eLearning blogger Amit Kapur, through his blog , speculates that Pune, India based and Sequoia Capital funded , mid-sized eLearning player Brainvisa may be in the process of being acquired. Please feel free to shed more light on the Brainvisa deal by writing in to us a If this is true, then we would see further consolidation of the industry in India. Maximize Learning, another Pune based player was recently snapped up by Aptara (erstwhile Techbooks).

This list includes a host of additional tools that eLearning Guild members consider rapid eLearning development tools including Apple Keynote, Microsoft Word, Trivantis Lectora, Respondus StudyMate, Brainshark Presentations, Vuepoint Content Creator, WebEx Presentation Studio, KnowledgePlanet Firefly, Xstream RapidBuilder, ReadyGo Web Course Builder, BrainVisa RapideL, OnDemand Presenter, Desire2Learn Learning Environment, Corel Wordperfect Office, SkillSoft Course Customization, Toolbook Instructor, Learn.com LearnCenter, IBM Simulation Producer, Toolbook Assistant, and Cornerstone OnDemand.

KnowledgePlanet Brainvisa eLearning Consultants.. I don't know if I've seen this reported by the eLearningGuild , but their reports showed some interesting information about satisfaction levels reported by members on course authoring and rapid eLearning tool satisfaction levels. Unfortunately, my blog is not wide enough for these images, so click on the image to go to a page with the full size image.

Pune based eLearning company, Brainvisa has been acquired. Looks like Sequoia has attempted to give Brainvisa the platform it needs to unlock its potential and Indecomm gets to round out its service offering. August 21, 2007, India - Indecomm Global Services (“Indecomm”), a leading international business process outsourcing and services firm, announced today that it has acquired Brainvisa Technologies Private Limited (“Brainvisa”), a leading global eLearning solutions company. The consolidation juggernaut continues. From the press release put out by Indecomm:

has been receiving news from its sources that Sequoia backed and Pune, India based eLearning company Brainvisa may be entering into a merger with Indecomm Global Services , also backed by Sequoia . There has been a fair amount of speculation of late about Brainvisa and its potential suitors. The Learned Man! While we await official news, feel free to write in to add to this story or offer correction

Manish at Brainvisa wrote to tell me about this free iPhone and iPod Touch application application they have created to help out the Training Manager to choose between classroom training training or elearning, based on various parameters like development budget, frequency frequency of updates, average salaries for instructors, etc.

RapideL-i (Brainvisa Technologies Pvt. I’ve been slicing and dicing our Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase and doing some online research in response to a question about collaborative rapid authoring tools that developers in multiple locations can use. Thought I’d share what I found for three reasons - (1) hopefully to provide some valuable information, (2) to see who I may have missed so I can add them and/or get them added to our KnowledgeBase (3) to let you know about the type of client-driven research we do at Brandon Hall Research.

Samir Inamdar is not a stranger to this industry, having first worked with Maximize Learning (subsequently aquired by Techbooks /Aptara) and then having joined Brainvisa (subsequently aquired by Indecomm Global Services) before moving on to start his own eLearning company by the name of Enthuse Technologies . According to a press release by the police, Inamdar had been dismissed from Brainvisa in 2006 and formed his own e-learning company subsequently. This is an incident that clearly shows how cut-throat and competitive the eLearning industry has become in India. As smaller

Articulate Presenter, like Brainvisa's Rapidel Enhance builds on the user's knowledge of Microsoft Office, by integrating with MS Powerpoint as an Add-in. One of things I'd like to change in the future, would be to have more time to work on things that can lower the overall cost of training, while lending more flexibility to the way training can be delivered. My thoughts about this issue have led me to meander down the path of e-learning.

We found the three US vendors expensive and/or light on good ID and the India-based vendors (Tata and Brainvisa) are priced really well, but would require more extensive project, quality and ID management. Within a few hours of each other, I received two requests for referral to service providers. One request was for eLearning development providers from fairly large 5,000+ employees based in the US.