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BCC Data Quality vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

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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
29th
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
11th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Melissa Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
13th
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 November 2026, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of BCC Data Quality is 1.5%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 3.9%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Quality Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Melissa Data Quality3.9%
BCC Data Quality1.5%
Other94.6%
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

"Postal sorting to the best and lowest postal rates."
"It fulfills the USPS requirements for mailings​."
"This software is a must have for my company offerings."
"There have been tangible benefits in combating fraudulent transactions. The information from Melissa Data is fed straight into our fraud system. This creates efficiency but also removes the need for manual address checks."
"Address parsing. Our other software does not have this functionality."
"Helps our organization provide accurate address information to our customers for direct mailing (household) and other campaigns they want to do."
"It cuts down significantly on time in trying to match names to addresses. I can do in a few hours what would otherwise take days to accomplish."
"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."
"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."
"​Initial setup was fairly straightforward. The documentation was very good in terms of how to integrate and consume the service(s) that we use. It did not take an abundance of time to set up things on our side to use the service."
"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."
 

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.​"
"There are some companies out there using Google or other sources to check / confirm if addresses are residential. If Melissa is not doing this, that could be an improvement."
"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."
"Overall there is a room for improvement in Customer Address Appends and Email Appends."
"Did not work as advertized. Needs better results in address parsing, as described on the website."
"Update feature"
"It will mix up family members at times, so we will change addresses at times that shouldn’t be changed."
"There are some hitches in setup, especially with the new encoding, but otherwise it’s relatively simple."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"The only complaint that I have towards it is they sell licenses based on a range of usage, and I feel those ranges are too large."
"Depends on situation. We prefer to have data onsite, but some might prefer web access."
"Melissa pricing is competitive."
"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."
"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."
"​It is affordable."
"This vendor has no equal in pricing for equivalent functionality."
"Be sure to determine how the data is priced (record-based versus credit-based or some hybrid of data and services)."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
16%
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

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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