What's new in Sigma

AI

Build and interact with Sigma agents (Beta)

Build agentic solutions natively in Sigma with Sigma agents. Agents provide AI capabilities to a dashboard or application based on a predefined context of the data elements in a workbook. Instructions and data sources provide context to the agent, while actions, warehouse agents, warehouse search services, and MCP tools provide tools for an agent to take action or enrich insights.

After you build an agent, you can schedule it to run automatically, or add a Chat element for users to interact with the agent using natural language in a conversational interface. See Build Sigma agents.

You can build agents to achieve specific business tasks, like analyzing pipeline funnel for sales operations, explaining financial variances across actual and plan data, forecasting different sales promotions, or summarizing the status of an incident in a debugging app. For detailed examples, see Example use cases for Sigma agents.

Configure MCP tools to use with Sigma agents (Beta)

Use MCP servers for third-party services with Sigma agents by adding them to Sigma as MCP tools. For example, to provide context about documents in Microsoft SharePoint to Sigma agents, or allow agents to perform tasks in Jira, configure the relevant MCP servers in Sigma.

For instructions, see Add MCP tools to Sigma.

Use warehouse agents with Assistant and agents (Beta)

If you have Snowflake Cortex Agents or Databricks Genie Spaces, you can ask questions of those agents from Sigma Assistant, or set up a Sigma agent to use one or more warehouse agents as tools.

Ask questions of warehouse agents from Sigma Assistant, or set up a Sigma agent to call one or more warehouse agents as tools. Admins can turn off warehouse agents with Sigma Assistant to use only Sigma analyze mode.

For more details about setup requirements, see Use warehouse agents with Sigma.

API

New API endpoint for updating deployment policies

The following endpoint is now available to update a deployment policy in Sigma:

Update a deployment policy (PATCH v2/deploymentPolicies/{deploymentPolicyId})

Admin

AI usage dashboard

Review and monitor token consumption and more for AI-powered features in your Sigma organization. After it is configured for your organization, you can review the following for Assistant and agents:

Data source, tool calls, token usage, and model used to answer questions.
User feedback provided on agent and Assistant responses.
Conversation details

For configuration instructions, see Configure the AI usage dashboard. For details about the dashboard, see AI usage dashboard.

License type column in the Administration > Users table

In the Administration > Users page, the table now includes a dedicated License type column that indicates the license tier associated with each user's account type. The new column enables admins to easily review license tier allocation directly from the Users page.

Support for OpenAI GPT 5.4

If your OpenAI or Azure OpenAI account supports GPT 5.4, Sigma now uses that model instead of GPT 5.1.

Workbook elements

Progress bars and progress rings (Beta)

Build a progress bar or progress ring to display a value as a percentage or proportion of a target value. Progress bars and rings allow you to evaluate your current status in completing a goal, visualize your team's usage of a budget, and more.

For more information, see Build a progress bar and Build a progress ring.

Workbook features

Select Snowflake role for a connection (GA)

If you have access to a Snowflake connection authenticated with OAuth, you can select which Snowflake role to use when performing tasks in Sigma.

In addition to selecting a role from the data catalog, you can now also choose a role from your user profile page.

For more details, see Choose your Snowflake role for an OAuth connection.

Swap MCP tools, warehouse agents, and API connectors

When tagging a workbook version, you can swap the API connectors used by Call API actions and the MCP tools and warehouse agents used by Sigma agents in the workbook. For more details, see Tag a workbook, data model, or report version.

Use dynamic text in email exports

You can now use dynamic text when formatting the Subject and Message fields in ad hoc and scheduled email exports.

See Export to email for more information.

Bug fixes and improvements

License tier usage counts in the Administration > Users page are now consistent with the Usage dashboard.
The value column position in exports now always matches how it appears in the workbook. Previously, pivot table exports with 2 or more values always placed the value column last, regardless of its position in the workbook.
You can now configure the text color of options in the navigation element. For more information, see Use the navigation element to guide user exploration.