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IBM Adopts Saba as its Learning Technology Partner

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

A very important partnership was announced today: IBM announced a major commitment to Saba as its primary learning management technology partner. Background on IBM’s Learning Platform Business: IBM has been in the corporate learning market for many years.

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IBM Adopts Saba as its Learning Technology Partner

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

A very important partnership was announced today: IBM announced a major commitment to Saba as its primary learning management technology partner. Background on IBM’s Learning Platform Business: IBM has been in the corporate learning market for many years.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

When I worked at IBM in the 1980s we called that “clothing the sale” in services and education; today, companies that sell education as a product generate high-margin revenue streams. Vendors like Saba (the pioneer), Plateau (fast follower), SumTotal (conglomerate), and hundreds of others have been acquired.

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

Talented Learning

Old-school LMS companies (like SumTotal , Plateau , Learn.com , GeoLearning and Certpoint ) were acquired by much larger talent and HR-suite providers like SAP/SuccessFactors , Infor , Oracle and IBM. Other well-known independent players like Cornerstone , Saba and Workday opted to compete by building their own talent suites.

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SumTotal Bidding War Continues – HR Software gets Hotter

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

This is nearly twice the market cap of Saba, who’s revenues are. This week Vista Equity Partners upped its bid to $4.75 a share (up from $3.80 several weeks ago), bringing SumTotal’s market capitalization to over $150 Million.

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WBT Development Toolbox

Learning Developments

My goals for selecting a content authoring product are as follows: Ability to easily import from existing course materials made in Word and PowerPoint Ability to export to SCORM 1.2/2004 I ended up selecting three of these products. All the products I selected have the following attributes: Create SCORM 1.2/2004

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SumTotal Bidding War Continues – HR Software gets Hotter

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

This is nearly twice the market cap of Saba, who’s revenues are. This week Vista Equity Partners upped its bid to $4.75 a share (up from $3.80 several weeks ago), bringing SumTotal’s market capitalization to over $150 Million.