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In 1985, Ray Melissa founded Melissa Data with a mission in mind – to help mailers save money on postage. Since then, the data quality-focused firm has evolved to provide powerful, yet affordable, data quality and address management solutions to customers in a wide range of industries. The company offers software, developer APIs, enterprise platforms, and Web Services so that customers can find the best fit for the data cleansing, standardization and enrichment needs. Melissa Data’s flagship product MAILERS+4, is a leading CASS and PAVE certified postal automation software that helps customers easily maintain high quality address data to achieve the best postage rates while reducing undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) mail.

Melissa Data provides complete mailing support, including a full line of accurate mailing lists and many list cleaning services including, CASS processing, NCOALink change-of-address processing, Do-Not-Mail scrubbing, and duplicate elimination among others.

In 2009 Melissa Data acquired M1 Data and Analytics. The products and services of M1, now referred to as our 411 and SmartSearch solutions, enable Melissa Data to provide the most accurate, “to the day” 411 telco data, enhancing it’s Web services, append and verification services, and mailing lists.

Involvement
Melissa Data is a nonexclusive Interface Distributor and Full Service Provider licensee for NCOALink, as well as a nonexclusive DPV licensee of the United States Postal Service.

Melissa Data is proud to be a supporting member of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), The DMA List & Database Council, MFSA, NACUMS, and the Santa Ana PCC.

Achievements
In 2003, Information Management Magazine named Melissa Data a Top 100 Company.

Recently, Melissa Data was ranked highest in customer satisfaction in the 2009 Data Quality Landscape report by the Information Difference.


Raymond Melissa, President

Raymond F. Melissa

Raymond Melissa, a computer industry veteran with over 30 year’s experience, is founder and president of Melissa DATA. Ray enjoys no greater challenge than exploring ideas for innovative products that will help organizations save money, increase profits, and be successful.





Also to his credit:

1968: BS in Electrical Engineering from Long Beach State University.

1970: Co-founder of Eikon Inc., a line printer company.

1974: Co-founder of Printronix Inc. of Irvine. a computer printer manufacturer listed on the NASDAQ.

1978: Co-founder of Trilog Inc., one of the first companies to develop a color printer