D&B for Oracle Applications Provides a Seamless Link to Critical Business Content, Significantly Enhancing Productivity

The joint offering, called D&B for Oracle Applications, seamlessly integrates D&B business information into Oracle Financials, enabling users to access and store up-to-date identification, demographic, risk, financial, and socio-economic information on their vendors and customers. Within Oracle Applications, D&B information can be used for both strategic and tactical financial analysis and critical decision support. Additionally, Oracle and D&B plan to recommend D&B’s Data Rationalisation Service in any appropriate engagement in which a client can benefit.

With this solution, content will be able to flow real-time via the Internet directly from D&B into the Oracle application. D&B for Oracle Applications enables users to store up-to-date identification, demographic, risk, financial, and socio-economic information on their vendors and customers for strategic and tactical financial analysis and critical decision support.

Customer Benefits

Customers implementing this new offering will be able to:

• Combine and store D&B data with their own customer and vendor master information in a new database table within Oracle Applications
• Leverage the entire enterprise for management reporting, data warehouse loading, or enhance financial and credit analysis
• Aggregate total corporate-wide purchasing power or view accounts receivable exposures across all members of a global corporate family tree, and
• Prevent the creation of duplicate vendor or customer master records within the enterprise.

D&B Data Rationalisation Service

D&B’s Data Rationalisation Service consolidates, cleanses and eliminates redundant account and vendor records and helps ensure the reliability of a customer’s information base. D&B’s Data Rationalisation Service relies upon the D&B D-U-N-S® Number, an internationally-recognised common company identifier endorsed by global standard-setting organisations including the U.S. government and the United Nations. When the D&B D-U-N-S Number is assigned to each business entity in a customer file, the integrity of account and supplier information can be more easily maintained, and expansion opportunities within existing clients can be more easily identified

Availability

D&B for Oracle Applications is available now in English-language version globally and is currently compatible with Oracle Applications releases 10.7 (SC and NCA) and 11.0.