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Sigma/Studio is a true Sandbox solution and BI tool.
A “dream comes true” for business analysts.
Sigma Data Models are accessible to every user in a protected environment.
Every user can manipulate and create his own tables in an isolated personal sandbox environment.
True working studio that also enables processing data for real life problems and complex analytical issues.

Sigma Data Models can be viewed and analyzed interactively.
Rich set of built in analytical tools accessible within one mouse click.
Can view Sigma Data Models which are a smart combination of many SAP R3 tables.
No limit on the amount of rows or columns.
High performance engine, can handle millions of rows within seconds without impacting the SAP server.
Highly interactive viewer with rich set of Excel compatible conditional formatting.
Immediate export to many documents types (XLSX, PDF, DOCX, PPTX, HTML).

The Model’s meta data layer helps business analysts understand the objects included in the Data Model.
Each field (variable) is identified by its characteristic.
Each field can have a meta data attached to which serves as organizational knowledge center.

The Histogram Drill Down feature can show distribution and density of linear values. (Measures).
Automatic and intuitive drill down on any column without prior definition.
Unlimited levels of drill down.
Each drill down presents the next level distribution of values.

A Sigma project is a series of actions designed to run in order to perform a task. Usually a project is used for creating a report or series of combined reports/charts (dashboard) but can be any other data processing task like automatic distributing tailored sms/email to customers, loading files to other servers and applications or other.
An action in the project can be a data management action like: sort, merge, subset, split, append, summarize, sample, import or export. These actions allow you to manipulate Sigma Data Models and create new tables based on existing ones all in your own protected and isolated sandbox environment.
Data management capabilities allow to handle any data manipulation required for complex analytics.
You can integrate your own SAS code for even more complex scenarios.
Other actions provides a variety of tools to design complex reports (detailed and tabular), charts, kpi, and dashboards.
Each action has a specific GUI wizard for assigning it’s characteristics.
Each user can design his own project or share projects with other analysts.
Project runs in an isolated sandbox environment.
Project can run in batch or be scheduled.
Project can have prompts (Parameters) that users assign when submitting.
Project can be submitted for execution from within Sigma of from Sigma/Web of from Sigma/Mobile application.

Charts can be designed by users in an intuitive GUI.
No need to move data into other tools to create professional look charts.
Rich set of business charts (Pie, Bar, Plot, Scatter, Barline, Bubble, Histogram and many more).
Charts can be embedded into documents (xlsx, pptx, docx, pdf, html) and dashboards.
Supports batch and online producing of multiple charts (pages).
Supports many design elements via a GUI that controls every visual aspect of the chart.

Intuitive GUI to design your own set of KPI.
Work immediately on top of Sigma Data Models. No need to move data to a 3rd party product.
Reach set of designs to meet every visualization need.

Sigma Excel Dashboard Editor is a GUI tool to design the dashboard.
Sigma Excel dashboard is a true XLSX file.
Dashboards can span multiple tabs in an Excel workbook.
Sigma reports, charts, infoboxes and KPIs designed in previous actions in the project, are all objects that can be placed inside a tab in the dashboard.
Dashboards are sent via email to recipients according to a distribution matrix rules attached to the dashboard.
The whole process can be run in a batch mode producing tailored made dashboards to multiple recipients.

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