Iberinform

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Year the company was founded: 1975

Company web page: https://www.iberinform.es/

Company dedicated to commercial and technological information for companies. Its main mission is to help companies and freelancers around the world, with advanced analytics solutions and data integration tools, to identify business opportunities and potential risks of non-payment through business information, predictive models and propensity to buy, so that the areas of finance, risk, marketing, sales, purchasing and logistics can:

Find new and good customers.
Analyse the financial health of companies and the self-employed.
Minimise the risk of non-payment of commercial operations.

Iberinform is a subsidiary of Crédito y Caución, a global credit insurance operator with presence in more than 50 countries.

Main products and services:

Its products and services are:

Insight View: Advanced analytics solution with information from companies and freelancers from all over the world so that the areas of finance, risk, marketing, sales, purchasing and logistics can identify business opportunities and minimise their commercial risks.
Apis: The micro-services they have developed facilitate the integration of Iberinform's data catalogue and functionalities in DaaS (Data as a Service) mode to automate and improve the efficiency of internal processes.
Findato: It is a solution that offers unlimited access to company files with relevant and easily interpretable information to make better commercial decisions and find new clients.
ICollect: Debt recovery service with coverage in 96% of the world's countries.
Company and self-employed reports: Commercial and risk reports for more than 200 countries with the information needed to make business decisions about commercial operations, partners or competitors.
B2B Marketing Databases: Customised databases to find new and good customers and improve direct marketing and telesales campaigns.
Business Directory. Updated commercial information of companies in Spain by provinces or economic activities.
Registry Verification.
Export Insight Service with information on foreign trade transactions. The platform allows you to find importers, monitor transactions carried out by competitors and discover new suppliers.
Default rating. A system based on mathematical models that anticipates the probability that a company or self-employed person will meet their payment obligations in the following twelve months.
Tenders.

One of their latest projects, linked to data reuse, has been the reinforcement of their risk models with natural language processing capabilities. They have applied Machine Learning technologies (using IBM Watson) to understand the content of the reports published in the Spanish Mercantile Registry and compare the auditors' comments with the numbers that appear in the financial information.

Key to success:

In their own words, "we use the most advanced technologies to collect, standardize and verify the information we use as a raw material for the creation of products focused on providing value and ease-of-use for customers. A strong commitment to the quality of the data and technology has allowed us to improve the efficiency of internal processes, incorporate new functionalities to our solutions and develop new products and services.

The main driver of commercial growth has been Insight View, an innovative cloud business intelligence tool that allows users to identify potential customers, analyse the risk of default of their customers or manage debt recovery in a single application. This application stands out for its ease-of-use and the clarity to shows companies information and valuations. We make to access information easier and more intuitive to facilitate risk management decisions of default, customer acquisition, choice of suppliers, etc."

Growth:

berinform turnover has grown from 23MM in 2009 to 28.7 MM in 2020.

Future plans:

The company operates in a very competitive and dynamic market, so the sustainability growth of its activity requires a constant review of its strategy, the need to identify new market niches and an exhaustive analysis of the needs of its customers, so that their products and the technologies on which they rely on are adjusted to the maximum to their needs, which entails a constant review of their computer applications and important investments.

In the coming years, Iberinform plans to continue focusing on technological innovation and dedicate a significant part of its investment to the development of value-added solutions that allow to improve the value contribution of its products and services.

Data used:

Private + Public.

Among public sources, they use official Bulletins (Borme, BOE, Provincial Bulletins, Autonomous Community Bulletins, Single Edictal Board and SS and AEAT Electronic Office); Official Registries and Organizations (Financial Statements deposited in the Commercial Registry, Cooperative Registries, CNMV, Patent and Trademark Registration, Official Registries, CMT, Cadastre, Chamber of Commerce, INE); press; field information obtained through the 500,000 face-to-face and telephone interviews with companies and freelancers; and the information that, voluntarily, companies and freelancers send.

Among the private sources, they use Asnef Companies, the Unpaid Acceptance Registry (RAI) and the information collected by other information companies from other countries, which allows them to provide a service with online consultations in 71 countries and access to other countries by offline request.

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