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Skillsoft buying SumTotal – My Take

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Like many of you, I was surprised to find out that Skillsoft is in the process of acquiring SumTotal. Combination of Skillsoft and SumTotal offers comprehensive, content-rich HR solutions. Getting back to Skillsoft and SumTotal. I have no problem with Skillsoft buying SumTotal. I doubt it.

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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. I never put innovation and SumTotal in the same sentence. SumTotal was never innovative. They were not the first ones with a mobile app.

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SumTotal vs. Moodle vs. Inquisiq: One Non-Profit’s Quest for the Best LMS

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The most popular systems like SumTotal and Moodle may seem like a safe bet (nobody’s ever been fired for hiring IBM, right?), but that’s not always the case, as HP Freeman discovered shortly after deciding to move from SumTotal to Moodle. In mid-2013 they had decided to leave the SumTotal system and move to another LMS.

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SumTotal vs. Moodle vs. Inquisiq R3: One Non-Profit’s Quest for the Best New LMS

Inquisiq

The most popular systems like SumTotal and Moodle may seem like a safe bet (nobody’s ever been fired for hiring IBM, right?), but that’s not always the case, as HP Freeman discovered shortly after deciding to move from SumTotal to Moodle. In mid-2013 they had decided to leave the SumTotal system and move to another LMS.

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SumTotal vs. Moodle vs. Inquisiq R3: One Non-Profit’s Quest for the Best New LMS

Inquisiq

The most popular systems like SumTotal and Moodle may seem like a safe bet (nobody’s ever been fired for hiring IBM, right?), but that’s not always the case, as HP Freeman discovered shortly after deciding to move from SumTotal to Moodle. In mid-2013 they had decided to leave the SumTotal system and move to another LMS.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

Let me give you a few examples. Vendors like Saba (the pioneer), Plateau (fast follower), SumTotal (conglomerate), and hundreds of others have been acquired. Amazon’s web services business, which is more than $20 Billion in size, now offers an entire academy of training for AWS’s customers. In some ways, this market is quite mature.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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For example, Growth Engineering was a trailblazer as it relates to gamification and utilizing it within their entire platform. Strategic blunder of major proportions in the acquisition of SumTotal has continued to hurt them (i.e., Fun fact – The new SumTotal front-end was from Percipio (Skillsoft’s LXP platform).