Getting Started Guide

One

Prerequisites

Before you begin there are some prerequisites, such as having a D&B Subscriber ID, a user ID and password for access. There is a general service called modifyPassword that allows you to change your password for accessing the service at any time.

Tow

Find a Business

One of the first things you’ll need to do is to identify a business and obtain a D-U-N-S® number, the D-U-N-S number being the primary key to D&B’s company universe and the route to a wealth of information. This is done via the findBusiness service

Three

Order a Product

Once you have a D-U-N-S Number you can then go onto ordering either a Data Product, Financial Data Product, Report Product or Company Documents using either the getModularProduct,  getProduct or getDocumentOrder services.

Further Reading

D&B Web Services