Transform business and financial data into opportunity
How do you stay a step ahead of your competitors? We know it’s a major challenge. You need to understand the business world globally and the state of play in your industry, and not to mention keep track of the international economy. That’s where we can support you. Our market-leading business, financial and risk databases give you a clear and complete view of a market, company or individual, so you can make confident decisions, seize opportunities and minimise risks.
Understand what your competitors are doing wherever they are in the world, spot market trends and learn where you need to improve your game. Learn about a business and the people who run it. For over 30 years we’ve assembled a range of accurate and reliable data sources that help organisations understand the companies and people they do business with. That’s why you can trust us to help you keep ahead of the game.
How Business Intelligence and Benchmarking can benefit your business
Access a wide range of high quality corporate, financial and risk data on a single platform. This will help you predict problems more accurately, target marketing campaigns more effectively and identify opportunities to grow your business.
- Gain deeper understanding: Make smarter business decisions using a unique range of data
- Protect your business: Understand and forecast problems before they damage your business
- Create opportunities: Spot ways to win new customers and grow your business
Understand
Monitor your customers’ financial wellbeing
Compare
Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors
Forecast
Anticipate problems before they damage your business
Maximise opportunities
Spot trends and new ways to grow your business
Reduce risk
Understand a business and its key decision makers
Be responsible
Manage credit limits in the best interests of your customers
Key features of our business intelligence and benchmarking solutions
Whether it’s protection against financial losses, financial crime or regulatory breaches we can you help you spot opportunities as a way to shield your business from a wide range of risks.
Enhance your business prospects
Boost your records with an array of information about UK businesses and their key decision makers. Create tailor-made lists of potential new customers.
- Enrich your own data with details from more than 5 million companies
- Create leads from 3.8 million sites
- Verify email, landline and mobile telephone numbers
- Refine lists from hundreds of variables across different categories
Seize opportunities as they arise
Stay ahead of your competitors in mergers and acquisitions with the most comprehensive range of corporate, deal, company, financial and business information on a single platform.
- Monitor your competitors and learn about their latest activities
- Understand the risks and benefits of acquiring new businesses
- Prevent and detect fraud more effectively
- Compare business valuations
Gain a deeper understanding of the risks to your business
Spot changes in the way your business customers use credit to better understand the chance they will pay you back. Make fair and consistent credit decisions and minimise the risk of losses.
- Set credit limits at fair and responsible levels
- Maximise returns by marketing to ‘good’ customers
- Predict arrears, defaults and business failures in the next 12 months
- Make the best credit decisions at the point of application
FAQs
Business intelligence is the valuable information an organisation can generate by collecting, analysing and processing data using a range of software and tools.
Organisations can use business intelligence to inform and support their decision-making processes. For example, by turning data into business intelligence, a business can better predict which customers are most likely to fall into arrears and take steps to head off financial losses. Business intelligence can also help a business understand the strengths and weaknesses of a competitor or the target of a takeover.
An example of business intelligence is using data to identify ways to streamline business processes in order to save time and money. Another example of business intelligence is an analysis of the key decision-makers in an organisation you are considering partnering with.
Business intelligence is important because it helps an organisation makes better decisions based on facts. Making better decisions can make a business more profitable and reduce the potential of financial losses.
Market intelligence research is information that relates to the sector or industry a business operates in.
Market intelligence is the useful information gathered with respect to a sector or industry, while market research refers to the opinion and feedback of customers or potential customers in that sector.
Benchmarking is a way of comparing a business’s products, services or performance against those of a rival.
Comparing your business to that of a competitor helps you identify strengths and weaknesses in both organisations.
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