Data Governance – Global Intelligence Blog

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…

December 12, 2018 Melissa Team Address Quality, Article, Big Data, CASS Certification, Data Cleansing, Data Enrichment, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Global Address Verification, Global ID Verification, HIPAA, News & Events, Postal Address Standards, SOC2, USPS

Melissa’s Trust and Compliance Checklist Promotes Comprehensive Enterprise Data Quality

Company Receives SOC2 Certification; Outlines Criteria for Trusted Data in Banking, Healthcare, Marketing and More Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced its trust and compliance checklist, helping enterprises understand and evaluate complex criteria for secure, optimized data quality operations. The company is committed to trust and compliance leadership, securing its continued SOC2…

August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 Melissa UK Team

The Relationship between Data Governance and GDPR

According to the GDPR, personal data refers to any information related to a person including name, photo, email, address, bank details, social media updates, medical information and even IP addresses. It can come in various forms and contains several data elements. Data governance and GDPR are complementary as a strong data governance program is vital for GDPR compliance and with…

May 22, 2018 Melissa Team Data Audit, Data Governance, Data Quality, GDPR, Global Data Quality, MDM, News & Events

Melissa-Powered GDPR Risk Audits from DataDelta Uncover Hidden Risks in Right to Erasure Compliance

Inspired by GDPR Survey Results, Audits Reveal Blind Spot in Accuracy Assumptions of Single Customer View Platforms Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, and DataDelta, a 14-year leader in Master Data Management (MDM) match accuracy analytics, today announced two new audit solutions to support governance, risk, and compliance officers in complying with the E.U.’s…

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 Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Quality, Data Quality Components for SSIS, Data Steward, Data Warehouse, Duplicate Elimination, Fuzzy Matching, Golden Record, Householding, Identity Resolution, Record Linkage, SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, Survivorship

Record Matching Made Easy with MatchUp Web Service

MatchUp®, Melissa's solution to identify and eliminate duplicate records, is now available as a web service for batch processes, fulfilling one of most frequent requests from our customers - accurate database matching without maintaining and linking to libraries, or shelling out to the necessary locally-hosted data files. Now you can integrate MatchUp into any aspect of your network that can…

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…

May 1, 2017 Blog Administrator Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Big Data, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Data Warehouse

Meet Melissa: Global Intelligence

Melissa Data is officially now Melissa. As we welcome our 32nd year in business, we are excited to announce an important change at Melissa Data. We've decided to drop the "Data" from our brand identity. We are simply Melissa now. This is part of a new branding effort to reflect Melissa's growth, and more importantly, the changes in the…

April 27, 2017 Blog Administrator Address Verification, Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Big Data, Big Data Blend, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Data Quality Assessment, Global Address Verification, MDM

Better Marketing Starts with Better Data

Improve Data Quality for More Accurate Analysis with Alteryx and Melissa Organizations are under more pressure than ever to gain accurate contact data for their customers. When your consumer base ranges from Los Angeles to Tokyo, it can be challenging. Poor data quality has a critical impact on both the financial stability as well as the operations of a…

April 26, 2017 Blog Administrator Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Analyzing Data Quality, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Data Quality Components for SSIS, Full Contact Authentication, Geocoding, Global Address Verification

How to Do It All with Melissa

With Melissa, you can do it all - see for yourself with the brand new Solutions Catalog. This catalog showcases products to transform your people data (names, addresses, emails, phone numbers) into accurate, actionable insight. Our products are in the Cloud or available via easy plugins and APIs. We provide solutions to power Know Your Customer initiatives, improve mail deliverability…