Dresner Names Sigma as an Overall Leader in Latest Business Intelligence Report

We’re thrilled to announce Sigma is featured in the upper-right quadrant—also called the “Overall Experience Leaders” quadrant—which includes the highest scoring for BI vendors based on customer feedback. Sigma is featured in the upper-right quadrant—also called the “Credibility Leader” quadrant—that includes the highest scoring for BI vendors on both perceived confidence and value scores. 

“​In its first year of coverage, Sigma Computing is well above the overall sample for most measures,” the advisory firm says in the report. “It is an Overall Leader in both Customer Experience Model and Vendor Credibility Models and is best in class for sales product knowledge, responsiveness, and product ease of upgrade/migration to new versions. It has a perfect recommend score.” 

Why does this matter? There’s nothing like industry validation from analysts like Dresner who objectively study and validate our tools against other products. The upper right quadrant represents overall leaders in the industry, according to the firm’s testing. 

Read more about Sigma vs. other BI tools here.

‍Understanding the Dresner Quadrant 

The Dresner quadrant is an industry standard, and the Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study is a highly influential annual report in the BI and analytics space. The 14th edition of the 150-page report is authored by industry thought leader Howard Dresner, founder and chief research officer, who coined the term business intelligence in 1989. 

Similar to other advisory firms, Dresner conducts independent research and scores vendors across the business intelligence industry. Each BI and analytics vendor—25 of them in this year’s edition—is evaluated  by their customers on 33 criteria covering the product and technology, sales experience,  technical support, consulting services, value for price paid, integrity, and whether the customer would recommend them.

Highest scoring vendors land in the upper right quadrant, while the upper left represents those with strong products but lower service scores. The report also gives a detailed score on each criteria for each vendor, and gave Sigma a 5.0 perfect score. 

Read the top 20 questions we get about Sigma here.

In the report, Dresner also shares the trend that the number of tools that many organizations use is going up. For example, the report notes that starting in 2021, there began a trend of fewer organizations using only one, two or three tools. Along with that, the report notes “a rising combined percentage of more than four tools or ‘don’t know.’” 

And finally, “The number of organizations using  just one BI tool decreased from 23 percent in 2020 to 12 percent in 2023.”

Notably, the report also added that “most new BI tools are not tool replacements.” The average number of BI tools that companies use is going up, suggesting that instead of consolidating, the industry is widening. 

Read the most frequently asked questions about our product here.

Why It Matters 

We know when it comes to finding a solution in BI and analytics, customers need a few key things: Speed. Live collaboration. Access to all of their data. True security and governance. The ability to input data. And of course, being cloud native. Our customers believe Sigma delivers on all of these items, and we’re always beyond proud when a third party validates what we’re building.