eLearning 24-7

JULY 12, 2023

Let’s face it – RFI/RFP documents sent over to learning system vendors are massive tomes that confuse, challenge and even baffle some vendors. Then you have RFP/RFIs that lack substance. The fact of the matter is nobody loves creating RFP/RFIs. They can be 25 pages. 50 pages, even 100 pages or more.

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Talented Learning

JULY 31, 2019

If you’re a learning systems vendor , this scenario should sound familiar. Your sales team recently crafted a strong proposal in response to an LMS RFP , and the buyer has given your company a thumbs up. That’s because you’ve been asked to compete with other vendors in a software demo “bake-off.”

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Talented Learning

JULY 11, 2016

With almost 700 LMS vendors in the world, competition for every sales opportunity is fierce. Along the way, I have seen more than 100 salespeople from multiple vendors compete to win legitimate business opportunities. LMS Vendor Sales Tips. I know because I spent 13 years selling learning management solutions. For the last 2.5

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Continuing on from my earlier posts: LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process From several comments and from looking at my list of issues, I realize that writing a good LMS RFP is challenging and it's easy to make lots of mistakes. The list in this LMS RFP went on and on at this level.

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RFP Association Learning Management System LMS Virtual Classroom 104

Petra Mayer

JULY 3, 2019

Typically, this is done through a “Request-for-Information” (RFI) process or through a “Request-for-Proposal” (RFP). The role of demos, walks-throughs and product tests. Many LMS providers will offer a product demo. Suppliers might offer a demo as a recorded overview or a private walk-through session. Maintenance costs.

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Association Learning Management System LMS Study Association LMS 40

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 26, 2023

The majority of vendors will continue, regardless of what you espouse. Now, if you want employee learning only, and you go to a vendor who only does customer training, then the initial “use case” rejection (politely) is understandable. The vendor is Skill Jar. Times though have changed. The way this happened?

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Learning System System vendor Association Learning Management System 63

eLearning 24-7

JULY 19, 2023

And if you as a learning system vendor is thinking or using GPT Model, and GPT-4 and are exploring adding the PDF extraction angle, then you are in for a real treat. The Vendors – With GPT-4 (I used as plugins) AI PDF – The web site, you can do nothing with it. As such, if someone was to spring for the fee-based GPT 3.5

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Talented Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

However, it’s not the instant slam-dunk that some vendors may want you to believe – especially for extended enterprise learning. To learning systems vendors, it suggests that you want to change the underlying software code. 6) As an LMS selection consultant, do you ensure that vendors deliver what they promise?

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Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS vendor 92

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Once a darling of vendors who used it to show their demos, now? In fact, in 2019, I did not see one demo from a vendor on Adobe Connect. Personally a vendor can call their system whatever they want, but there are a few factoids to remember about micro-learning. Cumbersome? Not so much. To connect to your memories.

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RFP Micro-Learning vendor SAP 65

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If they were a vendor who played in EdTech (K-12, HE) but also played into corporate and did so, not just by having clients find them, but actively through marketing, they were considered too. Strictly If the vendor was a custom shop building a system, off say Moodle or whatever code they are using that is open source? Why the change?

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Learning System System Metrics Compliance Training 69

Talented Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In years past, the same dozen or so vendors competed for all the LMS market share. Nearly every vendor earned its bread and butter by selling to employee-minded buyers in HR. From where we stand on the LMS front lines, these changes are signs of a vibrant, sustainable industry. But it wasn’t always this way.

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eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

LMS Vendors. 30% vendors offer at least one type of social media – from my latest LMS directory. 30% vendors offer at least one type of social media – from my latest LMS directory. Over 90% of LMS vendors had their sites available only in English; so the potential customer could not view it in any other language.

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eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Vendors saying “have you looked at XYZ” (which is their system). plus all the vendors will be found in FindAnLMS), I do have systems I can recommend based on various criteria. Yet, as I have often noted, it is rarely pushed upon in an RFP, let alone a demo. And I ask it often when talking to vendors.

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LMS Metrics SumTotal RFP 69

WBT Systems

MARCH 13, 2018

They know what questions to ask during the requirements gathering process to elicit the information needed for a request for proposal (RFP), including questions you’d never think about asking. Consultants help you create a Request for Proposal (RFP). After evaluating proposals and demos, the consultant makes their final recommendation.

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Talented Learning

APRIL 18, 2017

But I’d like to help by shining a light on the LMS sandbox — another aspect of LMS purchasing that has changed dramatically with the dawn of the cloud. An LMS sandbox is a hands-on demo environment for prospective customers who want to try before they buy. 2) Vendor Identification. 5) Vendor Qualification.

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Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS vendor 80

eLearning 24-7

JULY 6, 2011

You will not forget them when you view a demo, nor when you are looking at the company’s web site or literature. What about a payment gateway – does the LMS vendor assist you with this or do you have to find your own? A friend of mine, got a RFP template from a LMS vendor’s web site. Specifics.

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Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS RFP 68

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

You’ve likely endured heated internal discussions, unwelcomed vendor surprises during demos and unforeseen contractual confusion. Now is the time to clear your mind of negative thoughts about the selection process, your colleagues, the vendor or anything else that might stand between you and a positive mindset.

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LMS vendor eLearning Consultant Project 81

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 24, 2019

Every vendor, with the exception of Blackboard (who is coming soon) can be found on FindAnLMS.com , my learning system search engine platform, an independent and trusted source to search, compare and engage with vendors in the learning system space. Rankings are based on 1,000 vendors across the globe. Couple of notes.

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Learning System System LCMS Compliance Training 56

WBT Systems

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Fall is a transitional season, with the leaves changing color and starting to shed, and we start thinking about planning for the weather changes coming in the next season. Once completed the RFP is sent to those that the organization believes will meet their needs. Is your team ready to start planning or submit an RFP ?

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Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS WBT Systems 40

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

No surprise that some vendors are also waiting to see what happens. M-Learning with a native app – slowly trucking along, but I am hearing quite a few vendors who are either in development or getting going in 2014. One vendor is focused only on SaaS products including social media. Again, it is hot, hot, hot.

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Trends vendor Wiki e-learning vendor 77

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

We’ve all heard about today’s rapidly changing workforce dynamics and the critical shortage of qualified labor. Vetting every vendor is impractical. As independent LMS selection consultants , we continuously evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of all vendors in the association market. That’s why we exist.

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Association LMS Association Learning Management System Association Education 92

Talented Learning

AUGUST 17, 2017

Often, these posts have 287 or more responses from LMS vendors, each claiming they offer the best solution, given the overwhelming evidence provided in the original 2-sentence help request. They’ve hit a wall with features that don’t accomplish what a vendor promised. LMS vendors have vastly different licensing models.

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Trust Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS 63

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 14, 2015

The big elephant in the room that we hear so many times and vendors love to pitch (to get you to their system), but rarely the vendors themselves will admit to – many have only themselves to blame. Sometimes, it is the client’s fault and sometimes it is the vendor’s fault. Why, Oh Why do I lose the love?

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Talented Learning

MARCH 4, 2020

Every day, I listen as customers react to LMS vendors before, during and after a contract is signed. And at this point, few see any financial, functional or business value in switching vendors. So since you’re facing significant change anyway , this seems like an ideal time to consider other solutions.

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Saba Cornerstone LMS Custom 98

eLearning 24-7

JULY 2, 2012

With this knowledge comes the avalanche of hyper sales, vendors are exploring ways to gain your attention. This lack of WOW equally hurts in the demo. I don’t care how awesome your system is, if you show a vanilla demo and tell folks well it can look like this or that, folks just won’t see it as that. The WOW factor.

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LMS vendor RFP Bloom 75

eLearning 24-7

MAY 24, 2019

These two vendors are EdCast and Degreed. Getting back to being unaware, I find the same issue with a few vendors in the learning system space who are really LXPs, but have no idea. It reminded me of the vendors in the space who scream they are not an LMS, even though they hit all the standards of an LMS. . In my opinion, no.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 7, 2010

Start searching out LMS vendors that meet the list criteria, specifically the ones you must have/otherwise they are deal breakers. Once you identify your LMS potentials, you can create a RFP or RFI with specific details you need and additional information on the company, etc. Do not see a taped webinar.

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LMS RFP vendor Brandon Hall 53

CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Have your business requirements changed since you implemented it? Before going anywhere near an in-house build, revisit the business requirements and your current solution’s ability to be configured to meet new or changed needs. A reasonably successful vendor could have hundreds of customers or more. Issue an RFP.

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vendor RFP Agile Performance Support 62

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Certifications are doable from big name vendors such as Amazon, Google, Cisco, Microsoft and more. Share Link – I debated about listing this in poor, because I still see zero value in this – other vendors do it too, and I see zero value in that as well. End user content can only be viewed via a Link (will change in 2019).

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SkillSoft Metrics Productivity Product 72

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The vendor says they can meet my use case, it’s a perfect fit, I move forward. Your business approach, now changing to either a hybrid workplace model or full remote. Not seeing the system beforehand, leads many times to this idea of an extensive RFP submission. I use only one RFP. Aligns with my use case.

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Learning System System RFP vendor 64

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I understand you do not want to hurt other people’s feelings or you have been notified that you have to ask all these departments for their suggestions, but no one ever says you have to take all that stuff and stick it into your RFP or documents or make it an important component of the decision making process. Demo Rules.

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Learning System System RFP Metrics 44

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 20, 2022

Always see a demo – you steer, they drive (I’ll explain that later). Never assume that they know the terminology in the industry, nor assume that what you think one term means, doesn’t necessarily mean what the vendor thinks it means. Extended Enterprise is a dated term, yet vendors still use it.

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Learning System System Guide Blended Learning 79

Learnnovators

JUNE 20, 2014

Even as we are writing this, learning is changing: From push to pull. However, how are our Learning Management Systems (LMSs) transforming themselves to support and facilitate these changes in ‘learning’? There are many organizations that are considering changing their present LMS. Guides/Tools & Demos.

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LMS Learning Management System Brandon Hall System 167

Breakthrough eLearning

JULY 27, 2006

To learn more, explore our Certificate competency map , our course descriptions , and our course demo. We have just relaunched our Certificate in eLearning Management in a new flexible and convenient open-entry, self-paced format. posted by Rick Nigol at 5:09 PM 1 Comments: Anonymous said.

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Metrics eLearning Instructional Design RFP 32

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 7, 2020

How do you explain why these three vendors were selected, how the process for analysis was conducted, and what are the results? Why these three vendors? Simply due that when a consumer is looking at an LXP, or say Degreed or EdCast or Fuse, the other two vendors are part of the final process. Where do you start? Here is how.

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Analysis Metrics Scanning vendor 131

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 23, 2013

Some vendors (and it is gaining steam) offer “active users” Active users – People who are taking at least one course during the month. There are a few vendors who will charge only when the end user completes a course (but this is rare). E-Commerce model – It is rare, but there are vendors who offer it.

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LMS vendor RFP Consulting 77

Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Jason lists the Product or the Vendor or the Cost as possible reasons. Ultimately the reasons would be a mix of the product, the vendor and/or cost. Review IT Policies: From the last time the current LMS was implemented, there may have been significant changes in the IT policies.

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