D&B Risk Analytics vs. Factiva

Great for vendor risk management and running financial health reports on our supplier base. In addition, our transactional banking team uses the platform (more specifically the Paydex score) to assess obligors and clients for financial health. I think the ESG component of the platform still needs more work. I don't think there's enough data in the industry to really make good predictive scores.

A large part of our work depends on the ability to source quality media content from a breadth of dependable sources globally. This is Factiva's bread and butter: it has a very comprehensive list of 'quality' media sources such as nationals, dailies, business journals and magazines from around the world that are easily mined for the content they hold. If you're thinking about anything other than these 'traditional' media sources then Factiva probably isn't your thing. It doesn't do social media.

Incentivized

• Robust insight on financial health.
• Continuous monitoring & alerts.
• Predictive measurers that are quantifiable.

• Factiva offers excellent search builders so that I am able to narrow my search to specific companies or topics very easily.
• Factiva combines a large number of credible sources into one place and allows me to search all of these sources.
• Factiva's use of timestamps helps me understand when the news was known by the market which allows me to analyze how (if at all) that particular piece of news impacted the company's stock price.
• Provides an excellent starting place for learning about a company and/or industry.

Incentivized

• Finding the correct entity in D&B. There are usually tons of D&B #s for one entity.
• ESG ratings still need work.
• We are still determining internally what the best practice is for these financial health ratings. What does it mean for us?

• The UX leaves room to be desired
• There are often repetitive entries
• The functionality can be confusing

Incentivized

D&B Risk Analytics contains all information I need to do my job well and has a daily updated scores to reflect the financial situation.

I only used D&B Risk Analytics.

At the time, Factiva was already being used by the company I worked for - they had developed procedures specifically for using Factiva, so there wasn't really an option. I've used Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg exclusively for legal research, so there wasn't really an overlap with Factiva.

Incentivized

• We have had the solution for less than a year, so it is tough to say how much positive/negative impact it has had.
• We are now able to continuously monitor some entities in our supplier base. We were not able to do this before.