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