AlphaSense vs. D&B Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AlphaSense
Score 9.6 out of 10
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AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, their AI-based technology has helped professionals make business decisions by delivering insights from public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. The platform boasts users among 4,000 enterprise customers. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and…N/A
D&B Connect
Score 8.5 out of 10
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D&B Connect is an AI-driven Data Management Platform based on the D&B Cloud that provides businesses with customer data and market insights. With D&B connect, users can collaborate on data management tasks, visualize, monitor, and benchmark data, as well as assess overall data health. Integrations with Master Data Management Platforms, Customer Data Platforms, and CRMs enable automated data updates and anomaly detection through the identity resolution engine. MAP integrations allow for the…N/A
Pricing
AlphaSenseD&B Connect
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlphaSenseD&B Connect
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is offered on a customized basis. Buyers should contact D&B for specific quotes.
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Community Pulse
AlphaSenseD&B Connect
Features
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Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
AlphaSense
7.4
185 Ratings
0% below category average
D&B Connect
-
Ratings
Private Company Data5.2151 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information7.8178 Ratings00 Ratings
Independent Research Access8.1170 Ratings00 Ratings
M&A Analysis7.0141 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain Data6.796 Ratings00 Ratings
ESG Data6.995 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports7.683 Ratings00 Ratings
Macroeconomic News8.3132 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools9.1172 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Quality
Comparison of Data Quality features of Product A and Product B
AlphaSense
-
Ratings
D&B Connect
7.5
16 Ratings
13% below category average
Data source connectivity00 Ratings7.716 Ratings
Data profiling00 Ratings7.216 Ratings
Master data management (MDM) integration00 Ratings7.313 Ratings
Data element standardization00 Ratings7.114 Ratings
Match and merge00 Ratings7.614 Ratings
Address verification00 Ratings8.116 Ratings
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User Ratings
AlphaSenseD&B Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(250 ratings)
8.6
(30 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(20 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(246 ratings)
7.9
(14 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(22 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.5
(22 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(17 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.2
(8 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
6.6
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.9
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.5
(22 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
8.2
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.3
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.4
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AlphaSenseD&B Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is very well suited to investing teams that need a research management system that has a robust database behind and rich content management features for note-taking. AlphaSense may not be well-suited to individual investors who want data access but don't need to be sharing notes to a wider team. The sharing features are what make AlphaSense most useful.
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Dun & Bradstreet
Overall, the program can assist any size company with all credit
reference needs. We have not run into any issues other than the overall
cost of the program and the fact that you have to use additional funds
to seek information on international customers.
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Pros
AlphaSense
  • Summarizing information across multiple company documents via their new Generative Grid tool.
  • Aggregating the latest insights from diverse sources - broker research, expert insights, company documents, and news.
  • Providing a repeatable way to query information.
  • Smart keywords to help you search, e.g., car = auto = automotive.
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  • Searching people who have the intent to buy your services or products.
  • It has as very good filter that helps pinpoint your targeted audience.
  • It has a large pool of contacts within the company, so helps to reach out to the right person via several connections.
  • The data available is fresh and current.
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Cons
AlphaSense
  • I believe the AI agent could be improved to answer more detailed questions and provide better data.
  • Access to real time financial data in a similar vein to Koyfin.
  • The ability to easily search across all company decks to be able to quickly gather all relevant slides for a specific topic, similar to what Quartr offers.
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Dun & Bradstreet
  • in my opinion having to split usage between United States and International does not make sense on why this needs to be done....recommend eliminating this
  • need for improvement on error resolution....when an error is found the D&B resolution team is EXTREMELY difficult to work with...very clunky and automated when there is a need for personnal interaction
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Likelihood to Renew
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a very useful tool and is reasonably priced for our organization. While I may not be a hyper-active user, it's a great resource when I need to quickly do a competitive landscape survey, review publicly available documents (transcripts, etc.), or review Wall Street research
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Dun & Bradstreet
Great tool
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Usability
AlphaSense
AlphaSense has a very intuitive user interface, and I can tell they have been focused on expanding their product breadth and continuing to innovate on current products. Some basic features are missing or I can't find (I can't just sort expert calls by only the ones that are applicable to that ticker, most relevant is the one that works best, but I want just the ticker)
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Dun & Bradstreet
For more advanced uses, it's hard to get it functioning properly right out of the box. It definitely takes some fiddling to get the systems up and running, especially if you have multiple streams of data that need to be managed across systems.
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Reliability and Availability
AlphaSense
The availability of Alphasense is great. I have used the software for multiple years and cannot remember ever having an outage issue. This is surprising actually, as I use other software applications that do not have regular outages, but still have outages periodically. Alphasense, on the other hand, never seems to have any outages. Good sign if I can't remember the software not working :).
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Dun & Bradstreet
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Performance
AlphaSense
Loading or performing searches on AlphaSense platform is reasonably fast for most of the time. However, it is sometimes unacceptably long for me to load PDF files (earnings presentation, supplementary financial report) on AlphaSense. Certain features might also take very long time, such as loading for "similar tables" across EDGAR filings, or downloading tables from EDGAR filings
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Dun & Bradstreet
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Support Rating
AlphaSense
Customer support is very prompt. I get personalized support for search recommendations and content that I could not find in my own search. Support checks in with me on a bi-monthly basis to keep me informed of the many different feature additions, I cannot find a more kind, understanding, and supportive team.
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Dun & Bradstreet
Great Support
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In-Person Training
AlphaSense
The person was prepared, attentive, understood the nature of my questions, was willing to work through any difficulties or misunderstandings, was patient, and super pleasant to work with. Great customer service.
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Dun & Bradstreet
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Online Training
AlphaSense
Our online training was led by a AlphaSense representative. The training is always good. The bigger issue is our time availability to remember the training and utilize it. The trainers will show us examples and then ask us for real industries or companies of interest to use so that the training is most relevant.
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Dun & Bradstreet
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Implementation Rating
AlphaSense
use friendly UI made the transition seamless
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Dun & Bradstreet
Very Satisfied
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Alternatives Considered
AlphaSense
Special features of AlphaSense that made us decide on this CI platform: - US-based market and competitive intelligence platform with various premium content (broker information, expert calls, earning transcripts, original company documents etc.) - AlphaSense is a trusted CI platform by world’s leading corporations and financial institutions - AlphaSense’s proprietary AI stack has been meticulously engineered over a decade so that their AI accelerates speed-to-insight so clients can act with confidence when making critical decisions - Private and public companies, therapeutic areas and products can be monitored - Datalog is available up to 15 years, and advanced search is supported for them - Curated newsfeed is available from more than 3,500 top news publications, client requests and hand-picked vendors for premium subscription - Very advanced company profiles are available by default with newsfeed, original company documents, expert calls and reports - Newsfeed and alerts can be also set by admins and individual users
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Dun & Bradstreet
Not at the top, but pretty good compared to others. The price and overall usability of the solution would put it in the top 5 options from what I have used. If D&B can make more updates and improvements, then there is potential to be better in the near future.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
AlphaSense
It has been very simple. Contract terms are standard for an online portal. Of course, I would like unit pricing to be lower so I could get more users on the license or to rotate seats to get more value out of each license. Billing frequency has been standard as well. This could be more significant for a larger customer.
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Dun & Bradstreet
slightly on the higher side but worth it.
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Scalability
AlphaSense
The sharing features provides by AlphaSense mean that it can be readily scaled for teams within an organization and, subject to compliance requirements, with client organizations. The ability to share annotations of transcripts and investor releases is valuable, and facilitates collaboration between analysts.
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Dun & Bradstreet
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Professional Services
AlphaSense
Very professional and knowledgeable team. Easy to work with and communicates in a way that's helpful for users who aren't experts on the platform
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Dun & Bradstreet
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Return on Investment
AlphaSense
  • AlphaSense has allowed us to generate deeper competitive insights. For example, we conducted an in depth analysis of the aerial data analytics (drone) industry, and AlphSense helped us narrow in on the market leaders and their various strengths / weaknesses.
  • AlphaSense has improved our team's overall efficiency. With Stream in particular, we are able to pinpoint insights in a matter of minutes through the transcript feature as opposed to having to conduct a series of calls ourselves. This is a significant time saver.
  • AlphaSense has allowed us to make more informed decisions on our public holdings by providing us with unfettered access to equity research analyst reports.
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Dun & Bradstreet
  • ROI can be achieved anywhere between 6 to 12 months depending upon your business.
  • The product is expensive but the data provided is good to an extent and a big sale can help achieve your ROI.
  • The data accuracy sometimes can be bad leading to bad domain reputation.
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ScreenShots

AlphaSense Screenshots

Screenshot of AlphaSense's AI search, available across 2,000+ premium business data sources including SEC filings, earnings calls, broker research, business journals, and news. It can be used to stay ahead of market-moving trends and instantly surface critical information buried within millions of documents.Screenshot of a single view of the industries, companies and themes within a fully-customizable dashboard, that can be tailored to fit any research process.Screenshot of a purpose-built generative AI that offers insights from a premium content universe.