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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

The initial person who thought buying SumTotal was a great idea (initially it was) and then dumped it for a fortune to Skillsoft (another great idea), which in turn was someone at Skillsoft thinking this was a great idea, which turned out to be false and was a factor in Skillsoft going into bankruptcy due to the albatross known as SumTotal.

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Going to LTUK2022? My Guide on Which vendors to check out

eLearning 24-7

The challenge with each of these events is that there are a lot of vendors pitching their systems, content, consulting firm, e-learning tool and other items, and you as the person walking the floor doesn’t necessarily know who to look at, who to seriously consider and who to avoid. The Guide of Me. Expert 101.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

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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The Cornerstone Acquisition

eLearning 24-7

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. That is their core audience.

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Top 20 Enterprise Learning Systems 2022

eLearning 24-7

For this list, the vendors are those that are of your consideration, in the 5,000 to 9,999 range. UI and UX is HUGE, and when vendors update their learning systems, guess where they tend to focus last on? And yes, in 2022 – the end of it no less, there are vendors who lack mobile. The Vendors. Sure, why not?

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2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Recipients

Talented Learning

Innovation was stagnant and most vendor effort was invested in stealing customers from one another. The cloud enables new LMS vendors to create and support one product that all customers use providing economies of scale in research, customer support and required investment capital. The 2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Winners

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Best LMS? 2016 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Awards

Talented Learning

In years past, the same dozen or so vendors competed for all the LMS market share. Nearly every vendor earned its bread and butter by selling to employee-minded buyers in HR. We have spent the last three years meeting more than 125 vendors — learning who they are, what they do, why they are unique, and who their customers are.