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Cornerstone-Saba Acquisition: What Does it Mean for LMS Customers?

Talented Learning

Cornerstone plans to acquire Saba for a hefty $1.395 billion. AlixPartners has been retained to help support the integration of the two organizations, focused on operational excellence and maximizing client value.” Doesn’t sound like Saba customers will see much upside anytime soon. Have you heard the news?

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Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. announces acquisition of Saba in $1.395 billion deal

CLO Magazine

24 that it was acquiring the cloud-based talent experience solutions software company Saba for $1.395 billion. The cash and stock transition was unanimously approved by the boards of directors from both Cornerstone and Saba, according to the release. Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. announced Feb. The post Cornerstone OnDemand Inc.

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Cornerstone Acquisition of Saba ? What you need 2 know

eLearning 24-7

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? If you are an existing customer of Saba Cloud, including folks who are using the on-premise version, you can stay on the system(s). A nswer: No. A nswer: YES.

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Product Review: Saba Social

eLearning 24-7

I admit that in general I have been underwhelmed in the past with Saba. So, when I went and checked out Saba Social, Saba’s new social learning platform, I had very low expectations. Over 25 different social media types and Saba Social sticks with the ones everyone always sees – WHY? I was surprised.

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Saba to Acquire Halogen Software in 2017’s First Big HR Technology Deal

CLO Magazine

While consolidation in the HR technology space isn’t much of a surprise anymore, Saba Software’s announced acquisition of Ottawa, Canada-based Halogen Software was a bit unexpected. According to a joint release , the deal “will extend Saba’s position as a leading provider of end-to-end SaaS talent management solutions.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

In fact, for whatever product you sell there is likely an opportunity to sell training that helps make your product more useful, helpful, or valuable. Vendors like Saba (the pioneer), Plateau (fast follower), SumTotal (conglomerate), and hundreds of others have been acquired. And these tools command premium prices.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Good ideas Saba – At the time, this was a brilliant idea. The system used to have a lot of potential, so the first thing to come up with was what they referred to as TIM (think a mentor thing that helps you). TIM I understand is still around and hasn’t evolved.

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