How Melissa Helps Government & Public Sector
For more than 30 years, Melissa has provided contact data verification and cleansing solutions, including identity resolution, to more than 10,000 customers worldwide. We use the most up-to-date, multisource datasets to bring you accurate and reliable information. Work with us to:
Improve resource allocation, route planning & utilities management
Decrease workload, save time & cut costs
Gain valuable insight into your constituents
Effectively communicate & boost engagement
Assess hazard risk areas & minimize effects
Detect & deter fraud
Achieve Strategic Objectives
Our easy-to-use solutions make it easy to achieve your strategic objectives, including lowering budgets, improving communications and driving revenue. Join the growing number of government agencies, public sector organizations and nonprofits who choose Melissa as their data quality provider.
VERIFY CONSTITUENT CONTACT INFO IN REAL TIME
Validate, correct, standardize & update all contact data elements at point of entry – name, address, email & phone. Plus, autocomplete addresses.
LOCATION INTELLIGENCE & RISK MANAGEMENT
Gain a deep understanding of the areas you service by adding location & property info, including lat/long coordinates & hazard risk scores.
DETER & DETECT FRAUD
Quick ID resolution with age & national ID verification. Plus, match name to address & check against international & domestic watch lists.
ADD CONTACT INFO TO YOUR RECORDS
Complete your contact records – fill in missing gaps with up-to-date address, email & phone data.
CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS/MOVE UPDATE PROCESSING
Update the addresses of constituents who have moved by matching your records against the USPS Full NCOALink® data file.
CONSOLIDATE & REMOVE DUPLICATE RECORDS
Uncover, merge & purge difficult-to-find duplicate records for an accurate view of the customer.
LEARN ABOUT BUSINESSES IN YOUR JURISDICTION
Add detailed firmographic data to business records, including company & contact info, job title, SIC/NAICs code & more.
LEARN ABOUT CONSTITUENTS WITH DEMOGRAPHICS
Add 100s of demographic & lifestyle characteristics – occupation, education, voter party, household income, age, presence of children & more.
MAILING SOLUTIONS
100’s of specialty mailing lists including our registered voter file & Cloud-based software that prepares & presorts USPS compliant mail.
Case Studies
Melissa considers itself a steward of the information it collects, maintains and utilizes. Our responsibility is to ensure the security of the information in our care and to maintain the privacy of consumers through appropriate, responsible use. To affirm our long-standing commitment to strong controls and safeguards, Melissa undergoes Service Organization Control (SOC 2 Type II) audits by third party professionals. SOC 2 Type II is the corporate industry’s standard for an overall control structure, and validates the comprehensive reliability, security and availability of Melissa’s handling processes.
Conforms addresses to
USPS® CASS™ standards.
Saves money on
postage and shipping by
eliminating bad addresses.
Verifies addresses in
point-of-entry or batch to
streamline data warehousing.
Standardizes data
for fast processing.
Appends USPS CASS
Certified Postal Codes.
Catches data input
errors with real-time
contact data verification.
Prevents fraud associated
with bad contact data.
Reduces costs of
undeliverable-as-addressed mail.
Standardizes and validates addresses
with ZIP codes to provide
consistency across systems.
Rejects phony phone numbers before data is integrated into systems.