D&B Finance Analytics is a global credit-to-cash solution that provides Dun & Bradstreet data, analytics, and technology to help improve cash flow, increase operational efficiency, and mitigate risk. This AI-driven solution comprises two platforms – D&B Credit Intelligence and D&B Receivables Intelligence powered by GETPAID – that together help finance teams transform their operations and reduce cost through insight, automation, and enhanced customer experience.
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D&B Hoovers
Score 8.4 out of 10
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D&B Hoovers delivers sales intelligence data for millions of companies globally.
The only other tools we used was the Avention tool; this was given to us by a vendor and it was amazing and we continued to use it as long as possible. It was easier to navigate then Hoovers and we found it had more accurate data; Hoovers seemed to focus on quantity while this …
I use both of these resources in tandem to provide a detailed analysis of our client's customers. Hoovers provides more detail on a company's organizational structure (i.e. immediate parent companies, ultimate parent companies, etc.). I prefer to use Hoover's if a company's …
I currently use Westlaw in conjunction with D&B Finance Analytics as I feel they provide different strengths. D&B Finance Analytics provides overall business risk information, while Westlaw provides bankruptcies, liens and judgements, UCC filings, criminal records, arrest …
D&B Finance Analytics is helpful when you need to obtain information on large national businesses. The Trade Payments by Industry section offers valuable information if you don't have sufficient trade references or if they do not respond to requests for information. We are referred to D&B automatically quite often these days when we contact vendors for credit experience. We have found the reports less helpful for smaller businesses, or for companies that have not been in business for very long.
D and B hoovers are best suited when you want to target companies based on their revenue, employee strength, location, and the kind of business the company is doing, this helps to make a cohort and find companies that are most likely to buy you products or services. However, D & B hoovers has some scope for improvement when it comes to getting details of individual decision-makers in those companies. It's not bad but can improve.
allows you to search within broad industry categories or very detailed subcategories using a variety of methods (NAICS, SIC, D&B's internal coding system, keywords, etc.)
Has a variety of personnel that you can view and sort by level, name, or email availability.
Oftentimes emails for C-level personnel cannot be located on the company website or easily found elsewhere online.
We should be able to "exclude" words from titles or company names
Able to access titles and email addresses more easily - not look at list first, select find matching contacts button, then go back to sort to add titles contain and email addresses, etc. This is a two-step process to get what I need.
Hoover's just isn't compelling for the types of information they provide and the pricing model. But again, this is from the very limited perspective of a below entry level analyst who is just finishing their studies. It is probable that for some segments of industry, Hoover's has vast wealth of pertinent information. For example, when looking into agricultural industries for a consulting firm, I did not save any time with their service because information on factory locations and assets was scant. Using Google earth to view the square footage of the facilities to estimate assets was often more helpful.
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They are terrific at giving instruction/webinars. I am able to call, directly, to an individual and talk to that person. I'm not talking to a robot. They give personal service which is really special.
D&B has more accurate information than other credit reporting platforms that I have used. I have used Experian, CreditSafe, CreditRiskMonitor, and NACM. All of them have their merits, but D&B is just more widely used and therefore has complete information. Reports are only as good as the information received.
While there are several softwares that offer similar options, Hoovers does stand above the others as one of the most accurate softwares I have used. They seem to put a lot of work into keeping their information up to date and accurate. It definitely makes the life of a salesperson much easier.
D&B Finance Analytics to assess the creditworthiness of potential customers or partners, it may be able to reduce the risk of default and improve the return on its lending or investment activities.
D&B Finance Analytics to make financial decisions, and the tool provides inaccurate or incomplete data; the organization may make poor decisions that result in financial losses or other negative consequences.
Have a positive impact on a business by providing access to financial data and analytics that can help organizations make more informed decisions about lending, investment, and other financial activities.
Honestly cannot say we really drove any new sales using D&B Hoovers to prospect new companies and leads. We obtained higher data quality with other tools like ZoomInfo and Skrapp.
A year long contract that isn't honored on their side due to lack of customer service and poor data quality definitely does not equal ROI.
Spent significant time sanitizing and cleansing inaccurate data provided by their service. Since time is money in business, that was a loss in that aspect.
