HR Services & Solutions vendors saw industry-wide recruitment dip in 2020, but demand rose for employee engagement and wellbeing solutions. This report analyses segment performance, with forecasts through 2024, offering key actions for firms seeking growth, new markets, and competitive advantage.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: HR Services & Solutions – 2021

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: June 16, 2021

Outsell’s analysis of M&A activity in the Legal & Regulatory Solutions market over the last six years reveals a changing market landscape that is exposing established providers to greater competition from various new angles.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Legal Tech M&A Activity in 2020 Reflects Competition in New Areas

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: June 15, 2021

The January 2021 Virtual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference made it clear: many pharmaceutical companies are investing heavily in digital platforms. These solutions are designed to provide consumers with a comprehensive toolset to better understand and manage their medical conditions.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Big Pharma’s High-Stakes Contest to Capture the “Patient’s Journey”

Author: David Potter

Date: June 14, 2021

The healthcare industry has long focused on data-driven innovation to save lives, ease the burden on practitioners, and scale care systems, but constraints in gathering and sharing data have held it back. The pandemic might just lead to a shift in focus to proactive prevention and diagnosis.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: The Industry’s Approach to Data and Analytics will Determine the Future of Health

Author: Michael Dziekan

Date: June 10, 2021

With onsite events ramping up and hybrid approaches in the works, companies must create new experiences to draw audiences back. Creating an experience journey where events plug and play in at various points is now necessary to truly reinvent the event industry.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Develop an Experience Journey While Reinventing Events

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: June 9, 2021

The vital need for legal solutions allowed the Legal & Regulatory Solutions market to outperform most segments in 2020 despite overall economic headwinds. However, only the strategically agile will be able to handle the rapid change driven by the pandemic and the coming raft of new legislation.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: Legal & Regulatory Solutions – 2021

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: June 8, 2021

Corporate Training vendors face economic challenges even as enterprises look to reinvent themselves for a digital future. This report analyses market performance, with forecasts through 2024, offering essential actions for firms seeking revenue growth, new markets, and competitive advantage.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: Corporate Training – 2021

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: June 7, 2021

Education Management Solutions providers reported positive growth in 2020 as the pandemic drove demand for remote tools. This report analyses trends and performance, forecasting the segment through 2024 and offering insight for firms seeking revenue growth, new business, and competitive advantage.

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Author: Kate Worlock

Date: June 3, 2021

Customer-centricity is a must for digital publishers, and standards developers are no exception. However, traditional distribution models often get in the way, especially if they work well! Standards Australia has invested in a custom platform to get a direct connection with its customers.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Standards Australia Promotes the Consumption of Standards Through Its User-Centric Platform

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: June 2, 2021

Outsell’s latest sales performance benchmark points to changes for the second half of the year. With the end of Q2 only a month away, now is the time for sales leaders to prepare, and this analysis will help shape those plans.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: May 2021 Sales Benchmark: Outlook Now on Retention, Budgets, and Travel Plans

Author: Ned May

Date: June 1, 2021

This report analyzes trends and performance, providing our forecast for the Company, Contact, and Personal Information segment through 2024. Strong growth continues as companies improve their data quality, completeness, and accuracy, creating demand for providers that will best serve them.

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Author: Randy Giusto

Date: May 27, 2021

This report covers the drivers and leading players in the Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) Information and Solutions market, forecasting its growth through 2024. We recommend actions for companies to boost their value propositions, enhance their brands, and address new audiences.

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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: May 26, 2021

China’s approach to open research is hesitant despite growing numbers of OA publications. Native OA publisher F1000’s new ventures will give the Chinese market a taste of innovative practices that could catalyze the adoption of open access and open research.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Open Research Advances in China with F1000

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: May 25, 2021

Moody’s partners with Team8 to invest in VisibleRisk. As partner, supplier, and customer screening moves beyond simply understanding companies’ legitimacy and financial health, verifying cybersecurity measures is taking on a new role, creating opportunities and challenges for all stakeholders.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: The Next Big Thing for Third-Party Screening: Cyber Ratings

Author: Will Jan

Date: May 20, 2021

This report analyzes trends and performance, providing our forecast for Marketing Research through 2024. It includes companies spanning media measurement, panel sample and survey software, and industry research. We offer providers essential actions to secure revenue and gain competitive advantage.

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Author: Randy Giusto

Date: May 19, 2021

After the ProQuest deal closes, Clarivate will have almost tripled its revenues through acquisitions and organic growth in the three years since it went public. Size drives scalability but hinders flexibility: can the new, enlarged Clarivate move quickly enough to meet market demand?

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Clarivate Acquires ProQuest to Serve the Whole Research Workflow Chain

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: May 18, 2021

Kahoot! has acquired single-sign-on provider Clever for $435-500 million (depending on 2021 performance), adding critical functionality to an organization which is, unusually, targeting all areas of the education space: K-12, higher education, and corporate training.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Kahoot! — Targeting Scalability Across Multiple Education Markets Through Acquisition

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: May 17, 2021

Verizon’s sale of its remaining media assets further confirms that marriages between telecom and media companies have produced more tears than joy for investors, while pure-play film and entertainment firms have prospered. It’s different in B2B, which can learn much from events on the consumer side.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Verizon Media Sale Shows That Consumer Content Wants to Be Freed from Platforms

Author: Simon Alterman

Date: May 13, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront standards publishers’ role as pillars of safety, quality, and regulatory compliance in modern society. Emergency measures introduced in 2020 will have a lasting effect, accelerating the pace of digital transformation in response to major market trends.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: Global Standards Publishing – 2021

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: May 12, 2021

The deal creates a modular cloud offering with firmographic, demographic, technographic, and intent data at its base. This instantly makes Demandbase a key B2B data provider, next to LinkedIn, Dun & Bradstreet, and ZoomInfo, and positions it for future growth.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Key Demandbase Acquisitions Power New Modular Cloud Offering

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: May 11, 2021