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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. This time is no different.

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Can the ‘big LMS’ break clear of formal training?

Clive on Learning

I must confess it is now four months since I received an in-depth demonstration from the people at Saba of their People Systems Suites. First off, it’s worth noting that Saba does not seem to have been suffering like so many of its competitors through the downturn: It gained 113 new customers in 2010, which was a record year.

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Get Ready for a Season of Learning Tech Success! Fall Webinar Series

Talented Learning

Your organization long ago settled on Cornerstone, Saba, SumTotal, Oracle, SAP or another full-blown talent suite LMS, and there is little chance of change anytime soon. Brief history of the traditional talent suite LMS and why change is often so difficult. Augment It! With Stephan Pineau, CEO at Training Orchestra.

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Early Look – Top 50 Learning Systems 4 2018

eLearning 24-7

A listing of the Top 50 learning systems (by rank) in a mini-report which includes a high-level analysis by me, Craig Weiss. page, whereas you will read more insight and analysis by me, short and tight, after all it is about brief and micro (ha!) My debut podcast will cover some additional analysis, etc. A link to my Scoop.it

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2016 LMS Market Trends, Observations and Predictions

Talented Learning

We incorporate what we learn from each conversation into our analysis and understanding of the learning technology market. The behemoth TM providers such as Oracle or SuccessFactors devalued the LMS when they incorporated their LMSs into broader HR software suites and took their foot off the innovation accelerator. This is big news.

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2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Recipients

Talented Learning

Saba Software. Talent LMSs are integrated into broader HR and talent suites of products including recruiting, succession, goals, performance, time, payroll and provide a higher level of value – to progressive organizations – than stand alone employee compliance LMSs. The world’s best talent LMS solution are: Saba. Blackboard.

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Learning Systems for 2018 (#25 to #16)

eLearning 24-7

Before diving into the high analysis of #11-20, a bit about the rankings. page – Top 50 Learning Systems for 2018 , whereas I provide some high level analysis, including a couple of cons or weaknesses in each product (if applicable). . Welcome back – Saba and Absorb LMS. page for additional analysis.