Outsell FutureScapes – The Future of Workflow Automation
What are the key trends in work automation, and what critical challenges does the information industry face? Outsell’s David Worlock discusses the future of robotic process automation and workflow automation with guest Martin Hyndman, Associate Director, Intelligent Process Automation at Cognizant
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Author: David Worlock
Date: February 11, 2021
A Team-Based Approach to Driving Innovation
Creating ad hoc teams of high-potential staff to work on innovation projects can generate fresh thinking and spread the culture of innovation in an organisation. An ambitious program by The Associated Press demonstrates the value in idea generation — and the risks as well.
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Author: Simon Alterman
Date: February 10, 2021
LexisNexis Partnership with WorkFusion Illustrates the Evolution of AI Capabilities
LexisNexis is collaborating with WorkFusion to let AI identify adverse news on people and companies. The use of AI in third-party screening has expanded beyond client and partner onboarding to corporate ethics and reputation risk management.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: February 9, 2021
Multiverse: Apprenticeship Goes Mainstream
Multiverse recently raised $44 million in the largest venture round ever for a UK EdTech company. The funding highlights the burgeoning systemic change in the higher education market.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: February 8, 2021
Bloomberg Law Relaunch Targets Market Niche with Huge Growth Potential
Automating professional services is a huge growth opportunity that professional information and software providers are perfectly positioned to serve, but only if they unburden themselves from their narrow definitions of who their customers are.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: February 4, 2021
CreditSights Acquisition Highlights the Need for Better Credit Data During Difficult Economic Times
Fitch Group recently bought CreditSights to bolster its credit rating business. Traditional means of rating bonds are evolving to account for a more dynamic marketplace by adding components that provide a real-time pulse on businesses.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: February 3, 2021
Best Practices for Perfecting the Virtual Event Content Mix
Content helps define a successful virtual event, as does how it’s created, delivered, and absorbed. Understanding how to best weave the content together can help teams lay a foundation for success. Here are some key paths to follow when thinking about the content mix for virtual events in 2021.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: February 2, 2021
The Biggest EdTech Provider Acquisition Ever: Byju’s Purchase of Aakash
As it approaches its 10th anniversary, Indian EdTech player provider Byju’s is not only thought to be the world’s most valuable EdTech startup, it has also made the biggest ever acquisition by an EdTech player.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: February 1, 2021
Elsevier Enriches Mainstream Nursing Education with Voice-Based Tools
Elsevier’s Digital Clinical Experiences product, which it obtained via its Shadow Health acquisition in late 2020, highlights how information and learning tools providers are competing to provide digital experiences as close to a clinical setting as the technology allows.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: January 28, 2021
Wiley Acquires Hindawi in a Bid to Lead the Open Access Marketplace
Open access publishing is getting more competitive as it moves closer to the mainstream. With this move, Wiley demonstrates how to grow through acquisition, boosting market share fast while keeping a keen eye on margins.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: January 27, 2021
Virtual Event Best Practices – Event Benchmarks
Virtual event experiences provide a much wider array of metrics than their in-person counterparts. Understanding how to interpret that data and create new benchmarks to measure success is critical. Here are some key paths to follow when thinking about benchmarks for virtual events this year.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: January 26, 2021
Fastcase-Casemaker Merger Creates Stronger Alternative Legal Research Provider
The combined company will serve around two-thirds of all US attorneys, providing the necessary scale to grow the business and undercut the big four legal research providers.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: January 25, 2021
Remote Learning Powered an EdTech Investment Boom in 2020 – Will It Continue in 2021?
The forced move to remote learning in 2020 drove growth for several categories of EdTech providers. The question now is the extent to which they can hang onto these new users or whether they will face declines once the demands of remote learning recede.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: January 21, 2021
Insurance – A New Revenue Opportunity for ESG Data Providers
Willis Towers Watson partners with Polecat Intelligence to account for ESG practices in corporate reputation risk assessments. With ESG data existing largely in an unstructured format, the insurance sector is helping to drive forward unstructured data analytics for the ESG solution market.
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Author: Will Jan
Date: January 20, 2021
OA Switchboard Is Ready to Go Live, Addressing an Acute Need in Scholarly Communications
The OA Switchboard strives to remove technical barriers on the path to OA adoption. Its mission is to smooth out communications among market players, one connection at a time.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: January 19, 2021
Virtual Event Best Practices – Shifting Team Structures and Addressing Skill Gaps
Understanding how companies changed the organizational structures of their events, marketing, and sales teams in 2020, and what skillset gaps they hope to fill this year, will help others plot the road ahead for events in 2021.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: January 18, 2021
Subscription Platforms: Metrics and Management
Digital platforms generate vast amounts of data about users and their behaviour, but which performance metrics actually matter when managing a subscription business? What are the best practices to boost the all-important renewal rate?
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Author: Simon Alterman
Date: January 14, 2021
Virtual Event Best Practices – What’s Impacting the Return to In-Person and the Decisions to Make
Understanding vaccine deployments, geographic differences in health and safety regulations, the mindsets of attendees, and the budgets of sponsors and exhibitors will help event organizations better prepare for what unfolds in 2021 and 2022.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: January 13, 2021
What the UK-EU Brexit Deal Means for Our Industry
The Brexit negotiations saga has finally concluded as the UK and the EU completed a last-minute agreement on Christmas Eve. We take a comprehensive look at the implications for the data, information, and analytics industry in various key areas.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: January 12, 2021
New EU Digital Service Rules Take Aim at Big Tech
Big tech firms face new scrutiny of their content and anti-competitive practices under new rules recently announced by the European Commission.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: January 11, 2021
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