We performed a comparison between Melissa Data Quality and Talend Data Quality based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Quality solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Be confident that the scalability and load are not going to be an issue with the services. "
"Gives us the ability to offer an additional resource that other companies do not."
"I was able to dedupe millions of records in the past, and append the most recent email."
"We are able to send out client mailings with the most accurate addresses possible."
"Decreases chances of incorrect shipping addresses and, thus, returned packages."
"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."
"We have only been using this for about two months, but it has sped up our processing significantly. It makes data mining easy and fast. We don't have to spend an entire month gathering correct information on leads. All we need is a list of home addresses, and in minutes we have names and phone numbers to increase our chance of these leads becoming customers."
"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."
"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the extensibility, the integration, and the ease of integration with multiple platforms."
"With its frequency function, we were able to pick a line of business to be addressed first in one of our conversion projects."
"It has definitely streamlined certain processes."
"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."
"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."
"Provides a flexible development environment to the coder."
"It is saving a lot of time. Today, we can mask around a hundred million records in 10 minutes. Masking is one of the key pieces that is used heavily by the business and IT folks. Normally in the software development life cycle, before you project anything into the production environment, you have to test it in the test environment to make sure that when the data goes into production, it works, but these are all production files. For example, we acquired a new company or a new state for which we're going to do the entire back office, which is related to claims processing, payments, and member enrollment every year. If you get the production data and process it again, it becomes a compliance issue. Therefore, for any migrations that are happening, we have developed a new capability called pattern masking. This feature looks at those files, masks that information, and processes it through the system. With this, there is no PHI and PII element, and there is data integrity across different systems. It has seamless integration with different databases. It has components using which you can easily integrate with different databases on the cloud or on-premise. It is a drag and drop kind of tool. Instead of writing a lot of Java code or SQL queries, you can just drag and drop things. It is all very pictorial. It easily tells you where the job is failing. So, you can just go quickly and figure out why it is happening and then fix it."
"It reduces the QA effort immensely by handling most of the test scenarios in a reusable way."
"Address validation and parsing in a few countries have room for improvement."
"The billing structure does not seem very accurate. We’ve had issues with miscounted batch records processed"
"The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation however all SSIS components are resizable so that isn't true. This is just an annoyance but needless."
"Needs better email append coverage (but every vendor struggles with this)."
"Needs to provide more phone numbers, even cell numbers (scrubbed numbers)."
"One of the problems that we ran into this year was we probably spent over 40 hours finding and trying to drill down to where specific bugs were in the program, which was a tremendous waste of time for us. There were a couple of updates to Windows this year, the program kept crashing. It happened on two different occasions over a period of a few months. Once we told them what the problem was - even though their tech support is great to work with - it literally took probably about two months to fix the issue where we could actually use the program the way we needed to use it."
"MatchUp seems to be single threaded, and limits the amount of data that can be processed automatically."
"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."
"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."
"You can't join more than two tables for analysis."
"In terms of the solution's technical support, the interactions were satisfactory, but there is room for improvement, especially in managing expectations."
"The ability to change the code when debugging the JavaScript could be improved."
"In redundancy analysis, the query is failing to bring non-matched records. This query is an internal script. There is no way (that I know of) to fix this syntax error for future runs."
"It would be more helpful if it offered dynamic dashboards that could be directly used by clients for better analysis."
"I would say that some of the support elements need improvement."
"When we upgraded to Version 6.4.1, we tried using a GIT repository instead of a SVN repository. After a few incidents where things disappeared and changes were not saved, we decided to go back to a SVN repository."
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Melissa Data Quality is ranked 9th in Data Quality with 40 reviews while Talend Data Quality is ranked 4th in Data Quality with 20 reviews. Melissa Data Quality is rated 8.4, while Talend Data Quality is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Melissa Data Quality writes "SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Talend Data Quality writes "Saves a lot of time, good ROI, seamless integration with different databases, and stable". Melissa Data Quality is most compared with Informatica Address Verification, SAP Data Quality Management, Precisely Trillium and Experian Data Quality, whereas Talend Data Quality is most compared with Ataccama DQ Analyzer, Informatica Data Quality, Alteryx, Precisely Trillium and Ataccama ONE Platform. See our Melissa Data Quality vs. Talend Data Quality report.
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