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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Someone came up with the idea to create templates for developing courses quickly – and no, it wasn’t someone from Adobe or Articulate. Then Cornerstone came along and bought SumTotal for peanuts, which was a good idea, and here we are with SumTotal. Adobe was the first vendor to use templates to create courses.

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Latest in the Learning System Market

eLearning 24-7

Why, would a system that pushes heavily around the customer education/partner training segment, acquire a vendor who does the complete opposite? If Valamis wanted to push heavy and truly commit to the CE segment, they would have acquired a vendor who has capabilities or features or even themselves plays in the CE side. That’s it.

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Excellence in E-Learning

CLO Magazine

Excellence in E-Learning recognizes vendors that have rolled out an innovative and effective e-learning program or suite for a client. Additionally, it features pathways of learning to guide employees through skill development. Bronze: Skillsoft and SumTotal Systems. Gold: Degreed. Silver: AllenComm.

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Interview with PeakSpan Capital, A Growth Equity Firm

eLearning 24-7

They are the ones that many vendors still today, hear from, to gauge whether or not said vendor is interested in being acquired or receiving funding. Another big-time player in the learning technology/system space is Vista Equity, a PE, who at one-time in the 2009-time frame owned SumTotal. In 2021, they invested in Schoox.

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Q&A from Blog Readers on E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Q : I am curious on why Cornerstone On Demand, Saba and SumTotal do not appear in your top twenty lists even though they appear on other sites as the best products in the market. My latest take on those three vendors (plus one) are: Cornerstone On Demand – I have seen the new UI and I like what I saw. Am I missing something?

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The Learning Systems to Watch in 2022

eLearning 24-7

Nobody has mentioned their system as a planet, but I am waiting for the day, when a vendor who has nothing to lose, compares another vendor to Pluto (RIP) and themselves to Earth. A vendor to watch. Schoox, caught my eye, a couple of years back and I said to myself, this vendor has the potential to be big (I still believe that).

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The Current Top 5 Talent Management Solutions

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” Remember these three critical elements: Attraction, Professional Development, and Retention. Talent Expansion ™ by SumTotal Systems, Inc. stars out of 5) SumTotal began in the e-Learning industry, and have a different but creative approach toward talent management.