Requirements management and BOM-to-procurement are seeing their biggest shake-up in decades as AI-native, often agentic, startups compress or remove workflow stages that incumbent engineering software has barely modernized since the 1990s.
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2025 Engineering & Design Solutions spend reached about $93B globally, up 9% year over year. We expect 10–11% growth to continue, fuelled by rising demand for workflow platforms, greater workflow automation, and more value from integrated engineering tools.
The global Legal & Regulatory Solutions market reached $36.2B in 2025, up 10%, and accelerating. Workflow Software now exceeds half of total revenue. Clio’s $1B acquisition of vLex set the M&A benchmark. Proprietary data is the enduring moat as the Verification Tax constrains enterprise AI adoption.
Gen Zers and millennials have entered today’s modern workforce and they are poised to disrupt the B2B events model. Outsell’s survey examines Gen Z and millennial views about events and how B2B event operators must shift format, technology, and engagement strategies to meet their needs.
UpCodes’ Specifications launch marks an important turn in AEC: building codes are shifting from static reference on the periphery of projects to an AI‑mediated layer inside the specifications and project management tools.
The scholarly research market hit $27.5B in 2025, growing 3%. Growth is driven by AI, rising research output, and efficiency needs, with strong gains in OA, analytics, and authoring tools. Budget constraints limit growth, pushing vendors toward integrated, AI-driven, trust-focused solutions.
The GenAI revolution is not only disrupting media companies; it is also impacting their customers’ ability to maintain brand visibility. To help, Informa TechTarget launched two AI solutions that help suppliers navigate GenAI while showing B2B media how to use AI to generate custom content revenue.
The shift from human-facing products to agent-facing infrastructure represents the most significant distribution change in the information industry since the move from print to digital, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) sits at its foundation.
New infrastructure is emerging that enables AI companies to automatically identify, license, and pay for content before use. Three competing standards are battling for dominance, but the window to shape the new automated content licensing standards is closing.
In 2026 alone, governments worldwide are enforcing new mandates on e-invoicing, AI governance, online safety, sustainability, and cybersecurity. When governments rewrite the rules at this pace, information companies have the opportunity to create solutions that everyone will need.
The partnership between Wiley & OpenEvidence signals a competitive inflection point not only in healthcare, but across the information services industry. It goes beyond a licensing agreement and demonstrates that controlling trusted content now defines the competitive moat in AI-driven workflows.
Clarivate’s decision to divest its Life Sciences & Healthcare (LS&H) business signals more than a portfolio trim; it highlights how information services providers are recalibrating for an AI-first, capital-disciplined market.
An acquisition by G2 and market expansion by FiscalNote forces leaders to take note. While taking different approaches, these two companies offer key takeaways for executives operating in B2B, as AI disrupts vertical markets and business models of the future are up for grabs.
China produces more research output than any other nation, leading in many high-impact fields. This report examines how leading publishers are responding, identifying the structural implications for workflows, research integrity, portfolio investment, peer review, Open Access, and governance.