CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

While consolidation in the HR technology space isn’t much of a surprise anymore, Saba Software’s announced acquisition of Ottawa, Canada-based Halogen Software was a bit unexpected. According to a joint release , the deal “will extend Saba’s position as a leading provider of end-to-end SaaS talent management solutions.

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Saba Software Technology Oracle 46

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 12, 2011

I admit that in general I have been underwhelmed in the past with Saba. So, when I went and checked out Saba Social, Saba’s new social learning platform, I had very low expectations. Over 25 different social media types and Saba Social sticks with the ones everyone always sees – WHY? I was surprised.

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Saba Social Networks Social Productivity 69

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 11, 2024

It’s a bad idea before it even goes to market. The wonderful thing about acquisitions is that very few people publicly know who is on the market, who isn’t (but is open for acquisitions), and what the financial status is – unless the company is public, which is an outlier in our space. I chose the groupings route.

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Ideas Learn.com SumTotal SkillSoft 84

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 9, 2020

It has been a wild week from the acquisition of Saba by Cornerstone to the ability to compare systems in detail on FindAnLMS, to the Coronavirus and the usage of Microsoft Teams as part of the L&D experience. In past recessions, the e-learning market took a hit. Cornerstone Acquires Saba. A year ago, Saba went buying.

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Saba Cornerstone Microsoft vendor 60

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 13, 2009

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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Saba IBM Adoption Adopt 52

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MARCH 27, 2011

This week Saba Software released one of its strongest financial results in many years. Saba, which pioneered the market for enterprise learning management systems, has now turned the corner in its transformation into a SaaS software company.

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Saba Companies LMS Learning Management System 40

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MARCH 27, 2011

This week Saba Software released one of its strongest financial results in many years. Saba, which pioneered the market for enterprise learning management systems, has now turned the corner in its transformation into a SaaS software company.

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Saba Companies LMS Learning Management System 40

Talented Learning

JANUARY 12, 2016

The 2016 LMS market is not what you think. We ask them all about business drivers, trends, market opportunities, use cases, demand, competition and measurable successes. We incorporate what we learn from each conversation into our analysis and understanding of the learning technology market. In 2016, it is not so simple.

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Predictions Association Learning Management System Association LMS Market 70

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 16, 2022

The LMS market takes a beating all the time. The LMS market still has the largest share in the learning system space, many are in the last five years, they range from innovative to just eech. One article I read, saw the acquisition as the end of innovation in the LMS market. Every few years, the death knell is announced.

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Cornerstone SumTotal vendor Compliance Training 90

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 13, 2009

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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Saba IBM Adoption Adopt 40

mLearning Trends

APRIL 14, 2010

I happened upon a tweet last week while trolling my Twitter in-box that heralded a product announcement from Saba for their new " Saba Anywhere " offering designed to make training delivery to mobile workers easy, practical and secure. The marketing blurb provides the following background: At first blush, this all sounds great!

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Saba Mobile Learning Mobile Productivity 43

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 11, 2007

In the last 12 months we have seen many mergers in the learning market take place: Oracle’s acquisition of Peoplesoft, SumTotal’s acquisition of Pathlore, Saba’s acquisition of Thinq, and KnowledgePlanet’s acquisition of KnowledgeImpact. In general the enterprise learning and LMS markets are maturing.

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Centra Saba KnowledgePlanet PeopleSoft 40

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 11, 2007

In the last 12 months we have seen many mergers in the learning market take place: Oracle’s acquisition of Peoplesoft, SumTotal’s acquisition of Pathlore, Saba’s acquisition of Thinq, and KnowledgePlanet’s acquisition of KnowledgeImpact. In general the enterprise learning and LMS markets are maturing.

Centra 40

Centra Saba KnowledgePlanet PeopleSoft 40

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Because of the size of the market and split out of types of systems, it made sense to create an umbrella term and then place the main four types of systems under said umbrella. . The biggest market in size and scope are LMSs (Learning Management Systems). LEP/LXP market. Simply, the best K-6 LMS on the market.

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Learning System System Saba SumTotal 94

Janet Clarey

JANUARY 2, 2009

The sixth LMS in the LMSs that kick ass Friday series is Saba. Saba’s primary market is corporate learning with just more than half of all implementations installed behind-the-firewall (largest implementation 2,000,000 learners). Saba is a major player among corporate LMSs -you can say it’s a benchmark system.

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Saba Brandon Hall Centra Cornerstone OnDemand 36

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The tags of traditional and legacy are nothing more than marketing spin by competitors who believe an LMS is an outdated solution best left behind. Cornerstone’s LMS is ideal for those in the mid-market, Enterprise (5,000 and up), and Large Enterprise space. I met one attendee who has Saba Cloud and EdCast, so its doable.

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Conference Cornerstone Grovo Metrics 78

LearnDash

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Sales & marketing. Another training analysis showed that training geared for sales and marketing professionals resulted in 24% higher profit margins and an increase in sales of up to 6.5%. American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and Saba. For example: Personal development. Human resources. Leadership/Management.

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ROI Corporate eLearning Saba Training 196

Talented Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

Saba Software acquired Lumesse. Today’s market can be categorized in various ways, but we see three distinct segments: CORPORATE EXTENDED ENTERPRISE: This involves a broad spectrum of business-oriented solutions, from customer education and channel partner training, to employee skills development, compliance and talent management.

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Enterprise Learning System Trends Market 43

CLO Magazine

MARCH 26, 2020

With the help of Saba Cloud, Dutta was able to guide the company in adopting digital badging and gamification as a scalable and engaging learning delivery method for its employees companywide. On the Saba platform, Yum! Deciding they needed more than just a learning management system, Lutz and his team decided on Saba Cloud.

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Technology Saba Authoring Tools Portal 51

Challenge to Learn

MAY 24, 2016

I have to know about e-Learning, finance, management, marketing, sales, product development and more in order to manage all these developments in our company. But for most (if not all) of these fields we have a specialist in the company that is better than I am. It is the same with choosing your e-Learning tooling.

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Authoring Tools Expert LMS Saba 177

Challenge to Learn

MAY 24, 2016

I have to know about e-Learning, finance, management, marketing, sales, product development and more in order to manage all these developments in our company. But for most (if not all) of these fields we have a specialist in the company that is better than I am. It is the same with choosing your e-Learning tooling.

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Authoring Tools Expert LMS Saba 177

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2009

In the last 60 days I’ve had the opportunity to attend five major industry events which cover corporate learning: user group meetings at Plateau, Saba, SumTotal and Taleo and the HR Technology Conference. Read more» The post The LMS Market: Hotter than Ever appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Plateau Saba SumTotal Market 40

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2009

In the last 60 days I’ve had the opportunity to attend five major industry events which cover corporate learning: user group meetings at Plateau, Saba, SumTotal and Taleo and the HR Technology Conference. Read more» The post The LMS Market: Hotter than Ever appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Plateau Saba SumTotal Market 40

eLearning 24-7

MAY 7, 2013

Since my Top 10 list of LMS vendors has been posted online, I have received quite a bit of e-mail wondering why the biggest names: Cornerstone On Demand, Saba, SumTotal and SuccessFactors are not on the list. Branding and name recognition will boost sales – that is why marketing and advertising is so important in any industry.

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Saba SumTotal LMS Cornerstone 74

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2019

When I began my career as an analyst, I started out studying the LMS market. I don’t predict the end of big systems like Saba, SumTotal, SAP or any other LMS vendor overnight. I use the analogy of mainframe computers, which are still a multibillion-dollar business — just not a growing IT market segment.

Compliance Training 89

Compliance Training SumTotal LMS SAP 89

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 24, 2015

Saba Cloud (Legacy is finished – at least in my opinion – and the cloud is the way to go, but is it for Saba customers?). Nope, they have to also dive into the corporate market, because well, that’s where the money is (no offense to HE/edu). My Big Campus (Say it ain’t so Joe. Instructure Bridge.

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LMS Saba Cornerstone OnDemand SumTotal 40

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MARCH 8, 2019

The learning experience platform (LXP) market is growing up fast. Read more» The post Learning Experience Platform (LXP) Market Grows Up: Now Too Big To Ignore appeared first on JOSH BERSIN. Read more» The post Learning Experience Platform (LXP) Market Grows Up: Now Too Big To Ignore appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Market Platform Portal LMS 40

CLO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2017

Saba Software, one of the pioneers in enterprise learning technology, was founded less than 20 years ago, and since then the market has exploded. I’ve seen the LMS or learning technology market go through four stages. The LMS market has never been easy, and this fourth wave is turning out to be harder than ever.

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Association Learning Management System LMS Association LMS Authoring Tools 87

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Plays quite well in Multi-Tenant (aka Extended Enterprise), SMB is its strong suite and mid-market. Plays well in Enterprise, mid-market, SMB/SME on the employee side, and on B2B external including training consultants/trainers too. Top tier for large Enterprise and mid-market. Very good in Enterprise, mid-market and SMB.

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Learning System System Metrics Compliance Training 74

Connect Thinking

DECEMBER 16, 2011

There are lots and lots of Learning Management Systems (LMS) on the market. From my observation, I have categorised LMS based on the business motivation to create and offer them to the market: LMS that are part of a larger ERP system (e.g. SumTotal , Saba , Cornerstone ). LMS that are part of a suite of HR Systems (e.g.

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LMS Learning Management System SkillPort System 113

Meridian

DECEMBER 13, 2018

These new staff possess a combination of operational, sales and marketing expertise that will greatly help the firm to achieve significant growth, as well as support its current customer base of federal, state, local and commercial organizations. Prior to Blackboard, Ken held public sector sales roles at Saba and SumTotal Systems.

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Meridian Leadership Expert Blackboard 40

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The LMS market started changing after the dot com bust in 2001. A steady flurry of acquisitions disrupted customers’ lives but never the market as a whole. Starting around 2010, the market began changing again. Saba Software. SAP acquired SuccessFactors who had acquired Plateau. We didn’t take this task lightly.

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Association Learning Management System vendor Association LMS LMS 40

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Netscape showed up, and dominated the market. Who led the market? This is totally subjective because the market early on, had many vendors – but actual numbers vary. Still in existence Saba – Today? The Birth of Online Here comes the internet, Mosaic 2.1 Again, that is it. Sure folks. Yet, very popular.

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Compliance Training Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS 81

Talented Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The Talented Learning LMS Awards are not chosen by marketers, or designed for marketers. Therefore, these systems must be tightly integrated with CRM software, marketing automation and survey platforms, social media, ecommerce tools, accounting, finance, customer support and other systems. Travis Hudelson – Saba.

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Association Learning Management System Association LMS LMS Compliance Training 0

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 21, 2009

Report: Community Platforms Market Led by Jive Software and Telligent - ReadWriteWeb Hot Last Week Keywords eLearning Strategy Social Media Work Skills KnowledgeHub ScreenToaster Cooliris Quizmaker OnDemand Meridian Mzinga GeoLearning Saba Notes on the weekly hot last week. The posts come from the primary sources for this group.

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Cooliris ScreenToaster KnowledgeHub Jive Software 100

InsiderHub

JUNE 24, 2014

Here are the top 10 LMS brands owned: Blackboard Internal/Developed In-House SAP/SuccessFactors/Plateau SumTotal Cornerstone OnDemand Oracle Skillsoft/Skillport Saba HealthStream Moodle Others Learning management systems are used in both corporate as well as academic settings.

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LMS Learning Management System Cornerstone OnDemand Solution 98

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 14, 2017

NEXGEN MARKET GROWTH. Has a strong deep learning capability with an algorithm (a requirement), but the nice plus is that the admin can change the weights/points and what is and is not required/completed to achieve (some vendors require you to complete content/courses to score plus in the algorithm, thankfully Saba does not).

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LMS vendor Saba Coaching 73