What Sets Sigma Apart from Tableau (A Salesforce Company)

Cloud-native business intelligence (BI) platforms are increasingly essential for modern data management, offering advantages in compliance support, deployment flexibility, and innovative capabilities. Although Tableau is renowned for its data visualization quality, it lacks true cloud-native capabilities, limiting its deployment options to AWS and its compliance support to HIPAA alone. In contrast, cloud-native platforms like Sigma, which can be deployed on multiple cloud services, support a broader range of compliance standards and enable live querying of cloud data warehouses (CDWs) such as Snowflake without creating data extracts. This approach allows organizations to fully leverage the scalability, performance, and governance of their CDWs, avoiding the inefficiencies and security challenges associated with managing data extracts. As cloud-native solutions foster more efficient, secure, and scalable data handling, organizations should consider pairing cloud-native BI tools with their CDWs to optimize data management and enhance their analytical capabilities.