Melissa Data Quality vs Talend Data Quality comparison

"Gives us the ability to offer an additional resource that other companies do not."

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

"It gives me an assessed value of the property in question. My partner and I are property investors, and it's good to get an assessed value to cull out properties that we're not interested in."

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

"Helps our organization provide accurate address information to our customers for direct mailing (household) and other campaigns they want to do."

"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."

"We use their GeoPoints to get the most precise, rooftop level geocoding."

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

"tLogRows are also great for finding bad data."

"The solution enables robust data matching, merging, survivorship, and Data Stewardship that can be a part of data quality workflows or true master data management."

"The numerous components provided by Talend mean you’re able to create jobs quickly and efficiently."

"Provides a flexible development environment to the coder.​"

"​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.​"

"The most valuable feature lies in the capability to assign data quality issues to different stakeholders, facilitating the tracking and resolution of defective work."

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

"The solution is customizable."

"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."

"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."

"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."

"The billing structure does not seem very accurate. We’ve had issues with miscounted batch records processed"

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

"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."

"Many issues, sometimes I have to completely log out and start over."

"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."

"There are too many functions which could be streamlined."

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

"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."

"When we upgraded to Version 6.4.1, we tried using a GIT repository instead of a SVN repository. After a few incidents where things disappeared and changes were not saved, we decided to go back to a SVN repository."

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

"If we encounter issues, it’s most likely when using the Talend Open Studio. The studio can be slow, get stuck, or crash. But again, it can be caused by the resources of your machine or your connection with the repository. If we encounter issues with the Studio we restart the Studio. In emergencies, we create and use a new workspace."

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

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

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

"Melissa pricing is competitive."

"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."

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

"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."

"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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