HMH’s acquisition of NWEA confirms the ongoing strategic importance that assessment solutions bring to curriculum resources providers as they look to drive up usage and improve students’ learning outcomes.
Investment in SaaS and DaaS abounds as businesses begin to rely heavily on this technology. What lies ahead? Outsell Chief Research Fellow David Worlock gets insights from expert Graeme McCracken, advisor and non-executive director of B2B information companies.
The combination creates a strong agri-food commodity solution for international markets and points to the importance of ingredients coverage for other data, information, and analytics companies looking for growth opportunities in adjacent markets.
Artificial intelligence (AI), location intelligence, and internet-of-things (IoT) technology innovation is improving farming and creating new growth opportunities for information providers.
The race is on to ensure information integrity in an era of growing disinformation and even “deep fake” media that can fool those who use it. Outsell Chief Research Fellow David Worlock discusses the topic with Santiago Lyon, Head of Advocacy and Education at the Content Authenticity Initiative.
Outsell’s analysis of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the Legal & Regulatory Solutions market reveals that while there was a drop in the number of M&A deals in 2022, the number of companies making deals increased, including a return to M&A by the three largest players.
Verisk is acquiring Mavera, an insurance technology (insurtech), to automate accident and health (A&H) claims management. This deal demonstrates risk information providers’ increased appetite to help streamline the heavily paper-based insurance industry in a post-pandemic era.
The deal will help the account-based marketing solutions provider to invest further in its platform and data capabilities, as the account-based marketing (ABM) space heats up with recessionary clouds ahead.
Does metadata allow us to verify and augment existing data sets, or is it an indexing tool that will eventually obviate the need for searching underlying data? Two researchers examine how AI-based tools for improving data and verifying research are being developed and consider future development.
Two very different companies investing in AI present other information providers lessons in data visualization and output as well as shrinking decision times for their customers.
CAS makes a bold move into life sciences. Leveraging its trusted techniques for highly structured scientific research information and data, it is now equipped to transform the pharma R&D marketplace.
Intuit is acquiring SeedFi to help the growing population of those who live paycheck to paycheck build credit. With inflation and high energy prices exacerbating the cost of living, information providers are taking actions to help those most effected.
Property-tech startup Prophia is raising the bar for commercial real estate (CRE) data and analytics players. Its approach shows how one can provide unique solutions to save customers valuable time and make more informed decisions.