Case Study: Dun & Bradstreet achieves scalable, multidimensional supplier risk management with Exadel

Dun & Bradstreet - Customer Case Study

Dun & Bradstreet, a global provider of commercial data on more than 235 million companies, needed a scalable, integrated supplier risk management platform to support supplier certification, financial and government control list monitoring, customer-specific reports, multiple fulfillment options (UI, FTP, email, web services), integrations with supplier portals, BPMS/ESB, and a mobile app. Exadel was engaged to deliver this supplier risk management software and to solve challenges including fast search on custom attributes, a unique aggregated supplier rating across multiple dimensions, and interactive data presentation.

Exadel implemented a multidimensional analytics platform that produced a single supplier score, integrated Apache Solr clusters with MySQL and Oracle for high-performance search, used olap4j to avoid vendor lock-in and enable automatic metric recalculation, and delivered configurable ad-hoc reports, interactive maps and a mobile app. The Exadel solution provided fast drill-down analytics and accurate D&B algorithmic ratings; following launch 75% of customers adopted the mobile app, significantly boosting Dun & Bradstreet’s role as a critical business information provider.

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