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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

L’Oreal, which is one of the largest providers of beauty and hair care products, sells millions of dollars of training to hair care specialists. Vendors like Saba (the pioneer), Plateau (fast follower), SumTotal (conglomerate), and hundreds of others have been acquired. Hundreds of other companies do the same.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Good ideas Saba – At the time, this was a brilliant idea. Saba always thought of themselves behind the scenes as a performance management system, even though they publicly pushed it for L&D – employees. Learn.com; Plateau Learning – It seemed like a good idea Count Olaf.

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Learning Solutions Series: Top 10 Learning Management Systems

InsiderHub

LMSs provide a way of managing many facets of the online learning experience – such as grading/scoring, keeping track of content, administrative functions, and more. CollectMyThoughts ( www.CollectMyThoughts.com ) seeks to provide this setting, where objective ratings and feedback on each solution can be observed and compared.

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Special Post – Why the Big Four are not on my latest Top 10 LMS List

eLearning 24-7

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. Plateau is long gone and buried and people should realize that. Or better yet, let me provide you with some details.

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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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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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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.