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titleHow does Sigma work?

Reports are configured in Sigma Studio by operation or IT users. Report consumers log-on to Sigma Application (portal) and generate or schedule the reports that they have access to based on their entitlement.


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titleWhat skills are required to use Sigma product?

Sigma Studio enables easy configuration of reports using single-click and drag-and-drop interface. Users of Sigma Studio are expected to have knowledge or access to the functional schema or web services so that they can configure the data entities required for the reports.

Report consumers can easily access the reports they are entitled to view in the Sigma Application (portal) and can either generate ad-hoc reports or schedule reports.


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titleHow does user entitlement for reports work in Sigma?

The users and roles must be defined in the authentication and authorization system. The roles must be re-defined and mapped to the entitlements in Sigma Studio. The entitlement must be configured for the reports. Sigma provides role-based access to reports in Sigma Application based on the entitlements configured for the reports. When users log-on to Sigma Application (portal), they get to see the reports that they are entitled to view.


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titleWhich formats of reports can be generated using Sigma?

Sigma enables generation of reports in following formats - CSV, DOCX, HTML, PDF, TXT, XLS, and XML.


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titleDoes Are all the formats automatically enabled for all reports?

No. The report designers (Sigma Studio users) can configure or enable specific formats for each reports. Report consumers or generators (Sigma Application users) can generate the reports in the enabled formats only.

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titleWhat are the integration options Sigma provides for functional data required for reports?

Sigma Studio provides following integration options for fetching functional data - Database, JNDI, REST Web Services, Excel Import, and Google Sheets.


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titleDoes Sigma store functional or business data in its schema?

No. Sigma fetches the functional data from the configured data entities at the time of report generation.


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titleWhat level of control Sigma provides for the report columns?

Using Sigma Studio you can configure the following for report columns:

  • Column positions
  • Column alignment (by default number/amount columns of float data type are automatically right-aligned)
  • Column width
  • Column data aggregation - (average, count, maximum, minimum, and sum)
  • Display name names for columns
  • Column visibility
  • Column datatype
  • Date and time, currency formats

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