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Terminology

Glossary

Term Description
Client A combination of client ID and client secret that provide a customer access to the API.
Client ID The client ID (e.g., the "username") for the client.
Client secret The client secret (e.g., the "password") for the client.
Consumer A person that is of interest to the client.
Customer A juridical unit, typically called a business, identified with an organization number.
Enrichment Enhanced data and insights of a person with relevant context from other sources within D&B.
GEDI A unique persistent identifier of a person.
Market The country in which a data provider operates in, and is legally bound to.
MCP client An application, such as an AI assistant or an IDE, that connects to an MCP server to use its tools.
MCP server A server that exposes tools and resources to MCP clients through the Model Context Protocol. See MCP server.
Monitoring The concept of subscribing to changes to known persons in a customer's system, e.g. keeping up-to-date information about persons in a CRM.
Onboarding The process of an unknown person becoming known to a customer, e.g. registration in a point of sales system.
Source Name of the data provider.