August 24th, 2009 by Alex Coté
We are happy to announce that we have launched a simple and inexpensive subscription service that allows members to access a variety of our premium business information for a flat monthly fee. The new subscription service offers an even more convenient way of purchasing than before by offering users access to an unlimited number of [...]
July 15th, 2009 by Alex Coté
How does “free” sound? That’s right. Cortera is your source for free business credit reports on over 6 million companies. That might sound crazy, but we believe it’s time for you to have easier and less expensive access to business credit information so that you can make better business decisions. If you’re tired of expensive, [...]
June 21st, 2009 by Jim Swift
In the rapidly rising sea of information, someone got left at the dock. It’s easy to find information on public companies. Just go to Yahoo! Finance or do a Google search. But go ahead and try to find information on private companies – especially the millions of smaller ones that we all interact with every [...]
June 2nd, 2009 by Alex Coté
As you might imagine, we’re data geeks here at Cortera; and with over $250 billion a month of payment records to play with, we spend a fair amount of time trying to interpret and summarize what we see. One of the statistics that we thought was striking was the percent of payments that were reported [...]
May 20th, 2009 by Alex Coté
You might have noticed that we launched a new, satirical marketing campaign a couple of weeks ago to help bring attention to the important and increasingly difficult commercial accounts receivable management function. Now more than ever it is essential that organizations operate at peak performance across all levels of risk management, yet often times credit [...]
April 27th, 2009 by Alex Coté
My last post, posed the question: are predictive models still relevant in today’s economic climate? As expected it generated a fair amount of discussion both on and off the blog. Thank you for all of your comments. Let’s continue the dialogue. A Quick Poll… JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work.<br /> Scoring [...]
March 20th, 2009 by Alex Coté
This week I was in Manhattan Beach, California attending a Credit Research Foundation (CRF) Credit and Accounts Receivable Open Forum and an interesting debate broke out during the first day’s agenda: does predictive credit scoring still work? Can it be relied on given the current crisis? In some ways, this was a surprising debate given [...]
November 12th, 2008 by Alex Coté
A couple of weeks ago I discussed our annual customer conference and how companies are increasingly addressing the various challenges brought forward by our current global economic crises. Below is a quick recap: Credit policies have more complexity and frequency of changes The range of data sources and products continues to expand “Do more with [...]
October 27th, 2008 by Alex Coté
Last week, many members of the Cortera team headed to Miami. No, we were not migrating south for the winter (tempting as it may be when the mercury is once again falling below 40 in New England). Even better, we hosted our annual Cortera Global Customer Conference. The event is an opportunity for our clients [...]
August 5th, 2008 by Alex Coté
Let’s play a little game called “Who Would Win in a Match-Up.” If your choices were online video sites YouTube or Veoh, I’m confident that an overwhelming number of you would choose YouTube for the win. Let’s try BMW versus Mercedes-Benz. Hmm, that one’s not quite as clear cut, is it? Now, how about the [...]
