Outsell 2025 Ecosystem View – Engineering and Technical
The $60B global Engineering & Technical Solutions market grew 9% in 2024, led by Workflow Software & Platforms (77% share). Siemens, Synopsys, and Dassault dominated growth. M&A reshaped the sector, while AI-driven design, model-centric workflows, and compliance automation fuel 2025 momentum.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: December 11, 2025
Outsell Member Practices: Protecting Proprietary or Licensed Content in a GenAI World
Business leaders from our Outsell CEO Network share insights on tools and best practices to protect proprietary and licensed content in a GenAI environment where models can ingest and replicate content in new ways.
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Author: Michael Dziekan
Date: December 09, 2025
Internal Audit & Controls Solutions 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
At $2.7B and rising 12 percent in 2024, Internal Audit and Controls Solutions is becoming a strategic priority as organisations move from periodic reviews to continuous assurance driven by integrated controls, automated testing, and live operational insights.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: December 07, 2025
Lessons from Anthology’s Chapter 11 Woes
Anthology’s decision to file for Chapter 11 and dismantle much of the company only four years after acquiring Blackboard is one of the most high-profile failures in higher education technology in the last decade, and highlights the end of the “everything platform” era.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: December 04, 2025
ELT Learning Resources and Assessment: 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
ELT learning resources and assessment fell 3% to $5B in 2024, driven by weaker summative testing as immigration tightened. The top 10 players hold two thirds of the market. AI-first roadmaps, structural shifts, and rising expectations are reshaping learning, assessment, and vendor strategy.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: December 03, 2025
Professional Tax Preparation and Compliance Solutions – 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
The Professional Tax Preparation and Compliance market hit $3 billion in 2024 with 8 percent growth, driven by workflow centric, accuracy focused systems that reward operators who weaponise automation, cut manual work, and deliver compliance at speed.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: December 01, 2025
Operating Practices: Zero Clicks & AI Search
AI answer engines are accelerating zero-click searches, pushing website traffic down by 50% or more for some companies. Organizations relying heavily on organic search, advertising, affiliate revenue, or traditional SEO are hit hardest. This analysis details how companies are responding.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: November 25, 2025
Supply Chain Risk Management Solutions 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
As tariffs shift, conflicts intensify, and production is forced to relocate, supply chains are operating under constant volatility. Resilience is the differentiator. This $4.5 billion market, growing at 7%, reflects rising demand for intelligence that converts disruption signals into rapid action.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: November 24, 2025
Wolters Kluwer Turns Late-Mover Status to Its Advantage
Wolters Kluwer is racing to close a critical innovation gap in legal tech. After watching LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters forge ahead with generative AI and seeing software providers like Clio snap up content providers, the €5.9 billion publisher is striking back.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: November 20, 2025
AIPP Conclusion of S2O Pilot Generates Questions
AIP Publishing (AIPP)’s decision to conclude its Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) pilot stands out as an unusual move in the evolution of this relatively new publishing model. While S2O has gained visibility among scholarly publishers over the past three years, its long-term sustainability remains unproven.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: November 18, 2025
Outsell Member Practices: Finding and Managing Data on Niche and Small Companies and Contacts
Business leaders from our CEO Network share the latest insights on their tools and best practices to find and manage data on niche and small companies and contacts
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Author: Michael Dziekan
Date: November 14, 2025
US Academic Library Budgets in 2026
The pressure on US academic library budgets has markedly increased, thanks to socio-political factors, enrollment issues impacting domestic and international students, and inflation. Providers serving these buyers will face difficulties in increasing prices while also maintaining renewal rates.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: November 13, 2025
Starbridge Launches to Take on GovTech Head On
Starbridge’s launch is a watershed moment for GovTech — the long-overlooked intersection of AI, data, and public sector sales. Out of stealth with $52 million in funding, the company is turning fragmented government information into structured intelligence for those selling into the public sector.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: November 12, 2025
Legal & Regulatory 2025 Annual Ecosystem View
Agentic AI is completely redrawing the boundaries of the $33B Legal & Regulatory market, upending consumer legal content, reinventing workflows, and creating new revenue from compliance and licensing. Discover who’s winning, who’s losing, and where growth is shifting next.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: November 10, 2025
Scholarly Research Ecosystem Update 2025
This new analysis provides an update on the Scholarly Research ecosystem, covering category developments including M&A, key personnel changes, major funding events, and other announcements driving change. It also outlines essential actions for success going into 2026.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: November 06, 2025
Epic vs. Oracle: Redefining the EHR Battlefield
The fight between Oracle and Epic has become the defining story in healthcare technology and it is reshaping the competitive field faster than anyone expected. They are no longer just competing on software features, but battling for the position to define healthcare delivery for the next decade.
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Author: Nick Scheponik
Date: November 03, 2025
Scholarly Research: Q3 2025 Update
This new analysis provides an update on the Scholarly Research ecosystem, covering category development such as M&A, key personnel changes, major funding events, and other announcements driving change.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: October 29, 2025
ICC Municity NextGen Raises the Stakes in Compliance and Workflow Platforms
Municity NextGen advances compliance-as-code by fully integrating standards into cloud workflows, setting a new baseline all market players must follow. This shifts how municipalities, technology providers, and planners align operations with digital standards and regulatory requirements.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: October 28, 2025
mon’k Content Analyzer: ROI Savings And Commercial Opportunities
Impelsys’ new mon’k Content Analyzer provides an example of an AI-driven production tool using multiple AI agents to help publishers undertake an existing process more quickly and easily than ever before. The ROI improvement alone makes adopting tools like this a no-brainer.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: October 23, 2025
Science ideas that change the world of information. An interview with Dr Khalid Saqr and Gareth Dyke, co-founders of the Thomas Kuhn Foundation.
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Author: David Worlock
Date: October 22, 2025
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