Point-of-care solutions respond to acute market need and thus are likely to lead the mainstream adoption of innovative products. As data sources become available for creating first-to-market products, this subsegment of the data, information, and analytics industry becomes the one to watch.
The shift to virtual events has created discoverability issues for event marketers stuck with promoting based on old registration data. IRL and 10times look to solve these issues. With a tough 2021 ahead, organizers must consider their virtual events as apps and these sites as the new App Stores.
The acceleration of the digital transformation of professional services firms is a growth opportunity for providers able to support the transition. However, if they miss the boat, new, well-financed, converged market entrants could disrupt professional services and the information solutions market.
Edward Roussel isn’t a big fan of the word “innovation”. He doesn’t see himself as an evangelist or view his job as thinking up lots of big ideas. This may seem odd given that he’s Chief Innovation Officer at Dow Jones, but he’s been in the role for five years, so he must be doing something right.
Refinitiv is leveraging AI and the cloud to expedite the most relevant content to professionals to accelerate decision-making. Machine learning can now filter out the noise across enterprise data to yield the signal that matters most to each user.
Student enrolment numbers aren’t down as much as was earlier predicted. Where are the bright spots, and what opportunities does this open up for solutions providers?
Informal content sharing tops the list of reasons why STM publishers are looking for alternative business models. While the search continues, some players are testing hybrid solutions, meeting the disruptors half-way.
Fortune’s new Connect community effort for mid-level professionals provides a number of lessons for others looking to build their own communities to extend customer value and create new revenue opportunities. It also highlights the importance of thinking not just vertically but also horizontally.
Illuminate encapsulates two key trends in the Education market: the use of data to inform educators and the roll-up of multiple businesses to facilitate this activity.
The pandemic dictates brutal timelines for delivering viable solutions, like drug discovery, in the Life Sciences arena. Competition is rife among information vendors to provide semantically enriched, machine-readable data to facilitate discovery, but it does not need to be a zero-sum game.
As Silicon Valley’s startups struggle to convince the market to buy cutting-edge experimental products during a recession, their established competitors are set to pick up innovative technology and talent at a discount.
Reproducible code or lab test results are a must for active collaboration in the academic community. The supply of such solutions is striving to catch up with the demand, and eLife is now a player.
Red Ventures, a marketing wolf in a media-business sheep’s clothing, is buying CNET Media Group. The trend of a performance marketer spinning itself as a media and information business isn’t new, but as the cookie crumbles, the lines between media and advertising need to sharpen, not blur.
As the pandemic unfolded, many information vendors opened up resources to support clients and the wider market. Free access to resources has now largely ceased, and the market is back to familiar pricing patterns. Outsell spoke to vendors and information managers to preview the new normal of 2021.
Until recently, the burden of work to make data ready for decision-making and analytics most often landed on the shoulders of the data buyer. This is now changing, with a wave of collaboration across the ecosystem aimed at addressing this challenge.
Recent developments at Arizent, Conde Nast, Bloomberg, and The Financial Times show the importance of connected virtual events, community, and information services, especially in today’s economic environment.
