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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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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

Learn.com – First a content aggregator, then jumped into the LMS market, acquired by Taleo, who promised to invest heavily. Taleo, then acquired by Oracle. If you ever wondered what down the tubes look like, look no further than Learn.com. That didn’t happen. NetG, Element K, being just two. Skillsoft). Skillsoft).

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

SumTotal – Today? Owned by SumTotal – who ruined it, because by then it was GeoLearning Maestro (not that great). Owned by SumTotal – who ruined it, because by then it was GeoLearning Maestro (not that great). SumTotal called it SumTotal Maestro. Learn.com started out as an LMS.

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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. Nearly overnight, the LMS industry morphed into the talent management industry. Join our live webinar: Unhappy With Your LMS?

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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?). SumTotal by Skillsoft – the 2016 re-haul is a huge plus. SumTotal by Skillsoft. Saba Learning.

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Learning Systems for 2018 (#25 to #16)

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For folks who think I ignore the big dog vendors, sorry to disappoint, but Saba, SumTotal Learn and Cornerstone Learning Suite are in the Top 50. SuccessFactors, Oracle and others are not. .

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2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Recipients

Talented Learning

Oracle acquired Taleo who had acquired Learn.com and the list goes on. SumTotal. . Sean McCarthy , SumTotal. Tim McDonnell , SumTotal Systems. LMS and performance management companies started merging and then the big HR/talent players acquired them. SAP acquired SuccessFactors who had acquired Plateau.