Melissa Data Quality vs Talend Data Quality comparison

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

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

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

"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."

"We use a Melissa API to access the data, so it easy to use, accurate, and fast."

"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."

"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."

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

"It’s easy to monitor the processes. Every morning I’ll open the Talend Administration Center to check the status of the process. Within seconds I’m able to see which process ran successfully and which have failed and why they failed."

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

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

"tLogRows are also great for finding bad data."

"The solution enables robust data matching, merging, survivorship, and Data Stewardship that can be a part of data quality workflows or true master data management."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"There are more functions in a non-streamlined manner, which could be refined to arrive at a better off-the-shelf functions."

"NullPointerExceptions are going to be the death of me and are a big reason for our transition away from Talend. One day, it is fine with a 1000 blank rows, then the next day, it will find one blank cell and it breaks down."

"You can't join more than two tables for analysis."

"If the SQL input controls could dynamically determine the schema-based on the SQL alone, it would simplify the steps of having to use a manually created and saved schema for use in the TMap for the Postgres and Redshift components. This would make things even easier."

"If we encounter issues, it’s most likely when using the Talend Open Studio. The studio can be slow, get stuck, or crash. But again, it can be caused by the resources of your machine or your connection with the repository. If we encounter issues with the Studio we restart the Studio. In emergencies, we create and use a new workspace."

"SQL for displaying underlying data in non-match results does not work."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Pricing is very reasonable."

"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."

"​You should have a good idea of the size of your data and the amount of cleansing you will be doing, so you will purchase the appropriate size bundle.​"

"It's affordable."

"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."

"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."

"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'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."