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Sigma Computing

Build and run AI apps, dashboards, and agents on governed warehouse data. Sigma lets any team build with chat, a spreadsheet, SQL, or Python.

Sigma Computing is commercial business intelligence software made by Sigma Computing.

Made by
Sigma Computing
Source code
Closed

Website

Judgement

What it is
Complete system
What it does
Spreadsheet-style BI that runs queries live against Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery, with dashboards, data apps and write-back.
Adopt it when
Finance and ops users comfortable in spreadsheets need to analyse warehouse-scale data directly.
Watch out
It needs a cloud data warehouse, which carries its own compute costs.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Cloud service
What the license allows
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

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Under it

Every program, Sigma Computing included, runs on a microchip.

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

The description is the maker's own, quoted as written.