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The Cornerstone Acquisition

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I bring this up, because after it was announced that Cornerstone will be acquiring SumTotal, the pundits went out and espoused some very interesting ideas. Cornerstone LMS still is overall an employee-facing system. I refer to these as combo systems, and depending on the vendor, the percentage of audiences can sway back and forth.

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Q&A from Vendors – Learning Systems Edition

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And yet, I receive a lot of inquiries from vendors, including PE and investment firms. I will hold back from the investment and PE side; let’s take a peek at the vendor side. Vendors then ask these questions – through e-mail, via direct messaging on LinkedIn, or in general conversations. They all have questions.

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3rd Trend – Performance

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Depending on your vernacular, Performance can be seen in some twist with talent management or as a standalone as performance management. I wouldn’t slide Training as part of this scene, although there may be companies where internally Training oversees performance. If you are in L&D or have a background in OD (Org.

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LMS Mid-Year Rankings 2024

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Some vendors are masters of marketing – envious even. What I find more often than not, are the vendors who either lack the marketing budget to do anything (uh, organic can work), or focus on the product more than marketing. Do I list the vendors by a number (i.e., Factoid – None of these vendors know ahead of time.

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Cornerstone Acquisition of Saba ? What you need 2 know

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There has been a lot of talk recently of the acquisition of Saba by Cornerstone. Question: I am a current Saba Cloud customer, will I have to switch over to Cornerstone? You will NOT be forced nor pushed over to Cornerstone. Cornerstone will continue to update and enhance Saba Cloud, and support all Saba Cloud product lines.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

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Vendors like Degreed, BetterUp, EdCast, and LinkedIn command billion-dollar valuations driven by this growth. Vendors like Saba (the pioneer), Plateau (fast follower), SumTotal (conglomerate), and hundreds of others have been acquired. And this, of course, lets new vendors reinvent the space. Enter Docebo.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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Then Cornerstone came along and bought SumTotal for peanuts, which was a good idea, and here we are with SumTotal. However, ND never hit its stride and had the potential to do so – the very first vendor, whereas you could use part of it via a jump drive (true). Adobe was the first vendor to use templates to create courses.

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