Direct+ Data Blocks gives you only relevant data
- Choose and stack thematic blocks of our data (credit, sales, compliance, etc)
- Determine the level of detail of the data
- Integrate into your own systems and applications
- Flexible and scalable access to data
- More user-friendly and cost-efficient
Direct+ Data Blocks
Data Blocks
Introduction
D&B Direct+ Data Blocks
Our data tailored to your needs
Customize our data and insights the way you want
Integrate data into your systems and applications with one API
Use monitoring for automatic updating of data
What if one solution could handle all your data issues?
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A Data Block is a logical, topic-based grouping 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. Data Blocks empower you to easily ingest specifically required data across your enterprise and do that in a consistent and scalable manner.
Integrate Direct+ Data Blocks into all of your systems and applications
Discover how Data Blocks works
Break down data into
elements of choice
Build as much or as little levels by using cubes, to gain a deeper understanding of the selected group. Discover interesting insights through thematical shading.
- One size fits all: 1 single API solution to address all your use cases
- Stack data blocks together to customize the data and insights
- Benefit from flexibility and scalability for seamless delivery
- Use Direct+ monitoring to maintain the highest data quality
Data Blocks
Logical and topic-based grouping of data elements from the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud
- Modern, best-in-class method of serving data in a simple, standardized, and flexible way
- Stack’ data blocks together to customize the data and insights to address any use case
- Use Direct+ monitoring to maintain the highest data quality & freshness in all your business applications
Data Levels
Data levels are segmented views of the Data Blocks to address specific customer content requirements
- Up to five levels for each Data Block
- Licensing higher levels also provides access to lower levels
Data Blocks & the D-U-N-S Number
With the D-U-N-S Number at the heart of your business, the data universe is at your fingertips. Whether you are looking for a deeper understanding of your most important contacts, diving into a specific industry sector, retrieving ultimate beneficial owners or simply creating a master data enrichment. Data Blocks enables you to explore it all.With the capability block ‘Monitoring’, alerts can be created to notify you on all changes to the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud within your portfolio.
D&B Direct+ Data Blocks
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Data Blocks is changing the way companies work with business information. Want to know what Data Blocks can do for you?
Industries
Find out what Direct+ Data Blocks can do for your industry
Create a single view of your third parties across the enterprise or department by providing standardized, governed data to increase efficiency across your teams, systems and entire business. The Company Entity Resolutionblock helps you match all your business records with a D-U-N-S Number. This global and unique business ID is key to suppress duplicates and to ensure smooth communication across business applications. No more data silos!
GOAL: All your systems speak the same language. Maintain a single source of truth on customers, prospects and suppliers across CRM, MDM, ERP systems. Increase productivity & data quality.
Is growth the mantra of your sales teams? And do you want to grow by providing excellent experiences for your customers and prospects? Discover the truth about these companies with our essential sales intelligence from the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud: that way, you'll engage faster and be better prepared. Account managers can approach prospects faster and close more deals. The Hierarchies & Connections block helps you easily identify sales opportunities across business units, regions and subsidiaries.
GOAL: Realizing growth by using data to unlock hidden opportunities. Shorten your sales cycle and build a business based on facts. Use Direct+ into your web forms, CRM & Marketing platforms to make sure qualified leads are provided to the right teams.
As highlighted in the various surveys conducted with CPOs, costs reduction, digital transformation and effective risk management still remain the biggest challenge for purchasing departments. D&B Direct+ will enable modern organizations to accelerate onboarding with seamless data integration, to consolidate spend and maximize buying power and to avoid supply chain disruption by monitoring financial and compliance risks associated with suppliers.
GOAL: Onboarding of suppliers based on complete real time data, follow their performances while ensuring their financial strength is being monitored.
Finance and credit management professionals are tasked with improving business performance by effectively managing risk and increasing efficiency to drive profitable growth. The Direct+ data blocks offer instant integrated access to robust risk data and actionable insights for finance operations, such as failure scores, D&B rating, legal events, and credit limit. The Payment Insights block reveals the past payment behavior of a specific company.A study of Dun & Bradstreet shows that 67% of finance and credit leaders consider reliable data to be most essential to adopt automation and 58% the integration with systems & tools. With the Direct+ data blocks you can tackle both challenges at the same time.
GOAL: Master your finance data. Mitigate your organizations’ risk, improving cash collection, anticipating on business failures and reducing DSO.
In a 2016 research by Dun & Bradstreet we found that 49% of the compliance professionals say they find it increasingly difficult to comply with finance regulation. This requires a lot of time and resources for the company. It is, however, essential to avoid financial penalties and preserve your company’s reputation. With integrated, real-time access to more than 150 million beneficial owners in 226 countries, Direct+ enables you to accelerate your due diligence process, save time and resources while making sure you comply with the regulation and your own ethical standards. Legal, firmographics and ownership data will provide the foundation to implement a risk based approach and proceed with the necessary steps to comply with regulations such as AML and CFT.
GOAL: Accelerate the business while protecting your brand and avoiding sanctions.
Onze datablokken helpen marketingprofessionals aan schone en betrouwbare gegevens in hun marketing stack, zoals CRM en marketing automation tools. Verhoog de productiviteit en efficiënte van marketingteams met verrijkte klantprofielen; mondiale, consistente gegevens maken een betere segmentatie mogelijk voor gerichtere campagnes en beter gekwalificeerde leads – en de kwaliteit van rapportages neemt toe. Het blok Hierarchies & Connections geeft inzicht in hoe bedrijven met elkaar verbonden zijn, wat mogelijk een nieuwe verkoopkans creëert.
GOAL: Optimize your marketing efforts with first-time right segmentations. Discover cross and upsell opportunities while looking at the universe of prospecting data.
Data Blocks for Master Data Management
Create a single view of your third parties across the enterprise or department by providing standardized, governed data to increase efficiency across your teams, systems and entire business. The Company Entity Resolutionblock helps you match all your business records with a D-U-N-S Number. This global and unique business ID is key to suppress duplicates and to ensure smooth communication across business applications. No more data silos!
GOAL: All your systems speak the same language. Maintain a single source of truth on customers, prospects and suppliers across CRM, MDM, ERP systems. Increase productivity & data quality.
- D-U-N-S Number as unique identifier of all your records
- Enrich companies with valuable information
- Finally get rid of duplicates and flag out of business companies
Recommended blocks
Data Blocks for Sales
Is growth the mantra of your sales teams? And do you want to grow by providing excellent experiences for your customers and prospects? Discover the truth about these companies with our essential sales intelligence from the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud: that way, you'll engage faster and be better prepared. Account managers can approach prospects faster and close more deals. The Hierarchies & Connections block helps you easily identify sales opportunities across business units, regions and subsidiaries.
GOAL: Realizing growth by using data to unlock hidden opportunities. Shorten your sales cycle and build a business based on facts. Use Direct+ into your web forms, CRM & Marketing platforms to make sure qualified leads are provided to the right teams.
- Boost your CRM with clean, actionable data
- Consolidate sales and identify cross and up sell opportunities
- Increase your Sales Teams’ productivity
- Fact-based decision making
Recommended blocks
Data Blocks for Procurement
As highlighted in the various surveys conducted with CPOs, costs reduction, digital transformation and effective risk management still remain the biggest challenge for purchasing departments. D&B Direct+ will enable modern organizations to accelerate onboarding with seamless data integration, to consolidate spend and maximize buying power and to avoid supply chain disruption by monitoring financial and compliance risks associated with suppliers.
GOAL: Onboarding of suppliers based on complete real time data, follow their performances while ensuring their financial strength is being monitored.
- Optimize supplier performance in real-time
- Automating financial and compliance checks
- Accelerate and secure supplier onboarding process
- Anticipate potential supply chain disruption
- Negotiate better contracts by consolidating spend
- Create one single view of your suppliers and vendors worldwide
Recommended blocks
Data Blocks for Finance
Finance and credit management professionals are tasked with improving business performance by effectively managing risk and increasing efficiency to drive profitable growth. The Direct+ data blocks offer instant integrated access to robust risk data and actionable insights for finance operations, such as failure scores, D&B rating, legal events, and credit limit. The Payment Insights block reveals the past payment behavior of a specific company.A study of Dun & Bradstreet shows that 67% of finance and credit leaders consider reliable data to be most essential to adopt automation and 58% the integration with systems & tools. With the Direct+ data blocks you can tackle both challenges at the same time.
GOAL: Master your finance data. Mitigate your organizations’ risk, improving cash collection, anticipating on business failures and reducing DSO.
- Build decision trees to automate credit decisions
- Manage portfolio risk directly within ERP
- Prioritize cash collection actions
- Perform in-depth credit analyses
- Anticipate business failures and reduce bad debt
Recommended blocks
Data Blocks for Compliance
In a 2016 research by Dun & Bradstreet we found that 49% of the compliance professionals say they find it increasingly difficult to comply with finance regulation. This requires a lot of time and resources for the company. It is, however, essential to avoid financial penalties and preserve your company’s reputation. With integrated, real-time access to more than 150 million beneficial owners in 226 countries, Direct+ enables you to accelerate your due diligence process, save time and resources while making sure you comply with the regulation and your own ethical standards. Legal, firmographics and ownership data will provide the foundation to implement a risk based approach and proceed with the necessary steps to comply with regulations such as AML and CFT.
GOAL: Accelerate the business while protecting your brand and avoiding sanctions.
- Automate supplier and customer due diligence
- Avoid sanctions and prevent reputational risk
- Access global, complete beneficial ownership data
- Improve customer experience by faster onboarding
- Support growth without compromising compliance
Recommended blocks
Data Blocks for Marketing
Direct+ data blocks empower marketing professionals with clean and reliable data in all their business applications, such as CRM and Marketing automation tools. Increase your teams’ efficiency and productivity with enriched customer profiles. Homogeneous global data enables improved segmentation for better targeted campaigns and qualified leads as well as quality reporting.The Hierarchy & Connections block gives you insight in how companies are interrelated, which potentially creates a new opportunity to sell.
GOAL: Optimize your marketing efforts with first-time right segmentations. Discover cross and upsell opportunities while looking at the universe of prospecting data.
- Detailed segmentation and targeting with better insights on customers and prospects
- Implement autocompletion in your web forms to improve visitors’ experience and generate higher quality leads
- Increase transformation rate with better insights
- Analyze, segment and explore
Recommended blocks
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About our Data Cloud
The Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud provides the world's most comprehensive business intelligence and analytical insights to power business decisions. With our solutions, marketers can target more precisely and find new prospects. This, in turn, helps sales teams convert leads into paying customers faster, enabling finance departments to maintain more valuable relationships. Procurement teams work more efficiently to build and maintain relationships with third-party vendors, and compliance teams get the data and insights for a watertight KYC process so they can on-board new customers smoothly and with confidence.
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