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Cornerstone-Saba Acquisition: What Does it Mean for LMS Customers?

Talented Learning

Cornerstone plans to acquire Saba for a hefty $1.395 billion. Here’s why: Cornerstone is shaking-up the lives of over 3000 Saba customers, primarily to pump-up cash flow for its investors. Doesn’t sound like Saba customers will see much upside anytime soon. Have you heard the news? 1) Good for Vector Capital!

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Product Review: Saba Social

eLearning 24-7

I admit that in general I have been underwhelmed in the past with Saba. So, when I went and checked out Saba Social, Saba’s new social learning platform, I had very low expectations. Over 25 different social media types and Saba Social sticks with the ones everyone always sees – WHY? I was surprised.

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LMS Cost for Employee Training in 2023

Paradiso

While some LMS providers give a minimal feature-limited free version of their software, others charge a monthly or yearly subscription price to access the complete set of functions. Absorb LMS This LMS provides a wide range of tools for staff development and training, including analytics, gamification, and course authoring.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

On the other hand, the purchase of a couple of vendors for the sake of buying for the people running or being actively involved with the product was not a good idea. Good ideas Saba – At the time, this was a brilliant idea. Why not just hire those folks away? It seems to make more sense.

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Can PeopleCloud support learning in all its contexts?

Clive on Learning

Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. The first I want to examine is Saba's new PeopleCloud. It is also possible to establish mentoring relationships and set up activities to support these. However, there is a key difference.

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2013 Excellence in Social Learning

CLO Magazine

Gold: Saba Software Security vendor Kaspersky Labs has more than 2,700 employees operating in almost 200 countries. It serves 300 million people worldwide, including 20 million product activations per year. The company turned to Saba and its Saba Cloud system, which provides social collaboration, training and crowd-sourcing.

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Avoiding the LMS Overkill

QuoDeck

Well, most LMSs would provide core features – User Management, Course Creation, and Basic Progress Analytics. This is the concept of the LMS overkill, and most LMS providers, including us, have been guilty of it at some point or the other. There is a central, dedicated learning team, who oversee and authorize learning activities.

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