We performed a comparison between Sigma and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use."
"The most valuable aspect for me is having real-time data."
"Sigma is a great software for non-technical business users. If someone's familiar with pivot tables or Excel or Google Sheets, they should be able to pick up Sigma pretty quickly. There is a very low bar for onboarding."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
"The most important feature is the tool is very easy to use. This makes it simple to introduce it to CxOs. After a rapid demo, they are usual impressed by the results shown, because it has such a rare simplicity."
"There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of."
"I have found Tableau easy to use and the features are superb."
"It's easy to use."
"The best use case for us is the solution's integration with Salesforce because we are also partners of Salesforce."
"The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"I would like to see better visualization options. That would allow me to build out more visually pleasing dashboarding in Sigma."
"The product's roadmap regarding introducing new features in the solution or new versions of the tool can be made better in the future."
"The only minor area for improvement lies in handling highly complex visualizations."
"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"It needs a little bit more advanced modeling. I would like to see functionality like Cognos has in the Framework Manager."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
"I also work as an SME on the platform side. Tableau is very nice and jazzy for the end-users, but there are pain points for the admins. Performance is something about which we hear a lot of complaints, such as the dashboard doesn't open in time. It performs well on the desktop but not on the server. I know that there is always a limitation when it comes to a huge amount of data or the complexity of the calculations, but we often hear from end-users about the performance on the server side. It is easy to drag and drop all the columns and do what we want, but if it is not going to load better on the server, users are not going to like it."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
Sigma is ranked 15th in Data Visualization with 3 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 290 reviews. Sigma is rated 9.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sigma writes "Streamlines reporting; like Excel on steroids ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Sigma is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, Hex, Amazon QuickSight and Domo, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Sigma vs. Tableau report.
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