Dun & Bradstreet

InformationWeek | April 19, 2018

Data provider Dun & Bradstreet has been providing information to subscribers and customers for 177 years. Now it is exploring Blockchain and machine learning to improve its offerings. You wouldn't normally think of a 177-year-old company as one that would be on top of digital transformation and emerging data analytics trends. But Dun & Bradstreet has always been a data business, way back in 1841 as the Mercantile Agency, a credit information bureau. Today the new technologies are a l...

Dun & Bradstreet, Velotrade | May 22, 2020

Velotrade has turned to Dun & Bradstreet, to use its global database to enable comprehensive, real-time analysis of customer finances and support new business generation. D&B Credit helps businesses to manage global credit risk and drive profitable growth b...

Dun & Bradstreet | October 08, 2020

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, through its subsidiary Dun & Bradstreet Holdings BV, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the outstanding shares of Bisnode Business Information Group AB (“Bisnode”), a leading European data and analytics firm and long-standing member of the Dun & Bradstreet Worldwide Network. The estimated purchase price upon closing is 7.2B SEK or ...

techhq.com | January 13, 2020

Transporting one million commuters each day, 92 percent of Dutch Railways Nederlandse Spoorwegen’s (NS) trains arrive on time, making it the third-most punctual rail service in the world, behind Switzerland and Japan. While certain delays are unavoidable results of severe weather or obstructions on the line, for exampleNS owes its industry-leading scheduling to big data analytics, thanks to thousands of sensors on its locomotives. As reported in TNW, NS has been leveraging the power of pre...