Melissa Data Quality vs Precisely Trillium comparison

"We use a Melissa API to access the data, so it easy to use, accurate, and 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."

"Provides simplicity, ease of use, combined with overall accuracy of data."

"Be confident that the scalability and load are not going to be an issue with the services. ​"

"Provides quality accurate data that our downstream solutions depend on."

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

"We are able to send out client mailings with the most accurate addresses possible."

"When we plugin the contact verify component in the ETL from Source Systems, it will greatly help in standardizing and cleansing the source data and help keep the downstream systems clean."

"Precisely Trillium's best features include being a very comprehensive solution in terms of data quality."

"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."

"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."

"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 model."

"We would appreciate it if there was a larger database so that we could find information more often. For example, we can search for 10 people and only find the information for three of them, if we are lucky."

"We encounter failed batch processes once in a while, but their team is quick to rectify issues."

"​If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."

"More countries should be supported by Melissa."

"There's always room for improvement with Precisely Trillium. The hottest thing right now is AI, and leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance your data quality is always a plus."

"They were willing to work with our preferred vendors, though it involved extra steps to get the license."

"It's affordable."

"Generally, the cost is ROI positive, depending on your shipping volume."

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

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

"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."

"Buy a lot more credits than you think you’re going to need."

"Pricing is very reasonable."