We performed a comparison between Melissa Data Quality and Talend Data Quality based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica, SAP, Talend and others in Data Quality."The customers' addresses are now complete, correct and follow one consistent format."
"We use their GeoPoints to get the most precise, rooftop level geocoding."
"Be confident that the scalability and load are not going to be an issue with the services. "
"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."
"I was able to dedupe millions of records in the past, and append the most recent email."
"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."
"Allows us to identify cell phones before dialing, and giving us data about callers."
"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."
"It has definitely streamlined certain processes."
"The most valuable feature lies in the capability to assign data quality issues to different stakeholders, facilitating the tracking and resolution of defective work."
"With its frequency function, we were able to pick a line of business to be addressed first in one of our conversion projects."
"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."
"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 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."
"Provides a flexible development environment to the coder."
"The numerous components provided by Talend mean you’re able to create jobs quickly and efficiently."
"If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."
"MatchUp seems to be single threaded, and limits the amount of data that can be processed automatically."
"Pricing model."
"I wish there was a way to do a "test run" and see what a particular format will give you."
"It could always be cheaper."
"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."
"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."
"The billing structure does not seem very accurate. We’ve had issues with miscounted batch records processed"
"There are more functions in a non-streamlined manner, which could be refined to arrive at a better off-the-shelf functions."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Needs integrated data governance in terms of dictionaries, glossaries, data lineage, and impact analysis. It also needs operationalization of meta-data."
"I would say that some of the support elements need improvement."
"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."
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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 Informatica Cloud Data Quality.
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