Coursera Merges With Udemy in A Deal of Necessity
Coursera’s $2.5 billion acquisition of Udemy shows that the first generation of scaled, horizontal learning platforms has reached its strategic limit. What began as a race to aggregate content, learners, and credentials is reframing around speed, adaptability, and skills in an AI-driven market.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: January 06, 2026
End-to-End COA Integration: A Market Shake-Up with IQVIA and Wiley
The IQVIA–Wiley partnership streamlines clinical outcome assessments by combining validated COAs with trial analytics and infrastructure, reflecting a market shift toward integrated workflows that deliver patient-centered data and turnkey solutions.
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Author: Nick Scheponik
Date: December 23, 2025
Outsell Annual Information Industry Outlook 2026
2026 marks a turning point: AI has moved from potential to performance. Leaders are doubling down on intelligent systems that act, adapt, and drive results—ushering in the Age of Applied Intelligence.
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Author: Grant Hunter
Date: December 22, 2025
Digital Standards Adoption by Design and Compliance Functions: Shared Efficiency, Unequal Risk
Digital standards sit at the intersection of innovation and regulatory risk. As structured, machine-readable content, they parallel AI adoption but, unlike optional AI, remain mandatory as they target bottlenecks—manual updates, version confusion, cross-region compliance, and labor-heavy gap checks.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: December 18, 2025
Gong Acquires RightBound for Account & Contact Intelligence
The acquisition of RightBound enhances Gong’s ability to merge interaction intelligence with enriched account and contact data, addressing a long-standing go-to-market (GTM) challenge—incomplete and outdated datasets across CRM, enrichment, and engagement platforms.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: December 17, 2025
Enterprise & IT Risk Management Solutions 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
The Enterprise & IT Risk Management Solutions market hit $2.9B as buyers accelerate away from manual controls toward AI-driven, cross-domain platforms. This report reveals which vendors are winning, where the category is heading, and what’s redefining risk visibility at scale.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: December 15, 2025
Outsell Member Practices: Managing and Monitoring Distributed Workforces
Business leaders from our Outsell CEO Network share insights on tools and best practices of remote-first digital organizations deployment of employee monitoring software beyond basic time tracking.
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Author: Michael Dziekan
Date: December 15, 2025
Engineering and Technical Outsell 2025 Ecosystem View
The $60B global Engineering & Technical Solutions market grew 9% in 2024, led by Workflow Software & Platforms (77% share). Siemens, Synopsys, and Dassault dominated growth. M&A reshaped the sector, while AI-driven design, model-centric workflows, and compliance automation fuel 2025 momentum.
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Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: December 11, 2025
Outsell Member Practices: Protecting Proprietary or Licensed Content in a GenAI World
Business leaders from our Outsell CEO Network share insights on tools and best practices to protect proprietary and licensed content in a GenAI environment where models can ingest and replicate content in new ways.
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Author: Michael Dziekan
Date: December 09, 2025
Internal Audit & Controls Solutions 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
At $2.7B and rising 12 percent in 2024, Internal Audit and Controls Solutions is becoming a strategic priority as organisations move from periodic reviews to continuous assurance driven by integrated controls, automated testing, and live operational insights.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: December 07, 2025
Professional Tax Preparation and Compliance Solutions – 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
The Professional Tax Preparation and Compliance market hit $2.7 billion in 2024 with 7 percent growth, driven by workflow centric, accuracy focused systems that reward operators who weaponise automation, cut manual work, and deliver compliance at speed.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: December 05, 2025
Lessons from Anthology’s Chapter 11 Woes
Anthology’s decision to file for Chapter 11 and dismantle much of the company only four years after acquiring Blackboard is one of the most high-profile failures in higher education technology in the last decade, and highlights the end of the “everything platform” era.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: December 04, 2025
ELT Learning Resources and Assessment: 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
ELT learning resources and assessment fell 3% to $5B in 2024, driven by weaker summative testing as immigration tightened. The top 10 players hold two thirds of the market. AI-first roadmaps, structural shifts, and rising expectations are reshaping learning, assessment, and vendor strategy.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: December 03, 2025
Professional Tax Preparation and Compliance Solutions – 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
The Professional Tax Preparation and Compliance market hit $3 billion in 2024 with 8 percent growth, driven by workflow centric, accuracy focused systems that reward operators who weaponise automation, cut manual work, and deliver compliance at speed.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: December 01, 2025
Operating Practices: Zero Clicks & AI Search
AI answer engines are accelerating zero-click searches, pushing website traffic down by 50% or more for some companies. Organizations relying heavily on organic search, advertising, affiliate revenue, or traditional SEO are hit hardest. This analysis details how companies are responding.
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Author: Randy Giusto
Date: November 25, 2025
Supply Chain Risk Management Solutions 2025 Product Category Deep Dive
As tariffs shift, conflicts intensify, and production is forced to relocate, supply chains are operating under constant volatility. Resilience is the differentiator. This $4.5 billion market, growing at 7%, reflects rising demand for intelligence that converts disruption signals into rapid action.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: November 24, 2025
Wolters Kluwer Turns Late-Mover Status to Its Advantage
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.
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Author: Hugh Logue
Date: November 20, 2025
AIPP Conclusion of S2O Pilot Generates Questions
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.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: November 18, 2025
Outsell Member Practices: Finding and Managing Data on Niche and Small Companies and Contacts
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
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Author: Michael Dziekan
Date: November 14, 2025
US Academic Library Budgets in 2026
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.
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Author: Kate Worlock
Date: November 13, 2025
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