dun & bradstreet corp (DNB) Snapshot

D&B announced that Thomas J. Manning and Judith A. Reinsdorf were appointed to company's Board of Directors on June 12, 2013. Mr. Manning is the former CEO of Cerberus Asia Operations & Advisory Limited. Mr. Manning has over thirty years of experience in consulting and technology services. Ms. Reinsdorf is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Tyco International Ltd.

Dun & Bradstreet Corp. introduced the D&B Data Exchange(TM). This unique, cloud-based service provides customers one-source access to industry-specific data from select companies that join the D&B Data Exchange as partners. All of the data is linked through the D&B D-U-N-S(R) Number, enabling customers for the first time to confidently combine D&B information, other providers' content, and their own information to identify new growth opportunities across multiple industries. Using D&B's proprietary DUNSRight(R) matching technology, data from partners with unique data sets in vertical areas such as healthcare, technology, insurance, finance and social media are matched to a D&B D-U-N-S Number. The D-U-N-S Number enables customers to seamlessly connect multiple data sets to D&B's information, and easily integrate it with their own. Compared to collecting data from individual sources one at a time, D&B Data Exchange provides a more efficient, trusted experience. D&B customers can access information from the new Data Exchange via D&B Direct, an application programming interface that makes it possible to access D&B's business information from any application or platform.

D&B introduced Hoover's Analytics, a new product to help small businesses segment and evaluate their customers and prospects to identify new growth opportunities. This new product gives small businesses the edge to anticipate tomorrow's opportunities, today. Hoover's Analytics enables users to integrate transactional data from customers with D&B's database of more than 20 million U.S. business records. Using this new customer analytics product, subscribers can pinpoint optimal targets while gaining insights about their market penetration and how they stack up to the competition. The four reports within Hoover's Analytics enable small businesses to analyze their customer and prospect portfolios by geography, size, corporate relationship and other filters. Reports include: The Industry Penetration Report categorizes customers by industry, providing a quick and easy view of the industries spending the most and which ones to target for growth. The Company Map Report shows where existing customers are located geographically to easily plan customer visits, assign sales territories or target prospects in key regions. The company Opportunity Report provides a quick view of a customer's family tree to help leverage current relationships for up-sell and cross-sell opportunities. It also finds look-alike prospects based on a company's best customer profiles. The Company Segmentation Report determines the size of best customers, based on annual revenue, and summarizes market penetration, allowing target segmentation where sales has had success but a great deal of opportunity remains.