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Melissa Offers Insight on How a Healthy Data Lifecycle Supports Smart Business Decisions

New Resource Touts the Importance of Full Spectrum Protection to Combat Data Pitfalls Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – March 6, 2019 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced availability of the 2019 Melissa Solutions Catalog, a new resource that shares a wealth of information on the importance of good data, including how…

February 4, 2019January 21, 2019 Melissa UK Team Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Verification, Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Big Data, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Data Quality Assessment, United Kingdom

The Role of Data Quality for Charities

2% of contact data is subject to inaccuracies every month which means that almost 25% of data is corrupted on an annual basis. However, new statistics demonstrate that organisations find almost 30% of their contact data to be inaccurate. This is not an alarming statistic as smart technology has meant that we are more connected than ever, but it has…

January 21, 2019 Melissa UK Team Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Article, Data Audit, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Migration, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Data Quality Services, Express Entry, FinTech, GDPR, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality, Global ID Verification, Global Name, Global Phone Verification, International Address Verification, United Kingdom

When does Big Data become Bad Data?

Last month, we spoke about big data and the importance of leveraging such data to provide insights to drive better informed business decisions. But at what point does this data become useless? As we mentioned, big data provides detailed insight as it draws upon information from a number of sources and data points and thus, big data can reveal new…

October 11, 2018 Melissa UK Team Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Big Data, Data Audit, Data Cleansing, Data Quality, Data Quality Services, United Kingdom

What’s all the fuss about Big Data?

According to data analytics company SAS, big data is a term used to describe large volumes of data, whether structured or unstructured, that businesses deal with on a daily basis. Big data can be broken down into the three Vs: Volume: businesses collect data from various sources and with increasing use of the internet and social platforms, there is more…

May 17, 2017 Blog Administrator Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Customer Identities, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Quality, Full Contact Authentication, Global ID Verification, Identity Resolution, Marketing, Personator

How to Know Customers Are Who They Say They Are

In 2015 alone, 62% of companies were targets of payment fraud. As customers increasingly conduct their financial affairs online and via mobile devices, risk management and fraud prevention become more and more difficult. So, how do you know customers are who they say they are?Short of reaching through the computer, tablet, or smartphone screen and verifying a customer with your…

May 2, 2017 Blog Administrator Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Big Data, BusinessCoder, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Quality, Firmographics, Marketing

Business Coder Firmographics: Employee Contact Information

The last major update to the Business Coder Web Service includes the addition of employee contacts for the entered business, allowing for the retrieval of employee names and their respective titles. The next major update to Business Coder will feature an upgrade to the employee contact list returned. Aside from the name and title, contacts will now also give back…

May 1, 2017 Blog Administrator Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Search, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Big Data, CRM, Data Enrichment, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Migration, Data Quality, Global Address Verification, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, Marketing, Personator, Salesforce

Melissa’s Improvements in Dynamics CRM

Dirty data, in all forms, is bad for business. Here at Melissa, our primary concern is cleansing it from all of your platforms, including Microsoft Dynamics® CRM. Melissa currently offers many solutions for Dynamics CRM in order to combat problems with bad data. We offer the Personator® solution in order to cleanse and enrich your U.S. and Canadian data.…

May 1, 2017 Blog Administrator Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Steward, ETL, Global Data Quality

Get in the Contact Zone

If you're looking for that perfect all-in-one solution that combines the power of easy integration and Melissa's full spectrum of data quality solutions, then you need to get in the Zone - The Contact Zone®. Contact Zone employs all the customer data management tools you'll need to help provide consistent, trusted, accurate data across the enterprise - all in one…

May 1, 2017 Blog Administrator Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Identity Resolution, IP Location, Proxy Identification

Global IP New Features – Proxy Identification

Melissa is proud to announce new features for our IP Locator web service. Update 4.0.0.29 introduces the ProxyType and ProxyDescription response fields, that can help identify if the IP is currently under a proxy. These new additions come with no additional subscription or change in request formatting, so make sure your system takes advantage of these new features. ProxyType…

May 1, 2017 Blog Administrator Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Big Data, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Migration, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Data Warehouse, FinTech, Identity Resolution

Know Your Customer Compliance Boosted by Tech Innovations

Fintech breakthroughs that identify,validate and augment customer data help financial services organizations head off fraud, operate within the rulesOne of the most pressing issues facing the financial services industry today is the prevailing emphasis on security and fraud prevention. Big data and analytics are leveraging the power of the Internet, but also offering big, juicy plums for hackers, credit card…