Ixsight Data Quality vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

"We are using it primarily as a dedupe application... We use Ixsight to dedupe the customer across applications so that we know the customer's relationship across the bank."

"By using Melissa Data, we are able to scrub and verify, then better validate the end customer's address to ensure a more consistent delivery of products."

"Decreases chances of incorrect shipping addresses and, thus, returned packages."

"Through more accurate data, our marketing department has been able to increase delivery and conversion rates through email direct marketing initiatives."

"Enables us to send out bulk mailings when we need to verify NCOA."

"​​Allows us to delete and correct incorrect data to make the searching of our applicant tracking system more consistent and relevant.​​"

"It gives me an assessed value of the property in question. My partner and I are property investors, and it's good to get an assessed value to cull out properties that we're not interested in."

"The high value in this tool is its relatively low cost, ease of use, tight integration with SSIS, superior performance (compared to competitors), and attribute-level advanced survivor-ship logic."

"Address parsing. Our other software does not have this functionality."

"I would like them to evolve the product's online strategy, as more and more the need is for a "prefacto" dedupe (before creating the customer)."

"Address validation and parsing in a few countries have room for improvement."

"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."

"One of the problems that we ran into this year was we probably spent over 40 hours finding and trying to drill down to where specific bugs were in the program, which was a tremendous waste of time for us. There were a couple of updates to Windows this year, the program kept crashing. It happened on two different occasions over a period of a few months. Once we told them what the problem was - even though their tech support is great to work with - it literally took probably about two months to fix the issue where we could actually use the program the way we needed to use it."

"We are no longer using Melissa Data to clean up our address information as there are free tools that we can use to do the same thing."

"There are some companies out there using Google or other sources to check / confirm if addresses are residential. If Melissa is not doing this, that could be an improvement."

"Needs more/better search tools are needed. Also, state and local tax data would be nice."

"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."

"The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation however all SSIS components are resizable so that isn't true. This is just an annoyance but needless."

"Be sure to determine how the data is priced (record-based versus credit-based or some hybrid of data and services)."

"The only complaint that I have towards it is they sell licenses based on a range of usage, and I feel those ranges are too large."

"The price for address validation is similar in all software. However, the price for geocoding decides the actual pricing. If you get their most accurate geocoding (called GeoPoints), then it will add about $10k+ per million requests."

"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."

"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."

"Trial subscriptions (via cloud) are very cheap and easy to use. It’s a great way to test Listware to see if you want to go deeper with integration."

"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."

"Melissa pricing is competitive."