Melissa Data Quality vs Talend Data Quality comparison

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

"​Ability to keep our data set clean and usable for our community searches.​"

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Provides simplicity, ease of use, combined with overall accuracy of data."

"SSIS integration."

"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 Studio is easy to understand."

"It has definitely streamlined certain processes.​"

"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."

"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."

"​This product speeds up the unit testing and QA for specific test scenarios. As a result, the development output quality can be evaluated and adjusted.​"

"With its frequency function, we were able to pick a line of business to be addressed first in one of our conversion projects."

"tLogRows are also great for finding bad data."

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

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

"It could always be cheaper."

"We encounter failed batch processes once in a while, but their team is quick to rectify issues."

"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."

"Many issues, sometimes I have to completely log out and start over."

"One thing I would want to have, when you're doing a property search, you can do it either on the FIPS in the APN number or the address itself. For some entries, I'll have the APN number, and some I'll have the address. Apparently it cannot process something when both the FIPS-APN and the address are on there. I have to sort, once with one and once with the other, which is a little bit of a pain."

"It would be helpful if a list of the codes and explanations could be included."

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

"In terms of the solution's technical support, the interactions were satisfactory, but there is room for improvement, especially in managing expectations."

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

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

"The performance is one area that Talend Data Quality could improve in because large volumes take a lot of time."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The only complaint that I have towards it is they sell licenses based on a range of usage, and I feel those ranges are too large."

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

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

"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."

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

"​We are concerned that our own pricing is going up every year for Melissa Data products, but we highly recommend the services for people who are routinely sending out mailings."

"NCOA address verification was a requirement from USPS to send out the mailers. This was the only option that charged per address which was extremely helpful since we are a small non-profit school."

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

"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."

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