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.
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.
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.
Outsell expects a wave of litigation and regulatory policy discussions concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright infringement will finally crash ashore in 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.
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.
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.
Artificial intelligence (AI), location intelligence, and internet-of-things (IoT) technology innovation is improving farming and creating new growth opportunities for information providers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.