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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Learn.com; Plateau Learning – It seemed like a good idea Count Olaf. I bring up Olaf because the person whose idea led to the acquisition of Learn.com, would have impressed Al Capone. To say Taleo pulled the rug over the eyes of Learn.com back in the day, is an understatement. Learn.com wasn’t a bad system.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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Plateau Learning – I never understood the love for this system. I will add there was some confusion around Litmos and the whole Plateau thing. SuccessFactors acquired the Plateau LMS (way before SF was acquired by SAP). If you ever wondered what down the tubes look like, look no further than Learn.com. Bottom Line.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. ISP (Internet Service Providers) fees were high. Oh, and access wasn’t free.

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Kevin Oakes on the Rise and Fall of the LMS

Tony Karrer

And when you go look at the LMS providers, they don't call themselves an LMS anymore: • SumTotal is a global provider of talent and learning management solutions. • Saba is the premier global provider of strategic human capital management (HCM) software and services. You go broader.

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2010 LMS Products of the Year

eLearning 24-7

Big Dog (Saba, SumTotal, Plateau, Cornerstone OnDemand, Learn.com). Normally, I wouldn’t provide a specific breakout, say Big Dog or Small Dog, but people ask me whom I like or dislike, etc. Learn.com offered some robust SL capabilities, but you have to pay for one of their premium versions to have it. Categories.

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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. Extended Enterprise Specialists Roll Into Town.

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Taleo Firmly Establishes itself in the Learning Management Systems Market

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Last year, Taleo , the largest provider of recruiting software, spent $100 million acquiring mid-market LMS vendor Learn.com. The ever-changing market for Learning Management Systems (LMS) continues to evolve.

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