This report sizes and segments the content spending of the $31.6 billion global library market and analyses the trends driving change. It forecasts spending through 2022 and acts as a tool for information providers who target the library market and must understand its regional and vertical dynamics.
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.
In an increasingly digital-first society, the need for better governance of the internet is glaringly obvious. The race is on to determine which ideals and regulatory systems will become the standard that the rest of the world eventually follows.
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.
In our latest survey, attendees weren’t shy about ideas for what event organizers can do to increase interest in returning to in-person shows. Health-and-safety-related steps led all others by far, while content, venue choice, cancellation policies, networking opportunities, and swag matter too.
Four big scientific publishers will make 70,000 journal articles available on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect in a pilot aiming to enhance discoverability and improve the user experience.
Our latest data, analyzed by generation, shows that younger attendees view onsite events differently in terms of importance, reasons to go, obstacles faced, format preferences, and more. Event organizer success in 2022 requires listening to the generational needs of a changing audience.
The increasing speed of technological advancement is driving the pace of product design cycles and increasing the level of product complexity for every step in R&D. To ease this trend, there’s a rising need for mission-critical content to better match user requirements for formats and workflows.
Patent research solutions have improved considerably in recent years thanks to investment from providers in this market. Yet Outsell’s research shows that customers’ needs are still not being fully met, and features that differentiated providers’ products three years ago are now just table stakes.