Standard Data Blocks

Enables you to retrieve data on a specific entity or category. In a single online API request, multiple data blocks can be pulled. Monitoring is supported for all elements of standard data blocks and Data File (Batch) is supported for all elements of standard data blocks except Company Financials Levels 2, 3 & 4 and Filings & Events Level 3 due to their flattened-out sizes, however these 4 Levels can be delivered in Batch JSON format. Please refer here for generating the Technical Specifications of different data blocks combination.

For China, due to local regulatory requirements limited data is available for online & monitoring and transactions response time will be longer.

Base Information - Please note that when you request at least one standard data block in a request you will always receive the DUNS Number, Primary Business Name, and Country ISO Alpha2 code for the requested company.

Business Activity Insights

Business activities are signals that show there is a demonstrated commercial engagement from either the D&B Data Cloud data ingestion or customer discovery via Dun & Bradstreet licensed services.

  • Level1 - Summary of D-U-N-S™ Number activity for 3 months.
  • Level2 - Summary of D-U-N-S™ Number activity for 6 months.
  • Level3 - Summary of D-U-N-S™ Number activity for 12 months.

Company Financials

Financial statement information on both private and public companies around the world. The summary contains up to 36 individually named elements but this data is, for the most part, as per the statements provided by each country and include the local nuances specific to some countries.

  • Level1 - Single latest D&B fiscal summary financials. If both consolidated and individual statements are available as the latest statement, then only consolidated will be returned.
  • Level2 - Latest and Other D&B summary financials, including interim, fiscal, consolidated, individual. Up to 5 years.
  • Level3 - Latest D&B fiscal financial statement, in key value pairs along with latest fiscal and other summary financials.
  • Level4 - Historical D&B financial statements, in key value pairs. Up to 5 years in addition to financial data provided in level 3.
  • Third Party Financials - All Financial Statements sourced from third-party solution providers, currently Morningstar.
  • Abridged Financials - Financial insights data gathered on businesses that cannot be considered as a full statement but may still be useful in business decision making.

Company Information

Provides basic data about a company, including name and address, industry/business activity type, size, and country/region identification numbers.

  • Level1 - Basic information about a company primarily used to validate the Match found in Company Entity Resolution such as Business Name, Primary Address, Telephone, Web Address and Primary Industry Codes. This Level is required as it is the starting point for all data block licenses.
  • Level2 - Additional information on a company including Sales, Employees, Industry Codes, Mailing Address and other information.
  • Level3 - Information on a company's competition, editorial information and Assignment Model data.
  • Level4 - Country specific data elements that are considered of higher value and pertain to the organization. Currently specific to the Japanese market and includes primary supplier and customer names and D-U-N-S Numbers.
  • Identifiers - The Side Data Block provides set of additional business identifiers which are issued by International or local regulators for organization. This Side Data Block provides IDs along with additional attributes associated with the organizations for identification and validation purposes which will help to support various Master Data and Regulatory use cases. Currently, Legal Entity Identifier(LEI) is provided by this Side Data Block, but new identifies will be added over the time.

Derived Trade Insights

Detailed breakdown of commercial unsecured trade lines leveraged by a D-U-N-S™ Numbered entity.

  • Level1 - 12 month summary of experiences and PAYDEX®.
  • Level2 - 3, 6 and 9 month experience counts and aging by delinquency time period (30, 60, 90 and 90+ days late).
  • Level3 - 24 and 36 month experience counts and aging by delinquency time period (30, 60, 90 and 90+ days late).

Diversity Insights

Reported indicators on the business ownership structure of the company, such as women, minority or other designations. Please note that the LGTBQ owned business data is only available in block level 3 and should only be used for supplier diversity purposes.

  • Level1 - Basic indicators that are either modeled or identified from an outside source.
  • Level2 - Indicators from outside sources, many of which have certification status.
  • Level3 - Certification details for the indicators in Level 2 including certification levels, source names and certification dates.

Educational Data

The Educational Data Block allows customers to build a list of prospects with best-in-class education data that includes K-16 U.S. institutions and the teachers, administrators, librarians, and other education professionals at those institutions. Get a holistic view of the U.S. education market and its key decision makers.

Environmental Insights

Environmental Insights holds data points related to topics under the E-dimension. The data set is powered by data across topics such as Waste and Toxic release facilities, Water stress and Drought, Water and Air quality. It’s built on trustworthy sources on a region, industry and company level where it’s formatted in order to make it structured and actionable.

  • Level1 - Macro data pertaining to environmental insights such as air and water pollution, waste management etc.

Filings & Events

Information about legal events associated with a company, such as: registrations with local authorities, suits, liens, bankruptcies/financial embarrassment. Also includes financing statements, public notices, US government awards data and special events information.

  • Level1 - Indicators as to whether or not various filings types are present on a company, whether or not certain types of awards have been granted or whether or not certain types of events have taken place such as a natural disaster.
  • Level2 - Counts (number) and amounts (values) within the last 12 months as well as basic information on all types of legal filings and awards.
  • Level3 - Detailed information on all filings and events, including details on suits, liens, judgments, bankruptcies/insolvencies, debarments, collection claims, US government awards and more with commentary and filing office information.

Financial Strength Insights

Analytically-derived scores and ratings to help Finance professionals with many of their everyday use cases involving assessment of other companies. Only available for the Finance domain.

  • Level1 - Current Delinquency and Current Failure Score Classes as well as the standard Dun & Bradstreet Rating information.
  • Level2 - Percentile information for the scores in Level 1 in addition to Credit Limit recommendations.
  • Level3 - Raw score and commentary information on the scores in the earlier Levels as well as D&B Viability Score information, and Industry Norms data.
  • Level4 - 12 month history of the scores in earlier Levels as well as trend information.

Hierarchies & Connections

Identifies entities associated with a given company in terms of legal ownership, franchises and other connection types. Often referred to as a "family tree". A customer must "buy in" at Level 1, but can then get any of the other options (referred to as side blocks) they require without having to get all of them. The Side Block responses are going to contain only the data associated with those offerings and in most cases cannot be combined with other enrichment data. Level 1 & Alternative Linkage side block do not contain Full Family Tree or Upward Family Tree side block data elements. Full Family Tree and Upward Family Tree side blocks must be called separately and do not include Level 1 or Alternative Linkage or Extended Linkage Insight data elements.

  • Level1 - Information on the Headquarter or Parent of a business as well as the highest family member within a family tree. It also includes information on the highest member of a tree within the same country as the site record.
  • Alternative Linkage - Identifies operational ultimate records for records that are franchises, dealers, networks, co-operatives, etc.
  • Extended Linkage Insight - Provides content on a specific record relating to any hierarchies or linkages beyond traditional Legal and Alternative Linkage. The data is based on Machine Learning models that automate the manual effort of linking candidates by name similarity, brand uniqueness, SIC relativeness, company website, financial statement, Wikipedia data, and customer feedback.

Inquiry Insights

Provides insights into D-U-N-S™ Number level activity showing velocity and trends valuable for activity evaluation, sizing, opportunity definition and potential fraud detection. US only, monthly summary.

  • Level1 - Total count of inquiries on a D-U-N-S™ Number.
  • Level2 - Time based summary of inquiries at D-U-N-S™ Number (e.g. 6, 9, 12, 24 months).
  • Level3 - Annual summary of inquiries by industry (e.g. 3, 6, 9, 12 moths).
  • Level4 - Historic summary of inquiries by industry (e.g. 24, 36, 48 moths).

Ownership Insights

Information on the people and companies who own shares of a given business entity and/or who ultimately benefit from the result of that business' operations.

  • Level1 - Information on the shareholders of the company; whether individuals or businesses.

Payment Insights

Information related to a company's payment history and profile. This includes the Dun & Bradstreet Paydex® score - both current and historical - high credit amount information and industry norm data.

  • Level1 - Current PAYDEX, Average Days Beyond Terms as well as the number of payment experiences for a company.
  • Level2 - Summary information, counts/amounts/percentages, for key Payment Manners.
  • Level3 - Industry Norms, 3-Month Ago PAYDEX summary information.
  • Level4 - Information on full payment manner breakouts and historical Paydex scores.

Physical Climate Exposure Indices

Scores that combine the physical climate risk insights data with corporate linkage, business risk, property & building characteristics, country risks, supply chains, and other critical Dun & Bradstreet insights, to calculate an entity’s risk of encountering a climate related disruption and their probability of recovery.

  • Level1 - D&B Climate Indices Baseline Risk (Historical + Projected).
  • Level2 - D&B Climate Indices Current Monthly Risk (Current + Forecast).

Physical Climate Risk Insights

Climate Risk Insights combines physical climate risk data - along with global-leading firmographics and financial characteristics to provide visibility needed to mitigate climate related risks throughout business relationships.

  • Level1 - Physical Climate Baseline Risk (Historical + Projected).
  • Level2 - Physical Climate Current Monthly Risk (Current + Forecast).

Principals & Contacts

Information about company employees and principals, including: names, titles, and - where permitted - contact information. Data within the Principals and Contacts block is split between Principals data and Contact data. Principals data, representing executives and directors associated with a company and available globally, is available when calling the Data Block API for all levels of Principals & Contacts Block. This Principals data is available through data file as well as the Data Block API. This request can be combined in the same call with a request for other entitled data blocks.

  • Level1 - Information on the most senior person known at the company.
  • Level2 - Information on the rest of the known current principals and contacts at the company.
  • Level3 - Additional information about the current principals including nationality, birth date and areas of responsibility, generally used for Compliance use cases.
  • Level4 - Information on former principals of the company.

Sales & Marketing Insights

Analytically-derived scores and predictive indicators to help Sales & Marketing professionals with many of their everyday use cases involving to whom to target and sell.

  • Level1 - Risk grades (H, M, L) based on a company's propensity to fail* for pre-vet and determining marketing channel and approach. (*US companies-propensity to pay beyond terms).
  • Level2 - Provides a number of modelling powered segments that indicate the current trajectory of the business.
  • Level3 - Analytical modeling that represents the spending classifications of a company as well as information to help identify the buying locations within a family tree. Historical and norms data may be available in this level in the future. Current scores include Decision HQ and Buydex.

Shipping Insights

  • Level1 - Provides data about which companies have shipping transactions associated to them, the count of transactions, as well as which roles the company played within the transactions.

Social Insights

Social Insights holds data points related to topics under the S-dimension. The data set is powered by data across topics such as Minimum and Average wage, Forced and Child labor, Union density and Work safety, Modern slavery and Working hours. It’s built on trustworthy sources on a region, industry and company level where it’s formatted in order to make it structured and actionable.

  • Level1 - Macro data pertaining to labor practices and wage information.

Third-Party Risk Insights

Analytically-derived scores and ratings to help Strategic Sourcing and Compliance professionals with many of their everyday use cases involving assessment of other companies. Only available for the Supplier and Compliance domains.

  • Level1 - Supplier Evaluation Risk & Supplier Stability Index Scores.

Small Business Financial Exchange (SBFE)

The D&B Direct for Finance - SBFE solution provides more than 700 data fields based on the Small Business Financial Exchange SBFE Data™ and Dun & Bradstreet Analytics. This solution is only available to SBFE Members™ and Non Exchange Participants.

SBFE Data Blocks is segmented into 12 different data blocks - each with specific unique SBFE Attributes, the D&B SBFE Score, SBFE Account Details or SBFE Account History. Additionally there are two versions of the SBFE Attributes, depending which have proven to be most predictive for your application:

  1. Version 1 - provides the actual value or unique default values for specific SBFE Attribute data fields that can help identify signals of other present SBFE data.
  2. Version 2 - provides the actual SBFE Attribute value only.

Dun & Bradstreet has released a new and improved process to maximize the match and hit rate to SBFE Data, and provide the best candidate or candidate list to users who are entitled to the SBFE solution. This feature utilizes new logic when users submit a Lookup request, to now search both DNB and SBFE data and present a single combined candidate list. This SBFE Match request will retrieve both standard D-U-N-S, D-U-N-S with SBFE Data, and SBFE match candidates (AGN), and present them in the same response indicating which D-U-N-S have SBFE data along with non-D-U-N-S SBFE match candidates (AGN). By default, match candidates will be sorted in descending order by Confidence Code. Additionally, filter criteria provide the user with flexibility in the sort order of the candidates by presence of SBFE Date in each candidate to maximize hit rate to SBFE Data. Customers wishing to use this new service will need to use the new SBFE Match services that includes the new filters and be entitled to use SBFE data.

Please work with your D&B Representative for details on this set of Data Blocks.


Add-Ons/Non-Standard Data Blocks

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