If you visit the Taleo home page, you will learn the following two items. must have been sleeping, but when did “learning” slide under Talent Management?  When did “learning, which is training” become a defacto component of Talent Management? Better yet, when did “learning/training” become a component of Human Capital Management?  Because, Taleo’s system is a Human Capital Management System, when you purchase all the components (excluding learning, unless it is construed that way by Taleo). Learning 24/7. MORE >>

This week Workday released its S-1 (IPO filing) and we also had a detailed briefing from Oracle on the company's progress with Fusion and Taleo. While Workday does not yet have a robust analytics solution (the product has fantastic reporting capabilities but no real open analytics solution) and is missing recruiting, learning, and other parts of the talent suite, it is among the most compelling to use so customers are evaluating it at a fast rate. Oracle's Progress. That said, Oracle, SAP, and other vendors are not sitting still. Workday's Progress. MORE >>

It was very interesting, and we all have a lot to learn here. Oracle announced its mobile development toolkit, Silkroad demonstrated its Point product for mobile, and most vendors realize that "mobile" is the future. There is a tremendous interest in mobile learning and knowledge sharing (video, audio, etc.) SuccessFactors, SilkRoad, and even IBM showed off some of their mobile learning tools, and my personal opinion is that mobile learning will be a "killer app" that drives even greater adoption of mobile devices. applications. "). MORE >>

Companies like SAP and Oracle have offered such end-to-end solutions for years now, and the largest supply chain organizations in the world have already bought-in. This is the realm of “business intelligence” and most people involved in organizational learning remain immune to such discussions because SCORM courseware doesn’t generate a lot of interesting information to be pulled into other technologies in these bigger enterprise systems. Potentially big platforms like SAP and Oracle can adopt the Experience API. Learning Featured SCORM MORE >>

There is a familiar side to Tin Can – that which allows content to talk back to a Learning Record Store (LRS). With players like Oracle acquiring talent management companies like Taleo , we’re seeing a clear appetite for data companies to take this challenge on. I’ve never been a big fan of SCORM as a standard. Whilst I can easily buy into the need for such a standard to exist, it’s always bothered me that we’ve been forced into reverting to type whenever SCORM comes into the debate. Enter Tin Can. And using Tin Can, I can know this. eLearning MORE >>