A successful data strategy is essential for organizational success. It creates efficiencies, increases resiliency, and drives growth. However, many businesses and their data teams find it difficult to reach these goals. Instead, they encounter gaps and inconsistencies stemming from disparate and poor-quality data sources. For many, this results in a loss of momentum—a loss they could avoid if they had a solution that unifies data sources and could be trusted to deliver a complete and transparent view of linkages between individuals, business entities, and more.

In today’s tech-driven landscape, the power of data and network analytics can deliver effective results, enabling unprecedented data efficiencies across the organization. This strategic approach establishes a trusted data foundation, through which stakeholders can enhance data governance, forge innovation, and promote widespread adoption.

Navigating challenges

Data teams are expected to drive operational and tactical initiatives that can transform an organization. It’s a tall order. To efficiently accomplish this, data teams need to be empowered to overcome obstacles and challenges that often delay their achievements, or even derail their best efforts. They need to find a solution to close the gaps caused by sourcing data from disparate internal and external systems. These diverse systems are not only inconsistent and unreliable, but may also be duplicative. This drains resources and hinders the accuracy of data matching.

The stakes have never been higher. Mismanaged data can lead to disruptions, regulatory issues and eroded customer trust. To mitigate these risks, organizations must implement a comprehensive and transparent solution—one that not only detects and exposes disruptive activities, but also prevents them.

When the power of data and network analytics are combined, the results are impressive. Data teams gain deeper insights into business relationships, which allows them to identify potential risk and drive more accurate, cost-effective, and faster business decisions.

Turning data into a trusted resource

An organization that establishes a strong data foundation puts data to work to serve business needs. It takes data and fits it for purpose. It makes that data accessible to anyone in the organization—including non-data scientists and line-of-business users. By applying a technology-enabled discipline that brings business units and IT teams together to create a data foundation, organizations can ensure that their data source is accurate, consistent, and uniform.

Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform, built upon AI and machine learning, integrates seamlessly with Dun & Bradstreet’s rich corporate data insights. Through entity resolution and graph analytics, Decision Intelligence transforms data at scale so that accurate decisions can be made. Instead of piecemeal, siloed data that is compromised by poor quality, Quantexa's Decision Intelligence Platform, powered with comprehensive data by Dun & Bradstreet, closes the gaps. The unification of data in a holistic view enables informed decisions that address common challenges associated with traditional matching methods, such as data availability and quality issues.

Data you can trust

When customers create a 360-degree view of business relationships, they gain valuable insights by accessing high-quality data. This comprehensive perspective eliminates obstacles, reveals hidden connections, and enhances understanding of hierarchies and linkages. By integrating Quantexa's modeling and scoring, organizations can confidently deploy trusted solutions without extensive technical expertise. The flexible and customizable approach allows users to explore and analyze insights through intuitive networks. With this solution, building a trusted data foundation becomes achievable...and unlocks transformational outcomes for your organization.

So what makes this described trusted data foundation unique? It’s the combination of best-in-class entity resolution software paired with the world’s most comprehensive business data for an accurate entity view powered by Live Business Identity and the D-U-N-S Number for "Golden Records." Together, we enable contextual insight from the world’s most comprehensive enriched business data and analytically derived insights covering companies of all sizes and virtually every industry.

For decades, despite technological advancements and increased investment, building a trusted data foundation that is accessible, rich in context, and usable in real time has been out of reach. Not anymore. Together, Dun & Bradstreet and Quantexa can help you build a trusted view of your data and bring the critical hidden context to the surface. You can unlock transformational and empowering outcomes that result in faster time-to-value and digital resilience, which helps you close the data gap.

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