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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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The initial person who thought buying SumTotal was a great idea (initially it was) and then dumped it for a fortune to Skillsoft (another great idea), which in turn was someone at Skillsoft thinking this was a great idea, which turned out to be false and was a factor in Skillsoft going into bankruptcy due to the albatross known as SumTotal.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

Not only do companies buy learning tools to train and upskill employees, but many companies also sell learning as a product. In fact, for whatever product you sell there is likely an opportunity to sell training that helps make your product more useful, helpful, or valuable. And this, of course, lets new vendors reinvent the space.

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2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Recipients

Talented Learning

Corporate LMSs were invented almost 30 years ago to manage and report on the training and compliance of their employees and contractors. Innovation was stagnant and most vendor effort was invested in stealing customers from one another. The LMS industry in 2015 now has hundreds and hundreds of viable vendor solutions.

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Top 20 Enterprise Learning Systems 2022

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For this list, the vendors are those that are of your consideration, in the 5,000 to 9,999 range. If you want to buy a learning system that is noted as “Enterprise” and you are providing your learning – i.e. training for your customers, you can still buy the system. Ditto on Training for your Admins and you.

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Best LMS? 2016 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Awards

Talented Learning

In years past, the same dozen or so vendors competed for all the LMS market share. Nearly every vendor earned its bread and butter by selling to employee-minded buyers in HR. Now, more than 700 solutions claim at least some piece of the LMS pie — and for most of them, employee training is not a mainstay.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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I personally think what has hurt them in the greater market is the push by so many vendors (some of which are legit competitors) to refer to them as “traditional”, citing how long they have been around. Knowledge Arcade makes up 50% of their sales (for 2020), and will likely do at least that for 2021. Skillsoft).

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Latest in the Learning System Market

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Why, would a system that pushes heavily around the customer education/partner training segment, acquire a vendor who does the complete opposite? If Valamis wanted to push heavy and truly commit to the CE segment, they would have acquired a vendor who has capabilities or features or even themselves plays in the CE side.