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D2l Brightspace to Dun And Bradstreet integration — real-time data sync

Keep D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet

Flow Dun And Bradstreet data into D2l Brightspace in real time — no exports, no schedulers, no custom scripts.

Dun And Bradstreet is a read-only source: Stacksync reads its data in real time and delivers it into D2l Brightspace, so D2l Brightspace always reflects the current state of Dun And Bradstreet — without exports, scripts, or schedulers.

Dun And Bradstreet runs on people as much as on accounts: every contact, deal, and account has an owner, and those owners are employees whose roles, teams, and status are held in D2l Brightspace. D2l Brightspace is the system of record for the workforce, from new hires to promotions to departures, and often for the candidates the business is still deciding on. When the two systems are connected only by re-keying or an overnight export, they drift apart, and the CRM ends up assigning accounts to people who have left, holding territories that no longer match the org chart, and waiting days to give a new rep access.

Common use cases

  • 01 Pull D&B risk and credit signals (PAYDEX, Failure Score, D&B Rating) into a warehouse for credit-risk, vendor-risk, and third-party-risk analytics.
  • 02 Sync the D&B corporate family tree (parent and subsidiary DUNS) into the CRM so ABM and territory owners see full account hierarchies and roll pipeline up to the global ultimate.
  • 03 Two-way sync of Users and Enrollments between Brightspace and an SIS or HRIS so new learners and their course rosters stay aligned without manual CSV imports.
  • 04 Write Grades reconciled in a warehouse back onto Brightspace grade objects, and read grade values out for transcript and completion reporting.

Common sync patterns

One directory of people

A person's name, title, email, phone, or manager corrected in either system updates the other, so both stop maintaining separate copies of the same individual.

Where D2l Brightspace tracks people the business also engages: contacts stay in sync

A person recorded in D2l Brightspace, such as a candidate or applicant, can create or update the matching contact in Dun And Bradstreet, so relationship history and outreach are not rebuilt from scratch when the same individual appears in both.

New team members provisioned when they are hired

When D2l Brightspace records a new hire, a matching user or owner is created in Dun And Bradstreet, so a new rep can start working accounts without waiting on a manual setup ticket.

What you can sync between D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

D2l Brightspace objects Dun And Bradstreet objects How this pairing syncs
Quizzes Quiz objects and per-user attempts and results; attempt data is read out for engagement and completion analytics. Principals & Contacts (Data Block) Company officers, executives, and contacts tied to a D-U-N-S Number; read-only enrichment used to populate CRM contact and account-owner fields. Quizzes is specific to D2l Brightspace and Principals & Contacts (Data Block) to Dun And Bradstreet — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Assignments (Dropbox) Dropbox folders, submissions, and feedback; submission and evaluation data is read into reporting systems and feedback can be written back. Company Hierarchy & Connections (Family Tree) Parent, subsidiary, branch, and global-ultimate DUNS relationships; read-only, used to build account hierarchies and corporate-family rollups. Assignments (Dropbox) is specific to D2l Brightspace and Company Hierarchy & Connections (Family Tree) to Dun And Bradstreet — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Groups and Sections Group categories, groups, and section membership within an org unit; enrollments are read and written to keep cohort assignments aligned. Financial Strength & Risk Insight (Data Block) D&B risk and credit signals - D&B Rating, PAYDEX, Failure Score, Delinquency Score, Viability - keyed by D-U-N-S Number; read-only. Groups and Sections is specific to D2l Brightspace and Financial Strength & Risk Insight (Data Block) to Dun And Bradstreet — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users User accounts in the Learning Platform (lp) component; created, read, updated, and deleted through the Valence API and typically synced two-way with an SIS or HRIS. Identity Resolution (Match / cleanseMatch) Sends a company name and address and returns ranked candidate DUNS with confidence codes and a MatchGrade; read-only scored match, not an exact lookup. Users is specific to D2l Brightspace and Identity Resolution (Match / cleanseMatch) to Dun And Bradstreet — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Enrollments Links between Users and Org Units; enroll/unenroll and batch-enrollment routes let rosters be written from an upstream system and read back for reporting. Criteria Search Query companies by firmographic criteria (industry, geography, size) and get back a list of D-U-N-S Numbers to enrich; read-only list building. Enrollments is specific to D2l Brightspace and Criteria Search to Dun And Bradstreet — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Org Units The org structure — course offerings, sections, departments, and semesters; read for hierarchy and created/updated to provision courses from a database. Monitoring Notifications Change notices for a registered portfolio of DUNS; read-only feed pulled from the notifications endpoint (retained ~60 days) or delivered as bundled push. Org Units is specific to D2l Brightspace and Monitoring Notifications to Dun And Bradstreet — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

D2l Brightspace Dun And Bradstreet Sub-second propagation

DetectionD2l Brightspace notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling Valence endpoints with date/bookmark filters, differential Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) bulk exports for changed rows via the Data Hub, and.

DeliveryDun And Bradstreet does not accept inbound record writes, so this direction carries requests rather than records: Dun And Bradstreet's output flows back as field updates on the originating D2l Brightspace records.

Dun And Bradstreet D2l Brightspace Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Dun And Bradstreet for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling via D&B Monitoring - register a portfolio of DUNS and pull change notices from the notifications endpoint (retained ~60 days).

DeliveryEach detected change is written to D2l Brightspace through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • D2l Brightspace: Per-caller token-bucket credit scheme; each route costs credits, responses carry X-Rate-Limit-Remaining, and over-quota calls return HTTP 429. D2L can adjust per-route credit costs.
  • Dun And Bradstreet: Per-contract transactions-per-second cap plus weekly/monthly/yearly quotas; exceeding TPS returns HTTP 429 with error 0045/0046 (0047 on spike arrest). Quotas reset on UTC boundaries.
What ships with D2l Brightspace ⇄ Dun And Bradstreet

Connect D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every D2l Brightspace–Dun And Bradstreet connection.

Real-time

Real-time sync

Changes in D2l Brightspace or Dun And Bradstreet instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever D2l Brightspace or Dun And Bradstreet data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single D2l Brightspace or Dun And Bradstreet record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your D2l Brightspace ⇄ Dun And Bradstreet sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet.

How the D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet connectors work

D2l Brightspace

Integration surface
Brightspace (Valence) REST API split into independently-versioned Learning Platform (lp) and Learning Environment (le) components, plus the Data Hub / Data Export Framework and Brightspace Data Streams
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 authorization-code grant against the D2L auth service (auth.brightspace.com); a registered app holds a client ID and secret with per-scope grants (group:resource:action, e.g. users:userdata:read), short-lived access tokens, and refresh tokens
Change detection
Polling Valence endpoints with date/bookmark filters, differential Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) bulk exports for changed rows via the Data Hub, and Brightspace Data Streams webhooks (xAPI activity events) for near-real-time signals
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Per-caller token-bucket credit scheme; each route costs credits, responses carry X-Rate-Limit-Remaining, and over-quota calls return HTTP 429. D2L can adjust per-route credit costs.
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Dun And Bradstreet

Integration surface
D&B Direct+ REST API (plus.dnb.com) - capability groups for Identity Resolution (Match), Search, Enrich (Data Blocks by D-U-N-S Number), Multi-Process, Data File/Batch, and Monitoring
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 client-credentials: Base-auth a consumer key/secret to POST /v3/token for a bearer token; access tokens expire after 24 hours.
Change detection
Polling via D&B Monitoring - register a portfolio of DUNS and pull change notices from the notifications endpoint (retained ~60 days). Bundled push delivery is configured with your D&B rep; there is no standard HTTP webhook and no log-based CDC.
Capabilities
read
Rate limits
Per-contract transactions-per-second cap plus weekly/monthly/yearly quotas; exceeding TPS returns HTTP 429 with error 0045/0046 (0047 on spike arrest). Quotas reset on UTC boundaries.
How it works

How to connect D2l Brightspace to Dun And Bradstreet — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    D2l Brightspace connected
    Dun And Bradstreet connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the D2l Brightspace and Dun And Bradstreet objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · D2l Brightspace ⇄ Dun And Bradstreet
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    D2l Brightspace Dun And Bradstreet
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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