Two SF-based companies team up to modernize urban transportation

With dockless electric scooters reinventing urban transportation in cities across the globe, two San Francisco-based companies are teaming up to provide powerful access to a trove of customer usage data for city planners and innovations teams.

Electric scooter company Lime is available in 140 cities and more than 30 university campuses worldwide. Their network yields trillions of data points about the transportation habits and needs of millions of people in urban centers around the globe. As they grew, Lime increasingly struggled with accessing this massive amount of data in a way that could better guide its decision-making—until they found San Francisco-based Sigma, a revolutionary new cloud analytics application that opens up any company's cloud data warehouse to every member of the team.

Sigma has partnered with Lime to provide members of the Lime team easy access to the treasure trove of customer data without the need to write SQL or spend months learning a complicated BI tool. Making it possible for the business experts on sales, marketing, finance, and product teams to ask complex questions of their data without the help of the data team.

Lime’s business team can answer questions as fast as they can ask them using Sigma. Thanks to the intuitive interface, the data they need to make real-time decisions can be accessed in a familiar spreadsheet interface that generates SQL under the hood faster than any coder can write—and it’s always up to date thanks to the cloud warehouse.

Sigma’s user interface is so approachable and intuitive, Lime team members onboard new hires themselves, eliminating the need for time-sensitive and comprehensive technical training—ensuring every team member can participate in the data conversation from day one without hand-holding from the data team.

With data access available to anyone who needs it, team members across the globe—in every department—whether they are in Lime HQ or part of a street team—can make critical decisions that work best for their specific locales.

Even more, Lime uses Sigma to share data with their partner cities to better understand urban transit trends as they work together to reshape last-mile mobility.