Compare D&B Risk Analytics vs. Forest

Globally, teams in risk, procurement, and compliance are under pressure to manage geopolitical risks and business risks. Third-party risks are impacted by the complexity of domestic and international businesses, as well as complex and diverse regulations. It is crucial that companies proactively manage third-party relationships. This cutting-edge platform, powered by D&B Data Cloud's 520M+ Global Business Records with 2B+ annual updates for third-party risks, is an AI-powered solution that mitigates and monitors counterparty risk on a continual basis. D&B Risk Analytics uses best-in class risk data, including alerts for high-risk purchases and match points of more than a billion. This helps to drive informed decisions. Intelligent workflows allow for quick and thorough screening. Receive alerts on key business indicators.

Forest is an operational backend for regulated companies that need to run human teams, AI agents, BPOs, LLMs, workflows, and suppliers in one governed environment. The platform connects databases, compliance providers, internal tools, specialized agents, and external systems while keeping data inside the customer’s infrastructure. Forest provides the shared control plane where business logic, workflows, permissions, RBAC, smart actions, and audit trails are managed. Teams can use Forest to run regulated workflows on top of existing KYC and KYB providers such as Sumsub, Onfido, Veriff, Persona, and Trulioo. It supports onboarding workflows that combine identity verification, business registry checks, beneficial-owner discovery, document checks, screening, risk-based routing, agent triage, and human review. Forest’s MCP support lets AI agents call the same workflows used by human operators while attaching audit records to each action. The platform is designed for agentic operations in regulated environments where every action by humans, agents, BPOs, LLMs, and workflows must remain traceable. Forest also provides an implementation method that maps the company’s ecosystem, connects data and suppliers, designs operator journeys, and brings workflows into production. By combining governed workflows, live data access, MCP-based agent execution, auditability, permissions, and compliance controls, Forest helps regulated companies scale operations safely.