Skip to content
CRM ⇄ Human resources

Dun And Bradstreet to Namely integration — real-time data sync

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

  • SOC 2 and 6 other compliance frameworks
  • POC with real engineers in minutes

Adopted by fast-scaling companies moving mission-critical data in real time

Case study
Migrated from MuleSoft
Case study
Migrated from Celigo
Migrated from Heroku Connect
Migrated from Matillion
Case study
Migrated from Fivetran
Case study
Migrated from Celigo
Why teams connect Dun And Bradstreet and Namely

Flow Dun And Bradstreet data into Namely 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 Namely, so Namely 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 Namely. Namely 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 Build target-account lists with Criteria Search and land the resulting DUNS plus firmographics in a database for outbound and TAM analysis.
  • 02 Poll D&B Monitoring notifications for a registered portfolio of key accounts and suppliers and update the CRM or warehouse record whenever a firmographic or risk score changes.
  • 03 Feed Namely Reports as JSON into a database on a schedule for roster, turnover, and diversity dashboards without manual CSV exports.
  • 04 Provision or deprovision accounts in an IdP or directory when a Profile's user_status or start_date changes, and write the resulting user ID and email back onto the Profile.

Common sync patterns

New team members provisioned when they are hired

When Namely 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.

Ownership and territory follow the org chart

When a person changes team, manager, or region in Namely, their accounts and territory assignments in Dun And Bradstreet update to match, so pipeline stays with the right owner.

Deactivate access when someone leaves

When Namely marks a worker as departed, the matching user in Dun And Bradstreet is flagged or deactivated, so former employees do not keep CRM access after their last day.

What you can sync between Dun And Bradstreet and Namely

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.

Dun And Bradstreet objects Namely objects How this pairing syncs
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. Reports Saved Namely reports returned as JSON snapshots that update instantly; read-only feeds for headcount and roster analytics. Criteria Search is specific to Dun And Bradstreet and Reports to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Profile Fields Metadata describing standard and company-defined custom field sections; read to discover schema and generate mappings. Monitoring Notifications is specific to Dun And Bradstreet and Profile Fields to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Company Information (Data Block) Core firmographics for a D-U-N-S Number - legal name, addresses, industry codes, employees, sales, status. Retrieved read-only via the Enrich endpoint; blocks come in levels L1-L4. Events Home-feed items such as announcements, birthdays, anniversaries, and new arrivals; typically read-only into comms tools. Company Information (Data Block) is specific to Dun And Bradstreet and Events to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Profiles The core employee record (personal, job, contact, and compensation fields); synced two-way via GET/POST/PUT with updated_at driving incremental polling. Principals & Contacts (Data Block) is specific to Dun And Bradstreet and Profiles to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Company Hierarchy & Connections (Family Tree) Parent, subsidiary, branch, and global-ultimate DUNS relationships; read-only, used to build account hierarchies and corporate-family rollups. Job Titles Job title definitions; read and written so titles stay aligned with an HRIS, directory, or reporting dimension. Company Hierarchy & Connections (Family Tree) is specific to Dun And Bradstreet and Job Titles to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Job Tiers Leveling hierarchy grouping zero-to-many Job Titles; read to map seniority into warehouse dimension tables. Financial Strength & Risk Insight (Data Block) is specific to Dun And Bradstreet and Job Tiers to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Dun And Bradstreet and Namely

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.

Dun And Bradstreet Namely 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 Namely through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Namely Dun And Bradstreet Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Namely for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No webhooks.

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 Namely records.

Rate-limit considerations

  • 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.
  • Namely: Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
What ships with Dun And Bradstreet ⇄ Namely

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

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

Real-time

Real-time sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Dun And Bradstreet or Namely 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 Dun And Bradstreet or Namely record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Dun And Bradstreet and Namely connectors work

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.

Namely

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTPS)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 authorization-code grant, or a personal access token sent as a Bearer token; all calls run over HTTPS against https://{subdomain}.namely.com/api/v1
Change detection
No webhooks; integrations poll GET endpoints and compare the updated_at / created_at timestamps on Profiles and related objects to detect changes
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
How it works

How to connect Dun And Bradstreet to Namely — 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 Dun And Bradstreet and Namely 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
    Dun And Bradstreet connected
    Namely connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Dun And Bradstreet and Namely 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 · Dun And Bradstreet ⇄ Namely
    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
    Dun And Bradstreet Namely
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Dun And Bradstreet and Namely integration FAQ

SECURITY

Security teams trust Stacksync

As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
→ SECURITY WITH BENEFITS

SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

Related integrations

Every pair below is a real-time, two-way sync. Search all 380 integrations available for Dun And Bradstreet and Namely.

Popular · 8 of 380
Coworkers laughing in front of a laptop in a casual office setting

Your last integration took months.
Your next one takes a prompt.