http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Outsell Recent Reports Feed http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/728 Offshoring is a topic we receive numerous questions about, and the rate at which we receive those questions is increasing. To meet this demand for information, Outsell hosted a webinar on March 11, 2008, titled IM Offshoring: State of the Art. The webinar included quantitative data from our most recent benchmark research on information management (IM) functions, conducted in the fall of 2007. We also drew on previous years’ IM research to discover trends over time. Qualitative research included five interviews with organizations (financial services, professional services, and pharmaceutical companies) that currently offshore IM tasks. This report summarizes the webinar and contains: - Our definition of offshoring and how it compares with outsourcing; - Data on the prevalence of offshoring among corporate IM functions, and what types of offshoring they use; - A poll of webinar participants to see how many are offshoring, and why; - Analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of using agencies versus “captive” firms; - A look at offshoring challenges and solutions, including information from two case studies; - Implications and imperatives for information managers. Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/728 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/727 Toluna PLC, a public company based in London, is a fast growing and unique player in the world of online panels. It has turned one-way online panels into social media communities by enabling members to engage in peer-to-peer interactions - what Toluna calls “panel communities.” This new level of engagement creates a number of benefits, including keeping the online panel members interested and engaged. Toluna is a good example of a market research firm that is on the leading edge of incorporating social networking and Web 2.0 ideas into online panels. This report contains: - Company highlights, including product offerings and revenue by geographic region; - Details of Toluna’s competitive landscape, with examples of competitors and an analysis of market opportunities and threats; - Factors that make Toluna unique; - A company at a glance table with key facts about Toluna including revenue growth, number of employees, and details about the panels; - Essential actions for publishers and information providers. Tue, 06 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/727 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/726 Publishing Technology plc (PT) was formed by the 2007 merger of VISTA International – long a key technology provider to the publishing community – and Ingenta plc, a provider of online services for Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) publishers. PT’s resulting digital platform and services offer interesting opportunities for publishers who wish to implement digital operations and build a better return on the investment in their content. Indeed, in today’s cost-conscious and digitally challenging climate, STM publishers give serious consideration to outsourcing digital operations in much the same way that they have done for print. With clients that include the BBC, and products that include semantic search engines, e-commerce, and strategic marketing services, PT is a market leader for the growing digital publishing services market. This report contains: - Company highlights, including revenue figures and details of PT’s four divisions and their products; - Analysis of what factors make Publishing Technology unique; - Details of the competitive landscape, including a table comparing STM digital publishing platforms; - Threats and opportunities facing PT; - Essential actions for STM publishers that have or wish to implement digital operations and build a better return on their content investment. Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/726 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/725 The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) holds a unique position in the legal publishing industry. With total revenues of $352.2 million, $289 million (82%) of which comes from its core publishing operations, it is the largest legal publisher that hasn’t been gobbled up by one of the Big Three legal information players – Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters), Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis, and Wolters Kluwer. It provides analytical and practice-oriented information to lawyers, accountants, and compliance officers via over 350 separate products. Known more for its editorial prowess than its technological innovation, the company has recently turned a corner with a new delivery platform and new product models that are worth watching. BNA’s unique status as an employee-owned business complicates the long-standing question of whether it can and will remain independent in years to come. This report contains: - Company highlights, including operational structure, ownership structure, and recent developments; - A look at what makes BNA unique; - Details of the competitive landscape for the company; - Analysis of opportunities and threats facing BNA; - Essential actions for competitors and other observers of the Legal, Tax & Regulatory space. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/725 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/724 This report provides a snapshot view of the US K-12 Education segment. It examines the leading issues affecting suppliers in each market within K-12 Education and the factors influencing future market and supplier growth. Outsell’s coverage in this report includes sales to US states, school districts, and schools, and excludes the business-to-consumer K-12 education sector. Businesses serving the K-12 Education segment, investors, policymakers, education institutions, and other industry participants can use this publication to compare current activity and growth with historical performance. The report provides: - A taxonomy showing how Outsell categorizes the three sub-segments (instructional materials, technology infrastructure, and education services) and nine markets within the K-12 Education segment; - K-12 supplier revenues, by market, in academic years 2006-2010; - Revenue estimates and forecasts for the nine markets within the K-12 Education segment; - Essential actions for suppliers to the K-12 Education segment. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/724 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/723 Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA) Group is a good example of a company providing an integrated approach to general market intelligence (MI). The company has a strong backbone in MI process consulting (its roots) and also offers ongoing MI training. Its integrated system combines software, content, analysis, and analyst hours in a subscription model. What differentiates it from other integrated MI systems is that it blends different content types, both internal and external, on a hosted software platform for a full turnkey MI system. GIA demonstrates rapid growth in the emerging integrated MI market. This report contains: - Company highlights including revenue, analysis of product subscription costs, and products at a glance; - Details of GIA’s competitive landscape, including examples of competitors and an analysis of market opportunities and threats; - Factors that make GIA unique; - A company “at a glance” table with key facts about GIA including revenue growth, number of employees, and selected customers; - Essential actions for publishers and information providers in the MI market and adjacent information and publishing product landscapes. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/723 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/722 Even as information management (IM) faces fundamental changes and challenges resulting from new technologies and the phasing out of traditional library functions, classic questions persist. One topic we still get questions about at Outsell is document delivery. Who are the players? What’s new on the scene? What are others doing to fulfill the need for articles, patents, and other documents? How must information managers respond in a changing technological and user environment (“enterprise 2.0”) that persistently challenges how they handle copyright, distribution, integration, and process management? Outsell published reports in 2000 and 2003 canvassing the document delivery landscape. In response to our clients’ inquiries, this report refreshes our coverage of the topic. It contains: - Examples of models and best practices in document delivery; - Analysis of document delivery challenges and issues; - A document delivery vendor scorecard based on Outsell research; - Comparison of key suppliers’ products and packaging; - Imperatives for information managers to ensure optimal processes and good supplier relationships. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/722 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/721 Mainstreaming can be broadly defined as integrating students with language and/or learning disabilities into general education classes with non-disabled students, in order to benefit the children with disabilities. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 requires that all students be evaluated uniformly, rather than using different standards as in the past, and many districts have turned to mainstreaming in hopes of better preparing special needs students for annual progress evaluations. With an increase in the number of special needs students in general education classrooms, districts are looking for the best instructional strategies and methods for working with these students. Outsell developed this report to examine the trends and analyze the barriers impacting districts’ mainstreaming efforts, and to clarify for suppliers of special needs instruction and professional development how mainstreaming has affected the types of instructional materials and technology teachers use for these students in the classroom. The report also examines the impact of mainstreaming on teacher professional development. The report provides: - Data from an Outsell survey of 300 special needs educators, covering types and preferred format of instructional materials used in mainstream classrooms; - Data from the same survey looking at the most effective tools for working with special needs students in general education classrooms; - The top software programs for special needs students, according to survey respondents; - Essential actions for suppliers to the K-12 education market. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/721 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/720 WashingtonPost.com has long been a gold standard of US newspaper websites. It has won numerous awards, and it ranks highest in local penetration of its market among newspaper websites, having fought the good fight with Yahoo!, Google, and others for “local” readers. Still, the Post struggles, like all newspaper companies. While it is growing significantly online, its ad revenue growth has slowed and its audience doesn’t spend as much time on the site as the Post would like or as its ad revenue needs require. WashingtonPost.com is an example of a relatively successful news site in the throes of continual change. In Outsell’s opinion, all news publishers can learn from its initiatives. This report takes an in-depth look at WashingtonPost.com and contains: - Company highlights, including history, product and business models, and target markets; - Details of the competitive landscape, including threats and opportunities; - Analysis of what factors make WashingtonPost.com unique; - Essential actions for News publishers that want to learn from WashingtonPost.com’s local and national initiatives. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/720 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/719 This report focuses on libraries’ buying power and the trends affecting content spending by this $22.5 billion market. It is the first report of its kind to analyze the global library market for all types of libraries and information centers: traditional physical libraries as well as non-traditional centralized digital information centers and other kinds of centralized content management functions. This analysis provides useful total available market (TAM) information for publishers and information providers who sell into this marketplace, and is an essential tool for publishers and information providers that target the dynamic and changing library market and seek to understand its key trends and issues. The report includes: - Data on the demand market for content among government, public, academic, school, corporate, and other special libraries; - Data covering demand across the global regions of North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Africa/Middle East; - Forecasts and compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for library content buying through 2010; - Library content spending by information type; - Analysis of key drivers and library market trends; - Essential actions for publishers and information providers that sell to the library market. Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/719 outsellclientresearch@outsellinc.com