Melissa Data Quality vs Talend Data Quality comparison

"Ability to validate addresses, make corrections to address."

"I was able to dedupe millions of records in the past, and append the most recent email."

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

"The high value in this tool is its relatively low cost, ease of use, tight integration with SSIS, superior performance (compared to competitors), and attribute-level advanced survivor-ship logic."

"​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."

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

"​It has a straightforward, easy setup."

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

"The jobs are visual and this has improved collaboration between colleagues. It’s much easier to understand a visual job than a piece of Java code."

"The most valuable feature lies in the capability to assign data quality issues to different stakeholders, facilitating the tracking and resolution of defective work."

"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the extensibility, the integration, and the ease of integration with multiple platforms."

"​It lowers the amount of time in development from weeks to a day.​"

"It offers advanced features that allow you to create custom patterns and use regular expressions to identify data issues."

"I really like the fact that there are no out-of-the-box solutions regarding the development of jobs. Other vendors may have modules which cleanse your addresses. In Talend, you have the freedom to completely develop the process yourself. This can be tricky, but it also makes it fun."

"The solution is customizable."

"The numerous components provided by Talend mean you’re able to create jobs quickly and efficiently."

"Needs to validate more addresses accurately."

"MatchUp seems to be single threaded, and limits the amount of data that can be processed automatically."

"There are some hitches in setup, especially with the new encoding, but otherwise it’s relatively simple."

"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 more/better search tools are needed. Also, state and local tax data would be nice."

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

"Needs to provide more phone numbers, even cell numbers (scrubbed numbers)."

"I would say that some of the support elements need improvement."

"There are too many functions which could be streamlined."

"They don't have any AI capabilities. Talend DQ is specifically for data quality, which only has data profiling. With Talend DQ, I cannot generate any reports today, so I need an ETL tool. It provides general Excel files, or I have to create some views. If instead of buying a new tool, Talend provides a reporting capability or solution, it would be great. It will reduce the development effort for creating these kinds of reports. We also manage the infrastructure for Talend. From the licensing perspective, for cloud, they only have seat licenses where one person is tied to one license, but for on-premise, they have concurrent licenses. It would be really awesome if they can provide concurrent licenses for the cloud so that if one person is not there, somebody else can use that license. Currently, it is not possible unless a person deactivates his or her license and moves the same seat license to someone else. We are one of the biggest customers in the central zone of the US for Talend, and this is the feedback that we have provided them again and again, but they come back and say that they aren't able to provide concurrent licenses on the cloud. In version 7.3, there is a feature for tokenization and de-tokenization of data. This is the feature that we are looking for. It is useful if somebody wants to see what we have masked and how do we demask it. This feature is not there in version 7.1. There are also a few other capabilities on the cloud, but we don't yet have a big footprint in the cloud."

"The stability for Talend Data Quality can be rated around an 8; it is quite stable."

"It would be more helpful if it offered dynamic dashboards that could be directly used by clients for better analysis."

"Needs integrated data governance in terms of dictionaries, glossaries, data lineage, and impact analysis. It also needs operationalization of meta-data."

"Finding assistance with issues can be spotty. With Python, there are literally millions of open source answers which are recent and apply to the version that we are using."

"The ability to change the code when debugging the JavaScript could be improved."

"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."

"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."

"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."

"Be sure to determine how the data is priced (record-based versus credit-based or some hybrid of data and services)."

"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."

"Melissa pricing is competitive."

"​It is affordable."

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

"I would advise to first take a look and at the Open Studio edition. Figure out what you need and purchase the appropriate license."

"It is cheaper than Informatica. Talend Data Quality costs somewhere between $10,000 to $12,000 per year for a seat license. It would cost around $20,000 per year for a concurrent license. It is the same for the whole big data solution, which comes with Talend DI, Talend DQ, and TDM."

"It's a subscription-based platform, we renew it every year."

"Moreover, the pricing structure stands out as highly competitive compared to other offerings in the market, making it a cost-effective choice for users."

"We did not purchase a separate license for DQ. It is part of our data platform suite, and I believe it is well-priced."