PitchBook has richer financial details which I am typically more interested in. D&B Hoovers search functionality is usually a little more reliable and the total size of database appears much much larger. I'd say PitchBook goes an inch wide and a mile deep, whereas D&B Hoovers …
D&B Hoovers is more comprehensive overall, but may lack health-care specific data that these other solutions provide. D&B Hoovers is great for prospecting the direct to employer space.
I find more current information with Apollo.io. I can integrate in their LinkedIn feature, sequencing, etc. With Kennected, it is pure sales related to LinkedIn.
The competition may be more accurate with contact info, but D&B Hoovers is good for verifying company info, searching for companies, and building lists based on location, SIC code, and company size.
we have both platforms and I use them interchangeably. D&B Hoovers is great because I can export more contacts. Zoom info is a bit more strategic with the use of filters like "with intent" and also has a better company overview page. Both are good platforms that can be used …
I feel like the D&B Hoovers company profile information is more accurate, whereas ZoomInfo has somewhat inflated numbers for annual revenues or employee headcount. When I compared the two companies a few years ago, the D&B Hoovers platform subscription was a bit higher annually …
D&B is good at company info and data structure, all records have data (sic codes, industries, sales rev). Some of this data is correct some is not. For example, Sales Revenue for private companies can be extremely off and sometimes not updated for years. Also, Number of …
Industrial Info Services is updated on a daily basis. While it might not have as many companies listed, we can request more information on any company and they will do the digging.
I have not used any other competitive products. D&B Hoovers is the first solution I have used and I would not look into other solutions because D&B Hoovers meets my needs completely.
CapIQ has more information, especially on public companies. When it comes to mid-size private/smaller private companies they can be fairly similar with the information they provide.
D&B Hoovers blows their competition out of the water. After the first demo we were sold. The capabilities of the solution and the accuracy of information is unmatched.
I use both systems currently to test the data accuracy between the two. Its too new to tell yet.
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D&B Hoovers had more accurate data than Apollo and fit the needs of our campaign more accurately. D&B has much better financial data about a company than Apollo.
D&B Hoovers has the most contacts available, as well as a lot more contact information than the others I have used. The customer service has been excellent as well.
It depends upon the situation mostly I prefer D&B Hoovers because of the data relevancy but sometimes it happens Hoovers is not working or is unable to find the details which I required then I move to S&P Capital IQ.
D&B is much more robust than any other database I’ve used. It offers more info and volumes of information stored in one place versus using regular search engines or paying for other types of similar reports
D&B Hoovers is excellent for when you need to find companies that meet certain parameters. It is great at telling you in a neat, summarized way about contact or location information. It is not great at giving you a scope or scale of the company. That typically requires a little due diligence checking against other sources.
Easy to filter a list of hundreds of contacts to pair it down to just a few key people in either purchasing or engineering departments.
Searching for a company by their web domain instantly brings up the profile.
Once I have identified a company I wish to speak with, I can also see corporate linkage to other satellite offices or divisions under the corporate umbrella.
We should be able to "exclude" words from titles or company names
Able to access titles and email addresses more easily - not look at list first, select find matching contacts button, then go back to sort to add titles contain and email addresses, etc. This is a two-step process to get what I need.
We have been D&B Hoovers customers for a long time. We know the good and bad, and we have learned to utilize D&B Hoovers for the good and unfortunately we have to look at other data sources to compensate for the areas where they are bad. If D&B Hoovers can get better in these other areas as mentioned in other places in the review, they could get a larger dollar spend from my company
Whenever I had to use D&B hoovers, I never had a hard time with getting what I need. Additionally, when I show the tool to others, they tend to understand the platform quite quickly. The tool itself is very good and straightforward when I use it to help me put analyses together.
They are terrific at giving instruction/webinars. I am able to call, directly, to an individual and talk to that person. I'm not talking to a robot. They give personal service which is really special.
for our use case, the implementation was minimal and we did not need a lot of help. The D&B Hoovers platform is pretty intuitive and our account manager was ready for any questions that came up when we use the D&B Hoovers platform
D&B is more cost-effective and is by far superior in its search and list-building capabilities. The main benefit (and really the only reason we use it) is that RocketReach has the ability to scan a LinkedIn profile and extract an email.