Intellect Sigma is a Cloud Native Web Reporting product powered by the Canvas Technology Platform. Sigma enables the end-users to generate "on-the-fly" reports just by configuration. Using Sigma, you can generate reports in multiple formats, such as PDF, HTML, DOCX, XML, CSV, and XLS.

The major release notes contain details of enhancements in the Sigma 20.1 release.

Features in Sigma Studio

The newly introduced features in Sigma Studio, as part of this release, are listed as follows:

Contacts and Contact Groups

You can create individual user contacts and separate user contact groups with simple and efficient configurations in Sigma Studio. You can easily create a separate contact group with different contacts, enabling you to send your configured reports to a particular contact group. Similarly, you can even send the configured reports to individual user contacts of your choice. 
For detailed information on creating user contacts and contact groups, refer Creating Contacts and Contact Groups.

Notification Templates

You can create notification templates to showcase a template for the notifications displayed to the users on receiving the reports through any of the different channels such as Inbox, SMS or Mail. The design of the notification template can easily be configured in accordance with your needs and requirements. You can specify the structure of the notification template for a particular channel using simple configurations. 
For detailed information on creating notification templates, refer Notification Template for Sharing Reports.  

Report Groups

You can create report groups with simple and effective configurations in Sigma Studio. A report group is a combination of two or more reports which can be grouped together in a single group. Single File, Individual File and Multi Sheet are the three different output options provided for the report group. 
For detailed information on creating report groups, refer Creating a Report Group. 

Incremental Reports

You can create incremental reports by just making use of simple and efficient configurations in Sigma Studio. Incremental reports are the reports which fetch the data for the particular period of time based on the selected criteria of the particular time or period. Instead of fetching the whole set of data for the report, the new set of data for a selected period of time can be fetched by configuring incremental reports. You can even schedule incremental reports on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis as per your needs and requirements.
For detailed information on creating incremental reports, refer Creating Incremental Reports. 

Pivot Reports

You can summarize the report data by creating pivot reports. Sigma Studio enables you to summarize the report data based on the values, filters, rows and columns data. Refer Pivot Reports for detailed information on how to create pivot reports in Sigma Studio.

Password Protection

You can secure your reports with enhanced password protection. By default, Sigma provides different password patterns which enable you to secure your reports with utmost significance. You can easily create complex password patterns with the Password Protection feature in Sigma Studio.
For detailed information on the Password Protection feature in Sigma, refer Configuring Password Protection for Reports.

Add Images and Logos to Reports

You can add custom images and logos to your reports in a simple way. The Template Designer feature in Sigma Studio enables you to add images to your reports. You can place the image in the desired position of your report. Based on your needs and requirements, you can even place your image on both the header and footer areas of the report.
For detailed information on adding images or logos to reports, refer Adding Logo or Image to Reports.

Displaying User and System Details in Reports

With the default system parameter configurations, as part of the Template Designer feature in Sigma Studio, the user and system details can easily be showcased in reports. While generating the reports in the Sigma Application, the user and system details will automatically get displayed in your reports.
For detailed information on displaying user and system details to reports, refer Displaying User and System Details in Reports.

Sigma Application Features

The configured reports in Sigma Studio can be viewed and generated in Sigma Application. With the applied parameters, the configured reports can be generated and downloaded in the applied formats in Sigma Application. 
The newly introduced features in Sigma Application, as part of the Sigma 20.1 release, are listed as follows:

Grouping of Reports

Sigma enables you to group multiple reports into a single report. While generating the report in Sigma Application, you can make use of the Create New Group feature to group different reports into a single report for your business purposes and requirements. The Multi-Sheet option enables you to generate the report with multiple sheets, based on the selected format of the report in the Sigma Application.
For detailed information on grouping of reports in Sigma Application, refer Grouping Reports in Sigma.

Schedule Reports

Sigma enables you to schedule reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. You can even schedule multiple reports in the Sigma Application based on your needs and requirements. If you schedule the reports on a daily basis, the reports will get generated on each and every day. If you schedule the reports on a weekly basis, the reports will get generated on the selected day of the week. If you schedule the reports on a monthly basis, the reports will get generated on the selected day of the month.
For detailed information on scheduling reports in Sigma Application, refer Scheduling Reports.