Dun & Bradstreet Brings Verified Business Context to IBM watsonx Orchestrate Through MCP

The D&B Commercial Graph helps AI agents operate from a consistent understanding of business identity, relationships, and risk across enterprise workflows

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Dun & Bradstreet today announced that the D&B Commercial Graph™ is now available in the IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The integration helps organizations move from AI prototypes to production-ready agentic workflows by providing secure access to verified business identity, relationships, and context.

As AI agents take on more enterprise-critical work, they need a consistent understanding of the businesses they engage with across workflows, applications, and systems. The D&B Commercial Graph™ addresses that challenge by connecting AI agents to verified business identity and commercial context through standardized, secure integration. Anchored by the D-U-N-S^® Number business identifier, the D&B Commercial Graph serves as a verified identity layer for enterprise AI, helping agents recognize and connect to the same business across systems, workflows, and domains. By providing a shared understanding of business identity across the enterprise, the D&B Commercial Graph helps organizations realize greater value from AI workflows while reducing the need for costly identity reconciliation across systems and teams.

"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."

Available through the watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog via MCP, the D&B Commercial Graph allows organizations to power AI agents with their trusted data and authoritative business intelligence in near real-time, enabling them to execute workflows across sales, marketing, procurement, compliance, finance, credit evaluation, and master data management.

Examples include:

• Sales and marketing: Identify, qualify, and prioritize opportunities using verified company and contact intelligence.
• Risk management and compliance: Validate supplier and partner identity, ownership, risk exposure, and compliance status.
• Finance and credit: Tools to help evaluate creditworthiness and manage risk at scale using verified commercial context and proprietary payment insights.

"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."

The D&B Commercial Graph MCP Server is available through the IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog.

Get started with the D&B Commercial Graph MCP Server for your AI initiatives.

About Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet provides the verified commercial identity foundation for enterprises to deploy AI at scale. The company originated the D‑U‑N‑S^® Number in 1963, now the global standard for identifying commercial entities. Anchored by this identifier, the D&B Commercial Graph™ structures and connects business identity consistently across systems, enabling AI to operate on accurate, validated data. Since 1841, businesses of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to navigate change and accelerate growth. For more information, visit www.dnb.com.

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