Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Informatica Cloud Data Quality
Score 6.8 out of 10
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The vendor states that Informatica Data Quality empowers companies to take a holistic approach to managing data quality across the entire organization, and that with Informatica Data Quality, users are able to ensure the success of data-driven digital transformation initiatives and projects across users, types, and scale, while also automating mission-critical tasks.N/A
Lob
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Lob in San Francisco provides the building blocks for developers to automate offline correspondences. Enterprise companies use Lob’s suite of APIs to mail fully dynamic and personalized customer communications with print media. Lob also provides insight into deliverability with piece-by-piece tracing and a proprietary Print Delivery Network to streamline production across fully redundant nodes all over the country.
$0
per month (Up to 500 Mailings)
PostGrid Address Verification
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
PostGrid Address Verification API and platform allows companies to verify, validate, standardize, autocomplete and parse postal addresses globally across 245+ countries. The service cleans data along with a lot of other metadata into the user's system. It can be used on a website or a custom application to get more accurate and clean data.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Startup Plan
$260
per month 3 users & Up to 3,000 monthly mailings
Growth Plan
$550
per month 5 users & Up to 6,000 monthly mailings
Developer Plan
Free
1 user & Up to 500 monthly mailings
Enterprise Plan
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
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Data Quality
Comparison of Data Quality features of Product A and Product B
Informatica Cloud Data Quality
8.2
4 Ratings
3% below category average
Lob
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PostGrid Address Verification
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Data source connectivity8.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data profiling8.74 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Master data management (MDM) integration8.24 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data element standardization7.14 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Match and merge7.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Address verification8.44 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server
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Score 8.0 out of 10
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Enterprises
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
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User Ratings
Informatica Cloud Data QualityLobPostGrid Address Verification
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(19 ratings)
10.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
6.6
(14 ratings)
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Usability
8.0
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Availability
9.0
(2 ratings)
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Performance
9.0
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Online Training
10.0
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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Product Scalability
9.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Informatica
For effective data collaboration, systematic verification of customer information, and address, among others, Informatica Data Quality is a fruitful application to consider. Besides, Informatica Data Quality controls quality through a cleansing process, giving the company a professional outline of candid data profiling and reputable analytics. Finally, Informatica Data Quality allows the simplistic navigation of content, with a dashboard that supports predictability.
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Lob
Lob has always been able to show us our mailing and projected volume very timely and accurately, and has consistently delivered solutions in the majority of cases. However, due to the complexity and variability of the insurance industry, unique situations occasionally arise that may fall outside their current capacity or operational model.
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PostGrid
Marketers can collect essential geocoding data to enhance customer segmentation, making the API invaluable for all my targeted campaigns. Operating in real-time, it retrieves precise data from reputable sources such as USPS or Canada Post. Leveraging this accurate address data, my retail company is refining its marketing campaigns for optimal performance.
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Pros
Informatica
  • The matching algorithms in IDQ are very powerful if you understand the different types that they offer (e.g., Hamming Distance, Jaro, Bigram, etc..). We had to play around with it to see which best suit our own needs of identifying and eliminating duplicate customers. Setting up the whole process (e.g., creating the KeyGenerator Transformation, setting up the matching threshold, etc..) can be somewhat time consuming and a challenge if you don't first standardize your data.
  • The integration with PowerCenter is great if you have both. You can either import your mappings directly to PowerCenter or to an XML file. The only downside is that some of the transformations are unique to IDQ, so you are not really able to edit them once in PowerCenter.
  • The standardizer transformation was key in helping us standardize our customer data (e.g., names, addresses, etc..). It was helpful due to having create a reference table containing the standardized value and the associated unstandardized values. What was great was that if you used Informatica Analyst, a business analyst could login and correct any of the values.
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Lob
  • Address Verification and NCOA Cleaning
  • Autocomplete for our forms that allow a user to SKIP typing
  • Printing and mailing documents automatically over API
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PostGrid
  • Address validation
  • Address automcomplete
  • Bulk address validation
  • Address verification api
  • address validation api
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Cons
Informatica
  • Several partnerships diminishing the value of technologies
  • Unable to get list of objects from Repository (like sources & targets) that don't have any dependency
  • Scheduling: The built-in scheduling tool has many constraints such as handling Unix/VB scripts etc. Most enterprises use third party tools for this.
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Lob
  • I'm not sure why it defaults to the test environment once we're logged in.
  • Make it easier to navigate back to the search results without starting a new search.
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PostGrid
  • Zip code search for us
  • giving distance between addresses
  • nothing else
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Likelihood to Renew
Informatica
As pointed out earlier, due all the robust features IDQ has, our use f the product is successful and stable. IDQ is being used in multiple sources (from CRM application and in batch mode). As this is an iterative process, we are looking to improve our system efficiency using IDQ.
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Lob
will continue to use for specific mailing requirements
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PostGrid
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Usability
Informatica
Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
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Lob
In my opinion, the admin usability is horrendous. Specifically when looking for specific mailers, the search and pagination UI requires back end loading, it doesn't allow opening in new browser windows, it doesn't remember state when clicking into mailer requiring you to search again. I've started using Claude Code integrated with the API instead of clicking through the Admin UI because, in my experience, it is so hard to use.
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PostGrid
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Reliability and Availability
Informatica
The application works well except an occasional error out while using the system. It usually gets fixed when restarting the Infa server
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Lob
i never witnessed a problem with lob
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PostGrid
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Performance
Informatica
Performance works just fine. It was able to load 200+ business terms, 150+ DQ automation, etc. very well.
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Lob
perfect except from a minor tracking options missed
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PostGrid
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Support Rating
Informatica
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Lob
good support, not many examples I can think of
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PostGrid
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Implementation Rating
Informatica
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Lob
didn't participate but as for my information it was smooth
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PostGrid
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Alternatives Considered
Informatica
IDQ is used by a department at my organisation to ensure and enhance the data quality.
The usage was started with address standardization and now it had been brought to altogether a next level of quality check where it fixes duplicates, junk characters, standardize the names, streets, product descriptions.
In the past we had issues mainly with duplicate customers and products and this were affecting the sales projection and estimates.
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Lob
Root keeps Lob because it is already deeply integrated into our systems, and replacing it would require significant engineering effort with limited expected cost savings. As well as the unknowns that come with other options, switching vendors would likely require a significant multi-quarter effort without clear cost savings or efficiency gains.
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PostGrid
Reliable, premium address data
Advanced geocoding features
Outstanding API uptime
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Informatica
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Lob
it can be better because the volume pricing method doesn't benefit the clients much but lob itself
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PostGrid
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Scalability
Informatica
Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
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Lob
it will scale very well if its for saas companies
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PostGrid
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Professional Services
Informatica
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Lob
decent overall
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PostGrid
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Return on Investment
Informatica
  • Integration with tools like PowerCenter helped faster delivery of product, and at the same time conversion
  • Reduce overall project cost due to bad data , bad quality, exceptions identified nearing go-live and post production
  • Employee efficiency is increased exponentially due to more automated, customized tool
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Lob
  • Extremely positive reducing cost of managing the mail production process and spending on paper, printers, and printer supplies.
  • More secure than sending spreadsheet to a mailing house.
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PostGrid
  • Better quality data
  • Reduce form abandonment
  • Increase form completion
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ScreenShots

Lob Screenshots

Screenshot of Lob's available integrations, that include CRM, CDP or marketing automation tools.Screenshot of Lob Analytics. These demonstrate the value of every send and find winning strategies with advanced analytics.Screenshot of Lob Template Gallery. This includes professionally designed templates optimized by a team of experts.Screenshot of Lob analytics dashboard shows trackable events from direct mail campaigns.

PostGrid Address Verification Screenshots

Screenshot of resources such as developer guides, and API documentation.Screenshot of Usage metrics on the number of addresses validated and the number of API calls with a reporting dashboardScreenshot of Instant suggestions to auto-complete the addresses with the relevant details like correct Address, Street, and Postal Codes/Zipcodes and eliminate bad data entry.Screenshot of Search, Standardize, and validate addresses of more than 245 countries and territories with PostGrid's Address Validation API.Screenshot of PostGrid's bulk address verification helps validate, standardize, & correct addresses. Upload & verify CSV lists of global addresses via its dashboard or API.Screenshot of