Creating a tight connection between teaching and learning content and the LMS brings the market full circle, as it is reminiscent of earlier LMS/content provider partnership strategies. Will this be enough to continue the digital growth trajectory in higher education?

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Cengage Infuse Tightens the Connection Between Content and the LMS

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: October 21, 2021

ZoomInfo’s expansion into Europe comes at a cost to regional data providers there. With so many people today changing jobs, contact data providers will increasingly scramble — focusing on data quality over quantity and watching and planning for other data partners’ possible fates will be key.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: ZoomInfo Expands Further into Europe

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: October 20, 2021

Government affairs professionals face growing demands to keep updated on new global legislation and regulation and respond to it. This is creating new demand for better legislative tracking tools, attracting new investors and driving some high company valuations.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: Government Affairs Legislative Tracking Solutions – 2021

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: October 19, 2021

Dataminr acquires Krizo to enable an AI-driven response to physical safety and security, cyber-threat detection, and reputational risk issues. AI is evolving quickly in GRC management from its use in risk identification to use in risk remediation.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: AI Advances GRC Management Beyond Risk Identification

Author: Will Jan

Date: October 18, 2021

Verisk is deploying AI to extrapolate ratings and unstructured data in Yelp reviews to help insurers improve evaluations of businesses. This key move by Verisk will include some challenges but could direct the greater insurance sector toward leveraging the wisdom of the crowd for deeper insights.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Verisk’s AI to Leverage Crowdsourcing for Insurance Assessments

Author: Will Jan

Date: October 13, 2021

Announcements from Terminus and ActionIQ point to the growing importance of customer data platforms (CDPs) in the B2B sales and marketing intelligence space. This creates more convergence between today’s specialized Company, Contact, and Personal Information sector and the larger MarTech market.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: CDPs — Yet Another B2B Marketing and Sales Intelligence Convergence Point

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: October 12, 2021

The launch of the new Graduate Index survey in the UK highlights how measurements of the value and success of higher education are evolving to provide a more holistic, realistic, and valuable picture of graduates’ activities and perceptions.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Graduate Index: Shifting Measurements in Higher Education Outcomes

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: October 11, 2021

Having first targeted journals, major European funders are now targeting research in book form to align with the principles of open research. The aim of cOAlition S and UKRI is nothing less than the reshaping of academic book publishing based on new open access policies.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: cOAlition S and UKRI Say Scholarly Books Must Be Open Access

Author: Julia Kostova

Date: October 7, 2021

Wolters Kluwer is the final big legal solution provider to exit the legal higher education market in the US. It’s now time to completely reinvent the law school learning experience.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Wolters Kluwer Divests Its US Legal Education Business

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: October 6, 2021

By spinning off its cloud fax unit, J2 Global can now focus on its higher-growth business and get more aggressive with M&A. It’s reinventing the legacy Ziff Davis media brand while showing the importance of building an underlying platform.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Ziff Davis – What’s Old Is New Again!

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: October 5, 2021

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fines App Annie for offering data to financial services that was constituted as insider trading. A sheriff now presides over the gold rush among information providers monetizing data on Wall Street.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: US SEC Cracks Down on Alternative Data

Author: Will Jan

Date: October 4, 2021

Technology providers have tried and failed to entice end-users to share their health data. Salesforce and Apple have a shot at success with two recent but unrelated developments.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Apple and Salesforce Enable Two-Way Data Flow in Healthcare

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: September 29, 2021

The higher education market is experiencing a perfect storm of factors driving change. Outsell provides regular sizing and segmentation updates of the market for higher education textbooks and related digital solutions; this is the sixth in the series.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: Higher Education Textbooks – 2021

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: September 28, 2021

The moves by 6Sense and Oracle in the B2B marketing tools space point out how smaller players want to get bigger and how bigger players want to reduce the complexity caused by smaller players. It all points to an inevitable collision ahead.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: 6sense and Oracle — Colliding Forces Ahead

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: September 27, 2021

The launch of Argos Education shows fundamental shifts on the horizon for the higher education textbook space, which go beyond business model changes already well underway.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Argos Education Launch Augurs Disruption for US HE Textbooks Market

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: September 23, 2021

Cassyni taps into the hitherto ignored territory of the research seminar, bringing networked services to unrecognized — yet critical — venues for the exchange of knowledge.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Founders of Mendeley, Publons, and Kopernio Now Targeting Research Seminars

Author: Julia Kostova

Date: September 22, 2021

IDG continues to build a walled garden in its efforts to get marketers to shift their spending away from B2B MarTech and data vendors. It’s a bold move as IDG reinvents itself as a data company.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: IDG’s One-Two Purchase Intent Data Punch: Neon and KickFire

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: September 20, 2021

Consolidation across the higher education sector is on the rise as providers look to deliver holistic portfolios at scale, with a view to driving improvements in data insights and boosting revenue growth.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: BlackBoard Merges with Anthology

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: September 16, 2021

Since last year, a formidable adversary has been challenging the big cut that Apple and Google take from app developers. Initial activity has signaled the potential for the move to shake up the industry and increase the bottom line for providers.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Update: The Epic Battle with Apple and Google That Could Benefit the Whole Industry Continues

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: September 15, 2021

FourthRev is looking to serve an emerging educational category, working with both universities and employers to create career-boosting qualifications. Its partnerships with higher education, tech companies, and employers indicate how the OPM and online course market landscape is changing.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: FourthRev Targets New Education Category, Bridging Higher Education and the Workplace

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: September 14, 2021