BCC Data Quality vs Melissa Data Quality comparison

BCC Software and Melissa are both solutions in the Data Quality category. BCC Software is ranked #25, while Melissa is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0. BCC Software holds a 0.3% mindshare in DQ, compared to Melissa’s 2.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BCC Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Melissa users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

Melissa Data Quality

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95% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

BCC Data Quality

Ranking in Data Quality

25th

Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software

17th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Melissa Data Quality

Ranking in Data Quality

8th

Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of BCC Data Quality is 0.3%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 2.7%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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it_user831795

President

Postal sorting to the best and lowest postal rates

It is used for clients' mail list hygiene to standardize, update change of addresses, dedupe, and postal sort for mailings with postal discounted rates My company provides these services for clients in the mailing industry. This software is a must have for my company offerings. Address…

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GaryM

Data Architect at World Vision

SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing

- Scalability is a limitation as it is single threaded. You can bypass this limitation by partitioning your data (say by alphabetic ranges) into multiple dataflows but even within a single dataflow the tool starts to really bog down if you are doing survivorship on a lot of columns. It's just very old technology written that's starting to show its age since it's been fundamentally the same for many years. To stay relavent they will need to replace it with either ADF or SSIS-IR compliant version. - Licensing could be greatly simplified. As soon as a license expires (which is specific to each server) the product stops functioning without prior notice and requires a new license by contacting the vendor. And updating the license is overly complicated. - The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation but that isn't true since pretty much all SSIS components are resizable except theirs! This is just an annoyance but needless impact on productivity when developing new data flows. - The tool needs to provide for incremental matching using the MatchUp for SSIS tool (they provide this for other solutions such as standalone tool and MatchUp web service). We had to code our own incremental logic to work around this. - Tool needs ability to sort mapped columns in the GUI when using advanced survivorship (only allowed when not using column-level survivorship). - It should provide an option for a procedural language (such as C# or VB) for survivor-ship expressions rather than relying on SSIS expression language. - It should provide a more sophisticated ability to concatenate groups of data fields into common blocks of data for advanced survivor-ship prioritization (we do most of this in SQL prior to feeding the data to the tool). - It should provide the ability to only do survivor-ship with no matching (matching is currently required when running data through the tool). - Tool should provide a component similar to BDD to enable the ability to split into multiple thread matches based on data partitions for matching and survivor-ship rather than requiring custom coding a parallel capable solution. We broke down customer data by first letter of last name into ranges of last names so we could run parallel data flows. - Documentation needs to be provided that is specific to MatchUp for SSIS. Most of their wiki pages were written for the web service API MatchUp Object rather than the SSIS component. - They need to update their wiki site documentation as much of it is not kept current. Its also very very basic offering very little in terms of guidelines. For example, the tool is single-threaded so getting great performance requires running multiple parallel data flows or BDD in a data flow which you can figure out on your own but many SSIS practitioners aren't familiar with those techniques. - The tool can hang or crash on rare occasions for unknown reason. Restarting the package resolves the problem. I suspect they have something to do with running on VM (vendor doesn't recommend running on VM) but have no evidence to support it. When it crashes it creates dump file with just vague message saying the executable stopped running.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It fulfills the USPS requirements for mailings."

"Postal sorting to the best and lowest postal rates."

"By validating and parsing the addresses our customers submit to us, we have reduced the number of addressing errors encountered during our processing."

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

"Gives us the ability to offer an additional resource that other companies do not."

"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."

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

"Enables us to send out bulk mailings when we need to verify NCOA."

"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."

"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."

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Cons

"I use another program for deduping files. I am not comfortable with the way BCC deduping runs when deduping by full name and address."

"Needs to validate more addresses accurately."

"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."

"If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."

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

"Address validation and parsing in a few countries have room for improvement."

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

"The custom software solution we still use in-house makes Excel a lot slower than usual."

"More countries should be supported by Melissa."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Pricing is very reasonable."

"They were willing to work with our preferred vendors, though it involved extra steps to get the license."

"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."

"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."

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

"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."

"It's affordable."

"Generally, the cost is ROI positive, depending on your shipping volume."

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Insurance Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Overview

BCC Data Quality includes the following solutions:

LENS ensures submission and retrieval with our secure FTP-based process, receives an email when your updated lists are ready for pick-up, its processing supports PGP encryption.and process file types regardless of postal software used including delimited (comma or tab), fixed-length, Paradox, and dBase.
Datavolve confirms address data against the most current USPS reference data, evaluates address data where it enters your system, so data errors are fixed before they cause problems throughout an organization, records are standardized and enhanced with essential ZIP + 4 codes, postal carrier routes, delivery point, and other valuable information and deployable by over multiple platforms, wide operational configurations, and all data entry points.
ZIPFOURce Web Services Single and batch encoding options are both available, and the service adjusts names entered for proper casing: all caps or no caps, Uses USPS DPV technology to reveal whether an address listed in the ZIP + 4 database is actually recognized by the USPS as a deliverable destination and updates rural-style addresses to city-style formats, or renames/renumbers city-style addresses that may have been changed by local governments.
GoData is a web-based tool for data processing, performing data hygiene and list enhancement.

BCC Software

Data Quality Components for SSIS

This suite of data transformations for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) delivers the full spectrum of data quality including data profiling, data verification, data enrichment and data matching. With an intuitive interface and drag/drop capabilities, this powerful toolkit makes it easy to unify data into a single version of the truth for Master Data Management (MDM) success.

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Sample Customers

Perinton Publishing

Boeing Co., FedEx, Ford Motor Co, Hewlett Packard, Meade-Johnson, Microsoft, Panasonic, Proctor & Gamble, SAAB Cars USA, Sony, Walt Disney, Weight Watchers, and Intel.

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