Private Equity Fuels ESG Automation
With accelerated demand for climate risk reporting solutions, Partners Group is acquiring a stake in VelocityEHS, a move that will evolve its sustainability platform. The growth in the ESG solution market is prompting providers to source capital where they can, to avoid missed opportunities.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: August 30, 2022
Outsell FutureScapes – Protecting the Future of Information Integrity
The race is on to ensure information integrity in an era of growing disinformation and even “deep fake” media that can fool those who use it. Outsell Chief Research Fellow David Worlock discusses the topic with Santiago Lyon, Head of Advocacy and Education at the Content Authenticity Initiative.
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Author: David Worlock
Date: August 29, 2022
Unexpected Closure of Edmodo Provides Lessons and Opportunities for Competitors
The Edmodo platform, used by tens of millions of K-12 students and teachers worldwide, has announced its imminent closure. It struggled to monetise despite being well established, signaling the difficulties inherent in maintaining a free online platform even in a world with soaring digital demand.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: August 25, 2022
B2B Marketer Pain Points — Budget Dynamics and a Peek at 2023
This fourth piece in our series of discussions with B2B marketers looks at marketing budgets in more detail, compares them to 2021, and provides early thoughts about what to expect in 2023. Demand generation, event marketing, and data hygiene activities are top of mind for many marketers.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: August 24, 2022
CCC Acquires Deep SEARCH 9
Copyright Clearance Center’s acquisition of Deep SEARCH 9 offers the firm an opportunity to create more must-have application functionality for the corporate market.
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Author: Reynold Guida
Date: August 22, 2022
OPM Market Shows Signs of Struggle
Online program management (OPM) services have long been a key growth driver for educational solutions providers. However, they are now proving problematic, leading to players strategically re-evaluating their positions or withdrawing from the space altogether.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: August 18, 2022
Axios Sale Shows the Importance of Being Lean and Leverageable
The Axios acquisition by Cox Enterprise points to the importance of lean business models, unique content, and a rabid readership base. Lessons abound for others looking for lean and fairly new acquisition targets that need a push to scale faster and bring in more revenue.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: August 17, 2022
E-Commerce Tax Solutions Provider Avalara Sees Record Deal Valuation
Vista Equity Partners has acquired Avalara for $8.4 billion, a record deal in the enterprise tax solution space. The cost of Avalara’s growth killed its margins, which allowed the private equity firm the opportunity to secure the top e-commerce tax solution provider.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: August 16, 2022
B2B Marketer Pain Points – Audience Acquisition and Digital Demand Gen
This third piece in our series of discussions with B2B marketers looks at audience acquisition activities and needs. Marketers use solutions from both platforms and publishers, but there’s a movement to outsource work to agencies or bring it in-house as part of a broader first-party data initiative.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: August 15, 2022
Outsell Product Management Benchmark, Part II
Product management remains a critical function in today’s modern data, information, and analytics organizations, and having key benchmarks and operating practices about the function is essential. This study updates our topical analysis from 2019 and earlier in 2022.
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Author: Anthea Stratigos
Date: August 11, 2022
Rising Synthetic Fraud to Fuel Consumer Identity Verification Solutions
TransUnion partners with CreditMiner to address the spike in synthetic fraud, where bad actors build fake identities over a period of a year or more to establish false creditworthiness. Fraudsters are waging a new war with credit providers due to inflation and higher borrowing costs.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: August 10, 2022
Outsell FutureScapes – The Future of Searchable Video
The ability to search text, video, and audio simultaneously will be vital over the next several years. Outsell Chief Research Fellow David Worlock discusses video searchability with Ben Kaube and Andrew Preston, co-founders of Cassyni, a service that makes videos searchable and referenceable.
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Author: David Worlock
Date: August 9, 2022
Nature Research Intelligence Combines Springer Nature’s Data Sources to Yield Insights
Corporate R&D professionals, business intelligence experts, and scholarly researchers value answers based on data from a broad spectrum of integrated disparate sources. Nature Research Intelligence seeks to drive mainstream availability of such answers to players across sectors.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: August 8, 2022
Wolters Kluwer Brings European Legal Software to the US
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory strategically expands its successful European legal software into the US, intending to take a top market position.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: August 3, 2022
Financial News and Information to Help Drive Customer Acquisition
FactSet launches FactSet for CRM on Salesforce AppExchange, allowing financial institutions to identify and serve customers through financial news and information. Given current global market uncertainty, financial content providers are finding ways to add value to corporate functions.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: August 2, 2022
HR and L&D Survey 2022: Part Two – Use of Digital Solutions
As the training market recovers from the impact of the pandemic, Outsell asked HR and Learning & Development professionals about their future spending plans and use of digital technologies to help identify potential opportunities for product development and revenue growth in this important market.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: August 1, 2022
B2B Marketer Pain Points – Data Quality
This second piece in our series of discussions with B2B marketers dives into how data quality claims match reality. Despite all the marketing technology and specialized services out there, the changing marketing landscape is challenging both marketers and their platform and publisher partners.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: July 28, 2022
Euromoney Accepts Private Equity Bids to Tackle the New Normal
The decline in the events business hit Euromoney hard: Despite the company’s subscription business showing growth, its share prices remain lackluster. While Euromoney agreed to a takeover by private equity firms, the path to splitting the company for short-term gains may come at a long-term cost.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: July 27, 2022
Outsell FutureScapes – The Future of Taxonomies
Due to the explosive growth in the size and diversity of data sets, the efficient organization of information has become increasingly critical. In this FutureScapes video, Outsell Chief Research Fellow David Worlock discusses the topic with expert Ross Leher, CEO and Chairman, WAND, Inc.
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Author: David Worlock
Date: July 26, 2022
B2B Marketer Pain Points – Intent Data
Our latest analysis based on interviews with B2B marketers shows the importance of intent data and how it improves focus and personalization. However, ease of use and tool burnout issues remain. It also points to future needs around conversations, compliance, niche audiences, and integration.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: July 25, 2022
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