US Higher Education Fall Enrollment Disappoints
The US represents the largest higher education market globally, and enrollment declines are already negatively impacting providers. In combination with a decline in international student numbers, this sounds a note of caution, despite booming EdTech investment levels.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: November 4, 2021
Benchmarking Return-to-Office Plans
Nearly two years after the pandemic started, uncertainty remains about the future of office work. We conducted two surveys, one focused on leadership plans for the return and the other on employee desires. Leaders can compare the results to help ensure the success of their return-to-office plans.
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Author: Ned May
Date: November 3, 2021
Springer Nature Rolls Out Free AI-Driven Translation Service to Book Authors
The introduction of the well-reputed DeepL software translation tool to Springer Nature book authors aims to eliminate language barriers.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: November 2, 2021
Survey Panel Sample Consolidation – Cint Buys Lucid
The combination of Cint and Lucid will take on Dynata more directly and accelerate the use of programmatic sampling. To stay relevant, the new company born out of this acquisition needs to focus on high-quality, verified sample — and researchers need to insist on it as well.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: November 1, 2021
Bloomberg to Enable Guidance on Climate Change
Bloomberg launches its NetZero Pathfinders platform to help companies play their part in dealing with climate change. This is a major step in advancing ESG solutions beyond reporting on the corporate impacts on the environment and toward how companies can save it.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: October 27, 2021
ACM Signs the Largest Transformative Deal in China to Date
Despite publicly supporting Plan S, China hasn’t taken bold action to implement OA policies. The ACM deal with CAS stands out in its scope and model, opening up new avenues for driving OA in China.
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Author: Julia Kostova
Date: October 26, 2021
PE-Backed Companies Give the Big Legal Solution Providers a Run for Their Money
Legal solution providers backed by private equity continue to pose a disruption threat to legal information market players. To counter this trend, Outsell advises that established players leverage their content and data to provide self-serve legal tools that could add the differentiation needed.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: October 25, 2021
Cengage Infuse Tightens the Connection Between Content and the LMS
Creating a tight connection between teaching and learning content and the LMS brings the market full circle, as it is reminiscent of earlier LMS/content provider partnership strategies. Will this be enough to continue the digital growth trajectory in higher education?
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: October 21, 2021
ZoomInfo Expands Further into Europe
ZoomInfo’s expansion into Europe comes at a cost to regional data providers there. With so many people today changing jobs, contact data providers will increasingly scramble — focusing on data quality over quantity and watching and planning for other data partners’ possible fates will be key.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: October 20, 2021
Segment View: Government Affairs Legislative Tracking Solutions – 2021
Government affairs professionals face growing demands to keep updated on new global legislation and regulation and respond to it. This is creating new demand for better legislative tracking tools, attracting new investors and driving some high company valuations.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: October 19, 2021
AI Advances GRC Management Beyond Risk Identification
Dataminr acquires Krizo to enable an AI-driven response to physical safety and security, cyber-threat detection, and reputational risk issues. AI is evolving quickly in GRC management from its use in risk identification to use in risk remediation.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: October 18, 2021
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
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