REDMOND, Wash. and SHORT HILLS, N.J., July 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Dun & Bradstreet, the global leader in commercial data,
analytics and insights for business, is teaming up with Microsoft
Corp. to give companies worldwide direct access to its data through
Microsoft's cloud services.
Together the companies announced the following:
- Dun & Bradstreet has selected Microsoft
as a strategic cloud provider to
accelerate the company's digital transformation and
deliver its customers more efficient and seamless
access to its commercial data. Dun & Bradstreet will
power core applications and build new services on
Microsoft Azure, and plans to use Microsoft intelligent
cloud services to modernize applications.
- Dun & Bradstreet data will be made available
within Microsoft Dynamics 365. Leveraging Microsoft's Common
Data Service, the industry-standard D-U-N-S®
Number and core business data will be integrated to help
joint customers qualify sales leads and stay synchronized with
Dun & Bradstreet's global business database of
over 265 million business records.
- Dun & Bradstreet will reach Microsoft's commercial users
and prospects through a joint, co-sell arrangement focused on
Dynamics 365, Dun & Bradstreet's core business data and D&B
Hoovers.
- The first offerings are expected to be in market later this
year.
No stranger to business evolution, under the leadership of
Dun & Bradstreet Chairman and CEO Bob
Carrigan, the 176-year-old company has taken significant
steps to transform and modernize by investing in its
data, analytics and insights to ensure they are the most up-to-date
available. This move with Microsoft builds on the past four
years of business transformation that has seen the company
offer more of its products and solutions on the cloud
through data-as-a-service offerings. The trusted,
global Azure cloud platform will help
Dun & Bradstreet meet
its customers' demand for real-time connectivity to their
global business ecosystem by enabling it to update and
scale faster and increase velocity and timeliness for customers
that rely on their data to look for new business
opportunities.
"We want our customers to have the most up-to-date data when
they need it and where they want it," said Josh Peirez, president and chief operating
officer of Dun & Bradstreet. "By partnering strategically with
Microsoft, we can take advantage of the scale and speed of
cloud-based technologies, accelerate our innovation, and power
seamless access to our data and insights. By delivering our content
through the cloud, our customers will better discover — and grow —
their most valuable business relationships."
Native integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 business
applications will introduce Dun & Bradstreet to
new users and use cases as well as deliver more seamless solutions
than previously possible. Today companies use Dun &
Bradstreet data and analytics services for business-to-business
(B2B) sales and marketing, risk management, supply-chain
management, sales lead scoring, and credit history management.
Dynamics 365 is the next generation of intelligent business
applications that enables organizations to grow, evolve and
transform to meet customer needs and capture new opportunities.
With this data integration, existing Dun & Bradstreet customers
that are also Microsoft Dynamics 365 customers will benefit from
data integrated directly into their CRM, streamlining the process
so that they are able to access information in a way that saves a
significant amount of time and improves productivity.
"Microsoft is honored Dun & Bradstreet selected our cloud to
power its most fundamental and key industry offerings.
Digital transformation is not simply about technology — it requires
business leaders to re-envision existing business models and
embrace a different way of bringing together people, data and
processes," said Judson Althoff,
Microsoft executive vice president of Worldwide Commercial
Business. "Dun & Bradstreet is leveraging technology to
power its innovation and create value for its customers. The
opportunity for mutual customers to thrive with rich data when you
combine Dynamics 365 and Dun & Bradstreet is
incredible."
With a joint go-to-market approach, both companies will co-sell
the Dun & Bradstreet core business data and D&B Hoovers
with Dynamics 365. This offering will be available in the U.S.,
yielding new incremental sales opportunities for Dun &
Bradstreet's sales and marketing solutions and incremental Azure
consumption for Microsoft.
About Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) grows the most valuable
relationships in business. By uncovering truth and meaning from
data, we connect our customers with the prospects, suppliers,
clients and partners that matter most, and have since 1841. Nearly
ninety percent of the Fortune 500, and companies of every size
around the world, rely on our data, insights and analytics. For
more about Dun & Bradstreet, visit DNB.com. Twitter:
@DnBUS
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @Microsoft) is the leading platform and
productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
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