Why Small Businesses Choose D&B

• Make informed decisions when you access the world's largest source of commercial insight with over 140 million companies listed.
• D&B solutions allow you to effectively manage business relationships based on the D&B D-U-N-S number®, the global standard for business identification.
• D&B has 165 years of experience creating credit management tools so that you can focus on your core business while we provide the right information to help you mitigate credit risk and increase cash flow.
• D&B's patented DUNSRight™ quality process helps you make informed, profitable decisions by ensuring that our data is high quality, consistent, and timely

Frequently asked questions about D&B information

At D&B, you can "Decide With Confidence" because of DUNSRight™. DUNSRight™ is the framework and data quality process that brings the culmination of our experience to your business and drives the timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of D&B data. Read on to learn the answers to the most frequently asked questions about D&B data quality.

Where does D&B get its data?
How does D&B ensure the accuracy of its data?
How timely and complete is the data?

Where does D&B get its data?

D&B has built the most extensive business information database in the world with over 140,000,000 business records.. We collect and receive information from a broad array of sources, including:

• Direct investigations and interviews with the company principals.
• Payment and banking data from company suppliers, with over 1 billion annual trade updates.
• Suits, liens, judgment, UCCs, business registrations, corporate details and bankruptcy filings from state and county courthouses.
• Corporate financial reports and filings.
• Contracts, grants, loans and debarments from the federal government.
• 100% US bankruptcy coverage
• News and media sources.
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How does D&B maintain the quality of its data?
D&B is more than a data aggregator. To maintain data quality, D&B has patented matching technology to identify and consolidate data from multiple sources into one business file identified by the D&B D-U-N-S® Number. The D-U-N-S® Number also enables us to link and identify businesses within a corporate family.
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How timely and complete is the data?
Our information database updates over 1,500,000 times a day. We receive over 1 billion payment and banking experiences annually with more than 140,000,000 companies listed.
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