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The DUNSRight™ Process: The Power Behind Quality Information

DUNSRight™ is why our customers can be confident about their critical business decisions.

We define data quality by asking ourselves four questions:

  1. Is the data accurate?
  2. Is the data complete?
  3. Is the data timely?
  4. Is the data globally consistent?

To answer these questions, we take our data through a process we call DUNSRight™, in which we collect, aggregate, edit, and verify data from thousands of sources daily so that our customers can use the information to make profitable decisions for their businesses. Our ability to turn an enormous stream of data into high quality business information is what sets us apart from our competitors.

The foundation of DUNSRight™ is Quality Assurance which includes over 2,000 separate automated checks, plus many manual ones, to ensure the data meets our high quality standards. In addition, five quality drivers work sequentially to collect and enhance the data.

The process works like this:

  • Global Data Collection brings together data from a variety of sources worldwide.
  • We integrate the data into our database through our patented Entity Matching, which produces a single, more accurate picture of each business.
  • We apply the D-U-N-S® Number as a unique means of identifying and tracking a business globally through every step in the life and activity of the business.
  • We use Corporate Linkage to enable our customers to view their total risk or opportunity across related businesses.
  • Finally, our Predictive Indicators use statistical analysis to rate a business’ past performance and to indicate how likely the business is to perform that same way in the future.

The output of this extensive process? High quality business information embedded in our solutions that customers rely on – not just to be sure – but to be “D&B Sure.™”

As of August 2009:

Total companies in the database: 150.9 million

  • 99.8 million active companies in the database available for risk, supply, sales & marketing and e-business decisions.
  • 51.1 million inactive companies available with historical information for file matching and data cleansing purposes.

Active companies by region

Region
Africa

1,402,073

Asia Pacific

17,997,859

Europe

41,612,627

Middle East

581,621

Latin America

12,196,890

North America

26,046,764

Grand Total

99,837,834

Information Inventory
Below is a sample of the current information available to make critical sales & marketing, risk, supply and e-business decisions.

D&B Global Information File Inventory - As of August 2009

Information
Total
Total Number of Businesses

150,906,568

Payment and Bank Experiences

Over 1,000,000,000

Public Records (includes Suits, Liens, Judgments and Bankruptcies and other Government information)

Over 149,000,000

Company Records part of a Family Tree

12,236,587





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