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Cornerstone-Saba Acquisition: What Does it Mean for LMS Customers?

Talented Learning

Cornerstone plans to acquire Saba for a hefty $1.395 billion. As you may have read in my annual industry trends analysis , the pace of acquisitions and strategic equity investments has been accelerating for several years. Doesn’t sound like Saba customers will see much upside anytime soon. 7) Saba is the Better LMS.

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3rd Trend – Performance

eLearning 24-7

I bring all of this together because the latest trend in the learning system space is “Performance” and it scares the bejeezus out of me, due to being a very slippery slope if a vendor isn’t paying enough attention. In this modern performance aspect, the vendor is screaming from the rooftops – we are employee-focused.

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18 Top Learning Systems Trends to Watch in 2018

Talented Learning

Welcome to our 4th annual LMS and learning systems “Trends” post! What is a trend, anyway? And how much do trends matter? As fiercely independent learning technology analysts, we think a trend isn’t just a fleeting idea that comes and goes like fashion, or a social media hashtag. How We Define Trends.

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2016 LMS Market Trends, Observations and Predictions

Talented Learning

We ask them all about business drivers, trends, market opportunities, use cases, demand, competition and measurable successes. Here are our top ten 2016 trends, observations and predictions for the LMS and broader learning technology market. . #10 Learn More about the 2016 LMS Market Trends? Thanks for reading!

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Latest Takeaways from Craig Weiss

eLearning 24-7

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. Upskilling is a trend that is on fire, but what about reskilling? Cornerstone Acquires Saba. What I see.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

They disagree (I think you are starting to see a trend here). 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.

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Latest Trends in E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Twice a year I will be providing some trends that I am seeing in the e-learning market. This one trend really is an irritation to me, because the term “training” is showing up rather than “learning”, which is the standard term as it relates to online learning (see it already?). What do you mean? Bottom Line.

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