If your organisation has a Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) licence, Xapien can use it to bring D&B's verified corporate data directly into your reports - enriching everything from entity resolution in Identify, through to ownership structures, leadership profiles, and risk signals in the body of the report.
This article walks you through what the D&B integration adds to your reports, where you'll see it appear, and things to note.
ℹ️ Who is this for?
The D&B integration is available to customers on a Bring Your Own Licence (BYOL) basis - your organisation will need its own active D&B licence for the integration to be enabled.
To check whether D&B is enabled for your organisation, if you are an Enterprise or Pro customer please speak to your Customer Success Manager. If you are a Base customer please reach out to customer support.
What the D&B integration brings to your reports
Once enabled, D&B data is automatically incorporated into relevant reports across both Identify and the investigative process - no extra steps per report.
More accurate entity identification
D&B data feeds Identify, the step where Xapien resolves which entity you're researching. Standardised, verified company records improve entity resolution and produce clearer, more reliable matches when there are several similarly named organisations to choose between.
Deeper company intelligence
Expanded firmographic coverage in the report body, including:
Financials
Headcount
Industry classifications
Registered details
Corporate structures, ownership and control
D&B provides comprehensive parent-subsidiary hierarchies, traced all the way up to global ultimate ownership, alongside broader network relationships. You'll see:
Detailed shareholder and control structures
Parent and subsidiary chains
Wider network relationships beyond the immediate corporate group
This data also powers the interactive beneficial ownership graph in your organisation reports - see The beneficial ownership graph for how to navigate it, how percentages are calculated, and what's included in PDF exports.
Richer leadership profiles
Enhanced visibility of key individuals associated with an organisation, including their roles, responsibilities, and core biographical details.
Legal, financial, risk and ESG signals
Structured insight into:
Filings, insolvencies, legal actions, and other material corporate events
Supplier stability and broader risk exposure
ESG positioning
Network visibility for individuals
D&B's people-centric data lets you trace individuals across the businesses they're associated with - useful for source-of-wealth analysis and assessing affiliations.
Things to note
Source transparency - D&B does not currently provide a direct, linkable interface for the underlying records they supply. As a result, report citations sourced from D&B don't link out to an external source. A dedicated in-report D&B data viewer is in development to provide full transparency and traceability.
Limitations specific to the beneficial ownership graph (including PDF rendering) are covered in The beneficial ownership graph.