New age-verification laws are set to shake up the online media landscape and create new challenges for the data, information, and analytics economy.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Get Ready for Stricter Age Checks Online

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: February 6, 2023

With accelerated demand for environmental, health, safety, and sustainability (EHS&S) and compliance learning solutions, acquisition momentum for risk and compliance solutions continues into 2023. Shortly after VelocityEHS’s joint private equity ownership, Symphony Technology Group acquires SAI360.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Funding for Risk Solution Companies Picks Up Momentum

Author: Will Jan

Date: February 2, 2023

Outsell’s latest Information Consumption Study reveals dramatic post-pandemic changes. The number one difference? Collaboration tools have nearly displaced email as the top method of sharing information. This analysis explores findings from our eighth study and analyzes the impact and implications.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Email Losing Its Title as the Killer App

Author: Ned May

Date: February 1, 2023

Springer Nature experiments with faster turnarounds, do-it-yourself services, and innovative medical publishing with its acquisition of Cureus, a tech-driven, open-access mega-journal.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Cureus and Springer Nature: A Bold, New Experiment Begins

Author: Lettie Conrad

Date: January 31, 2023

Moving to a blended business model of media, events, research, marketing services, data, and information requires rethinking the company’s sales approach. This analysis explores how to think about sales structure when evolving in this direction.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Four Lessons Learned When Pivoting a Sales Org from Media to Information Services

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: January 30, 2023

If customers can overcome the ongoing cost hurdles, virtual reality has the potential to deliver real value in educational settings.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Virtual Reality: Finding Sweet Spots in Education

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: January 26, 2023

Dow Jones is acquiring a stake in Ripjar to enhance compliance in customer onboarding. The deal enables Dow Jones to broaden data access and analysis on financial crime and exemplifies how combining media and data science can enhance risk analytics.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Dow Jones Amps Up Its Third-Party Screening Capabilities

Author: Will Jan

Date: January 25, 2023

Outsell expects a wave of litigation and regulatory policy discussions concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright infringement will finally crash ashore in 2023.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Generative AI Under Increased Scrutiny for Copyright Infringement

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: January 24, 2023

HMH’s acquisition of NWEA confirms the ongoing strategic importance that assessment solutions bring to curriculum resources providers as they look to drive up usage and improve students’ learning outcomes.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: HMH Acquires NWEA to Boost Assessment Capabilities

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: January 23, 2023

Investment in SaaS and DaaS abounds as businesses begin to rely heavily on this technology. What lies ahead? Outsell Chief Research Fellow David Worlock gets insights from expert Graeme McCracken, advisor and non-executive director of B2B information companies.

See more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: The Future of SaaS and DaaS

Interviewer: David Worlock

Date: January 19, 2023

The combination creates a strong agri-food commodity solution for international markets and points to the importance of ingredients coverage for other data, information, and analytics companies looking for growth opportunities in adjacent markets.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Mintec and AgriBriefing Combine on Feed-to-Food Data and Analytics

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: January 18, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI), location intelligence, and internet-of-things (IoT) technology innovation is improving farming and creating new growth opportunities for information providers.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Data and Technology Innovations in Agriculture Shift Value and Create Opportunities for New Providers

Author: Michael Dziekan

Date: January 17, 2023

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.

See more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Protecting the Future of Information Integrity

Interviewer: David Worlock

Date: January 16, 2023

Outsell’s analysis of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the Legal & Regulatory Solutions market reveals that while there was a drop in the number of M&A deals in 2022, the number of companies making deals increased, including a return to M&A by the three largest players.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Legal Tech M&A Activity in 2022

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: January 12, 2023

Verisk is acquiring Mavera, an insurance technology (insurtech), to automate accident and health (A&H) claims management. This deal demonstrates risk information providers’ increased appetite to help streamline the heavily paper-based insurance industry in a post-pandemic era.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Risk Data Giant Acquires Accident & Health Insurance Automation Capabilities

Author: Will Jan

Date: January 11, 2023

The deal will help the account-based marketing solutions provider to invest further in its platform and data capabilities, as the account-based marketing (ABM) space heats up with recessionary clouds ahead.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: BC Partners Acquires Madison Logic

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: January 10, 2023

Does metadata allow us to verify and augment existing data sets, or is it an indexing tool that will eventually obviate the need for searching underlying data? Two researchers examine how AI-based tools for improving data and verifying research are being developed and consider future development.

See more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: The Future of Metadata

Interviewer: David Worlock

Date: January 9, 2023

ChatGPT and other auto-writing tools could significantly disrupt teaching and assessment processes, opening up possibilities for solutions providers.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: AI in Higher Education: Bright Spots and Dangers Lie Ahead

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: January 5, 2023

What a difference a year makes.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: The Seven Key Trends Steering Us in 2023

Author: Ned May

Date: December 22, 2022

Two very different companies investing in AI present other information providers lessons in data visualization and output as well as shrinking decision times for their customers.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: G2 and Zappi Tap AI to Improve Speed to Insights, Output, and Decisions

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: December 21, 2022