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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

However, the product person who first saw the value of a TOC was correct – although that has gone by the wayside. On the other hand, the purchase of a couple of vendors for the sake of buying for the people running or being actively involved with the product was not a good idea. Taleo in turn, was acquired by Oracle.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Learn.com – They came a bit later, but there is a good story, and yes, they still exist. Learn.com started out as an LMS. Taleo promised to invest big $$$ to make Learn.com amazing. Then, came Oracle, who purchased Taleo. It was challenging to learn, but a great product. Sure folks. Blackboard.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

Anyway, to stop that “traditional” spin, they need a re-brand, something fresh, modern, new attitude approach – I just mean related to the learning system and so forth, not their name for example, rather the product/LOB. Taleo, then acquired by Oracle. EdTech driver, whose impact started to appear in the late 90s.

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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. With that kind of captive customer, why would a talent management LMS vendor even bother to improve its product?

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Learning Systems for 2018 (#25 to #16)

eLearning 24-7

page – Top 50 Learning Systems for 2018 , whereas I provide some high level analysis, including a couple of cons or weaknesses in each product (if applicable). . SuccessFactors, Oracle and others are not. . UI/UX are solid, can be improved to take the product to the next tier. Potential. #19

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Latest Negative E-Learning Trends

eLearning 24-7

I am sorry to say this, but if you have multiple products and one is cloud-based but the main tool is desktop based, this does not qualify your authoring tool as SaaS. Otherwise, they will follow the route of Learn.com. Learn.com started as a course aggregator. Next Taleo got bought by Oracle. Product is garbage.

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Top 50 LMS Report for 2016 – What you need to know (criteria, approach, and yeah some vendors)

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I identify the Big Dogs as SumTotal by Skillsoft (yes, that is the actual name), Cornerstone OnDemand, Saba, SucessFactors and Oracle Taleo (although, I ask myself who is using this and if you still are why?). Oracle Taleo – Seriously, either overhaul this thing or dump it and torch it. SumTotal by Skillsoft. Saba Learning.

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