Customer Data Platform
Validate, Cleanse & Maintain Data Quality Without Programming
Unison, Melissa’s next generation Customer Data Platform, provides a highly intuitive and functional user interface targeted for the Data Steward. It is your centralized portal that provides one of the best browser-based data cleansing and robust reporting solutions on the market. It offers best-in-class parsing, matching, profiling and cleansing securely on premise at blazing speed through highly scalable container technology.
- Cleanse & verify global postal addresses, names, phone numbers & email addresses
- Employ rigorous matching that utilizes advanced, proprietary fuzzy matching algorithms with golden record/survivorship rules built in
- Schedule data quality jobs to run automatically at your convenience
- Quickly render contact data clean & reliable with scalable grid distribution across limitless nodes

Simple Visual Interface
- Schedule jobs using an easy and intuitive project wizard to automatically run hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly

Intuitive Matching GUI
- Powerful fuzzy matching and golden record survivorship with simple built-in rules
- Dedupe several files at once, from varying sources & formats: flat file, CSV, SQL, and Oracle
- Review and tweak results inside the platform, in real-time

Secure Data Processing
- Unmatched security with on premise data management
- Control access to financial, medical or other sensitive personal data
- Secure local browser access for stewards & users to run data quality regimens

Fast Distributed Performance
- Distributed computing handles large data sets & millions of records
- Real multi-threading batch performance across the organization regardless of system or format
- Scales to move accurate data through enterprise pipelines in record time.

Built-In Visual Reporting
- Process and monitor jobs with robust visual analytics
- Robust reporting for stewards & stakeholders
- Detailed logging of results with audit trails
4 Key Differentiators
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All the Capabilities Without the Programming
Designed with the data steward in mind, Unison was developed to empower even non-programmers to perform, schedule and manage rigorous data quality routines with the ability to collaborate with others in the enterprise.


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Wizard Matching & Visual Reporting
Unison features a wizard-based matching interface that makes it easy to review and tweak results right inside the platform. Gain detailed, color-coded analytics reports that provide a high-level overview of how data was cleaned and improved.
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Powerful Processing in Record Time
Unison disseminates customer data quality jobs across the enterprise and harnesses the processing power needed to quickly render contact data clean and reliable in record time – processing 50 million records per hour.
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Compatibility & Growing Features
Melissa’s Customer Data Platform supports Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and a variety of delimited flat files and its collection of capabilities are growing with a roadmap that includes expanding capabilities with additional data enrichment services for all types of data.
Unison Capabilities

Address Verification
Verify, correct, and standardize postal addresses from over 240+ countries and territories.

Name Verification
Recognize and parse 650,000+ ethnically-diverse first and last names into components. Verify, genderize and create salutations for valid individuals, plus flag fake or vulgar names.

Phone Verification
Verify U.S., Canada, & international numbers. Append useful geographic information associated with the phone number.

Email Verification
Validate and parse email addresses, correct common typographical errors, and standardize email addresses to improve deliverability and reduce spam.

Geocoding
Convert a postal address to a precise, rooftop latitude/longitude coordinate for mapping and analytics. Coverage for 95% of all physical addresses in the U.S. plus support for many countries around the world.

Fuzzy Matching & Golden Record Survivorship
Compare and match contact elements using advanced fuzzy matching algorithms to identify hard-to-spot similar and duplicate records. Eliminate duplicates and create a single customer view using golden record survivorship rules.
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