D&B Review
Updated August 22, 2024

D&B Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with D&B Finance Analytics

We use it to get rough estimates of company revenue, track their locations, and examine the reliability of their trade payments to get a sense of the business's stability. I also use it to examine past UCC filings or court cases filed against the group to estimate its stability, mostly for financial data.

Pros

  • Financial estimates.
  • Trade payments data.
  • UCC filings.

Cons

  • The revenue estimate disappears from the report after you select it, which is absolutely puzzling and frustrating.
  • There is never any useful data regarding federal contracts.
  • N/A
I use Hoovers for less detailed financial information. Nexis is much better for relevant news.
It's quite poor. My team's accounts are regularly deactivated for no explicable reason. Service goes out at random points periodically, or we cannot log in to our accounts, and we have to reach out to support to regain access, which can take days.

Do you think D&B Finance Analytics delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with D&B Finance Analytics's feature set?

Yes

Did D&B Finance Analytics live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of D&B Finance Analytics go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy D&B Finance Analytics again?

No

I'd use it to get rough estimates of the financial performance of small, private companies without public data sources. I don't even bother consulting it for large, public companies where I can examine their SEC filings. However, it's better than nothing in the former use case.

Using D&B Finance Analytics

5 - External market researchers to do reviews of potential targets/clients.
We do not have anyone in-house dedicated to "supporting" D&B users. It's self-explanatory and do not need support.
  • market research
  • corporate family identification
  • revenue/credit estimates of companies
  • I can't imagine additional ways to use D&B without them improving their ability to estimate the finances or scale of private companies
D&B is a useful tool we use to conduct basic market research on competitors and targets, but it is a tangential tool in a suite of research methods we deploy. It is mostly used as a tool of last resort when other methods aren't effective, so it's not core to our operations.

Evaluating D&B Finance Analytics and Competitors

Not Sure
  • Other
I am not the purchaser of D&B services.

Using D&B Finance Analytics

ProsCons
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Finding different companies
  • Getting short overviews of their scale
  • It is extremely annoying that the annual revenue estimate on a company disappears once you click to get more information about it.
  • I would prefer if it just didn't offer tabs on the reports page if they had no information available. It's pointless to click on a tab that has no information available.
It is quite simple to use and relatively straightforward. I never felt like I;ve needed to reach out to their technical support staff for assistance

Comments

  • Kevin Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Kevin Johnson
    (Vendor Representative) commented 2 years ago
    Hello, thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback on D&B Finance Analytics. We were disappointed to hear about your experience in the support portion of the review. Our product team would love to hear more specifics. Would you be willing to provide your contact details so we can be in touch to offer you a session with our product management team? My email is johnsonk@dnb.com

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