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The Power of Data Delivered from the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud

As important as data quality is, how data is delivered, the ease in which it can be consumed, and the speed at which a business can transform information into value is equally important. To meet these needs, Dun & Bradstreet delivers data as flat files or in packages called Data Blocks — logical, topic-based groupings of data elements from the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud. It is a modern, best-in-class method of serving data in a simple, standardized, and flexible way. Easily ingest Dun & Bradstreet world-class data in a consistent and scalable manner via API, flat files, or a combination. Data Blocks and Files are licensed by domain: Sales & Marketing, Finance, Supply, and Compliance.

Data Blocks help organize the extensive data elements offered by Dun & Bradstreet into easily consumable offerings to tackle your use cases.

Global Insights

Access the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud's vast collection of business records from global organizations covering more than 200 countries and territories for global business insights.
Flexible Offerings

All Data Blocks are comprised of data elements relating to a common topic or theme. Some topics contain significant amounts of data, and are organized by level for users to help control data consumption.
Accessible Delivery

Data Blocks are available for consumption across multiple delivery mechanisms such as via API, batch, self-service platform (D&B Connect) and AI agent (D&B.AI Chat)

Data Blocks offers a variety of topics and themes to tackle your use cases.

Descriptive Data
Analytical Insights
Functional Blocks

Company Information

Company Financials

Filings & Events

Industry Profile

Ownership Insights

Principles & Contacts

Shipping Insights

Block Description:

Provides basic data about a company, including name and address, industry/business, activity type, size, and country/region identification numbers.

Example Business Objective:

I need foundational contact information on my most important relationships.

Example Data Element:

Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S^® Number, Primary Business Name, and 300+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Financial statement information on both private and public companies around the world. The summary contains up to 36 individually named elements, but the data is, for the most part, as per the statements provided by each country and include the local nuances specific to some countries.

Example Business Objective:

I need to understand a company’s liquidity to prevent future risk.

Example Data Element:

Financial statements including liability, audit history information and 430+ more.

Block Description:

Information about legal events associated with a company, such as: registrations with local authorities, suits, liens, bankruptcies/financial embarrassment. Also includes financial statements, public notices, U.S. government awards data and special events information.

Example Business Objective:

I want to only do business with legally sound companies.

Example Data Element:

Suits, liens, judgement filings and 410+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Industry information including topics such as business challenges, trends, and opportunities and executive insights. Often used to help prepare for sales conversations; includes sample questions. Profiles are not specific to a given entity/company, rather to the industry as a whole, and are licensed individually.

Example Business Objective:

I need a way to identify companies within a specific industry.

Block Description:

Industry market analysis, industry codes, and 30+ more.

Block Description:

Information on the people and companies who own shares of a given business entity and/or who ultimately benefit from the result of that business’ operations.

Example Business Objective:

I need to understand the risk or link between companies and their shareholders.

Example Data Element:

Shareholder contact information, percentage of ownership and 120+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Information about company employees and principals, including: names, titles, and where permitted, contact information. Contacts calls are separate from the Principles.

Example Business Objective:

I want to understand the most important contacts across my account list.

Example Data Element:

Principal name & title, physical address and 150+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Provides data about which companies have shipping transactions associated to them, the count of transactions, as well as which roles the company played within the transactions.

Example Business Objective:

I need insight into what role my customers, vendors, and suppliers play along my supply chain and their inventory strategy.

Example Data Element:

Number of shipping transactions by D-U-N-S^® Number, company role in transaction.

Available via MCP Connector

Diversity Insights

ESG Insights

Financial Strength Insights

Hierarchies & Connections

Payment Insights

Global Business Ranking

Sales & Marketing Insights

Third-Party Risk Insights

Block Description:

Reported indicators on the business ownership structure of the company, such as women, minority or other designations. Please note that the LGBTQ owned business data is only available in block Level 3 and should only be used for supplier diversity purposes.

Example Business Objective:

I want to only do business with diverse companies.

Example Data Element:

Woman-owned, veteran, green certified companies, and 150+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Analytically-derived and AI-informed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ranking that describe the resiliency of companies by measuring the potential risk of incurring reputational, regulatory, or operational damages that could impact financial performance. This

request can be combined in the same call with a request for entitled standard data blocks.

Example Business Objective:

I need to improve the sustainability of my investment decisions

Example Data Element:

natural resources, human resources, GHG emission, etc.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Analytically-derived scores and ratings to help Finance professionals with many of their everyday use cases involving assessment of other companies.

Example Business Objective:

I need to manage risk and optimize resources by understanding my customers’ likelihood of financial distress.

Example Data Element:

D&B Delinquency Score, Failure Score, Viability Scores and 100+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Provides basic data about a company, including name and address, industry/business, activity type, size, and country/region identification numbers.

Example Business Objective:

I need foundational contact information on my most important relationships.

Example Data Element:

Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S^® Number, Primary Business Name, and 300+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Provides basic data about a company, including name and address, industry/business, activity type, size, and country/region identification numbers.

Example Business Objective:

I need foundational contact information on my most important relationships.

Example Data Element:

Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S^® Number, Primary Business Name, and 300+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

The Global Business Ranking provides a simple, globally consistent way to compare companies across countries on their relative risk of business failure with loss to creditors.

It builds on the power of the country-specific Failure Score and harnesses the complete insight of the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud to provide companies with a global portfolio a transparent understanding of business failure risk in their portfolio over time.

Example Business Objective:

Identify the business impacts and mitigate the risk of climate-related disruptions in their supply chains, credit and insurance portfolios (e.g. “what businesses may fail following a natural disaster”?).

Example Data Element:

Location Wildfire Exposure Index Current
Headquarters Wildfire Exposure Index Current
Supply Chain Wildfire Exposure Index Current

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Analytically-derived scores and predictive indicators to help Sales & Marketing professionals with many of their everyday use cases, involving to whom to target and sell.

Example Business Objective:

I need to understand the buying readiness of my account list.

Example Data Element:

Marketing Pre-screen score, Material Change Scores, and 30+ more.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Analytically-derived scores and ratings to help Strategic Sourcing and Compliance professionals with many of their everyday use cases, involving assessment of other companies.

Example Business Objective:

I need to assess and monitor suppliers for risk and compliance.

Example Data Element:

D&B Supplier Stability Score (SSI) and Supplier Evaluation Score (SER).

Available via MCP Connector

BIR & COMP Reports

Company Entity Resolution

Monitoring

Research

Block Description:

Dun & Bradstreet’s Business Information Report (BIR) and Comprehensive Report (COMP) are fully rendered information products (Text/PDF/HTML) for determining a company's profitability, stability, viability, and payment performance to help evaluate risk both on new or existing business relationships.

PDF reports are not available for all markets, including Canada.

For best global coverage, please request HTML format.

Example Business Objective:

I need to fully assess the financial healthiness and credit risk of a partner or potential customer in order to make more informed business decisions.

Example Data Element:

Data on the company's profitability, stability, viability and payment history.

Block Description:

Entity Resolution is the process by which we assign a Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S^® Number to client data and enables client data to be compared with standardized records held in the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud. This is often referred to as “matching”.

Entity Resolution is undertaken for the purposes of: Identifying duplicates within a client’s database; searching for a specific entity; or validating a D-U-N-S Number.

This capability delivers only match results. Company Information Level 1 must be licensed in conjunction with this capability.

Example Business Objective:

I need to understand and assess the quality of my data.

Example Data Element:

Match Data Profiles, Confidence Code.

Available via MCP Connector

Block Description:

Notifies users about changes to the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud for registered D-U-N-S Numbers. Monitoring push notifications are available at the following frequencies: intraday, daily, weekly, monthly.

Monitoring is provided on any capability licensed by a customer.

Block Description:

Allows a user the ability to review and/or validate the D&B Data and Analytics.

Examples of Research requests include:

The identification of data quality issued
Missing commercial entities
Validation of existing information

Research API allows customers to request, track, and receive results of researches for businesses across all countries.

Submitted requests are sent to Dun & Bradstreet or partner offices around the world to research and verify the information.

Example Business Objective:

I need to validate and update critical business data to ensure its accuracy and completeness to support better decision-making and risk management.

Example Data Element:

Assigning D-U-N-S and/or validation of business-related information.

Add-on

D&B.AI Chat

D&B.AI Chat is a generative AI-powered conversational tool that leverages Dun & Bradstreet’s global commercial database of over 600 million business records. It enables users to effortlessly gain deep business insights through natural language interactions.

Whether it's risk profiles, financials, corporate trees, or ESG data, D&B.AI Chat helps businesses quickly access relevant information. It supports decision-making in areas like customer acquisition, supplier management, risk and compliance, and ESG sustainability — empowering users with high-quality and trusted global intelligence from Dun & Bradstreet.

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