BI & dashboard platforms · Sigma Computing, Inc.

Sigma

Spreadsheet-style BI tool that queries the cloud data warehouse directly, letting analysts and business users write formulas against live tables.

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Sigma is a business intelligence tool built around a spreadsheet interface that runs directly against a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, ClickHouse), rather than extracting data into its own modeling or storage layer. Users build reports and explore data using formulas, pivot tables, and cell-level editing familiar from spreadsheets, while every calculation compiles to SQL executed live in the warehouse, so governance and row-level security stay enforced at the source. Sigma also supports write-back through input tables, letting users feed planning or what-if numbers back into workflows. A four-tier licensing model (View, Act, Analyze, Build) controls who can consume, edit, or build content. This warehouse-native, no-extraction approach differentiates Sigma from BI tools that require a separate semantic or modeling layer before analysis can begin.

At a glance

Vendor Sigma Computing, Inc.
Pricing model Quote only
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud
Open source No
Best for Analysts and business users who want to explore and edit live warehouse data using spreadsheet formulas without building a separate BI model.

Pricing

Sigma does not publish self-serve prices; plans are quoted per organization based on the View/Act/Analyze/Build license mix, with a 14-day free trial.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Features

  • Spreadsheet-style formulas over live warehouse tables
  • No data extraction or separate modeling layer required
  • Write-back via input tables for planning and what-if analysis
  • Four-tier licensing (View, Act, Analyze, Build)
  • Row-level security enforced at the warehouse
  • AI agents for building and querying workbooks
  • Embedded analytics and white-labeling
  • Interactive dashboards and data apps

Integrations

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Alternatives

Omni BI platform combining a governed semantic layer with ad hoc spreadsheet-style and SQL exploration in one tool. Looker Google Cloud's BI and embedded-analytics platform built on a governed LookML semantic layer with natural-language querying. Microsoft Power BI Microsoft's cloud and on-premises business intelligence platform for interactive reports, dashboards, and self-service analytics. Tableau Salesforce-owned visual analytics platform for interactive dashboards, data exploration, and governed self-hosted or cloud BI.

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Terms to know

Self-service BI BI tooling that lets business users build their own reports and explore data without waiting on IT or analytics teams. Data warehouse A centralized, structured database optimized for fast historical reporting rather than day-to-day transactions. Data visualization Representing data graphically so that patterns, trends and outliers are easier to see than in a table of numbers. Dashboard A visual display of the metrics a team needs to monitor, usually updated on a schedule or in real time. Business intelligence (BI) The practice of turning company data into dashboards, reports and metrics that guide business decisions. Embedded analytics Charts, reports or dashboards built directly into another application instead of a separate BI tool.