Verisk’s AI to Leverage Crowdsourcing for Insurance Assessments
Verisk is deploying AI to extrapolate ratings and unstructured data in Yelp reviews to help insurers improve evaluations of businesses. This key move by Verisk will include some challenges but could direct the greater insurance sector toward leveraging the wisdom of the crowd for deeper insights.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: October 13, 2021
CDPs — Yet Another B2B Marketing and Sales Intelligence Convergence Point
Announcements from Terminus and ActionIQ point to the growing importance of customer data platforms (CDPs) in the B2B sales and marketing intelligence space. This creates more convergence between today’s specialized Company, Contact, and Personal Information sector and the larger MarTech market.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: October 12, 2021
Graduate Index: Shifting Measurements in Higher Education Outcomes
The launch of the new Graduate Index survey in the UK highlights how measurements of the value and success of higher education are evolving to provide a more holistic, realistic, and valuable picture of graduates’ activities and perceptions.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: October 11, 2021
cOAlition S and UKRI Say Scholarly Books Must Be Open Access
Having first targeted journals, major European funders are now targeting research in book form to align with the principles of open research. The aim of cOAlition S and UKRI is nothing less than the reshaping of academic book publishing based on new open access policies.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: October 7, 2021
Wolters Kluwer Divests Its US Legal Education Business
Wolters Kluwer is the final big legal solution provider to exit the legal higher education market in the US. It’s now time to completely reinvent the law school learning experience.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: October 6, 2021
Ziff Davis – What’s Old Is New Again!
By spinning off its cloud fax unit, J2 Global can now focus on its higher-growth business and get more aggressive with M&A. It’s reinventing the legacy Ziff Davis media brand while showing the importance of building an underlying platform.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: October 5, 2021
US SEC Cracks Down on Alternative Data
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fines App Annie for offering data to financial services that was constituted as insider trading. A sheriff now presides over the gold rush among information providers monetizing data on Wall Street.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: October 4, 2021
Apple and Salesforce Enable Two-Way Data Flow in Healthcare
Technology providers have tried and failed to entice end-users to share their health data. Salesforce and Apple have a shot at success with two recent but unrelated developments.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: September 29, 2021
Segment View: Higher Education Textbooks – 2021
The higher education market is experiencing a perfect storm of factors driving change. Outsell provides regular sizing and segmentation updates of the market for higher education textbooks and related digital solutions; this is the sixth in the series.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: September 28, 2021
6sense and Oracle — Colliding Forces Ahead
The moves by 6Sense and Oracle in the B2B marketing tools space point out how smaller players want to get bigger and how bigger players want to reduce the complexity caused by smaller players. It all points to an inevitable collision ahead.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: September 27, 2021
Argos Education Launch Augurs Disruption for US HE Textbooks Market
The launch of Argos Education shows fundamental shifts on the horizon for the higher education textbook space, which go beyond business model changes already well underway.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: September 23, 2021
Founders of Mendeley, Publons, and Kopernio Now Targeting Research Seminars
Cassyni taps into the hitherto ignored territory of the research seminar, bringing networked services to unrecognized — yet critical — venues for the exchange of knowledge.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: September 22, 2021
IDG’s One-Two Purchase Intent Data Punch: Neon and KickFire
IDG continues to build a walled garden in its efforts to get marketers to shift their spending away from B2B MarTech and data vendors. It’s a bold move as IDG reinvents itself as a data company.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: September 20, 2021
BlackBoard Merges with Anthology
Consolidation across the higher education sector is on the rise as providers look to deliver holistic portfolios at scale, with a view to driving improvements in data insights and boosting revenue growth.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: September 16, 2021
Update: The Epic Battle with Apple and Google That Could Benefit the Whole Industry Continues
Since last year, a formidable adversary has been challenging the big cut that Apple and Google take from app developers. Initial activity has signaled the potential for the move to shake up the industry and increase the bottom line for providers.
Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Update: The Epic Battle with Apple and Google That Could Benefit the Whole Industry Continues
Author: Hugh Logue
Date: September 15, 2021
FourthRev Targets New Education Category, Bridging Higher Education and the Workplace
FourthRev is looking to serve an emerging educational category, working with both universities and employers to create career-boosting qualifications. Its partnerships with higher education, tech companies, and employers indicate how the OPM and online course market landscape is changing.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: September 14, 2021
Credit Giant Moves into the ESG Game
Dun & Bradstreet’s foray into ESG analytics signals to other trade credit information providers that supplier risk is about not just company financial health but also corporate social responsibility. Beyond its use in financial services, ESG data is becoming a key part of third-party screening.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: September 13, 2021
South Korea Curbs the Google-Apple App Duopoly
New legislation in South Korea could spell the beginning of the end for Apple’s and Google’s app commissions.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: September 8, 2021
Equifax to Push Unregulated Data into the Marketplace
Equifax partners with AWS Data Exchange and Snowflake Data Marketplace to make its unregulated data available to companies. This data will yield a new level of insight into consumer financial behavior for its users, enhancing customer targeting, decision-making, and risk mitigation.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: September 2, 2021
Salesforce Goes All in on B2B Media Experiences
Salesforce delivers a premium business media platform to entertain and engage customers across many roles and industries. It’s a clear sign that where B2B media is heading is more Netflix than it is LinkedIn. There’s an indirect impact on B2B media companies here.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: September 1, 2021
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