We performed a comparison between IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer and Melissa Data Quality based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Quality solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What's most useful in IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is you can access it from anywhere. It's also pretty easy to learn, so even non-technical business people use it and found the solution easy to learn."
"You can also schedule and run data quality on the critical data elements on the databases."
"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."
"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."
"Provides simplicity, ease of use, combined with overall accuracy of data."
"Helps our organization provide accurate address information to our customers for direct mailing (household) and other campaigns they want to do."
"We use a Melissa API to access the data, so it easy to use, accurate, and fast."
"Ability to validate addresses, make corrections to address."
"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."
"I was able to dedupe millions of records in the past, and append the most recent email."
"What could be improved or added to IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is more connectors. This solution comes in a package with IBM InfoSphere DataStage and is missing a lot of connectors to various, new data sources, so IBM needs to work on that area. Compared with competitors such as Informatica and Alation which acquired other small companies to work on the connectors, IBM has not done any testing and has tried to develop the connectors in-house, but that's taking a lot of time. As a result, my company is unable to connect to a lot of data sources, particularly modern data sources."
"The solution is outdated and is not on cloud."
"Address validation and parsing in a few countries have room for improvement."
"We have noticed that some of the emails and addresses return with confusing or incorrect codes, but for the most part, it is accurate."
"It would be helpful if a list of the codes and explanations could be included."
"If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."
"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky."
"To continually update the database with NAICS codes on businesses."
"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."
"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."
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IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is ranked 11th in Data Quality with 6 reviews while Melissa Data Quality is ranked 9th in Data Quality with 40 reviews. IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is rated 7.6, while Melissa Data Quality is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer writes "Accessible from anywhere and easy to learn even for non-technical users, but needs more connectors and faster issue resolution from technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Melissa Data Quality writes "SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing". IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is most compared with IBM QualityStage, Informatica Data Quality, SAP Data Services and Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, whereas Melissa Data Quality is most compared with Informatica Address Verification, SAP Data Quality Management, Precisely Trillium and Experian Data Quality. See our IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer vs. Melissa Data Quality report.
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