tableau is being born on the cloud with cloud data platforms in mind. Sigma does not have previous on-premise deployments to maintain and support, whereas many Tableau customers do not have a clear migration path from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud. Sigma's cloud-native architecture allows us to provide lower cost per user at scale and rapidly deploy innovative features such as:
- New Spreadsheet Functions
- 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, Tableau requires learning a visual way of exploring data using drag and drop in a language called VizQL. In contrast, Sigma gives analysts the option to leverage their existing expertise, saving time, resources, and ensuring adoption. Sigma gives everyone—including non-technical users—the ability to query the data warehouse directly using an intuitive spreadsheet UI with familiar formulas and functions.
Sigma is Analytics Obsessed
Sigma is a single SaaS analytic application, with the enviable position of being able to work with the most security-conscious organizations in the world without custom modifications. Sigma as a company is not interested in becoming yet another cloud data platform or providing additional ETL/ELT add-ons. Our focus is to reinvent the analytics and BI category by delivering revolutionary features like input tables and live edit.
Explore our Customer Stories
Ryan Scheuermann
CTO, Sales Impact Academy
"Sigma is fundamentally changing the way the organization is setting their goals right, prioritizing work and being able to connect their day-to-day activities to an actual KPI." We’re essentially making the whole organization row in the same direction.”
Adam Danisovszky
Data Science Visualization Engineer, Wurl
"We're committed to getting 100 percent off our existing BI tool before our next renewal. As far as our prime BI tool goes, Sigma is our baby."
Daniela Chita-Perez
Director of Product Development, Greenwich.HR
"What other platforms failed to deliver in three months of POC, Sigma did in record time. We started witnessing sales within six weeks!"
Additional Resources
We are Sigma.
Sigma is a cloud-native analytics platform that uses a familiar spreadsheet interface to give business users instant access to explore and get insights from their cloud data warehouse. It requires no code or special training to explore billions of rows, augment with new data, or perform “what if” analysis on all data in real-time.