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Melissa Data Quality pros and cons

Vendor: Melissa
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

Melissa Data Quality offers a cost-effective solution with superior performance and tight SSIS integration.
Its address verification capabilities ensure accurate and complete customer data, reducing delivery errors.
The tool provides advanced standardization and survivorship logic for improved data quality and deduplication.
Users benefit from precise geocoding through GeoPoints for accurate location data management.
It significantly reduces processing time for data verification, enhancing the efficiency of marketing and communication efforts.

CONS

Melissa Data Quality is criticized for inaccurate address validation and parsing.
Processing performance is hindered by a single-threaded approach, limiting data handling capacity.
Users report challenges with the pricing model, which counts failed batch records and bumps to higher tiers unnecessarily.
Data quality issues such as mixing up family members and incorrect processing of FIPS-APN numbers are noted.
Technical support often attributes issues to user-side IT policies without offering solutions.
 

Melissa Data Quality Pros review quotes

it_user150288 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead/Solution Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 4, 2014
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.
GM
Data Architect at World Vision
Feb 21, 2024
The high value in this tool is its relatively low cost, ease of use, tight integration with SSIS, superior performance (compared to competitors), and attribute-level advanced survivor-ship logic.
it_user467340 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner /CEO at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
Jun 23, 2016
We now have less errors on catalog address labels.
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it_user496830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Leader at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 15, 2016
Easy to deploy with the help of my DBAs and Melissa Data tech support.
it_user496779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Business Intelligence at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 17, 2016
Personator application was able to append emails, new address if moved, phone number, geocode, and also standardizes existing customer information.
it_user498804 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Solutions Architect at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 18, 2016
It is easy to install and configure, integrates well with Visual Studio Data Tools, generates a unique key for every address it processes, generates correct error codes whenever it corrects an address, and is very reliable.
it_user790491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 18, 2017
Ability to validate addresses, make corrections to address.
it_user790494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Software Development
Dec 18, 2017
Standardizing allows me to more effectively check for duplicate/existing records. Verifying increases the value of the data.
it_user791220 - PeerSpot reviewer
Office Services Manager at a government with 51-200 employees
Dec 19, 2017
Getting the most up to date address for our members. We like to keep in touch with membership a few times a year so we want to maintain up to date addresses to be sure they receive any information that we mail to them.
it_user793614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Dec 24, 2017
Decreases chances of incorrect shipping addresses and, thus, returned packages.
 

Melissa Data Quality Cons review quotes

it_user150288 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead/Solution Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 4, 2014
It would be great if the product can be expanded to standardize and clean Telephone Numbers and TaxID’s/SSN’s.
GM
Data Architect at World Vision
Feb 21, 2024
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.
it_user467340 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner /CEO at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
Jun 23, 2016
It changes names to what it thinks it should be when the spelling is different. It should not do this.
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it_user496830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Leader at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 15, 2016
Need to POC point of entry validation.
it_user496779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Business Intelligence at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 17, 2016
Overall there is a room for improvement in Customer Address Appends and Email Appends.
it_user498804 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Solutions Architect at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 18, 2016
We are very pleased with the pricing but they need to have some good licence tracking mechanism.
it_user790491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 18, 2017
Pricing model.
it_user790494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Software Development
Dec 18, 2017
The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky.
it_user791220 - PeerSpot reviewer
Office Services Manager at a government with 51-200 employees
Dec 19, 2017
It will mix up family members at times, so we will change addresses at times that shouldn’t be changed.
it_user793614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Dec 24, 2017
Needs more/better search tools are needed. Also, state and local tax data would be nice.