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Clutch

Providing the information needed to drive company growth, identify strategic opportunities, and manage supply chain risk. Key use cases are for corporate sales, marketing, procurement, finance, and investment functions. 

B2B data service providers source information from public and private sources.  GDPR compliance is a requirement: with regard to personal data, data owners must have consented or 'opted in' for their data to be shared.




B2B data

A database of companies designed to help you find the company you need.  

A marketplace of companies, products and services, that facilitates the research and selection process for buyers.

Business directories have evolved from the old school business directories, into online data bases, which are either built centrally by a company, or are built via a network, where individuals log company details, in order to be sure that their company can be compared with the best providers in a market place.

Company database search providers are generally sector specific; there are very few company databases that are able to cover all sectors and all products.

A company database will by definition be structured, so that someone searching can slice and dice the data, in order to find the firm, and the service that is needed.

Search engines do not provide a database as such: search engines though will use their "spiders" to crawl over the web, extracting information from company websites and pulling results from company databases that are published to the internet.

Each time you do a search engine search, you will get a listing of results, but they are not clearly categorised or structured, and it can take some work to actually find what you need.

Online business directory

Platforms enabling company products and services to be reviewed and rated.

B2B product and service review platform

A website that provides factual information on any subject

Information portals provide quantitative and qualitative data, and can vary from being strategic, so companies can understand what is going on in their own and customer sectors, to being more focused on specific business information needs, such as identifying, for example, which companies in which sectors may be potential customers, along with possibly also including the information confirming who the initial key contact points would be.

Information Portal

A broad and fast evolving category of services, as technology developments enable ever more powerful insights into data.  Business information services include offerings from company database search services, to company directories, to market research, competitor analysis, lead generation, marketing and sales support.

Business information services

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