# Melissa — Vendor Intelligence Profile
> Source: Vedex (https://vedex.ai) | Generated: 2026-10-05T10:36:11.116Z

## Overview

- **Headquarters**: USA
- **Description**: Overview
Welcome to the Native App
Global Name
by Melissa. This service takes full names as input and uses intelligent recognition to identify millions of ethnically-diverse first and last names. It can parse, genderize, and standardize personal names as well as standardize company names. It can also detect vulgarities and suspicious names.
Global Name
can be used to:
Recognize over 6,000,000 last names and 4,000,000 first names across different countries and languages.
Parse full names into first, middle and last names, as well as prefixes like “Dr.” and suffixes like “Jr.”
Correct misspelled first names.
Standardized names with extended and UTF-8 characters will return responses with the proper UTF-8 / accented characters.
Flag vulgar and obviously fake names, such as “Bugs Bunny.”
Split dual names (ex. Mr and Mrs John and Mary Jones).
Assign gender based on known first names and prefixes.
Output formatted salutations (US and Canada).
Standardize company names.
Getting Started
A License Key issued by Melissa will be required to utilize Melissa's services.
Get your License Key at
License Key Information
or contact a sales representative at Snowflakemarketplace@Melissa.com for any questions.
- **Domain**: melissa.com
- **Contact Email**: snowflakemarketplace@melissa.com
- **Company Website**: https://melissa.com

## Categories & Sectors

- **Categories**: Accelerating Advertising Revenue, Attribution Analysis, Audience Segmentation, Consumer Data, Contact Data Enrichment, Data Engineering, Data Quality and Cleansing, Demand Forecasting, Demographics, Foot Traffic Analytics, Geospatial, Identity Data, Location Data Enrichment, Location Geocoding, Location Planning, Lookup Tables, Market Analysis, Personalize Customer Experiences, Population Health Management, Providers, Transportation

## Marketplace Presence

- **Source Platforms**: datarade, snowflake_marketplace
- **Platform Count**: 2
- **Delivery Methods**: API

## Intelligence Scores

- **Vendor Score**: 31
- **Market Presence**: 33.8
- **Integration**: 34
- **Business Maturity**: 8.4

## Competitors

- **Competitors**: Alesco Data, BIGDBM, Factori, Versium

## Links

- Vedex Profile: https://vedex.ai/vendor/melissa-891b24
- Due Diligence: https://vedex.ai/due-diligence/melissa-891b24