D&B Hoovers has good legacy data
January 12, 2024

D&B Hoovers has good legacy data

Paul Palmer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

D&B Hoovers

Overall Satisfaction with D&B Hoovers

D&B Hoovers is an excellent source for us to identify key decision makers for our internal use, and for our clients. The information is easy to access, and the quality of the data is as good as it gets for compiled data. I like being able to identify and search for companies by sector and geography, in addition to by role, seniority, and position.
  • Comprehensive Data
  • Clear segmentation of verticals
  • Accurate company information
  • I would like to see verified emails
  • There's room to improve the industry classification
  • There should be a way to reduce the cost for more usage
  • We've been able to identify companies that are appropriate for specific uses.
  • We've identified some key decision-makers and role players at those companies.
The most essential field that I'm looking for is email address or some other direct contact. It's becoming harder and harder to get person-to-person contact with people. I find many email addresses are for People to avoid interacting with other people, so finding verified email addresses of people who are actually responding or engaging with emails is tantamount. Because of the way e-mail privacy is working these days, email addresses from people who open their emails is pretty well worthless, I need to know what hours of which days people engage (click) inside their emails.
Indeed, they offer the fields and filters I would expect to have available. However, when I drilled down through those specific selects, I found that much of the personally identifiable information related to particular individuals Is best lacking. Still, very often, or more often than not, it's simply wrong—many, many, many, many, many, many incorrect, inaccurate, or even spam trap emails. They need to clean up their email verification, and add an engagement number that reflects the time of the day on specific days in the week that people engage with specific types of emails.

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of D&B Hoovers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy D&B Hoovers again?

Yes

If you're looking for a comprehensive data set that is extremely accurate on company details, D&B shines. The larger the company or type of company that you're looking for, the better the D&B data is. It's very good at identifying who the key players, and decision makers are. It also excels at identifying the headcount of specific types of companies, and if they have locations domestically and/or internationally, where those locations are located.

D&B Hoovers Feature Ratings

Advanced search
5
Identification of new leads
5
List quality
3
List upload/download
8
Ideal customer targeting
7
Load time/data access
5
Contact information
1
Company information
10
Industry information
7
Smart lists and recommendations
8
Salesforce integration
10
Company/business profiles
10
Alerts and reminders
7
Data hygiene
1
Automatic data refresh
2
Tags
10
Filters and segmentation
10
Append emails to records
1