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Ixsight Data Quality vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Ixsight Data Quality
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Melissa Data Quality
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Quality (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Data Scrubbing Software category, the mindshare of Ixsight Data Quality is 2.1%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 9.2%, up from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Scrubbing Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Melissa Data Quality9.2%
Ixsight Data Quality2.1%
Other88.7%
Data Scrubbing Software
 

Featured Reviews

it_user826683 - PeerSpot reviewer
EVP & Head SDG
Dedupe helps us identify customer relationships as well as non-performing assets
We are using it primarily as a dedupe application. Our bank has multiple customer onboarding applications (different ones for trade products, non-trade, micro finance products, consumer finance products) and we use Ixsight to dedupe the customer across applications so that we know the customer's…
GM
Data Architect at World Vision
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

"We are using it primarily as a dedupe application, and we use Ixsight to dedupe the customer across applications so that we know the customer's relationship across the bank."
"Trial subscriptions (via cloud) are very cheap and easy to use."
"Address parsing. Our other software does not have this functionality."
"We only use the one feature for the NAICS code. This allows our product users to know what industry a business is in."
"Standardizing allows me to more effectively check for duplicate/existing records. Verifying increases the value of the data."
"Melissa Data is cost effective and efficient."
"Gives us the ability to offer an additional resource that other companies do not."
"We have been able to avoid costly duplication of data and effort, and verifying has increased the accuracy of our target marketing efforts."
"Customer Service: Great Technical Support: Great"
 

Cons

"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)."
"It would be helpful if a list of the codes and explanations could be included."
"Pricing model."
"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."
"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."
"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."
"MatchUp is a more complex product and I recommend a test area before upgrading to production. Performance can change from version to version."
"One thing I would want to have, when you're doing a property search, you can do it either on the FIPS in the APN number or the address itself. For some entries, I'll have the APN number, and some I'll have the address. Apparently it cannot process something when both the FIPS-APN and the address are on there. I have to sort, once with one and once with the other, which is a little bit of a pain."
"To continually update the database with NAICS codes on businesses."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Pricing is very reasonable."
"​You should have a good idea of the size of your data and the amount of cleansing you will be doing, so you will purchase the appropriate size bundle.​"
"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."
"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."
"​It is affordable."
"​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."
"NCOA address verification was a requirement from USPS to send out the mailers. This was the only option that charged per address which was extremely helpful since we are a small non-profit school."
"Melissa pricing is competitive."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
15%
Insurance Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Axis Bank, Barclays, IndusInd Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Tata Sky, Save the Children, Merkle Inc., Naaptol, Volkswagen, Voltas, Schneider Electric, Future Generali, HDFC Life, Bajaj Finserv, Indiabulls, Ranbaxy Laboratories
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