Melissa Data Quality vs Microsoft Data Quality Services comparison

"​It has a straightforward, easy setup."

"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."

"Be confident that the scalability and load are not going to be an issue with the services. ​"

"Extremely easy to install and setup."

"Our customer database is now significantly more accurate and reliable."

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

"​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 saves a huge amount of time. Before using this service, we used a vendor that manually ran our lists through this NCOA list, which might have taken one to three business days to return the file. This was a huge bottleneck in our process, and the data returned was not always accurate. After switching to Melissa Data’s SmartMover, the process has been reduced to between ten minutes and three hours, depending on the amount of records sent."

"The primary advantage of Microsoft Data Quality Services is its capability to automate certain tasks, which are otherwise achieved through SQL queries."

"This solution is particularly useful for data enrichment."

"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."

"It could always be cheaper."

"It would be nice if it also had a user interface, as it did in years past."

"It will mix up family members at times, so we will change addresses at times that shouldn’t be changed."

"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."

"The billing structure does not seem very accurate. We’ve had issues with miscounted batch records processed"

"Pricing is based on tiers, with each tier capped at a specified number of records processed. Once you go over the cap at one tier, you are automatically bumped to the next tier. However, they seem to count failed batch processes so it’s good to keep track of the number of records sent. They’ll fix the count when notified, but their system fails to detect actual successful processes versus failed processes."

"Pricing model."

"Technical support from Microsoft is poor, as they do not provide adequate assistance with issues encountered in integration or forming automation."

"I would rate my experience with the initial setup a six out of ten, with one being very easy and ten being extremely challenging. So, there is room for improvement in the setup process."

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

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

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

"Trial subscriptions (via cloud) are very cheap and easy to use. It’s a great way to test Listware to see if you want to go deeper with integration."

"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."

"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."

"​It is affordable."

"The price for address validation is similar in all software. However, the price for geocoding decides the actual pricing. If you get their most accurate geocoding (called GeoPoints), then it will add about $10k+ per million requests."

"The pricing is in the midrange. It's not cheap, but it depends on the licenses you require."