Melissa Data Quality vs SQL Power Data Quality comparison

"​It has a straightforward, easy setup."

"By validating and parsing the addresses our customers submit to us, we have reduced the number of addressing errors encountered during our processing."

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

"Through more accurate data, our marketing department has been able to increase delivery and conversion rates through email direct marketing initiatives."

"It saves a huge amount of time. Before using this service, we used a vendor that manually ran our lists through this NCOA list, which might have taken one to three business days to return the file. This was a huge bottleneck in our process, and the data returned was not always accurate. After switching to Melissa Data’s SmartMover, the process has been reduced to between ten minutes and three hours, depending on the amount of records sent."

"Services for all manner of data-driven organizations, no matter their size or budget."

"​Allows us to identify cell phones before dialing, and giving us data about callers."

"We like having the ability to write our own utilities/software to process our records and store the final output the way we want."

"The Nomo, select form, and so on are the most valuable features."

"The solution is able to integrate with many systems and other products."

"It is a scalable solution. We have over 1,000 SQL Power Data Quality users in our organization."

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

"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.""

"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."

"To continually update the database with NAICS codes on businesses."

"It really hasn't given us a phone number for the owner of the property, and that's one thing I'd really like to be getting. Either a phone number or email."

"We have noticed that some of the emails and addresses return with confusing or incorrect codes, but for the most part, it is accurate.​"

"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky."

"The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation however all SSIS components are resizable so that isn't true. This is just an annoyance but needless."

"Downtime issues should be improved."

"The normalization factor should be improved so that it is better scaled. It should be more user-friendly."

"The only area of improvement that we've come across within the solution was the portfolio roadmap creation. There's a bit of limitation there, but otherwise, the tool itself is very good."

"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."

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

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

"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."

"This vendor has no equal in pricing for equivalent functionality."

"​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."

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

"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."