Multiverse recently raised $44 million in the largest venture round ever for a UK EdTech company. The funding highlights the burgeoning systemic change in the higher education market.
Automating professional services is a huge growth opportunity that professional information and software providers are perfectly positioned to serve, but only if they unburden themselves from their narrow definitions of who their customers are.
Fitch Group recently bought CreditSights to bolster its credit rating business. Traditional means of rating bonds are evolving to account for a more dynamic marketplace by adding components that provide a real-time pulse on businesses.
Content helps define a successful virtual event, as does how it’s created, delivered, and absorbed. Understanding how to best weave the content together can help teams lay a foundation for success. Here are some key paths to follow when thinking about the content mix for virtual events in 2021.
As it approaches its 10th anniversary, Indian EdTech player provider Byju’s is not only thought to be the world’s most valuable EdTech startup, it has also made the biggest ever acquisition by an EdTech player.
Elsevier’s Digital Clinical Experiences product, which it obtained via its Shadow Health acquisition in late 2020, highlights how information and learning tools providers are competing to provide digital experiences as close to a clinical setting as the technology allows.
Open access publishing is getting more competitive as it moves closer to the mainstream. With this move, Wiley demonstrates how to grow through acquisition, boosting market share fast while keeping a keen eye on margins.
Virtual event experiences provide a much wider array of metrics than their in-person counterparts. Understanding how to interpret that data and create new benchmarks to measure success is critical. Here are some key paths to follow when thinking about benchmarks for virtual events this year.
The combined company will serve around two-thirds of all US attorneys, providing the necessary scale to grow the business and undercut the big four legal research providers.
The forced move to remote learning in 2020 drove growth for several categories of EdTech providers. The question now is the extent to which they can hang onto these new users or whether they will face declines once the demands of remote learning recede.
Willis Towers Watson partners with Polecat Intelligence to account for ESG practices in corporate reputation risk assessments. With ESG data existing largely in an unstructured format, the insurance sector is helping to drive forward unstructured data analytics for the ESG solution market.
The OA Switchboard strives to remove technical barriers on the path to OA adoption. Its mission is to smooth out communications among market players, one connection at a time.
Understanding how companies changed the organizational structures of their events, marketing, and sales teams in 2020, and what skillset gaps they hope to fill this year, will help others plot the road ahead for events in 2021.
Digital platforms generate vast amounts of data about users and their behaviour, but which performance metrics actually matter when managing a subscription business? What are the best practices to boost the all-important renewal rate?
Understanding vaccine deployments, geographic differences in health and safety regulations, the mindsets of attendees, and the budgets of sponsors and exhibitors will help event organizations better prepare for what unfolds in 2021 and 2022.
The Brexit negotiations saga has finally concluded as the UK and the EU completed a last-minute agreement on Christmas Eve. We take a comprehensive look at the implications for the data, information, and analytics industry in various key areas.