Wolters Kluwer is racing to close a critical innovation gap in legal tech. After watching LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters forge ahead with generative AI and seeing software providers like Clio snap up content providers, the €5.9 billion publisher is striking back.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Wolters Kluwer Turns Late-Mover Status to Its Advantage

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: November 20, 2025

AIP Publishing (AIPP)’s decision to conclude its Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) pilot stands out as an unusual move in the evolution of this relatively new publishing model. While S2O has gained visibility among scholarly publishers over the past three years, its long-term sustainability remains unproven.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: AIPP Conclusion of S2O Pilot Generates Questions

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: November 18, 2025

Business leaders from our CEO Network share the latest insights on their tools and best practices to find and manage data on niche and small companies and contacts

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Outsell Member Practices: Finding and Managing Data on Niche and Small Companies and Contacts

Author: Michael Dziekan

Date: November 14, 2025

The pressure on US academic library budgets has markedly increased, thanks to socio-political factors, enrollment issues impacting domestic and international students, and inflation. Providers serving these buyers will face difficulties in increasing prices while also maintaining renewal rates.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: US Academic Library Budgets in 2026

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: November 13, 2025

Starbridge’s launch is a watershed moment for GovTech — the long-overlooked intersection of AI, data, and public sector sales. Out of stealth with $52 million in funding, the company is turning fragmented government information into structured intelligence for those selling into the public sector.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Starbridge Launches to Take on GovTech Head On

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: November 12, 2025

Agentic AI is completely redrawing the boundaries of the $33B Legal & Regulatory market, upending consumer legal content, reinventing workflows, and creating new revenue from compliance and licensing. Discover who’s winning, who’s losing, and where growth is shifting next.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Legal & Regulatory 2025 Annual Ecosystem View

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: November 10, 2025

This new analysis provides an update on the Scholarly Research ecosystem, covering category developments including M&A, key personnel changes, major funding events, and other announcements driving change. It also outlines essential actions for success going into 2026.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Scholarly Research Ecosystem Update 2025

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: November 06, 2025

The fight between Oracle and Epic has become the defining story in healthcare technology and it is reshaping the competitive field faster than anyone expected. They are no longer just competing on software features, but battling for the position to define healthcare delivery for the next decade.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Epic vs. Oracle: Redefining the EHR Battlefield

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: November 03, 2025

This new analysis provides an update on the Scholarly Research ecosystem, covering category development such as M&A, key personnel changes, major funding events, and other announcements driving change.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Scholarly Research: Q3 2025 Update

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: October 29, 2025

Municity NextGen advances compliance-as-code by fully integrating standards into cloud workflows, setting a new baseline all market players must follow. This shifts how municipalities, technology providers, and planners align operations with digital standards and regulatory requirements.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: ICC Municity NextGen Raises the Stakes in Compliance and Workflow Platforms

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: October 28, 2025

Impelsys’ new mon’k Content Analyzer provides an example of an AI-driven production tool using multiple AI agents to help publishers undertake an existing process more quickly and easily than ever before. The ROI improvement alone makes adopting tools like this a no-brainer.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: mon’k Content Analyzer: ROI Savings And Commercial Opportunities

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: October 23, 2025

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Read more on the Outsell Platform: Science ideas that change the world of information. An interview with Dr Khalid Saqr and Gareth Dyke, co-founders of the Thomas Kuhn Foundation.

Author: David Worlock

Date: October 22, 2025

Silverchair’s ScholarOne Gateway brings long-overdue innovation to the clunky world of academic submission and peer review. By unifying fragmented systems, this move into workflow innovation signals a strategic pivot, not just a product launch.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Silverchair Simplifies Authoring Workflow With ScholarOne Gateway

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: October 21, 2025

Vibe coding is about to redefine legal tech and legal services, enabling lawyers to create AI tools through natural language and transforming law firms from service providers into software creators.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Clio Brings Vibe Coding to Legal Market

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: October 20, 2025

This new analysis explores the $67 billion Sales ecosystem of data, information, and workflow software providers. The market grew by 6% in 2024, driven by demand for CRM and sales enablement software, and the promise of agentic AI to automate mundane work and make responses more prescriptive.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Sales – 2025 Ecosystem View

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: October 16, 2025

Wolters Kluwer’s UpToDate Expert AI raises the bar for clinical decision support, delivering trusted, transparent AI in real workflows. It’s a bold move that protects leadership while challenging rivals and reshaping expectations.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: UpToDate Sets A New Clinical Decision Support Standard

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: October 14, 2025

Elsevier’s next generation AI-powered solution is designed to support the end-to-end research workflow. The stakes are high as the offer could set the benchmark for trusted, publisher-agnostic, workflow-integrated AI at a time when research practices are rapidly shifting under multiple pressures.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Elsevier’s New AI Solution Demonstrates Market-Changing Aspirations

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: October 09, 2025

The centre of gravity in enterprise AI is shifting from tech to content. Professional publishers can now decide which B2B AI vendors get licensed access to authoritative datasets, which products will clear buyer procurement, and which will never make it.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: AI Licensing Deal Tracker: B2B Information Providers Empowered

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: October 07, 2025

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Read more on the Outsell Platform: Using Data and Intelligence to re-create the Financial Model of Agriculture.

Author: David Worlock

Date: October 06, 2025

Agentic AI is upending GRC, replacing slow box-ticking with real-time risk detection and automated action. As compliance becomes a live intelligence network driving decisions at machine speed, vendors must reinvent or be overtaken.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Governance, Risk & Compliance

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: October 06, 2025