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Melissa Data Quality vs ibi Data Quality comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

ibi Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
12th
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Melissa Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
8th
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of ibi Data Quality is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 2.8%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Offers numerous prebuilt data quality plans that can be reused for various data cleansing tasks
We had many duplicates originating from different source systems. We were able to match and deduplicate a significant amount of data. Additionally, we could synchronize and write back the latest information to the systems that were out of sync, ensuring they had the most recent data. As a result, we could write back and update the source systems.
GM
SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing
- Scalability is a limitation as it is single threaded. You can bypass this limitation by partitioning your data (say by alphabetic ranges) into multiple dataflows but even within a single dataflow the tool starts to really bog down if you are doing survivorship on a lot of columns. It's just very old technology written that's starting to show its age since it's been fundamentally the same for many years. To stay relavent they will need to replace it with either ADF or SSIS-IR compliant version. - Licensing could be greatly simplified. As soon as a license expires (which is specific to each server) the product stops functioning without prior notice and requires a new license by contacting the vendor. And updating the license is overly complicated. - The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation but that isn't true since pretty much all SSIS components are resizable except theirs! This is just an annoyance but needless impact on productivity when developing new data flows. - The tool needs to provide for incremental matching using the MatchUp for SSIS tool (they provide this for other solutions such as standalone tool and MatchUp web service). We had to code our own incremental logic to work around this. - Tool needs ability to sort mapped columns in the GUI when using advanced survivorship (only allowed when not using column-level survivorship). - It should provide an option for a procedural language (such as C# or VB) for survivor-ship expressions rather than relying on SSIS expression language. - It should provide a more sophisticated ability to concatenate groups of data fields into common blocks of data for advanced survivor-ship prioritization (we do most of this in SQL prior to feeding the data to the tool). - It should provide the ability to only do survivor-ship with no matching (matching is currently required when running data through the tool). - Tool should provide a component similar to BDD to enable the ability to split into multiple thread matches based on data partitions for matching and survivor-ship rather than requiring custom coding a parallel capable solution. We broke down customer data by first letter of last name into ranges of last names so we could run parallel data flows. - Documentation needs to be provided that is specific to MatchUp for SSIS. Most of their wiki pages were written for the web service API MatchUp Object rather than the SSIS component. - They need to update their wiki site documentation as much of it is not kept current. Its also very very basic offering very little in terms of guidelines. For example, the tool is single-threaded so getting great performance requires running multiple parallel data flows or BDD in a data flow which you can figure out on your own but many SSIS practitioners aren't familiar with those techniques. - The tool can hang or crash on rare occasions for unknown reason. Restarting the package resolves the problem. I suspect they have something to do with running on VM (vendor doesn't recommend running on VM) but have no evidence to support it. When it crashes it creates dump file with just vague message saying the executable stopped running.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Works quickly to develop and deploy to production."
"Ibi Data Quality offers numerous prebuilt data quality plans that can be reused for various data cleansing tasks. Additionally, it provides a variety of prebuilt match and merge rules for performing master data management,"
"Address parsing. Our other software does not have this functionality."
"There have been tangible benefits in combating fraudulent transactions. The information from Melissa Data is fed straight into our fraud system. This creates efficiency but also removes the need for manual address checks."
"Ability to validate addresses, make corrections to address."
"This tool works better for us than using a batch processing system that we do not have enough control over as each record is being processed."
"Through more accurate data, our marketing department has been able to increase delivery and conversion rates through email direct marketing initiatives."
"Provides quality accurate data that our downstream solutions depend on."
"It cuts down significantly on time in trying to match names to addresses. I can do in a few hours what would otherwise take days to accomplish."
"The customers' addresses are now complete, correct and follow one consistent format."
 

Cons

"Special integration support could be improved."
"Their data governance portal can be improved. It lacks data governance-related features. Also, PII and anomaly detection could be valuable use cases for ibi. Adding these features would be a great enhancement."
"MatchUp is a more complex product and I recommend a test area before upgrading to production. Performance can change from version to version."
"We encounter failed batch processes once in a while, but their team is quick to rectify issues."
"Did not work as advertized. Needs better results in address parsing, as described on the website."
"It will mix up family members at times, so we will change addresses at times that shouldn’t be changed."
"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky."
"Pricing is based on tiers, with each tier capped at a specified number of records processed. Once you go over the cap at one tier, you are automatically bumped to the next tier. However, they seem to count failed batch processes so it’s good to keep track of the number of records sent. They’ll fix the count when notified, but their system fails to detect actual successful processes versus failed processes."
"It would be nice if it also had a user interface, as it did in years past."
"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."
 

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"Fully understand your volume, both monthly and annually. Speak with a Melissa account manager, they will put together an effective solution to meet your needs."
"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."
"​We are concerned that our own pricing is going up every year for Melissa Data products, but we highly recommend the services for people who are routinely sending out mailings."
"It's affordable."
"Be sure to determine how the data is priced (record-based versus credit-based or some hybrid of data and services)."
"Buy a lot more credits than you think you’re going to need."
"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."
"Melissa pricing is competitive."
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Top Industries

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Insurance Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for iWay Omni-Gen Data Quality?
There is an upgrade to the existing version, where a different license could be used, but we have a perpetual license. I rate the product’s pricing a three out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten i...
What needs improvement with iWay Omni-Gen Data Quality?
Their data governance portal can be improved. It lacks data governance-related features. Also, PII and anomaly detection could be valuable use cases for ibi. Adding these features would be a great ...
What advice do you have for others considering iWay Omni-Gen Data Quality?
For the on-prem solution, we installed a package on the web server. This package included web-based tools and development tools, which were Eclipse-based toolsets. These tools allowed us to design ...
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Also Known As

iWay Software Data Quality, iWay Omni-Gen Data Quality Edition, Omni-Gen Data Quality
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Sample Customers

ICA Fluor, Estonia Police Department, Kansas City Police Department
Boeing Co., FedEx, Ford Motor Co, Hewlett Packard, Meade-Johnson, Microsoft, Panasonic, Proctor & Gamble, SAAB Cars USA, Sony, Walt Disney, Weight Watchers, and Intel.
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