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Melissa Data Quality vs Posidex Technologies Data Quality comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

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 (8th)
Posidex Technologies Data Q...
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Data Scrubbing Software category, the mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 9.2%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Posidex Technologies Data Quality is 2.9%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Scrubbing Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Melissa Data Quality9.2%
Posidex Technologies Data Quality2.9%
Other87.9%
Data Scrubbing Software
 

Featured Reviews

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.
reviewer797259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The data cleansing and standardization it offers has helped us in our credit decisions for underwriters
The primary use cases of the solution are: Ensuring data quality Data cleansing of the input data Deduplication of the customer and his/her demographic information from multiple data sources against the existing customer base. Scanning the customer records against the negative customer list…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Personator application was able to append emails, new address if moved, phone number, geocode, and also standardizes existing customer information."
"Provides simplicity, ease of use, combined with overall accuracy of data."
"Cleansing addresses of referring healthcare facilities to improve duplicate identification and geocoding their addresses."
"Our customer database is now significantly more accurate and reliable."
"Address verification ensures our customers get their packages, and we aren’t charged for incomplete address information."
"Provides quality accurate data that our downstream solutions depend on."
"Melissa offer a high quality product with great service."
"​Initial setup was fairly straightforward. The documentation was very good in terms of how to integrate and consume the service(s) that we use. It did not take an abundance of time to set up things on our side to use the service."
"The data cleansing and standardization it offers, and near real-time response, has helped us in our credit decisions for underwriters, thereby getting the right customer onboarded."
"The data cleansing and standardization it offers, and near real-time response, has helped us in our credit decisions for underwriters, thereby getting the right customer onboarded."
 

Cons

"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky."
"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."
"If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."
"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."
"Overall there is a room for improvement in Customer Address Appends and Email Appends."
"Needs more/better search tools are needed. Also, state and local tax data would be nice."
"The custom software solution we still use in-house makes Excel a lot slower than usual."
"Pricing model."
"Having the solution in big data technologies is something Posidex is working on."
"Having the solution in big data technologies is something Posidex is working on."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"​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.​"
"​It is affordable."
"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."
"They were willing to work with our preferred vendors, though it involved extra steps to get the license."
"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."
"​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."
"Melissa pricing is competitive."
"Buy a lot more credits than you think you’re going to need."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Company Size

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Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
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