Melissa Data Quality vs SQL Power Data Quality comparison

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

"Services for all manner of data-driven organizations, no matter their size or budget."

"​Allows us to identify cell phones before dialing, and giving us data about callers."

"​We are able to more accurately identify valid, and better formatted, data which improves the data we store in our database.​"

"Be confident that the scalability and load are not going to be an issue with the services. ​"

"We like having the ability to write our own utilities/software to process our records and store the final output the way we want."

"It gives me an assessed value of the property in question. My partner and I are property investors, and it's good to get an assessed value to cull out properties that we're not interested in."

"Address verification ensures our customers get their packages, and we aren’t charged for incomplete address information."

"It is a scalable solution. We have over 1,000 SQL Power Data Quality users in our organization."

"The solution is able to integrate with many systems and other products."

"The Nomo, select form, and so on are the most valuable features."

"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."

"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."

"We have noticed that some of the emails and addresses return with confusing or incorrect codes, but for the most part, it is accurate.​"

"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."

"Speed of delivery/ease of use. They advertise a 24-hour, next business day turn time on data annotation, but I’ve found it is usually closer to 72 hours. This is still excellent, just make sure you add in the appropriate fluff to your delivery timelines."

"It really hasn't given us a phone number for the owner of the property, and that's one thing I'd really like to be getting. Either a phone number or email."

"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 only area of improvement that we've come across within the solution was the portfolio roadmap creation. There's a bit of limitation there, but otherwise, the tool itself is very good."

"The normalization factor should be improved so that it is better scaled. It should be more user-friendly."

"Downtime issues should be improved."

"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."

"​It is affordable."

"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."

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

"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."

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

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