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BCC Data Quality vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

BCC Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
26th
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
12th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Melissa Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
8th
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of BCC Data Quality is 1.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 4.3%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Quality Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Melissa Data Quality4.3%
BCC Data Quality1.5%
Other94.2%
Data Quality
 

Featured Reviews

it_user831795 - PeerSpot reviewer
President
Postal sorting to the best and lowest postal rates
It is used for clients' mail list hygiene to standardize, update change of addresses, dedupe, and postal sort for mailings with postal discounted rates My company provides these services for clients in the mailing industry. This software is a must have for my company offerings. Address…
GM
Data Architect at World Vision
SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing
- Scalability is a limitation as it is single threaded. You can bypass this limitation by partitioning your data (say by alphabetic ranges) into multiple dataflows but even within a single dataflow the tool starts to really bog down if you are doing survivorship on a lot of columns. It's just very old technology written that's starting to show its age since it's been fundamentally the same for many years. To stay relavent they will need to replace it with either ADF or SSIS-IR compliant version. - Licensing could be greatly simplified. As soon as a license expires (which is specific to each server) the product stops functioning without prior notice and requires a new license by contacting the vendor. And updating the license is overly complicated. - The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation but that isn't true since pretty much all SSIS components are resizable except theirs! This is just an annoyance but needless impact on productivity when developing new data flows. - The tool needs to provide for incremental matching using the MatchUp for SSIS tool (they provide this for other solutions such as standalone tool and MatchUp web service). We had to code our own incremental logic to work around this. - Tool needs ability to sort mapped columns in the GUI when using advanced survivorship (only allowed when not using column-level survivorship). - It should provide an option for a procedural language (such as C# or VB) for survivor-ship expressions rather than relying on SSIS expression language. - It should provide a more sophisticated ability to concatenate groups of data fields into common blocks of data for advanced survivor-ship prioritization (we do most of this in SQL prior to feeding the data to the tool). - It should provide the ability to only do survivor-ship with no matching (matching is currently required when running data through the tool). - Tool should provide a component similar to BDD to enable the ability to split into multiple thread matches based on data partitions for matching and survivor-ship rather than requiring custom coding a parallel capable solution. We broke down customer data by first letter of last name into ranges of last names so we could run parallel data flows. - Documentation needs to be provided that is specific to MatchUp for SSIS. Most of their wiki pages were written for the web service API MatchUp Object rather than the SSIS component. - They need to update their wiki site documentation as much of it is not kept current. Its also very very basic offering very little in terms of guidelines. For example, the tool is single-threaded so getting great performance requires running multiple parallel data flows or BDD in a data flow which you can figure out on your own but many SSIS practitioners aren't familiar with those techniques. - The tool can hang or crash on rare occasions for unknown reason. Restarting the package resolves the problem. I suspect they have something to do with running on VM (vendor doesn't recommend running on VM) but have no evidence to support it. When it crashes it creates dump file with just vague message saying the executable stopped running.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It fulfills the USPS requirements for mailings​."
"This software is a must have for my company offerings."
"Postal sorting to the best and lowest postal rates."
"We use a Melissa API to access the data, so it easy to use, accurate, and fast."
"Customer Service: Great Technical Support: Great"
"Through more accurate data, our marketing department has been able to increase delivery and conversion rates through email direct marketing initiatives."
"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."
"Address parsing. Our other software does not have this functionality."
"SSIS integration."
"We have only been using this for about two months, but it has sped up our processing significantly, making data mining easy and fast so we no longer have to spend an entire month gathering correct information on leads, as all we need is a list of home addresses and in minutes we have names and phone numbers to increase our chance of these leads becoming customers."
"We only use the one feature for the NAICS code. This allows our product users to know what industry a business is in."
 

Cons

"I use another program for deduping files. I am not comfortable with the way BCC deduping runs when deduping by full name and address."
"​I use another program for deduping files. I am not comfortable with the way BCC deduping runs when deduping by full name and address.​"
"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."
"​If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."
"MatchUp is a more complex product and I recommend a test area before upgrading to production. Performance can change from version to version."
"Many issues, sometimes I have to completely log out and start over."
"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky."
"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."
"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 and Cost Advice

Information not available
"This vendor has no equal in pricing for equivalent functionality."
"​You should have a good idea of the size of your data and the amount of cleansing you will be doing, so you will purchase the appropriate size bundle.​"
"​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."
"Generally, the cost is ROI positive, depending on your shipping volume."
"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."
"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."
"Buy a lot more credits than you think you’re going to need."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Insurance Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
 

Also Known As

Bell and Howell Data Quality
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Sample Customers

Perinton Publishing
Boeing Co., FedEx, Ford Motor Co, Hewlett Packard, Meade-Johnson, Microsoft, Panasonic, Proctor & Gamble, SAAB Cars USA, Sony, Walt Disney, Weight Watchers, and Intel.
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