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WHY DUN & BRADSTREET

Pioneering Data Innovation

From data experimentation to advanced AI solutions, Dun & Bradstreet's continuous commitment to innovation helps us improve how organizations turn complex data and analytics into better business performance.

OUR INNOVATION

What Sets Dun & Bradstreet Innovation Apart from the Industry

At Dun & Bradstreet, data innovation isn’t just a buzzword – it’s central to our mission of providing the best data and analytics anywhere on the planet. We deliver smarter, faster, and more flexible solutions that empower trusted decision-making across your entire organization, not just one part of it. This comprehensive commitment to overall business intelligence separates us from every other data provider—a fact that we take great pride in.

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How Dun & Bradstreet Leads in Business Data Innovation​ 

We’re redefining what businesses should expect from a data company—delivering insights the way you need them and transforming data to meet demands across the enterprise. Here's how we're helping businesses realize value and improve performance:

Highly Adaptive Data Architecture to Unlock Growth

Our data architecture is built for scale, speed, and integration to help clients modernize existing systems and scale rapidly to drive growth. 

Unparalleled Performance and Flexibility

From cloud-based products and software to APIs and flat files, we deliver the flexibility you need, along with insights you can trust, to power intelligent business decisions.

Organization-Wide Integration

Our strategic partnerships and proprietary data methods ensure high-quality, comprehensive insights that are quickly and easily integrated into the systems you already use—ready to support use cases across your organization from time of completion.

Accelerated Time-to-Value

Our culture of continuous experimentation means faster deployment of the tools, data, and insights you need—so you're able to chase KPIs and drive results sooner.

Global Patent Portfolio

Our global IP portfolio—including trademarks, trade secrets, and patented technologies—protects our innovation and gives you a competitive edge everywhere you do business.

INNOVATION IN ACTION

Patent Spotlight: “Find-More-Like-This”

“Find-More-Like-This” uses advanced mathematical measures to detect anomalous business network patterns, “fingerprints” what makes them distinctive, and identifies other businesses with similar patterns.

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Our Patented Technologies

A selection of the granted U.S. patents behind the products that power trusted decision-making across the enterprise.

 

 

D&B Product

Granted US Patent(s)

Title

Description

Prime/Direct+

US10942911B2

Aggregating High Volumes of Temporal Data from Multiple Overlapping Sources

A technique for consolidating large volumes of time-stamped data drawn from multiple overlapping sources into a single aggregated view.

Prime/Direct+

US10891283B2

System and Method for Preserving Interdependent Corporate Data Consistency in a Globally Distributed Environment

A system for keeping interdependent corporate data records consistent across a globally distributed environment.

Ultimate Beneficial Ownership

US11222073B2; US12001480B2

A System and Method of Creating Different Relationships Between Various Entities Using a Graph Database

Uses a graph database of businesses and ownership links to calculate each beneficial owner's percentage stake in a target business, including detecting and de-looping circular ownership.

Detailed Trade

US8285616B2

Method and System for Dynamically Producing Detailed Trade Payment Experience for Enhancing a Credit Evaluation

A computer-implemented method that selects relevant trade-payment experiences according to user-specified criteria to dynamically generate a detailed credit-evaluation report for a business.

Linkage Discovery Engine

US10019681B2

A Multidimensional Recursive Learning Process and System Used to Discover Complex Dyadic or Multiple Counterparty Relationships

A self-improving, multidimensional process that discovers relationships between parties by clustering them on shared or overlapping attributes to infer business linkages.

D&B Buyer Intent

US11238233B2

Artificial Intelligence Engine for Generating Semantic Directions for Websites for Automated Entity Targeting to Mapped Identities

An NLP/AI engine that turns web content into high-dimensional semantic representations to match a prospect's consumed content against products, automating advertising audience creation.

Master Data Maturity Matrix

US10997532B2

System and Method for Assessing and Optimizing Master Data Maturity

A system that builds a master-data-maturity matrix per user and rolls it up across enterprise hierarchies to assess, track, and optimize master data maturity over time.

D&B Visitor Intelligence

US11651253B2

Machine Learning Classifier for Identifying Internet Service Providers from Website Tracking

A machine-learning classifier trained on firmographically-enriched website-visitor data to distinguish Internet Service Providers from non-ISPs within a site's traffic.

Meet Key Dun & Bradstreet Inventors

Every advancement Dun & Bradstreet data makes in the future of data innovation begins with a spark from one of our exceptionally talented and creative innovators. Read stories from a few of our key contributors to see how next-generation solutions evolve from ideas into real-world action.

Telmo Felix | Architect, Engineering | Dublin, Ireland

"As part of our research two years ago, we explored what the D&B take on GenAI would be, and that exploration resulted in ChatD&B: the agent that can interact with D&B data."

Learn About Telmo's Impact

Karolina Kierzkowski | Vice President, Data Science | Florham Park, NJ

Speaking about Global Business Ranking: "[W]e have been able to incorporate...the strength of our global data to create a score that's consistent across the globe."

Learn About Karolina's Impact

Dave Spingarn | Director, Data Science | Florham Park, NJ

“We proposed this idea and the Chief Data Scientist at the time said, not only should we develop this, but we should patent it across a number of global markets.”

Learn About Dave's Impact

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