Jacksonville, FL / December 13, 2023 / Business Wire— Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB), the world’s leading provider of business decision-making data and analytics, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a strategic partnership to combine Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud with IBM’s Watsonx Rise up to help organizations responsibly scale their use of generative AI across the business. Dun & Bradstreet also intends to leverage Watsonx with support from IBM Consulting to implement its workflows and solutions.
Through this collaboration, Dun & Bradstreet and IBM aim to drive the adoption of generative AI by developing products for clients to use in their native workflows to help achieve growth and efficiency across a variety of business functions. These products will leverage WatsonX, IBM’s next-generation artificial intelligence and data platform, and leverage Dun & Bradstreet’s data cloud, which contains more than 500 million private and public companies, market-leading identity resolution, including DUNS® numbers and company-generated artificial intelligence. Intelligent capabilities.
Dun & Bradstreet’s Ask Procurement™ is one of the new solutions IBM and Dun & Bradstreet intend to bring to market. Ask Procurement is designed to help procurement professionals unlock new data and insights through a 360-degree view of every aspect of a company’s business relationships to help increase savings, reduce time and mitigate potential risk. The solution is expected to leverage the D&B AiBE™ platform, which will feature Watsonx-powered models and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities powered by Dun & Bradstreet’s vast data cloud. Ask Procurement is expected to be delivered in the first half of next year and will be able to integrate with Dun & Bradstreet solutions or a company’s existing ERP or procurement solutions.
“At Dun & Bradstreet, being a trusted data partner and a responsible AI partner to your organization are synonymous,” said Ginny Gomez, president of Dun & Bradstreet North America. “As two trusted brands, Dun & Bradstreet and IBM bring nearly 300 years of combined experience to the businesses we serve and are ideally suited to help businesses responsibly navigate the rapidly evolving field of generative AI because we understand it so well. their business environment and processes. Hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world rely on us every day, and we believe there is no better company than Dun & Bradstreet to lead the industry and our customers into the future.”
透過此次合作，D&B.AI™ 實驗室、IBM 諮詢和IBM 專家實驗室團隊將利用IBM Garage 方法來建立AI 用例、實施watsonx 並開發有助於提高員工工作效率、增強客戶體驗、緩解業務衝突的app. -Business risk, workflow automation and optimizing efficiency.
“The transformative power of generative AI for business depends entirely on data that is accurate, trustworthy, and targeted to enterprise use cases,” said Rob Thomas, senior vice president and chief commercial officer, IBM Software. “We plan to combine IBM’s best-in-class artificial intelligence and data platforms with Consulting services combine with Dun & Bradstreet’s supply chain expertise and vast amounts of trusted data to bring solutions to market. Together, we can help clients build AI-driven solutions responsibly and scale generative AI with confidence used to achieve their business objectives.”
This relationship is based on the principles of trust, accountability, transparency and explainability. The foundation of this relationship is Dun & Bradstreet’s trusted proprietary data and innovative artificial intelligence solutions, as well as IBM’s decades of efforts to responsibly and purposefully introduce powerful new technologies, including artificial intelligence.
For a preview of what the first solution from this partnership will offer, watch this video.
About Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet is a leading global provider of data and analytics for business decisions, helping companies around the world improve business performance. Dun & Bradstreet’s data cloud powers solutions and delivers insights that enable clients to accelerate revenue, reduce costs, mitigate risk and transform their businesses. Since 1841, companies of all sizes have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to help them manage risk and uncover opportunity. For more information about Dun & Bradstreet, please visit www.dnb.com.
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Statements regarding Dun & Bradstreet’s and IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.
