We performed a comparison between Melissa Data Quality and SAP Information Steward based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica, SAP, Talend and others in Data Quality."Allows us to identify cell phones before dialing, and giving us data about callers."
"We only use the one feature for the NAICS code. This allows our product users to know what industry a business is in."
"We ran a standard name, address, and zip code, internal dedupe between the different files we had purchased, and we were able to quickly notify our vendor that they had tens of thousands of duplications that they were not even aware of."
"Address verification ensures our customers get their packages, and we aren’t charged for incomplete address information."
"It cuts down significantly on time in trying to match names to addresses. I can do in a few hours what would otherwise take days to accomplish."
"Extremely easy to install and 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."
"We like having the ability to write our own utilities/software to process our records and store the final output the way we want."
"The solution is very fast."
"The Data Cleansing and the scorecard dashboard are very valuable. Additionally, the financial aspect of SAP Information Steward is very good. When a rule is incorrect then it will show how much is it costing the business. These features are very valuable."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Setup is straightforward."
"The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Needs better email append coverage (but every vendor struggles with this)."
"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."
"Needs more/better search tools are needed. Also, state and local tax data would be nice."
"If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."
"To continually update the database with NAICS codes on businesses."
"Needs to provide more phone numbers, even cell numbers (scrubbed numbers)."
"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."
"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."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"The solution could improve by incorporating other applications, such as Power BI to show more visualization. More interaction with other solutions would be a good benefit."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"Performance could be improved."
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Melissa Data Quality is ranked 9th in Data Quality with 40 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Data Quality with 9 reviews. Melissa Data Quality is rated 8.4, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Melissa Data Quality writes "SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". Melissa Data Quality is most compared with Informatica Address Verification, SAP Data Quality Management, Precisely Trillium and Experian Data Quality, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, SAP PowerDesigner and Syniti Information Management.
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