Bounty Hunters Have enough conversations and key themes emerge. Lately it’s all about data (or content or editorial or anything) that feeds the machines and how the machines are doing in their respective races. Open Evidence prevails in a comparison with OpenAI; in another study, it ranks over UptoDate. Every day the hunt for new and original sources continues,…
A Spate of Questions All of them centering around the existential question “where is the moat?” The coordinates for the drawbridge are changing daily. The answers? They too are changing. Staying current is a full-time job. At Outsell, it’s our entire company’s job. The questions come in various flavors and in various ways. In…
Feeding Frenzy Two pieces struck this week: our analysis of the financial results of RELX, Thomson Reuters, and Wolters Kluwer, and the first-half results of Elsevier, Clarivate, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis. Two paragraphs stand out, and they are harbingers of the M&A that’s to come. The more defensible strategy is…
AI Operating Priorities AI deployment in our industry’s key operating functions remains modest, with impact still largely unquantified. The winners aren’t done — they’re just getting started. Is your AI why delivering AI ROI? The Outsell Accelerate A! Benchmark™ provides early signals for CEOs in the media, data, and information services sectors about adoption maturity and where…
Outsell partner, respected colleague, and AI strategy advisor Jennifer S. Ives, often speaks about the importance of a company’s “AI Why,”…
Our clients have access to our network of internal and external SMEs to answer their ad-hoc questions that drive revenue and mitigate risk…
Once in a while, it’s hard not to stop and take stock of the things going on around our industry that don’t add up. Or if they do, they…
There is a lot of coverage about the software industry’s demise due to AI. Just like Mark Twain’s famous saying, “reports of my death are…
We’ve been answering a lot of questions lately about semantic technology, agentic access and where companies have a right to win and how…
Last week I promised an update on the essential actions for the coming year and closing remarks in my preso in FL. Too many B2B data…