Dun & Bradstreet have stated that the D&B Commercial Graph™ is now available in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog through a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Such integration allows businesses to access business identity and corporate relationships in a safe and standardized manner to transition from experimental AI models to agentic workflow in the enterprise world.
With the emergence of more and more complex roles played by autonomous AI agents, there has been a growing necessity to ensure uniform understanding of corporation across different applications, workflows, and cloud environment. With this in mind, the D&B Commercial Graph™ allows solving this problem through providing a secure link between AI agents and verified enterprise identity. Based on the proprietary D-U-N-S® Number, which is the global identifier for a commercial entity, the solution serves as an identity verification layer in the ecosystem of enterprise AI. With the help of such information, AI agents can recognize and reconcile the same business entity in different systems without any need for costly data reconciliation efforts.
“Enterprise AI delivers its greatest value when it is grounded in trusted business data and context. Bringing the D&B Commercial Graph to IBM watsonx Orchestrate reflects where enterprise AI is headed,” said Elizabeth Barrette, General Manager for Master Data Management Solutions at Dun & Bradstreet. “The challenge is that most organizations don’t yet have the solid data foundation they need to get the most out of their AI investments. D&B’s recent AI Momentum survey found just 6% of businesses say their enterprise data is fully ready to support AI at scale. Dun & Bradstreet helps close that gap, providing the foundation of continually verified business information required for reliable, traceable AI-driven decisions at scale.”
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Accelerating Enterprise AI Workflows Across Key Functions
Delivered directly through the watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog via an open MCP server architecture, the D&B Commercial Graph™ equips AI agents with near real-time, high-fidelity commercial intelligence. This empowers organizations to execute automated, highly accurate agentic workflows across major business disciplines:
Sales and Marketing Optimization: Qualify and prioritize high-quality commercial opportunities based on continuously refreshed firmographics and contacts intelligence of the organization.
Risk Management and Compliance: Streamline the onboarding of vendors/partners based on their legal identity, UBO structure, risk exposure, and compliance status.
Finance and Credit Analysis: Make credit worthiness assessment easy and minimize financial risk by providing commercial context and payment intelligence validated at scale.
Master Data Management (MDM): Maintain a single version of truth within enterprise applications, and keep data pipelines clean for production.
“IBM watsonx Orchestrate is designed to connect AI to the systems and data that power the enterprise,” said Megan Grant, Managing Director, IBM Technology, U.S. Industry Market. “By making the D&B Commercial Graph available via MCP, organizations can seamlessly bring their trusted data and business context into the AI workflows they build and deploy.”