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Melissa Data Quality vs Posidex Technologies Data Quality comparison

 

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

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 (10th)
Posidex Technologies Data Q...
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Data Scrubbing Software category, the mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 9.2%, up from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Posidex Technologies Data Quality is 2.9%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Scrubbing Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Melissa Data Quality9.2%
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

"Contact Verify is very simple to use and performs very fast."
"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."
"Be confident that the scalability and load are not going to be an issue with the services. ​"
"Enables us to send out bulk mailings when we need to verify NCOA."
"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."
"We now have less errors on catalog address labels."
"Personator application was able to append emails, new address if moved, phone number, geocode, and also standardizes existing customer information."
"Gives us the ability to offer an additional resource that other companies do not."
"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

"It would be great if the product can be expanded to standardize and clean Telephone Numbers and TaxID’s/SSN’s."
"Did not work as advertized. Needs better results in address parsing, as described on the website."
"The use case I'm familiar with is for a merchant who was contrasting this technology with data from Dun and Bradstreet: so my recommendation is that Melissa Data purchase Dun and Bradstreet to combine their data breadth."
"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."
"Address validation and parsing in a few countries have room for improvement."
"Tech support at Melissa Data was very quick to wash their hands of an issue and say it's IT policies on my side that are causing the issue. There was no offer to try and find a work-around. Just an overwhelming attitude of "it’s not our problem.""
"We encounter failed batch processes once in a while, but their team is quick to rectify issues."
"We have noticed that some of the emails and addresses return with confusing or incorrect codes, but for the most part, it is accurate.​"
"Having the solution in big data technologies is something Posidex is working on."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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.​"
"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."
"Melissa pricing is competitive."
"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."
"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."
"It's affordable."
"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Insurance Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
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Company Size

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

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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