At Hakkoda, we are dedicated to driving innovation and empowering our customers with the best tooling the modern data stack has to offer. As organizations strive to make data-driven decisions, it is imperative to have an analytics and BI solution that not only meets the demands of today’s data landscape but also anticipates future needs.
With this commitment in mind, we are excited to showcase Sigma’s newest features that enhance data trust, user experience, and analytical capabilities. To that end, we are especially thrilled to highlight the release of the Sigma BI Analyst by Hakkoda, a Snowflake Native app that simplifies the assessment of data sprawl in legacy BI systems, and helps enterprises build a strategy for migrating their analytics to Sigma.
Trust Your Data with Sigma’s Enhanced Data Modeling
Sigma’s cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI) platform offers a host of flexible, easy-to-use tools to help businesses clean and model data with confidence about the accuracy and consistency of their calculations. This accessible approach to business analytics empowers users with:
- No-Code UI & Excel-like Syntax: Create and manage data models through an intuitive, no-code interface, making it accessible for users without technical expertise. Define metrics using familiar syntax, enabling business users to contribute without needing advanced coding skills.
- Flexible Semantic Modeling: Leverage semantic modeling features to ensure accurate, consistent calculations. These enhancements empower teams to work confidently with data, knowing they have a solid foundation to support their analysis.
Streamlined Migration with the Sigma BI Analyst by Hakkōda
Migrating to new BI tools can be a daunting task, but Sigma’s partnership with Hakkoda simplifies this process with the power of Snowflake Native Apps. With the launch of the Sigma BI Analyst by Hakkoda, now shared via private listings, it has never been easier to assess your BI sprawl and explore strategies for Sigma migration. Features include:
- Assess Your Environment: Gain insights into workbook statistics, data source patterns, and license utilization within your Snowflake account.
- Holistic View: Explore your existing BI setup, from data sources to user productivity metrics, to make informed decisions.
- Streamline Migration: Configure your legacy BI connection, and the app writes your environment’s metadata into Snowflake, ensuring data remains secure.
- Cost Savings: Enter your license costs to see projected savings, especially when converting legacy BI viewer licenses to Sigma Lite licenses.
- Fast Transition: Use Snowflake Cortex to expedite formula migration between BI tools, reducing migration time from weeks to minutes.
Boost Productivity with Sigma’s AI Features
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing data analysis, and Sigma’s AI features are designed to enhance productivity while prioritizing trust:
- Explain Viz: Request straightforward summaries of any chart, highlighting key insights and context to improve understanding.
- Formula Assistant: Describe your needs in natural language to generate complex formulas, making data analysis accessible for all users.
- The assistant can propose corrections and explain generated formulas, reducing dependency on data teams. These features streamline workflows, allowing teams to focus on deriving insights rather than technical details.
Seamless SQL Integration for Diverse Skill Sets
Sigma offers seamless SQL integration, accommodating users with diverse technical backgrounds and fostering collaboration:
- Notebook Experience: Perform SQL analyses like in a notebook, allowing easy reference to any Sigma data element.
- Interactive Experiences: Combine SQL with Sigma’s control elements to create dynamic, rich experiences.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Build on each other’s work regardless of the preferred data language, enhancing teamwork.
- Interactive Analysis: Integrate Sigma’s input tables for real-time insights. These features ensure that all team members, from SQL experts to business analysts, can efficiently collaborate and derive valuable insights from their data.
Enhance Workflow with Glean Integration
With Sigma’s integration with Glean, users can seamlessly access both structured and unstructured data:
- Unified Search: Search Glean directly from Sigma to connect critical context from emails, Slack conversations, customer reports, and more.
- Streamlined Workflow: Access all relevant information within a single workflow, eliminating the need to switch between systems.
- Faster Problem Resolution: Quickly find past discussions and solutions related to data issues, speeding up problem resolution.
- Improved Decision-Making: Enhance productivity by allowing teams to find and apply knowledge faster, leading to better-informed decisions.
Enriched User Experience with Overlay Containers
Sigma’s design philosophy prioritizes user experience, and the introduction of overlay containers brings new levels of customization and interactivity:
- Contextual Overlays: Add important context directly to dashboards with overlay containers that appear upon user interaction, such as clicking “learn more.”
- Customizable Layouts: Utilize all the layout and formatting options available with basic containers to create detailed, user-specific overlays.
- Enhanced Dashboard Controls: Support diverse user needs by placing core dashboard controls on the main page and advanced controls in overlay containers.
- Modal Overlays: Launch with centered modal overlays to capture user attention without disrupting the workflow.
- Dynamic Navigation: Seamlessly integrate overlay containers with Sigma Actions to create a more interactive and informative user experience. These enhancements ensure that every interaction with Sigma is intuitive, informative, and tailored to meet the needs of different users, driving more effective engagement and understanding.
Robust Embedded Analytics and Security Enhancements
Sigma’s latest updates bring robust improvements to embedded analytics and security, ensuring that organizations can confidently deploy and manage their analytics:
- JWT Embeds: Simplify embedding content with JSON Web Tokens, allowing seamless access for both external and internal users without the need for separate embed URLs.
- Enhanced Development Capabilities: Accelerate development with new API recipes, inbound and outbound JavaScript events, and expanded coding language support for Python, Ruby, Go, and JavaScript.
- Embedded Link Sharing: Boost collaboration by enabling users to share embedded application URLs across platforms like Slack, Teams, Confluence, or email, driving more traffic to your product.
- Key-Based Authentication: Implement key-based authentication for Snowflake customers, providing more secure options while configuring your connection from Snowflake to Sigma.
- Customer-Managed Keys: Maintain control over data security with customer-managed keys for encrypting credentials and metadata. These features ensure a seamless, secure, and collaborative experience for all users.
Empowering Faster, More Intuitive Analytics with the Latest Sigma Features
With a host of new features that make analytics and AI capabilities more accessible and user friendly for enterprises of every stripe, Sigma continues to chart a course toward innovation in the business intelligence space.
With the rollout of the Sigma BI Analyst by Hakkoda, now in private preview, the Hakkoda team looks forward to deepening our partnership with Sigma as we continue to shorten time-to-insight and expand the art of the possible for our customers.
Ready to learn how Sigma’s latest developments can kickstart your path to AI-driven innovation in the cloud? Check out the product launch here.
