IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

IBM and Melissa are both solutions in the Data Quality category. IBM is ranked #7 with an average rating of 10.0, while Melissa is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0. IBM holds a 2.7% mindshare in DQ, compared to Melissa’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Melissa users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer and Melissa Data Quality are competing in the data quality management sector. Melissa Data Quality appears to have the upper hand due to its user-centric features and flexible integration.

Features: IBM Infosphere offers advanced data profiling, comprehensive analysis tools, and deep analytical capabilities. Melissa provides user-friendly data validation, cost-effective cleansing, and seamless integration with SSIS.

Room for Improvement: IBM Infosphere could benefit from an easier deployment process, more responsive support, and better cost-effectiveness. Melissa could enhance its analytical depth, offer more complex profiling features, and improve its integration with non-Microsoft environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Infosphere requires significant IT involvement for complex deployments, whereas Melissa enables a streamlined setup with limited technical resources. Melissa also offers more responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Infosphere has higher initial costs with potentially longer ROI timelines. Melissa offers competitive pricing and faster ROI, aided by quick deployment and user-friendly features.

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IBM Infosphere Information ...

Ranking in Data Quality

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

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Melissa Data Quality

Ranking in Data Quality

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is 2.7%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 3.1%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Tirthankar Roy Chowdhury

Teamlead at Tata consultancy services

Accessible from anywhere and easy to learn even for non-technical users, but needs more connectors and faster issue resolution from technical support

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.

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GaryM

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.

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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."

"You can also schedule and run data quality on the critical data elements on the databases."

"We use a Melissa API to access the data, so it easy to use, accurate, and fast."

"We are able to more accurately identify valid, and better formatted, data which improves the data we store in our database."

"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."

"Decreases chances of incorrect shipping addresses and, thus, returned packages."

"Through more accurate data, our marketing department has been able to increase delivery and conversion rates through email direct marketing initiatives."

"The customers' addresses are now complete, correct and follow one consistent format."

"Provides quality accurate data that our downstream solutions depend on."

"This tool works better for us than using a batch processing system that we do not have enough control over as each record is being processed."

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Cons

"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."

"Tech support at Melissa Data was very quick to wash their hands of an issue and say it's IT policies on my side that are causing the issue. There was no offer to try and find a work-around. Just an overwhelming attitude of "it’s not our problem.""

"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."

"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."

"We encounter failed batch processes once in a while, but their team is quick to rectify issues."

"Pricing model."

"Speed of delivery/ease of use. They advertise a 24-hour, next business day turn time on data annotation, but I’ve found it is usually closer to 72 hours. This is still excellent, just make sure you add in the appropriate fluff to your delivery timelines."

"Needs to validate more addresses accurately."

"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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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."

"It is affordable."

"This vendor has no equal in pricing for equivalent functionality."

"Pricing is very reasonable."

"Buy a lot more credits than you think you’re going to need."

"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."

"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."

"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."

"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."

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Overview

IBM Information Analyzer provides data quality assessment, data quality monitoring and data rule design and analysis capabilities. This software helps you derive more meaning from your enterprise data, reduces the risk of proliferating incorrect information, facilitates the delivery of trusted content, and helps to lower data integration costs.

IBM

Data Quality Components for SSIS

This suite of data transformations for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) delivers the full spectrum of data quality including data profiling, data verification, data enrichment and data matching. With an intuitive interface and drag/drop capabilities, this powerful toolkit makes it easy to unify data into a single version of the truth for Master Data Management (MDM) success.

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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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