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IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

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

IBM Infosphere Information ...
Ranking in Data Quality
9th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Melissa Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Scrubbing Software (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is 3.0%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 4.0%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Quality Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer3.0%
Melissa Data Quality4.0%
Other93.0%
Data Quality
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1959495 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infosphere Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Good data quality, but the solution is outdated and difficult to use
The initial setup was complex and not very intuitive. You have to be very knowledgeable to complete the setup, and it is not an easy-to-use tool. It would be sufficient to have one dedicated administrator who can deploy updates and maintain the solution for about 10 to 20 hours a month.
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

"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."
"My advice to others who want to start using IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is that it's a very good product because it has a lot of handy features, and it's a product that's easier to learn and that even non-technical people can use it."
"Information Analyzer is still a good product."
"For basic Business Rule Creation to cleanse Legacy data, it worked as intended."
"You can also schedule and run data quality on the critical data elements on the databases."
"This tool would be very beneficial if used before a data migration or BI project as an initial phase to know the data exactly, and to figure out all data possible scenarios which we might face."
"Gives us the ability to offer an additional resource that other companies do not."
"Since we switched to Melissa Data web services, we do not need to maintain those servers and/or software, and we get the most up-to-date addresses from USPS."
"We are able to send out client mailings with the most accurate addresses possible."
"​It has a straightforward, easy setup."
"We like having the ability to write our own utilities/software to process our records and store the final output the way we want."
"Cleansing addresses of referring healthcare facilities to improve duplicate identification and geocoding their addresses."
"Our customer database is now significantly more accurate and reliable."
"SSIS integration."
 

Cons

"The solution is outdated and is not on cloud."
"Stopped using it. Took a loss."
"As of v9.1, the troubleshooting process is still painful."
"IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer, particularly its latest version, has some stability issues. My company faced some serious issues with stability and had to repeatedly go to IBM to have the issues fixed."
"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."
"Customer Service: AverageTechnical Support: Not good"
"Need to POC point of entry validation."
"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 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."
"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky, but otherwise the product does what I expect."
"More countries should be supported by Melissa."
"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."
"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."
"We are no longer using Melissa Data to clean up our address information as there are free tools that we can use to do the same thing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For the licensing cost of IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer, I have no information on the exact cost, but as it's bundled with other IBM products such as IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, the bundle is expensive when compared to competitor pricing."
"Melissa pricing is competitive."
"Buy a lot more credits than you think you’re going to need."
"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."
"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."
"​It is affordable."
"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."
"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."
"They were willing to work with our preferred vendors, though it involved extra steps to get the license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

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

Also Known As

Information Analyzer
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Sample Customers

Integra LifeSciences, Longjiang Bank Corp., Webster University, Swedish Armed Forces, Edith Cowan University, Premier, PRISA Digital, TIAA CREF
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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