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Ixsight Data Quality vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

 

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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
10th
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
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Quality (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Scrubbing Software category, the mindshare of Ixsight Data Quality is 2.5%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 7.9%, up from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Scrubbing Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Melissa Data Quality7.9%
Ixsight Data Quality2.5%
Other89.6%
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... We use Ixsight to dedupe the customer across applications so that we know the customer's relationship across the bank."
"We are able to send out client mailings with the most accurate addresses possible."
"We use a Melissa API to access the data, so it easy to use, accurate, and fast."
"Enables us to send out bulk mailings when we need to verify NCOA."
"The customers' addresses are now complete, correct and follow one consistent format."
"Address parsing. Our other software does not have this functionality."
"Ability to validate addresses, make corrections to address."
"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."
"Our customer database is now significantly more accurate and reliable."
 

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 nice if it also had a user interface, as it did in years past."
"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."
"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."
"Speed of delivery/ease of use. They advertise a 24-hour, next business day turn time on data annotation, but I’ve found it is usually closer to 72 hours. This is still excellent, just make sure you add in the appropriate fluff to your delivery timelines."
"It could always be cheaper."
"More countries should be supported by Melissa."
"An area for improvement is where an end customer's address is not found in the Melissa Data database, even though it is a valid address."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."
"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."
"​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."
"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."
"Pricing is very reasonable."
"Depends on situation. We prefer to have data onsite, but some might prefer web access."
"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Insurance Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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