Publishing, Information Industry, and Information Management
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Practice Technologies: Knowledge Recycling for LawyersPractice Technologies, Inc. helps lawyers access and leverage previously created work (contracts, court filings, and other lawyer-authored documents) from depositories within their own firms and public records such as SEC filings. In a legal industry that has been notoriously reluctant to share information and apply knowledge management practices, Practice Technologies has found a straightforward application that will help open the knowledge sharing floodgates. This is but one of a number of companies helping to open up legal information that has previously been locked away in hard-to-access online collections or internal document management systems: helping to transform the practice of law in the process.
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K-12 and Postsecondary Education Market 2007: The Education InvestorThe education industry is dynamic, with varying degrees of investment activity across the K-12 and Postsecondary Education segments. This report summarizes education market investment and acquisition activity during the 2007 calendar year and provides a snapshot view of historical transaction trends and future dynamics. Companies, organizations, and investors involved in education can use this report to monitor the flow of investment dollars across subsegments in K-12 and postsecondary education, while also comparing historical activity and understanding future trends.
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Offshoring Update: Summary of Outsell’s March 11, 2008 WebinarOffshoring is a topic we receive numerous questions about, and the rate at which we receive those questions is increasing. To meet this demand for information, Outsell hosted a webinar on March 11, 2008, titled IM Offshoring: State of the Art. The webinar included quantitative data from our most recent benchmark research on information management (IM) functions, conducted in the fall of 2007. We also drew on previous years’ IM research to discover trends over time. Qualitative research included five interviews with organizations (financial services, professional services, and pharmaceutical companies) that currently offshore IM tasks.
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Toluna Pioneers Panel Communities: Blending Online Panels with Social MediaToluna PLC, a public company based in London, is a fast growing and unique player in the world of online panels. It has turned one-way online panels into social media communities by enabling members to engage in peer-to-peer interactions - what Toluna calls “panel communities.” This new level of engagement creates a number of benefits, including keeping the online panel members interested and engaged. Toluna is a good example of a market research firm that is on the leading edge of incorporating social networking and Web 2.0 ideas into online panels.
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Publishing Technology plc: One-Stop Shopping for Print and Digital PublishingPublishing Technology plc (PT) was formed by the 2007 merger of VISTA International: long a key technology provider to the publishing community: and Ingenta plc, a provider of online services for Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) publishers. PT’s resulting digital platform and services offer interesting opportunities for publishers who wish to implement digital operations and build a better return on the investment in their content. Indeed, in today’s cost-conscious and digitally challenging climate, STM publishers give serious consideration to outsourcing digital operations in much the same way that they have done for print. With clients that include the BBC, and products that include semantic search engines, e-commerce, and strategic marketing services, PT is a market leader for the growing digital publishing services market.
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The Bureau of National Affairs: Life in the Shadow of the Major Legal PublishersThe Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) holds a unique position in the legal publishing industry. With total revenues of $352.2 million, $289 million (82%) of which comes from its core publishing operations, it is the largest legal publisher that hasn’t been gobbled up by one of the Big Three legal information players: Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters), Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis, and Wolters Kluwer. It provides analytical and practice-oriented information to lawyers, accountants, and compliance officers via over 350 separate products. Known more for its editorial prowess than its technological innovation, the company has recently turned a corner with a new delivery platform and new product models that are worth watching. BNA’s unique status as an employee-owned business complicates the long-standing question of whether it can and will remain independent in years to come.
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K-12 Education Market 2007: Key Trends and DynamicsThis report provides a snapshot view of the US K-12 Education segment. It examines the leading issues affecting suppliers in each market within K-12 Education and the factors influencing future market and supplier growth. Outsell’s coverage in this report includes sales to US states, school districts, and schools, and excludes the business-to-consumer K-12 education sector. Businesses serving the K-12 Education segment, investors, policymakers, education institutions, and other industry participants can use this publication to compare current activity and growth with historical performance.
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Global Intelligence Alliance Group Provides Complete Market Intelligence SystemsGlobal Intelligence Alliance (GIA) Group is a good example of a company providing an integrated approach to general market intelligence (MI). The company has a strong backbone in MI process consulting (its roots) and also offers ongoing MI training. Its integrated system combines software, content, analysis, and analyst hours in a subscription model. What differentiates it from other integrated MI systems is that it blends different content types, both internal and external, on a hosted software platform for a full turnkey MI system. GIA demonstrates rapid growth in the emerging integrated MI market.
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Document Delivery - Best Practices and Vendor ScorecardEven as information management (IM) faces fundamental changes and challenges resulting from new technologies and the phasing out of traditional library functions, classic questions persist. One topic we still get questions about at Outsell is document delivery. Who are the players? What’s new on the scene? What are others doing to fulfill the need for articles, patents, and other documents? How must information managers respond in a changing technological and user environment (“enterprise 2.0”) that persistently challenges how they handle copyright, distribution, integration, and process management? Outsell published reports in 2000 and 2003 canvassing the document delivery landscape. In response to our clients’ inquiries, this report refreshes our coverage of the topic.
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Mainstreaming K-12 Special Needs Students: Impact on Products and ServicesMainstreaming can be broadly defined as integrating students with language and/or learning disabilities into general education classes with non-disabled students, in order to benefit the children with disabilities. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 requires that all students be evaluated uniformly, rather than using different standards as in the past, and many districts have turned to mainstreaming in hopes of better preparing special needs students for annual progress evaluations. With an increase in the number of special needs students in general education classrooms, districts are looking for the best instructional strategies and methods for working with these students. Outsell developed this report to examine the trends and analyze the barriers impacting districts’ mainstreaming efforts, and to clarify for suppliers of special needs instruction and professional development how mainstreaming has affected the types of instructional materials and technology teachers use for these students in the classroom. The report also examines the impact of mainstreaming on teacher professional development.
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