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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.

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.

You need to clear online Sigma assessment with minimum 75% score. Reach out to ravikumar.babu@intellectdesign.com for training and assessment.

The assessment will have 30 questions (multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank). The duration for assessment is 30 minutes. A maximum of three attempts are provided to clear the assessment.

Sigma Studio is for configuring the reports and their functional data entities. Sigma Application is a portal for report consumers to generate and schedule reports that were configured in Sigma Studio. Typically, Sigma Studio is used by the operational or IT staff who have access and aware of the functional data entities and need to create reports for end-users. Sigma Application is used for end users (report consumers) who need to generate ad-hoc reports or schedule reports. Sigma Application can be used by operational staff who need to generate reports on behalf of customers. 

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 names for columns
• Column visibility
• Column datatype
• Date and time, currency formats

Not enabled as of now. It is always turned ON.

Yes.

Yes. The App Designer feature in the Sigma Studio can be used to create the chart as a individual app (widget). The Template Designer in Report configuration can be used to map the chart to the report. The generated report displays the chart and the report data. Refer Improve Business Reports with Charts.

Yes. Password protection can be enabled for PDF, DOCX, and XLS formats. Refer Configuring Password Protection for Reports for more information.

In Sigma portal, on the Generated Reports tab, you can use the 24 Hours, 3 Days, and 7 days filters to view older reports.

In Sigma Studio, the HTML editor in Template Designer can be used to design the reports. Refer Template Designer Configuration.

Record is a combined selection of rows in the table.

Object is an individual selection of an item in the table.

A custom column that can be used for computation purpose to deduce a value and use in report. Refer Adding Formulas in Data Aggregator for more information.

Yes, based on system filter and default filter.

You can add columns without limits. However, the column length (width) must be specified appropriately to avoid error scenarios.

For example, if your specify 10 characters for an address column, the values for that column should not exceed that limit. Also, depending upon the number of columns, the report page size and orientation needs to be configured accordingly.

When the data is updated, it gets reflected when you run the report. However, the structure of the database should not be changed.

Yes. Open the report in Sigma Studio, in the Report Parameters tab use the Generate output for no data drop-down to control report generation.

Currently the End of Report option is enabled for all. However, you can modify the End of Report message in the Add Labels screen with report configuration.

Yes. Refer Enabling Drop-downs for Report Filters for more information.

Yes. Refer Sub-Reports for more information.

Report consumers can perform the following on Sigma Application (portal):

• Generate and download reports
  • Choose report formats from among those configured
  • Change column positions
  • Add or remove configured columns
  • Change column-level configurations
  • Change report orientation and page size
  • Use sort and group by columns if configured
  • Choose contacts and notification channels
• Save base reports with customizations
• Regenerate executed reports
• Schedule reports
  • Configure multiple schedules for a report
  • Configure retry frequency in case of failures
  • Pause, resume and delete report schedules
• Create group reports

You can combine multiple report outputs into single file using the Group Reports feature. Refer Grouping Reports in Sigma for more information.

Report consumers can schedule reports in the Sigma Application (portal) in the following frequencies:

• Minute
• Hourly
• Daily
• Weekly once
• Monthly

Refer Scheduling Reports for more information.

Sigma Application (portal) users can choose either SMS or email notification and select contacts or contact groups that must receive the notification when the report is generated. The contacts and contact groups must be defined in Sigma Studio.

When report generation fails in Sigma Application (portal), users can view the failure reason upon which they can take further action. Sigma also offers options when scheduling reports to specify the  number of times for retrying report generation in case of failures.