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D&B Finance Analytics

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What is D&B Finance Analytics?

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 Finance Analytics Reviews

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D&B Finance Analytics offers a lot of data but there's a cost

Incentivized
Harry C McLaughlin, CICPView profile
Process Improvement Manager in Finance and Accounting at Continental Tire the Americas (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

D&B Finance Analytics is used as a primary source for making credit decisions and monitoring the health of our clients.

Pros

  • Compiles a large pool of data from multiple industries
  • Provides a nice format for reading the data
  • Customer support is relatively responsive

Cons

  • Reliability of Data is suspect with multiple records for the same company and missing or contradictory information within.
  • Pursuing and incentivizing both self reporting and creditor reporting - data is often outdated or missing
  • Consistency between tools often charts and details do not match

Return on Investment

  • D&B Finance Analytics provides us with a standard on which to base our decisions which reduces processing time.
  • Erroneous information has caused delays or inaccurate decisions and as a result lost business. The lack or reliability has caused us to add new secondary verification steps and look for supplemental report providers (additional costs)

Alternatives Considered

Experian Credit Risk, Creditsafe, Experian DataShare and PassFort a Moody's Analytics solution

Other Software Used

Creditsafe, Experian Credit Risk

Highly Recommend D&B Finance Analytics

Incentivized
Kari FowlerView profile
Operations Manager in Finance and Accounting at ABO Pharmaceuticals (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use D&B Finance Analytics to not only prescreen our customers but to monitor for future purchases. This enables us to be aware of any payment issues that might arise and to prevent that from happening. We use this for all of our new customers as well as our long standing customers.

Pros

  • Predict future payment issues
  • Analyze current finance health
  • Pursue Customers for future business

Cons

  • I am happy

Return on Investment

  • Reduced DSO
  • Improved Cash Flow
  • Fewer A/R Calls
  • Increased working capital

Finance Professional

Incentivized
Micheal Bingham
Financial Analyst in Finance and Accounting at Ardent Mills LLC (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

D&B Finance Analytics is utilized daily to help make informed business credit decision, to help gauge a companies credit worthiness. The service provide by D&B help us to decrease our bad debt exposure. D&B Finance Analytics has become a daily required tool as part of the credit team daily task .

Pros

  • Credit Worthiness
  • Real Time Paydex Scores
  • Email updates of delinquent accounts

Cons

  • Real Time Bankruptcy updates
  • Out of business notices

Return on Investment

  • Reduced Bad Debt
  • Less Favorable companies updates
  • Improved DSO

Alternatives Considered

Axe Credit Portal

Other Software Used

Amazon CloudSearch, Credit Assist, Altair Monarch

Powerful DB software that helps with risk management and credit decisions

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Marketing (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloud software that helps understand financial and credit risks. The credit intelligence is used to assess the credit and potential risks of customers. It helps to create insights and provide risk scores and forecasts. Ultimately it is used to support automated credit decisioning by assessing the creditworthiness of customers or vendors by using a range of data and models.

Pros

  • Automated credit scoring
  • Automated credit decisioning
  • Monitor risks and portfolios

Cons

  • Matching customer names with profiles to ensure the right customer has been identified
  • Data can be unavailable or missing for smaller companies or certain geographies
  • Data updates are not realtime and can be outdated

Return on Investment

  • Faster credit decisioning by automating it as much as possible
  • Reduce manual investigations by using API's to connect data
  • Helps with regulatory requirements on data and customers

Finance Analytics Room For Improvement

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

D&B Finance Analytics is used to review company financials in our labor organization. It addresses various problems we have with finding specific or high level quantifies to determine a companies financial well-being. For example, Credit reports & risk scores allow us to see the value in organizing a company from a labor perspective. If they are not financially viable they may not have a long term future.

Pros

  • Credit reports & risk scores
  • Portfolio analysis / risk breakdowns
  • Corporate family tree

Cons

  • Easier to manage alert set ups
  • Data is not always the most current, needs to be reviewed carefully
  • Filtering could be better

Return on Investment

  • Positive: easy of access to challenging to find private company information
  • Negative: having to check sources further to determine timeline vs other platforms
  • Positive: Useful high level summaries of company interests

Alternatives Considered

Nexis Diligence+

Other Software Used

Nexis Diligence+, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, Nexis Dossier

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