Dun & Bradstreet
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Why Dun & Bradstreet

Drive Business Performance with Intelligent Data

Learn how we gather, categorise, enrich, package, and deliver actionable data and powerful solutions to help companies large and small make critical data-driven decisions.  ​

Sharpen Your Competitive Edge

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organisations are increasingly reliant on data to inform their decision making – but not all sources of data are equal!​

Dun & Bradstreet provides the broadest and deepest set of commercial data and analytical insights, helping companies of all sizes around the world better understand their own business profile and those of the companies they do business with. ​

Our data passes through thousands of rigorous checks to meet our exceedingly high standards. Only data that meets these quality checks is accepted into the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud - our single source of data truth. At our core is our Live Business Identity, through the Dun & Bradstreet DUNS® Number, offering the most up-to-date view of any business entity throughout their entire lifecycle. ​

We know mission-critical business decisions require accurate, consistent and reliable data – and our rapidly expanding data sets are ready to power your workflows, systems, and teams.​ 

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Tap Into the Data Cloud

With data on over 600M+ companies, our Data Cloud is the world’s most comprehensive collection of business data and analytical insights. That’s why companies all over the world, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500, trust our data to make critical business decisions.  

  •  Business credit scores and ratings to help you make informed decisions.​
  • Data on 1B+ trade experiences to help you determine who you should do business with.​
  • Insights into corporate family trees and beneficial ownership to help you understand corporate hierarchies & linkage.​
  • Banking data to improve visibility into creditworthiness and an organisation’s ability to pay.​
  • Firmographic data to help inform decisions and strategies across the organisation.
  • Business registration data for verification, due diligence, compliance, and more.
  • Relevant contact and principals data to help meet compliance requirements.​
  • Buyer intent data to engage buyers who are actively searching for your solutions and services.
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Explore Our Data Sourcing Process

How we gather information in our Data Cloud is what sets us apart. We comb the globe to source data from a wide range of public registries and tens of millions of websites. Below is an overview of our data sources that set us apart. ​

We extract inaccessible attributes from millions of variables, such as inquiry data, purchase data, and commercial property data – and make these complex, unstructured elements accessible to your decision-making models.​

 

Gain Confidence in Your Data with DUNSRight

Our patented DUNSRight™ process helps us ensure data is up-to-date and accurate before it enters the Data Cloud.​

Here are the 5 steps involved in the DUNSRight Process:​

Collect Data

We collect data from tens of thousands of sources across the globe.

Match Data

We leverage our identity resolution to verify and match data elements with the correct entities.​

Assign an ID

We assign a D-U-N-S Number to create a unique “corporate fingerprint” for each entity.​

Relate Entities

We identify relationships and connections between entities to create corporate hierarchies or family trees.​

Enrich Data

We enrich the data with ratings and scores using predictive and prescriptive indicators. 

Learn More About the DUNSRight Process

Watch this brief video to see how our DUNSRight process turns massive streams of data into high-quality business information to help you accelerate growth, mitigate risk, and boost performance across your organisation.​

Leverage Intelligent Data and Insights to Help Boost Revenue, Reduce Costs, and Manage Risks

Powered by our unique 9-digit D‑U‑N‑S Number, Live Business Identity tracks performance throughout an organisation’s lifecycle to ensure that you have the most up-to-date insights. When the Data Cloud updates, so does Live Business Identity. ​

Explore how Live Business Identity helps teams succeed.​

Improve Prospecting Efficiency

  • Deliver continuously updated industry and company profiles with accurate contact information to help sales teams engage with relevance, accelerate relationships, message effectively, and prioritise prospects who are most likely to make a purchase.​

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Accelerate Growth with Intelligent Business Solutions

As the velocity of business – and the demands it places on your teams – continues to increase, stay one step ahead of industry innovations, and your competitors, with trusted, continuously updated data and insights. ​

  • Explore our solutions to see how we can help you build and drive revenue and manage increasingly sophisticated business risk.​

  • Access or integrate data blocks to fill in gaps in your current data.​

  • Dive into our scores, ratings, and models to assess your valuable business relationships.  

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Drive Business Performance with Intelligent Data

Learn how we gather, categorise, enrich, package, and deliver actionable data, either directly or via our powerful tools and solutions, to help companies large and small make critical data-driven decisions.