As employers look to gain an holistic view of candidates, content developers see an opportunity to integrate employability skills into their curriculum products.
TransUnion is acquiring Verisk Financial to bolster its capabilities in monitoring consumer financial behavior. As consumers’ financial footprints become increasingly digitized, information giants are evolving their methods of assessing the financial health of consumers.
The lawsuit initially animated an industry grappling with new entrants and disruptors, but reactions to the ruling have been more muted, signaling that the landscape has changed. That said, the ruling still has important implications.
Transformative agreements are gaining popularity as an effective model to transition from subscriptions to open access. This analysis examines best practices, opportunities, and challenges with transformative agreements.
Adaptive learning solutions are coming into their own as K-12 educators in the UK look to help students catch up after two years of pandemic-driven disruption to their learning.
The next generation of legal API feeds could shift legal research from solution providers’ feature-rich platforms to customers’ own internal analytics platforms, where they can analyze, visualize, and share legal data however they want.
Verisk Analytics is partnering with RiskSpan to offer mortgage providers insight into climate risk. ESG data is moving beyond the support of financial investing, corporate screening, and property and casualty insurance and into consumer lending.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.