Category: Press Release

LEEDS, UK – Today, publishing technology company, Publish Interactive announces the launch of a new function within its software-as-a-service which allows PowerPoint content to be delivered online with an interactive experience.

The new feature, called SlideViewer, enhances publishers’ ability to deliver PowerPoint presentations and reports to their subscribers in a secure and interactive platform.

“SlideViewer has a couple of really exciting features that we believe are unique,” said Product Owner, Mark Chadwick. “One is the ability to identify figures and tables within a search across multiple files; the other, is to allow end-users and analysts to access the raw data behind the table or figure by exporting to a spreadsheet.”

End-users will benefit from a better onscreen experience which will reduce the need to download whole files for reading.

Edwin Bailey, Director of Strategy, commenting on the launch said: “Until recently high-value business information publishers have mostly been using Microsoft Word to author research, but we have seen an increase in publishers using PowerPoint as their primary authoring application. We have responded to this change by developing SlideViewer which allows analysts to present their work in an interactive format.”

SlideViewer offers two key benefits to publishers of high-value content. Firstly, the ability to quickly deliver highly visual content without any change to existing authoring workflows. Secondly, publishers can now see reader usage and engagement which will help them better understand how content is performing.

The development of SlideViewer took five months and represents another success for the Leeds-based company which already holds three patents in the field of online content delivery. “We invest a considerable proportion of our revenue in R&D projects to ensure our service is innovative and stays ahead of the competition,” added Edwin Bailey.

Publishers of high-value research who are looking for an easier way to securely distribute their PowerPoint form content can request a no-obligation demonstration by visiting https://publishinteractive.com/bookademo/

LEEDS, England, Aug. 28, 2019 – A new whitepaper released by Publish Interactive, a research publishing tech provider, says that publishers of high-value B2B market analysis must ensure they understand how their customers use content to remain competitive.

Trends in High-Value Research Publishing 2019 points out that publishers of chargeable research face a string of significant challenges including reduced customer budgets, new and alternative content types and competition from lower cost producers. With over 6,000 reports being published every month, the whitepaper says that successful B2B publishers must engage with their existing users and ensure their content remains relevant to their customers’ consumption habits.

Publishers are already shifting away from a traditional ‘transactional’ model based around single copy sales and instead adopting new technology to drive subscriptions. The whitepaper identifies the ‘three kings’ of research publishing – data, content and context. They are examined along with suggestions for how publishers should consider each of these from their customers’ viewpoint.

“The trick for a publisher is to really understand their customer’s workflow and tasks,” explained lead author Edwin Bailey, Director of Strategy at Publish Interactive. “Then find the point at which published content can add the most value and reorganise it to fit end-user tasks,” he added. “This should help publishers build strong and long-lasting relationships with customers that will deliver reoccurring revenues and future value.”

The 8-page whitepaper subtitled Beyond transactions – how understanding user behaviour creates competitive advantage provides a checklist of five essential questions that publishers of market reports should ask themselves to evolve their business from product to customer centric.

The whitepaper Trends in High-Value Research Publishing 2019 – Beyond transactions: how understanding user behaviour creates competitive advantage can be downloaded for free at

https://publishinteractive.com/resources/b2b-publishing-trends/trends-in-high-value-research-publishing https://publishinteractive.com/whitepaper/beyond-transactions/

B2B research publishing tech provider, Publish Interactive, today announced partnership with BioInformatics Inc, a leading market research firm in the instrumentation and life science industries, to launch a new publishing platform as it rebrands to Science and Medicine Group.

Following a successful test and rollout, the new Science and Medicine Group has publicly launched a state-of-the-art interactive content platform to customers.

The new platform will act as a home to Science and Medicine Group’s various research brands, including BioInformatics which retains its distinct identity alongside other businesses in the group.

Science and Medicine Group will use Publish Interactive’s content management and delivery platform to engage customers with a seamless user experience, interactive content, and a suite of smart workflow tools.

The new site will be home to the group’s research back catalogue and will publish around 100 new pieces each year as interactive reports and slide-based content.

A string of recent acquisitions had seen Science and Medicine Group take control of eight distinct brands, five of which are publishing organisations that will retain their respective identities in the platform.

“With our recent acquisition of Kalorama Information we inherited use of the Publish Interactive online tool which they had been successfully using to support their clients for over three years,” said Justin Dudash, Head of Marketing, Science and Medicine Group. “We relaunched the site and expanded the content offering by adding our complementary market research brands to the Publish Interactive experience,” he added.

Developing a new Publish Interactive-powered content platform enables Science and Medicine Group to deliver content to multiple audiences through a single user experience.

“Doing this allows us to offer the best collection of life science, instrument, and clinical market reports on one state-of-the-art platform called the Knowledge Center,” said Mr Dudash.

“Science and Medicine Group’s clients can now access chart-heavy slide decks and find, use, and download this content easily using Publish Interactive’s smart workflow tools,” added Emma Forber, Director of Client Services with Publish Interactive.

Wood Mackenzie (WoodMac), a global energy, chemical, and extractive industry research firm, has forged a partnership with Publish Interactive, a SaaS developer for the research sector, to launch a new publishing and monetisation platform.

Following a successful rollout, WoodMac has now made its new, state-of-the-art interactive content platform available to all customers of its Power & Renewables division.

WoodMac will use Publish Interactive’s content management and delivery platform to engage all its Power & Renewables customers with a seamless user experience, interactive research content, and a suite of smart workflow tools.

Developing a new Publish Interactive-powered content platform has enabled WoodMac to deliver multiple research products, to multiple audiences, through a single user experience.

“Partnering with Publish Interactive has enabled WoodMac to rationalise three existing client experiences into a single, intuitive content platform and to get that to market in the shortest possible time,” said Matthew DaPrato, Product Suite Director, Power & Renewables, WoodMac.

“Thanks to Publish Interactive, it’s now quicker to showcase the value of our Power & Renewables service. Our clients are also able to make use of a suite of elegant features to quickly and easily locate content.”

Emma Forber, Director of Client Services with Publish Interactive added: “Publish Interactive’s intuitive search, and the way content is organised within the platform enable WoodMac to maximise the value of its extensive power and renewables content portfolio.”

About WoodMackenzie
WoodMackenzie is a leading research and consultancy group focused on the global energy, chemicals, renewables, metals and mining industries. The company was founded in 1973 to review North Sea oilfields and has since expanded the sectors in which it operates through acquisitions. The company was acquired by Verisk Analytics, an American data analytics and risk assessment firm, in 2015.

Publish Interactive, a SaaS developer for the research sector, has extended an agreement to provide Everest Group, a consulting and research firm that advises clients on global services, with its industry-leading content management and research publishing platform.

The new deal, which runs until June 2020, will see Publish Interactive enable Everest Group’s thousands of digital users with sophisticated search, intuitive tools, and simple access to vital research content.

The agreement, which represents an extension of an earlier two-year deal, will allow Everest Group to publish more than 300 new pieces of content every year, including its PEAK Matrix™ assessments that provide global service analysis and insights to enterprises.

The arrangement ensures Everest Group’s portfolio of more than 2,000 pieces of digital content will continue to be managed and made available to subscribers via Publish Interactive’s cloud-based, specialised content solution.

“We first sought out Publish Interactive because we knew its specialised content management and publishing solution could help organise our deep and rich portfolio of research and present the content to our members and prospective clients in a simple, engaging and user-friendly manner,” said Patricia Blair of Everest Group.

“The partnership has been extended so Everest Group can maintain a market-leading online offering at a time when demand for digital services continues to increase rapidly.”

“The research sector is digitising at a furious pace and smart businesses like Everest Group see where the opportunity for growth and future development lies,” said Emma Forber, Director of Client Services with Publish Interactive.

“Publish Interactive provides intuitive and user-friendly tools to help research providers like Everest Group serve customers better and to enable customers to find the information they need in the quickest and easiest way possible.”

About Everest Group

Everest Group is a research firm focused on strategic IT, business services, engineering services, and sourcing. Their clients include leading global companies, service providers, and investors. Clients use Everest’s services to guide their journeys to achieve heightened operational and financial performance, accelerated value delivery, and high-impact business outcomes.

451 Research will launch its new, state-of-the-art interactive content portal to customers this month, following a successful rollout of the technology to staff.

The research firm’s deal with Publish Interactive means its customers will benefit from sophisticated search, intuitive workflow tools and simple access to vital research content.

Using Publish Interactive’s cloud-based, specialised research sector content solution, 451 Research can publish more than 2,500 new pieces of content every year, including its short-form reports through its Market Insight service, the long-form Technology & Business Insight research reports and the graphic-heavy Voice of the Enterprise survey research.

The arrangement ensures that at launch more than 28,000 individual reports will be available to subscribers as digital content, with a further 54,228 reports from 451 Research to be uploaded later.

At 451 Research, we recognise the critical importance of our content being consumable for our clients which has led to our investment in Publish Interactive. Publish Interactive will provide an industry-best user experience that we have wanted for our clients,” said Alan Elworthy, Chief Revenue Officer at 451 Research.

“The new Research Dashboard empowers our clients to quickly identify, extract and embed the most valuable elements of our research, then seamlessly integrate them into their decision-making process. This accelerated path to finding actionable insights is a fundamental differentiator from our competitors,” said Aaron St. George, Senior Vice President of Engineering & IT Operations at 451 Research.

Publish Interactive’s smart tools and intuitive content management and publishing system offer 451 Research a key point of value in its markets. “The fact that each piece of content we support can be broken down by users into key ‘snippets’ for delivery, storage and export also helps 451 Research’s aim of increasing their value to clients by moving toward creating content in a more modular fashion,” added Emma Forber, Director of Client Services at Publish Interactive.

For further information, read this Q&A with 451 Research on how Publish Interactive is ‘mission critical’ to its development.

About 451 Research

451 Research is a leading information technology research and advisory company focusing on technology innovation and market disruption. More than 100 analysts and consultants provide essential insight to more than 1,000 client organisations globally through a combination of syndicated research and data, advisory and go-to-market services, and live events. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in New York, 451 Research is a division of The 451 Group.

Publish Interactive, a leading developer of serviced software for the Market Intelligence community, has enabled Roskill Information Services, a provider of international metals and minerals research information, to launch a new, fully interactive research content platform.

Using Publish Interactive’s solution, Roskill launched its new research content portal at the start of November to coincide with London Metals Exchange (LME) Week.

The new site enables Roskill to publish new reports in an interactive format that makes it quicker and easier for its customers to search, access, and reuse its information.

Roskill has converted 15 reports published in the last year into an interactive format and over the course of the next six months will make available a further ten-years-worth of reports as interactive content.

Roskill’s new content portal will enable its customers to:

• Quickly and easily find information through high-quality search
• Easily export figures into Powerpoint
• Access the data behind tables as Excel documents
• Translate written content into several different languages
• Work seamlessly across its content portal and marketing website thanks to a single sign-in

“We’re delighted to have helped Roskill launch its new interactive content portal and, in doing so, extend the record number of customer launches we have overseen in the last 12 months,” said Emma Forber, Director of Client Services with Publish Interactive.

“We’re really excited about our work with Roskill. We hope the engaging features and customer usage information that Publish Interactive can provide will play a significant part in the next phase of its digital development.”

“As a business, we had initially looked to improve our content delivery by developing an in-house platform, but when we saw the range of features Publish Interactive could provide, the in-house option worked out to be more costly and less comprehensive,” said Alison Saxby, Director of Roskill Information Services.

“Now we have launched, we couldn’t be happier with Publish Interactive. It has enabled us to offer our customers an interactive experience for the first time, we can gather vital feedback on how customers use our products, and we can notify customers of updates to existing report content and easily launch new products into the market.”

About Roskill Information Services

Roskill Information Services is a leader in the provision of international metals and minerals research information. It started life as one of the UK’s first management consultancies in 1930. Roskill began publishing reports in 1970 and it now publishes more than 40 market reports and other information services.