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."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."
"The most valuable aspect for me is having real-time data."
"The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use."
"Its dashboarding is the most valuable. It is easy to create visualizations and dashboards and import Excel sheets and ESP files in Tableau as compared to other tools."
"The dashboards are amazing, with different report types and stunning visuals. Most importantly, Tableau's AI with machine learning automatically predicts features and reports based on historical data. These are the three most valuable features for me."
"From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics. We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like."
"I like Tableau's heat maps and the storyboard. You can create data stories and tons of visuals with it, and it goes together really well. Tableau lets you manipulate the data in various ways."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The product has the best features for analytical views and filters."
"I would like to see better visualization options. That would allow me to build out more visually pleasing dashboarding in Sigma."
"The only minor area for improvement lies in handling highly complex visualizations."
"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 ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"When we put more information on a single screen, it gets compressed and superimposed in many places while scrolling."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"The SQL programming functionality needs to be improved."
"Tableau's data modeling, mining, and AI library features need improvement."
"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
Sigma is ranked 15th in Data Visualization with 3 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 292 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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