The half-year 2021 results show promising signs that the information industry may achieve a faster-than-expected pandemic recovery in advanced economies.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: RELX, Thomson Reuters, and Wolters Kluwer Post Promising Half-Year Results

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: August 12, 2021

Media providers need to hang onto writers and tweak their newsletter models as big social guns for Substack’s content creation, distribution, and monetization model.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Big Social Pressures Newsletter Businesses to Go After Substack

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: August 11, 2021

News Corp shells out $1.15 billion in cash to buy OPIS for its Dow Jones subsidiary, clearing one of the regulatory obstacles to the proposed merger of S&P Global and IHS Market. Players in the Financial Information & Solutions segment continue to aim for new markets with data acquisitions.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Dow Jones Fuels Its Energy Insights with OPIS

Author: Will Jan

Date: August 9, 2021

In almost any endeavour, getting off to a good start can make a huge difference, which is very much the case with subscription businesses. This analysis explores how to deploy a comprehensive and tailored onboarding process that can help deliver that all-important first renewal a year later.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Onboarding Critical to Customer Success

Author: Simon Alterman

Date: August 5, 2021

In the space of a few weeks, ZoomInfo moves into two adjacent markets by picking the right acquisition to get there. This deal also points to how conversational intelligence is rapidly becoming a must-have tool in the sales and market stack of most companies.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: ZoomInfo Dives into Conversational Intelligence and Customer Service

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: August 4, 2021

New regulations in China will force domestic tutoring businesses to operate on a nonprofit basis, driving down share prices and limiting opportunities for international players.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: China’s Tutoring Businesses Face a Nonprofit Future

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: August 3, 2021

Legal information providers are racing to offer next-generation legal practical guidance workflow products integrated within legal research platforms. However, they are not only competing with each other but also competing with the growing risk of the commoditization of legal content.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: The Next Generation of Legal Practice Guidance Workflow Tools

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: August 2, 2021

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing society from top to bottom, changing everyone’s business and personal lives in new ways every year. In this edition of FutureScapes, David Worlock discusses the future of AI-based businesses with Steve Goldstein, CEO of ResoluteAI.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Outsell FutureScapes – The Future of AI-Based Businesses

Author: David Worlock

Date: July 29, 2021

Dataminr buys WatchKeeper to offer contextual data, including traffic data, company security data, weather data, and IoT sensor signals. The result is an open data architecture that captures any event contributing to enterprise risk, an approach that could displace traditional GRC solutions.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: A New Breed of GRC Solutions Evolves from Alternative Data

Author: Will Jan

Date: July 28, 2021

Outsell’s 2Q21 sales performance benchmark indicated a strong start to 2021, but now some signs of strain are showing. This analysis explores how leaders are reacting and what their expectations are for the full year.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: 2Q21 Sales Benchmark: A Short-Term Slowdown?

Author: Ned May

Date: July 27, 2021

Negative publicity surrounding the accuracy of digital health patient treatment platforms and the algorithms that drive them may short-circuit the recent rush to invest in emerging HealthTech companies.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Biased Algorithms Risk Derailing HealthTech Advances

Author: David Potter

Date: July 26, 2021

FactSet buys BTU Analytics to augment its coverage in oil, gas, and power. The financial desktop giant intends to apply combined analytics to the newly acquired data to ensure that energy investors stay aligned with sustainability.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: FactSet Aims to Converge Energy Coverage with ESG Insight

Author: Will Jan

Date: July 22, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management has become more important given the supply chain disruptions, business closures, and increased fraud caused by COVID-19. Heightened awareness has not only propelled the GRC Solutions market to new heights but also served as a catalyst for innovation.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: Governance, Risk & Compliance Solutions – 2021

Author: Will Jan

Date: July 21, 2021

Private equity is doubling down in the legal practice management market, consolidating the market as it prepares the foundation to deliver the next generation of legal technology.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Further Consolidation in the Legal Practice Management Market

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: July 19, 2021

As the transformation of legal services continues, legal consumers have far more options available at their fingertips to support their legal needs. This research is the third in a three-part series exploring the demand for these new offerings.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Consumers Are Ready for Automated Legal Services

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: July 15, 2021

Conferences and trade shows are kicking off once again in the US after shuttering for over a year. Understanding changing attitudes toward them will help organizers plan for how they’ll respond and how they’ll get more people to come back later on.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Return to Onsite Events – Changes to Increase Comfort Levels Expected

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: July 14, 2021

The global recession resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted lenders, investors, and businesses to become more thorough with credit checks. Loan qualification requirements have also become more stringent. These factors have served as key growth catalysts for Credit Information & Solutions.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Segment View: Credit Information & Solutions – 2021

Author: Will Jan

Date: July 13, 2021

CEOs expect subscription renewal rates of more than 90% for 2021, according to the latest Outsell sentiment survey. That’s a strong number and an increase over 2020. CEOs have plenty of other key metrics on their dashboards, too, to help them hit that target.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Healthy Renewal Rates Show the Strength of the Subscription Model

Author: Simon Alterman

Date: July 12, 2021

2U’s acquisition of edX, hot on the heels of Coursera’s IPO, provides valuable signals about how both the OPM market and the MOOC space are set to evolve.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: In Unusual Move, For-Profit 2U Snaps Up Nonprofit edX for $800 Million

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: July 8, 2021

As the transformation of legal services continues, consumers have far more options available at their fingertips to support their legal needs. This analysis is the second in a three-part series exploring the demand for these new offerings.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Capitalizing on Increased Consumer Demand for Online Legal Services

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: July 7, 2021