D&B's Anthony Scriffignano to Deliver Keynote at Big Data Innovation Summit

SHORT HILLS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

D&B DNB, the world's leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, today announced that Anthony Scriffignano, Ph.D., Leader, Worldwide Data and Insight, D&B, will deliver a keynote address at the Big Data Innovation Summit in Santa Clara, California, on April 9, 2014. Dr. Scriffignano will explore business opportunities in transforming big data into big insight.

“‘Big data' is one of the most frequently mentioned concepts in business today. Companies are faced with overwhelming quantities of data and are struggling to figure out the secret to transform big data to big insight and insight into action,” said Dr. Scriffignano. “I look forward to the conversation around unlocking the value of big data and how businesses are turning to new and exciting ways of leveraging predictive analytics.”

Dr. Scriffignano will share best practices and insights on leveraging big data to gain competitive advantage. His discussion will highlight the latest trends in problem formulation, B2B advances, and big data challenges facing businesses.

Dr. Scriffignano will speak at 10:00 a.m. Pacific daylight time. For more information about the event to be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, visit http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-innovation-summit-santa-clara-2014.

About Dun & Bradstreet® (D&B)

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation DNB is the world's leading source of commercial data, analytics and insight on businesses, or “content.” Our global commercial database contains more than 230 million business records. We transform commercial data into valuable insight, which is the foundation of our global solutions that customers rely on to make critical business decisions.

D&B provides solution sets that meet a diverse set of customer needs globally. Customers use D&B Risk Management Solutions™ to mitigate credit and supplier risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability, and D&B Sales & Marketing Solutions™ to provide data management capabilities that provide effective and cost efficient marketing solutions to increase revenue from new and existing customers.

For more information, please visit www.dnb.com.