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Melissa Data Quality vs SAP Data Quality Management comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Melissa Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Scrubbing Software (4th)
SAP Data Quality Management
Ranking in Data Quality
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 4.0%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Data Quality Management is 3.5%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Quality Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAP Data Quality Management3.5%
Melissa Data Quality4.0%
Other92.5%
Data Quality
 

Featured Reviews

GM
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.
VB
Director at Norderia
Embrace efficient data management with integrated features but anticipate some enhancement needs
This tool itself is new. SAP Data Quality Management was brought in by SAP recently, maybe a year or two years back. We just started implementing and we still have not heard exact feedback from the client. It would not be correct if I give feedback now because I don't have accurate feedback from client usage. I feel it is a good tool with some limitations. We compared it with Celonis, which is also one of the other tools in the market. I am more into SAP and S4 HANA, so I am not familiar with all the best tools available in Data Quality Management which can be compatible with SAP. We know there are issues with SAP Data Quality Management. The advantage of this tool that SAP brought is that it is already in-built. You don't need to build another application layer on top of the existing one. The compatibility and response time for these applications within the same database is faster.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Our customer database is now significantly more accurate and reliable."
"Through more accurate data, our marketing department has been able to increase delivery and conversion rates through email direct marketing initiatives."
"Address parsing. Our other software does not have this functionality."
"By far the best pricing and licensing option we have found for a small organization, since we can buy credits in small increments and they don't expire."
"Cleansing addresses of referring healthcare facilities to improve duplicate identification and geocoding their addresses."
"Personator application was able to append emails, new address if moved, phone number, geocode, and also standardizes existing customer information."
"Helps our organization provide accurate address information to our customers for direct mailing (household) and other campaigns they want to do."
"The customers' addresses are now complete, correct and follow one consistent format."
"Scalability is good."
"We work with API standards or norms for internal applications, so it's essential for SSE to have tests and pass those tests according to the criteria, which makes SAP Data Quality Management very important for our products."
"The scalability within the SAP function is good."
"Our primary use case is for us to inspect the results from the product and material, and for releasing or leaving the status of the product."
 

Cons

"One thing I would want to have, when you're doing a property search, you can do it either on the FIPS in the APN number or the address itself. For some entries, I'll have the APN number, and some I'll have the address. Apparently it cannot process something when both the FIPS-APN and the address are on there. I have to sort, once with one and once with the other, which is a little bit of a pain."
"Did not work as advertized. Needs better results in address parsing, as described on the website."
"Needs to provide more phone numbers, even cell numbers (scrubbed numbers)."
"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky, but otherwise the product does what I expect."
"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."
"Needs more/better search tools are needed. Also, state and local tax data would be nice."
"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."
"There are some limitations. They are not covering complete scenarios for all the modules."
"SAP Data Quality Management would be better if it directly integrates with the ME system. Right now, the company has a lot of machines on the shop floor working as a standalone, so you have to use all methods to ensure that the data interface appears on the ME system and that SAP Data Quality Management records the QM results. It would be much easier if the ME system could be integrated directly with SAP Data Quality Management."
"I would like for them to develop a feature to be able to record all of our inspections so all the data can go through SAP; it's not user-friendly or easy to get further analysis, so we mostly skip this step."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Generally, the cost is ROI positive, depending on your shipping volume."
"Pricing is very reasonable."
"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."
"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."
"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."
"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."
"Trial subscriptions (via cloud) are very cheap and easy to use. It’s a great way to test Listware to see if you want to go deeper with integration."
"Be sure to determine how the data is priced (record-based versus credit-based or some hybrid of data and services)."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
17%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Insurance Company
6%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
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What needs improvement with SAP Data Quality Management?
This tool itself is new. SAP Data Quality Management was brought in by SAP recently, maybe a year or two years back. We just started implementing and we still have not heard exact feedback from the...
What is your primary use case for SAP Data Quality Management?
Currently, one of our clients is seeking SAP Data Quality Management solutions, so we are exploring options in that area. The product is not mature yet, so they need to work to improve it. We are a...
What advice do you have for others considering SAP Data Quality Management?
For smaller organizations, I don't think this much is required. If it is a bigger size client from a business point of view, I definitely recommend this tool. They can use it if they are already us...
 

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SAP BusinessObjects Data Quality Management, BusinessObjects Data Quality Management
 

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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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