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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

Vendors like Saba (the pioneer), Plateau (fast follower), SumTotal (conglomerate), and hundreds of others have been acquired. Today the big players (Cornerstone, SAP, SkillSoft, and now Workday) have integrated these platforms into complex talent management systems, drifting away from this newly emerging learning market.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Instead, it was someone from Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is software for building websites. EdCast is still a strong player in the LXP market, although, at the time, they were adding ubiquitous features to the LMS space. Learn.com; Plateau Learning – It seemed like a good idea Count Olaf. The people who had PL loved it.

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Kevin Oakes on the Rise and Fall of the LMS

Tony Karrer

He pointed back to entry of various players in the market and particularly the enterprise vendors as opposed to pure-play vendors from articles five years ago. • Saba is the premier global provider of strategic human capital management (HCM) software and services. Oh, and we need to watch out for losing software aimed at our needs.

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6+1 Tips On Starting A Successful Training Business

eFront

It’s also important to approach prospective customers directly, but also to talk to prospective partners and other industry players (conferences and other such industry events are good places to do both, but for the former, cold calling can also be an option – just don’t be spammy). Fill niches that the big guys can’t.

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Interview with PeakSpan Capital, A Growth Equity Firm

eLearning 24-7

Another big-time player in the learning technology/system space is Vista Equity, a PE, who at one-time in the 2009-time frame owned SumTotal. For example, Calendly (leading provider of scheduling software) raised < $500K to reach $100M+ in ARR before whereas other companies may have raised $400M to reach the same revenue scale.

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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. Other well-known independent players like Cornerstone , Saba and Workday opted to compete by building their own talent suites.

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Using Video in Training: Should You or Shouldn’t You?

The Learning Dispatch

Consider Lynda.com and YouTube , and the way they use video to train professionals in everything from mastering software to improving organizational leadership. Instead, engagement seems to plateau again between six to twelve minutes. And make sure that the player can be operated using only a keyboard.

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