Melissa Data Quality vs SQL Power Data Quality comparison

"Address parsing. Our other software does not have this functionality."

"We have been able to avoid costly duplication of data and effort, and verifying has increased the accuracy of our target marketing efforts."

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

"Standardizing allows me to more effectively check for duplicate/existing records. Verifying increases the value of the data."

"​Allows us to identify cell phones before dialing, and giving us data about callers."

"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."

"​​Allows us to delete and correct incorrect data to make the searching of our applicant tracking system more consistent and relevant.​​"

"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."

"SQL Power Data Quality is truly a proven product that makes the work of cleaning data in both source and target data easy yet efficient."

"The solution is able to integrate with many systems and other products."

"It is a scalable solution. We have over 1,000 SQL Power Data Quality users in our organization."

"The Nomo, select form, and so on are the most valuable features."

"The solution is very easy to use and it's quite flexible."

"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 better email append coverage (but every vendor struggles with this)."

"We are very pleased with the pricing but they need to have some good licence tracking mechanism."

"To continually update the database with NAICS codes on businesses."

"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky."

"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."

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

"Needs to validate more addresses accurately."

"Downtime issues should be improved."

"The normalization factor should be improved so that it is better scaled. It should be more user-friendly."

"The only area of improvement that we've come across within the solution was the portfolio roadmap creation. There's a bit of limitation there, but otherwise, the tool itself is very good."

"Integrating SQL Power with the system is challenging especially in places where no tutorials found and new versions continue to be released with varying requirements."

"The only area of improvement that we've come across within the solution was the portfolio roadmap creation. There's a bit of limitation there, but otherwise, the tool itself is very good."

"​It is affordable."

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

"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."

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

"Depends on situation. We prefer to have data onsite, but some might prefer web access."

"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."

"Melissa pricing is competitive."

"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."