Springer Nature’s integration of AdisInsight into Claude highlights a strategic challenge that now confronts every information provider: how to create value when AI increasingly mediates the relationship between users and information.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Springer Nature Bets on AI Distribution Over Platform Exclusivity

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: June 25, 2026

Wiley’s $452M acquisition of Emerald Publishing is one of scholarly publishing’s biggest consolidation moves in years, reshaping social sciences, signaling a subscription model comeback, and raising urgent questions for libraries, societies, and anyone in the AI content economy.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Wiley Acquires Emerald in the Latest Scholarly Publishing Consolidation Wave

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: June 23, 2026

Infosys acquired Optimum Healthcare IT to expand its healthcare transformation capabilities as health systems accelerate AI adoption, interoperability initiatives, cloud modernization, and workflow digitization.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Healthcare IT Meets Information Services: Infosys and the AI Workflow Economy

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: June 22, 2026

Standards are weathering current shocks, but publishers now juggle two models: a still‑reliable subscription business and an emerging data‑driven, workflow‑integrated, tightly governed content business.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Outsell Segment View: 2026 Standards Publishing

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: June 18, 2026

The acquisitions of Hyve and Zonda signal that B2B M&A is gaining momentum. While Hyve highlights the continued appeal of event-driven business models, Zonda’s sale to CoStar offers a more important lesson about the value of data, workflow, and vertical depth.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Hyve Highlights Event Value; Zonda Reveals the Future for B2B

Author: Rob Keenan

Date: June 17, 2026

Four foundation model providers, four different answers to the same question: how to capture professional-information value. OpenAI buys content. Anthropic embeds its model. Microsoft builds a marketplace. Google pays for pilots. The deal on the table depends on who is knocking.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Four Strategies Behind Major Foundation Model Providers Licensing Deals

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: June 16, 2026

Content licensing is now the contested ground between publishers and AI. This tracker records more than 90 publicly disclosed deals — licensor, licensee, scope, value, and term — mapping how content owners sell to foundation models and vertical applications across professional-information markets.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Outsell AI Licensing Deal Tracker: June 2026

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: June 15, 2026

Wolters Kluwer’s expanded OpenAI partnership and Clinical AI validation framework marks a shift in AI competition. As AI models commoditize, trust, governance, and domain expertise, not model access, will determine which information providers lead the market.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Wolters Kluwer Moves to Anchor AI Differentiation in Trust and Validation

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: June 09, 2026

Web of Science Research Intelligence transforms AI from a search tool into a trusted decision-making layer for research workflows, marking a shift from bibliometrics to institutional intelligence and raising the stakes for Elsevier, Digital Science, and the broader analytics market.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Clarivate: Owning the AI Layer of Institutional Research

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: June 01, 2026

AI in the standards publishing market emerges as a change in operating model rather than a feature contest: on that measure, the market is neither mature nor stalled but uneven and transitional.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: The Fight for Value in Standards: Publishers’ AI Transition

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: May 28, 2026

Higher education is moving beyond the first wave of GenAI experimentation and into an operational phase focused on outcomes, governance, and workflow integration. McGraw Hill’s recent product launches and commentary reveal how education companies are repositioning themselves for that shift.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: McGraw Hill’s AI Strategy Signals the Next Phase of Higher Education

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: May 27, 2026

Peer review is under strain from rising submissions, use of AI, reviewer shortages and integrity issues. Publishers are responding with automation, screening and new models. This report examines the pressures shaping peer review, and the changes needed to keep it scalable, credible and sustainable.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: The Future of Peer Review: Current Best Practice and Future Scenarios

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: May 20, 2026

Foundation model providers will not stay horizontal. Anthropic’s launch of Claude for Legal on confirms it: twelve practice-area plugins, more than twenty MCP connectors into the incumbent legal stack, and direct deployment into the daily workflow of every law firm and in-house team.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Anthropic Goes Vertical with Claude for Legal

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: May 19, 2026

Apollo’s acquisition and merger of Emerald Holding and Questex struck a nerve at the center of the B2B events market and changes the North American power structure. The deal also raises questions about the long-term viability of event models as the business driver for the B2B sector.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Apollo Wins a Lap; It Takes More to Win the Race

Author: Rob Keenan

Date: May 18, 2026

The global IP solutions market grew 8% to $4.4 billion in 2025 as agentic AI restructured the workflow layer above legacy data and software, with two-thirds of the top 20 outpacing the market. The Verification Tax will decide who keeps pricing power as Asian filings drive every global portfolio.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Intellectual Property: 2026 Ecosystem View

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: May 12, 2026

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.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: AI Native Value Creation in Requirements and BOM Management

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: May 07, 2026

How did your performance compare against your peers ? The Outsell and M3 Learning’s quarterly Sales Benchmark provides the data and insights to measure and improve sales performance.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Outsell & M3 Learning’s Q1-Q2 2026 Sales Benchmark Results

Author: Michael Dziekan

Date: May 05, 2026

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.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Engineering & Design: 2026 Ecosystem View

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: April 30, 2026

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.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Legal & Regulatory: 2026 Ecosystem View

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: April 28, 2026

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.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Inside the Gen Z/Millennial Mind: How Events Must Adapt

Author: Rob Keenan

Date: April 22, 2026