Melissa Data Quality vs Talend Data Quality comparison

"We mainly communicate with our customers via email, so we primarily use it to find a phone number so we can contact them more efficiently. This allows us to talk to them and resolve their issues much more quickly."

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

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

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

"SSIS integration."

"​It has a straightforward, easy setup."

"​​Allows us to delete and correct incorrect data to make the searching of our applicant tracking system more consistent and relevant.​​"

"​We are able to more accurately identify valid, and better formatted, data which improves the data we store in our database.​"

"It has definitely streamlined certain processes.​"

"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the extensibility, the integration, and the ease of integration with multiple platforms."

"tLogRows are also great for finding bad data."

"I like idea of storing the results of Data Quality jobs in a DB and having the ability to run reports in the DB to show a dashboard of quality metrics."

"​It lowers the amount of time in development from weeks to a day.​"

"​This product speeds up the unit testing and QA for specific test scenarios. As a result, the development output quality can be evaluated and adjusted.​"

"With its frequency function, we were able to pick a line of business to be addressed first in one of our conversion projects."

"We are able to get emails from URLs very easily using this function when others fail."

"There are some hitches in setup, especially with the new encoding, but otherwise it’s relatively simple."

"Needs to validate more addresses accurately."

"MatchUp is a more complex product and I recommend a test area before upgrading to production. Performance can change from version to version."

"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."

"Pricing model."

"MatchUp seems to be single threaded, and limits the amount of data that can be processed automatically."

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

"It will mix up family members at times, so we will change addresses at times that shouldn’t be changed."

"The ability to change the code when debugging the JavaScript could be improved."

"There are more functions in a non-streamlined manner, which could be refined to arrive at a better off-the-shelf functions."

"Heap space issues plague us consistently. We maxed it out and it runs fine, then it doesn’t, then it does."

"I would say that some of the support elements need improvement."

"The performance is one area that Talend Data Quality could improve in because large volumes take a lot of time."

"NullPointerExceptions are going to be the death of me and are a big reason for our transition away from Talend. One day, it is fine with a 1000 blank rows, then the next day, it will find one blank cell and it breaks down."

"They don't have any AI capabilities. Talend DQ is specifically for data quality, which only has data profiling. With Talend DQ, I cannot generate any reports today, so I need an ETL tool. It provides general Excel files, or I have to create some views. If instead of buying a new tool, Talend provides a reporting capability or solution, it would be great. It will reduce the development effort for creating these kinds of reports. We also manage the infrastructure for Talend. From the licensing perspective, for cloud, they only have seat licenses where one person is tied to one license, but for on-premise, they have concurrent licenses. It would be really awesome if they can provide concurrent licenses for the cloud so that if one person is not there, somebody else can use that license. Currently, it is not possible unless a person deactivates his or her license and moves the same seat license to someone else. We are one of the biggest customers in the central zone of the US for Talend, and this is the feedback that we have provided them again and again, but they come back and say that they aren't able to provide concurrent licenses on the cloud. In version 7.3, there is a feature for tokenization and de-tokenization of data. This is the feature that we are looking for. It is useful if somebody wants to see what we have masked and how do we demask it. This feature is not there in version 7.1. There are also a few other capabilities on the cloud, but we don't yet have a big footprint in the cloud."

"SQL for displaying underlying data in non-match results does not work."

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

"Depends on situation. We prefer to have data onsite, but some might prefer web access."

"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."

"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."

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

"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."

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

"I would advise to first take a look and at the Open Studio edition. Figure out what you need and purchase the appropriate license."

"It is cheaper than Informatica. Talend Data Quality costs somewhere between $10,000 to $12,000 per year for a seat license. It would cost around $20,000 per year for a concurrent license. It is the same for the whole big data solution, which comes with Talend DI, Talend DQ, and TDM."

"We did not purchase a separate license for DQ. It is part of our data platform suite, and I believe it is well-priced."

"It's a subscription-based platform, we renew it every year."

"Moreover, the pricing structure stands out as highly competitive compared to other offerings in the market, making it a cost-effective choice for users."