eLearning 24-7

APRIL 11, 2024

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.

Ideas 84

Ideas Learn.com SumTotal SkillSoft 84

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 29, 2021

Strategic blunder of major proportions in the acquisition of SumTotal has continued to hurt them (i.e., Say what you want, but I still believe the SumTotal buy was a huge reason for the financial woes of Skillsoft, which lead to them entering then exiting Bankruptcy court, followed thereafter by acquisition from a SPAC. Skillsoft).

Learning System 105

Learning System System Metrics Learn.com 105

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Corel Corporation OnDemand Software SumTotal Systems Inc. Skillsoft Learn.com SumTotal Systems Inc. Altova XMLSpy CustomDoc Macromedia Authorware fro. SumTotal Systems Inc. XStream Software SumTotal Systems Inc. KnowledgePlanet Brainvisa eLearning Consultants. XStream Software Linden Research, Inc. Readyco Inc.

Rapid eLearning 100

Rapid eLearning Authoring Tools Vuepoint Cornerstone OnDemand 100

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The majority of people creating the courses used authoring tools, such as Authorware (difficult to learn, but robust), Dazzler Max (I used it, learning curve though), Lectora (difficult to learn) and many others that existed then. SumTotal – Today? SumTotal called it SumTotal Maestro. Yet, very popular.

Compliance Training 81

Compliance Training Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS 81

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 13, 2013

Q : I am curious on why Cornerstone On Demand, Saba and SumTotal do not appear in your top twenty lists even though they appear on other sites as the best products in the market. I always hear “I’m looking at SumTotal, CoD, Expertus”, when folks mention it to me. So, back for another installment.

SumTotal 73

SumTotal Blogging vendor Saba 73

Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

Take a look at the companies: Saba (28) GeoLearning (17) SumTotal (22) Meridian (9) Cornerstone (19) You notice the counts are out of order (not descending). The keywords on left side are changed to keywords which are more closely associated with that term. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ?

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Association Learning Management System Folksonomy eLearning Strategy 100

Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

The next generation of authoring tools included a handful of really serious players, notably Authorware (now with Adobe) and Toolbook (now with SumTotal), both still going although not so strongly.

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Atlantic Link Authorware ViewletBuilder RapideL 40