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title: Data.com integration
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/working-with-contacts.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/working-with-contacts/organizing-contacts-into-accounts.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/on-line-marketing-features/marketing-automation/working-with-the-automation-process-designer/adding-marketing-actions-to-automation-processes.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

> **Info:** **Kentico EMS required**
>
> Features described on this page require the **Kentico EMS** license.

> **Warning:** The [Data.com](http://data.com/) integration stops working as of 1st September 2016, because [Data.com](http://data.com/) terminates third party access to their API. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Data.com integration can help keep your Kentico [contacts](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/working-with-contacts.md) and [accounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/working-with-contacts/organizing-contacts-into-accounts.md) up-to-date. [Data.com](http://www.data.com) allows you to access a community‑managed business directory that is updated on a daily basis. You can look up your current contacts and match them with Data.com contacts. In the same way, you can look up the accounts that you have in Kentico and compare them with Data.com company profiles.

The system provides two ways of updating your on-line marketing data using Data.com:

- **Manually** - users can look for matching contacts or company profiles directly in the contact or account editing interface.
- **Automatically** - you can set up [marketing automation](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/on-line-marketing-features/marketing-automation.md) processes that automatically update your contacts according to matching Data.com contacts. You only need to add the _Update from Data.com_ [action step](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/on-line-marketing-features/marketing-automation/working-with-the-automation-process-designer/adding-marketing-actions-to-automation-processes.md) to your automation processes.

By combining these two methods, you can ensure that your contact and account data is up-to-date and accurate.

> **Note:** **Data.com authentication**
>
> Kentico requires a valid Data.com account to communicate with the Data.com service. The system requests Data.com authentication credentials for:
>
> - **Users** - users need to enter the credentials of a Data.com account when accessing the Data.com interface for the first time. The system stores the credentials in the settings of the user account, so the duration of the Data.com authentication is unlimited.
> - **Automation steps** - each **Update from Data.com** step in an automation process uses its own Data.com account. You can fill in the credentials when creating or editing the steps.

To [search and compare](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/integrating-3rd-party-systems/data-com-integration/searching-data-com-for-contacts.md) contacts, go to one of the following locations in the user interface:

1. Open the **Contact management** application.
2. Edit () a contact.
3. Switch to the **Data.com** tab.

![Comparing Kentico contact information to Data.com data](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/data-com-integration/viewing_contact_information.png "Comparing Kentico contact information to Data.com data")

To compare accounts, navigate to one of the following locations:

1. Open the **Contact management** application.
2. Switch to **Accounts**.
3. Edit () an account.
4. Switch to the **Data.com** tab.

![Comparing Kentico account information to Data.com data](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/data-com-integration/viewing_account_information.png "Comparing Kentico account information to Data.com data")