Informa Acquires Industry Dive in a Bold Playbook Move
Informa PLC is transforming itself with a new acquisition: Industry Dive. The transaction proves how important newsletter businesses are today, especially as companies seek new monetization strategies.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: September 14, 2022
Europe to Reform Research Assessment
The European Commission and a coalition of over 350 organizations from over 40 countries have agreed to abandon the inappropriate use of journal and publication metrics. They will focus assessment on peer review and responsible use of quantitative indicators, presenting their plan on Sept 28, 2022
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Author: Reynold Guida
Date: September 13, 2022
An Acquisition Highlights the Winners in Supply Chain Risk
Exiger, a provider of know your customer (KYC) screening to support financial client onboarding, recently acquired Supply Dynamics. As different players in the financial screening space acquire additional capabilities to support nonfinancial industries, a clear subset of winners emerges.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: September 12, 2022
ZoomInfo Rebuilds Its Technographics Offering
ZoomInfo is rebuilding a data capability that it acquired three years ago from the ground up. There are several lessons here for other companies looking to take their data in different directions.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: September 8, 2022
Education Metaverse Announcements Abound, but Are the K-12, Higher Ed, and Corporate Training Markets Ready?
A number of announcements relating to the metaverse emerged from educational institutions and solutions providers over the summer. Does this signal a paradigm shift, or will the metaverse trend soon blow over?
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: September 7, 2022
Scientific, Technical & Medical – Segment View 2022
Key STM trends include open research, data-driven models, and modernizing research experiences via AI. Leading players are seeing steady growth. This report analyzes performance with forecasts through 2025, offering essential actions for firms seeking growth, new markets, and competitive advantage.
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Author: Lettie Conrad
Date: September 6, 2022
OSTP Memo Solidifies Open Research Paradigm Shift
The US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released new guidance for publishing federally funded research, which must be “publicly accessible without an embargo.” The requirements pose new challenges for research institutions, authors, and data and content providers.
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Author: Lettie Conrad
Date: August 31, 2022
Private Equity Fuels ESG Automation
With accelerated demand for climate risk reporting solutions, Partners Group is acquiring a stake in VelocityEHS, a move that will evolve its sustainability platform. The growth in the ESG solution market is prompting providers to source capital where they can, to avoid missed opportunities.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: August 30, 2022
Outsell FutureScapes – Protecting the Future of Information Integrity
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.
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Author: David Worlock
Date: August 29, 2022
Unexpected Closure of Edmodo Provides Lessons and Opportunities for Competitors
The Edmodo platform, used by tens of millions of K-12 students and teachers worldwide, has announced its imminent closure. It struggled to monetise despite being well established, signaling the difficulties inherent in maintaining a free online platform even in a world with soaring digital demand.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: August 25, 2022
B2B Marketer Pain Points — Budget Dynamics and a Peek at 2023
This fourth piece in our series of discussions with B2B marketers looks at marketing budgets in more detail, compares them to 2021, and provides early thoughts about what to expect in 2023. Demand generation, event marketing, and data hygiene activities are top of mind for many marketers.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: August 24, 2022
CCC Acquires Deep SEARCH 9
Copyright Clearance Center’s acquisition of Deep SEARCH 9 offers the firm an opportunity to create more must-have application functionality for the corporate market.
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Author: Reynold Guida
Date: August 22, 2022
OPM Market Shows Signs of Struggle
Online program management (OPM) services have long been a key growth driver for educational solutions providers. However, they are now proving problematic, leading to players strategically re-evaluating their positions or withdrawing from the space altogether.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: August 18, 2022
Axios Sale Shows the Importance of Being Lean and Leverageable
The Axios acquisition by Cox Enterprise points to the importance of lean business models, unique content, and a rabid readership base. Lessons abound for others looking for lean and fairly new acquisition targets that need a push to scale faster and bring in more revenue.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: August 17, 2022
E-Commerce Tax Solutions Provider Avalara Sees Record Deal Valuation
Vista Equity Partners has acquired Avalara for $8.4 billion, a record deal in the enterprise tax solution space. The cost of Avalara’s growth killed its margins, which allowed the private equity firm the opportunity to secure the top e-commerce tax solution provider.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: August 16, 2022
B2B Marketer Pain Points – Audience Acquisition and Digital Demand Gen
This third piece in our series of discussions with B2B marketers looks at audience acquisition activities and needs. Marketers use solutions from both platforms and publishers, but there’s a movement to outsource work to agencies or bring it in-house as part of a broader first-party data initiative.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: August 15, 2022
Outsell Product Management Benchmark, Part II
Product management remains a critical function in today’s modern data, information, and analytics organizations, and having key benchmarks and operating practices about the function is essential. This study updates our topical analysis from 2019 and earlier in 2022.
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Author: Anthea Stratigos
Date: August 11, 2022
Rising Synthetic Fraud to Fuel Consumer Identity Verification Solutions
TransUnion partners with CreditMiner to address the spike in synthetic fraud, where bad actors build fake identities over a period of a year or more to establish false creditworthiness. Fraudsters are waging a new war with credit providers due to inflation and higher borrowing costs.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: August 10, 2022
Outsell FutureScapes – The Future of Searchable Video
The ability to search text, video, and audio simultaneously will be vital over the next several years. Outsell Chief Research Fellow David Worlock discusses video searchability with Ben Kaube and Andrew Preston, co-founders of Cassyni, a service that makes videos searchable and referenceable.
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Author: David Worlock
Date: August 9, 2022
Nature Research Intelligence Combines Springer Nature’s Data Sources to Yield Insights
Corporate R&D professionals, business intelligence experts, and scholarly researchers value answers based on data from a broad spectrum of integrated disparate sources. Nature Research Intelligence seeks to drive mainstream availability of such answers to players across sectors.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: August 8, 2022
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