IBM QualityStage vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

IBM and Melissa are both solutions in the Data Quality category. IBM is ranked #19, while Melissa is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0. IBM holds a 0.8% mindshare in DQ, compared to Melissa’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Melissa users who would recommend it.

IBM QualityStage

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100% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

IBM QualityStage and Melissa Data Quality compete in the data quality management space. Melissa Data Quality has a comprehensive feature set making it more appealing despite higher pricing.

Features: IBM QualityStage provides robust data cleansing, seamless large-volume handling, and integration with IBM's suite. Melissa Data Quality offers extensive data profiling, real-time enhancements, and customizable solutions.

Room for Improvement: IBM QualityStage could improve on offering customization options and real-time data capabilities, and expanding its ecosystem flexibility. Melissa Data Quality's setup process, documentation, and integration with existing systems can be more streamlined.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM QualityStage integrates smoothly within IBM systems with reliable support. Melissa Data Quality, while offering personalized support, involves a more complex deployment due to its customization capabilities.

Pricing and ROI: IBM QualityStage is cost-effective for existing IBM clients, providing good ROI when integrated within IBM systems. Melissa Data Quality has a higher upfront cost but offers significant ROI through enhanced data accuracy.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM QualityStage

Ranking in Data Quality

19th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Melissa Data Quality

Ranking in Data Quality

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Data Scrubbing Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of IBM QualityStage is 0.8%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 3.3%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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it_user154311

BI Technical Arquitect with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you install everything on the same box, the installation process is easy.

Data Profiling and Data Cleansing features I work for a company which provides solutions to the customers using this software Predefined rules implementation depending on the industry 4 years The installation process will depend on the solution topology from the infrastructure point of view.…

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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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Overview

IBM QualityStage is a foundational component for your data quality and information governance initiatives. It helps you create and maintain consistent views of key entities including customers, vendors, locations and products. This lets you investigate, cleanse and manage your data.

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

PRO BTP, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Sicoob, NICE Systems, Integra LifeSciences Corp.

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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