Dun & Bradstreet and IBM announced a strategic collaboration that will bring together Dun & Bradstreet?s Data Cloud and IBM?s watsonx to help organizations responsibly expand their use of generative AI. Dun & Bradstreet also intends to leverage watsonx for its workflows and solutions, supported by IBM Consulting. Through this collaboration, Dun & Bradstreet and IBM aim to develop offerings for clients to use in their native workflows to drive generative AI adoption that can help achieve growth and efficiency across a variety of business functions.

The offerings will leverage watsonx, IBM?s next-generation AI and data platform, and draw upon Dun & Bradstreet?s Data Cloud, containing more than half a billion private and public companies, market-leading Identity Resolution, including the D-U-N-S® Number and the company?s generative AI capabilities. Dun & Bradstreet?s Ask Procurement? is one of the new solutions that IBM and Dun & Bradstreet intend to bring to market.

Ask Procurement will be designed to help empower procurement professionals to unlock new data and insights with a 360-degree view into all aspects of a company?s business relationships to help increase savings, reduce time, and mitigate the potential for risk. The solution is expected to leverage the D&B AiBE? platform which will feature watsonx supported models and other generative AI capabilities fueled by Dun & Bradstreet?s vast Data Cloud.

Slated for delivery in the first half of next year, Ask Procurement will be able to be integrated with Dun & Bradstreet solutions or an enterprises? existing ERP or procurement solution. Through the collaboration, D&B.AI?

Labs, IBM Consulting, and IBM Expert Labs teams will leverage the IBM Garage methodology to build AI use cases, implement watsonx, and develop applications that help address employee productivity, enhance customer experiences, mitigate business-to-business risks, automate workflows, and optimize efficiency. This relationship is underpinned by principles of trust, responsibility, transparency, and explainability. The foundation of this relationship is powered by Dun & Bradstreet?s trusted and proprietary data and innovative AI-informed solutions, and IBM?s decades-long work ushering powerful new technologies, including AI, responsibly and with clear purpose.