Adoption of Video in Scholarly Communications Accelerates
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the mainstream use of video in research. Opportunities abound for providers looking to leverage multimedia to grow their readership, impact, and revenues.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: February 23, 2022
EU Proposes New Bill of Rights for the Digital World
In an increasingly digital-first society, the need for better governance of the internet is glaringly obvious. The race is on to determine which ideals and regulatory systems will become the standard that the rest of the world eventually follows.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: February 22, 2022
Post-COVID, Pressure Mounts to Rethink Assessments
Remote learning enforced by the pandemic led to a boom in the use of digital tools for teaching and learning. Following behind this, and aligned to the rise of alternative credentials, demand for new formats of digital assessment is also on the rise.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: February 21, 2022
Patent Research Solutions Survey 2022: Automation Opportunities
As the transformation of professional services extends into the patent space, customers are leading the charge in demanding more automation to replace hugely expensive manual search services. Patent research solution providers need to listen to their customers.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: February 17, 2022
Informa’s Big Intelligence Sale Must Finance the Building of Its Moat
The price tag for Pharma Intelligence was large. Informa now must use those funds to go build a bigger moat by acquiring the necessary parts for its data and data services vision; this could also include a significant investment in events.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: February 16, 2022
New Money Fuels the Rising Stars of Sales and Marketing Intelligence
New investment rounds for three B2B sales and marketing intelligence vendors will allow each to scale beyond its current geographical focus. These successes, though, will still be driven by the demand for sales enablement and conversational intelligence solutions and how customers master the tools.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: February 15, 2022
Segment View: AI in Financial Research
Financial research continues to evolve as information surrounding investment targets takes shape in various formats, including textual, audio, and image data. This evolution, in conjunction with the growth in alternative data usage, is driving the demand for machine learning in financial research.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: February 14, 2022
Outsell FutureScapes – Transforming the Future: The Role of Futures Literacy
Futures literacy is a skill that allows people to better understand the role of the future in what they see and do, enhancing imagination and adaptability. In this edition of FutureScapes, David Worlock discusses the topic with Riel Miller, Head of Futures Literacy, UNESCO. (See book link below.)
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Author: David Worlock
Date: February 10, 2022
Global Bank Acquires Fintech Giant Wealthfront
UBS acquires Wealthfront, signaling the willingness of banks to participate in the fintech revolution themselves. In an effort to enable competitive differentiation, banks are looking to develop and acquire capabilities traditionally held by solution providers.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: February 9, 2022
Contract Lifecycle Management Will Be a Competitive Battleground in 2022
PE-backed legal solution providers continue to pose a disruption threat to established legal information market players. It’s time for executives to decide whether they will buy or build because doing nothing and waiting for valuations to drop will irrevocably damage their businesses.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: February 8, 2022
Return to Onsite Events – The One Thing Show Organizers Can Do
In our latest survey, attendees weren’t shy about ideas for what event organizers can do to increase interest in returning to in-person shows. Health-and-safety-related steps led all others by far, while content, venue choice, cancellation policies, networking opportunities, and swag matter too.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: February 7, 2022
Elsevier Launches a Content Syndication Partnership Pilot
Four big scientific publishers will make 70,000 journal articles available on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect in a pilot aiming to enhance discoverability and improve the user experience.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: February 3, 2022
Return to Onsite Events – Generational Differences on the Road Back
Our latest data, analyzed by generation, shows that younger attendees view onsite events differently in terms of importance, reasons to go, obstacles faced, format preferences, and more. Event organizer success in 2022 requires listening to the generational needs of a changing audience.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: February 2, 2022
Information Consumption Practices of Engineers: The Marriage of Formats to Workflows
The increasing speed of technological advancement is driving the pace of product design cycles and increasing the level of product complexity for every step in R&D. To ease this trend, there’s a rising need for mission-critical content to better match user requirements for formats and workflows.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: February 1, 2022
Patent Research Solutions Survey 2022: Customer Needs
Patent research solutions have improved considerably in recent years thanks to investment from providers in this market. Yet Outsell’s research shows that customers’ needs are still not being fully met, and features that differentiated providers’ products three years ago are now just table stakes.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: January 31, 2022
Booming Credentials Market Causes Employers Problems
The demand for credentials earned through online courses is booming. However, the sheer range of available credentials is making it difficult for employers to judge their value. Will this hold back demand for online courses, or are options in place to provide the necessary context?
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: January 27, 2022
The Business Model Pivots of Data-Driven Companies
As a follow-up to our Scaling Data Businesses analysis, we look next at a new set of companies making major pivots to reinvent themselves. This analysis looks at the moves these firms have made, how they’ve changed, new metrics they adopted, and what they are learning as they pivot.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: January 26, 2022
Dow Jones Closes the Gap for Investors Looking to Measure ESG’s Impact on Revenue
Dow Jones will score more than 6,000 companies on their ESG practices based on 26 sustainability factors. Enabling the visibility of underlying sustainability data on these companies puts investors one step closer to discovering the link between sustainability and revenue performance.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: January 25, 2022
Falling Student Enrolment Numbers + The Great Resignation = A Recipe for Change
The final data is in from the National Student Clearinghouse (NCS), showing that 2021 fall enrolment in US higher education was down by 2.7%. The total decline since the start of the pandemic is 5.1%, approaching a million students (937,500). Where are the opportunities for solutions providers?
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: January 24, 2022
Oracle Buys Electronic Health Records Giant Cerner
In a bid to accelerate its cloud business in healthcare and to claim a larger stake in a competition intensified by other tech giants, Oracle buys leading electronic health records provider Cerner for $28 billion.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: January 20, 2022
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