Remove Business Remove Cornerstone Remove SkillSoft Remove vendor
article thumbnail

Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

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
article thumbnail

Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

eLearning 24-7

A behemoth, impressive and at the same time, seen in a “Evil Empire” perspective among other vendors in the mid 2000s. This is also about a vendor who lost their way. A vendor who made not only poor business decisions with the likes of Percipio, but also with the monumental blunder of acquiring SumTotal. .

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

Amazon’s web services business, which is more than $20 Billion in size, now offers an entire academy of training for AWS’s customers. Vendors like Degreed, BetterUp, EdCast, and LinkedIn command billion-dollar valuations driven by this growth. And this, of course, lets new vendors reinvent the space. Enter Docebo.

Docebo 147
article thumbnail

The Cornerstone Effect

eLearning 24-7

First off let me be clear, this post is not about the Cornerstone OnDemand LMS in the sense of whether it is a good or bad platform. Several months ago I picked up on a few items other vendors would mention about other systems. Cornerstone is not to blame because they didn’t do anything wrong.

article thumbnail

Top 20 Enterprise Learning Systems 2022

eLearning 24-7

For this list, the vendors are those that are of your consideration, in the 5,000 to 9,999 range. UI and UX is HUGE, and when vendors update their learning systems, guess where they tend to focus last on? And yes, in 2022 – the end of it no less, there are vendors who lack mobile. The Vendors. Sure, why not?

article thumbnail

Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

Cornerstone OnDemand (for learning) – One of the early ones for corporate learning, still around, and despite what many think, they were a leader in 2020 for Tier 4 NexGen features. Skillsoft – Dominated the course/content marketplace. Skillsoft). The Original Four Trailblazers. NetG, Element K, being just two.

article thumbnail

Top 50 LMS Report for 2016 – What you need to know (criteria, approach, and yeah some vendors)

eLearning 24-7

And yeah there are vendors who will taut that they are in X list or Y rankings and thus should be included. This isn’t a beauty contest, nor a pay for play (I NEVER accept that, nor play that game, nor do I accept any referral fees or whatever some vendors offer for recommending them). Not everyone gets in. But I digress.

vendor 40