Talented Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2016

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. We have spent the last three years meeting more than 125 vendors — learning who they are, what they do, why they are unique, and who their customers are.

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Once a darling of vendors who used it to show their demos, now? In fact, in 2019, I did not see one demo from a vendor on Adobe Connect. Personally a vendor can call their system whatever they want, but there are a few factoids to remember about micro-learning. Cumbersome? Not so much. You tell me, is that a good thing?

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Questions – Each learning system vendor was asked a series of questions. I recognize that not everyone – i.e. vendor has the funds to invest heavily into the UI/UX, and thus I put that into context when reviewing a system. Here is the take vendors love to say, 1. Based on their responses, points were awarded.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If they were a vendor who played in EdTech (K-12, HE) but also played into corporate and did so, not just by having clients find them, but actively through marketing, they were considered too. Strictly If the vendor was a custom shop building a system, off say Moodle or whatever code they are using that is open source? Strictly EdTech?

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WBT Systems

JUNE 19, 2018

Before you even think about creating a request for proposal (RFP), you must spend time on the LMS requirements gathering and analysis process. If you don’t get it right, you won’t create a useful RFP or select the best LMS for your association. Definitely have someone from IT on your core project team.

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Petra Mayer

JULY 3, 2019

Business Goals. Typically, this is done through a “Request-for-Information” (RFI) process or through a “Request-for-Proposal” (RFP). Implementation costs by the vendor or related third party. System integration costs by third party vendors with other systems. Learner Needs. Content Needs. Communication Needs.

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learnWorlds

MAY 29, 2023

Our Request for Proposal (RFP) checklist narrows down all the key questions you must ask LMS vendors, so you can identify the one that meets your requirements without ending up wasting money on a platform that has too many features you don’t even need or too few that will jeopardize the effectiveness of your program.

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 19, 2011

For some people, creating a RFP can be an exciting experience unmatched in the annuals of time. It is a necessity to identify the vendor that is going to provide you with the best system for your solution. When people need a RFP, they think “Internet&#. RFP is another word for lots of pages. Three letters.

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Talented Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” As an LMS research analyst and vendor selection consultant, I get a version of that question often from both LMS buyers and sellers. Many vendors require three year contract s and many more are monthly. Most vendors think they are priced too high or too low and they are right. “How much does an LMS cost?”

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Talented Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2018

2 The Business Benefits of xAPI – with Mike Rustici of Watershed. And what business benefits should you expect when educating customers or others outside of your organization? 1 Gamification and Learning in Business – with Karl Kapp. 1 Gamification and Learning in Business – with Karl Kapp.

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Talented Learning

JANUARY 9, 2018

It is real – backed by evidence from business scenarios. But we do have a ton of data from learning technology buyers and sellers and we have decades of experience in evaluating, recommending, marketing and implementing business learning platforms. 15 Business Turns Up the Volume On Extended Enterprise Learning. Not even close.

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Talented Learning

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the last two weeks as an LMS selection consultant, I have been on the receiving end of 24 hours of live LMS demos from eight different vendors. The vendors were competing for two unique, extended enterprise LMS opportunities. Selling LMSs is very tough in 2016 because of the plenitude and parity of vendor options.

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Talented Learning

APRIL 18, 2017

” Meanwhile, from a seller’s perspective, an LMS sandbox is either encouraged, discouraged or endured — depending on a seller’s business model, technology approach and appetite for service. It follows this linear path: 1) Requirements Definition. 2) Vendor Identification. 5) Vendor Qualification.

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Talented Learning

AUGUST 17, 2017

Often, these posts have 287 or more responses from LMS vendors, each claiming they offer the best solution, given the overwhelming evidence provided in the original 2-sentence help request. They’ve hit a wall with features that don’t accomplish what a vendor promised. LMS vendors have vastly different licensing models.

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Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Having business, content or reseller partners is a great way to expand reach but it does come with some administrative and managerial overhead. Vetting every vendor is impractical. As independent LMS selection consultants , we continuously evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of all vendors in the association market.

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eLearning 24-7

JUNE 3, 2019

Yet one of the items that is never mentioned are the customers and employees of the vendor who has been acquired. On the customer side, if you are the client of said “been acquired” vendor you may be asking yourself, what can I do? From my experience, vendors do have some options. See if there any loopholes.

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Avilar

JULY 31, 2018

Having vendors demo their products offers you the chance to discover the benefits it will bring to your organization. While LMS vendors may be more than happy to show you everything the software is capable of, they usually don’t have enough time in their schedule to do so. The answers to these questions are important to the vendor.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 23, 2019

After a multi-week business trip, I’m now back and ready to begin anew (i.e. Not every vendor offered them, but more than enough did and consumers liked that. In the good ol’ days vendors listed trials on their web sites OR if you liked what you saw in the demo, you asked them via the phone or e-mail for a trial.

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Talented Learning

JANUARY 23, 2018

Since then, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of modern LMS vendors, and in enthusiasm for strategies and technologies that help organizations educate customers, channel partners and other external audiences. There has never been a better time to expand your business reach and revenue through online training.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 18, 2007

In my experience, most of the definitions of the process are fairly similar. Difference between an RFI and an RFP. What requirements to put in an RFP. How to balance making an RFP response useful to you and not too hard for a vendor. How much should you lead a vendor in the RFP requirments.

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Talented Learning

MAY 14, 2020

The realities of 2020 have accelerated their transformation at every stage of the learning systems life cycle from business case, requirements definition, RFP, contracting, deployment, content development, improvement – everything. In 2020 there are many different types of LMS solutions and hundreds of competing vendors.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 24, 2019

These two vendors are EdCast and Degreed. Getting back to being unaware, I find the same issue with a few vendors in the learning system space who are really LXPs, but have no idea. It reminded me of the vendors in the space who scream they are not an LMS, even though they hit all the standards of an LMS. . In my opinion, no.

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Talented Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2019

But I’m more interested in top takeaways from business-minded learning professionals. And they’re definitely telling us that open source learning platform s like Moodle and Totara are wildly popular, compared to commercial solutions. What Topics Were Most Popular in Extended Enterprise Learning? What mattered most to you?

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Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I'm definitely not of that camp. And we don't take a step back and be like, well, we're actually here to help solve business problems, organisational challenges, seize opportunities, help people be at their best. What, even—you know, not to go as far high up as okay, what are the business problems that we're trying to solve?

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Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I'm definitely not of that camp. And we don't take a step back and be like, well, we're actually here to help solve business problems, organisational challenges, seize opportunities, help people be at their best. What, even—you know, not to go as far high up as okay, what are the business problems that we're trying to solve?

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Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

Infopro Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Imagine being able to align your resources with your ever-changing needs, ensuring costs stay predictable, with flexibility to effortlessly scale your operations up or down, adapting to whatever curveballs the business world throws your way. It’s all about making things efficient and cost-effective for you.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Certifications are doable from big name vendors such as Amazon, Google, Cisco, Microsoft and more. Share Link – I debated about listing this in poor, because I still see zero value in this – other vendors do it too, and I see zero value in that as well. Alignment to Business – aka KPIs. Thankfully, they will.

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TalentLMS

MAY 27, 2015

This is where we come in, to hand you our definitive list of the top 10 eLearning bloggers for 2015. If you are a frequent reader of elearning blogs, just like we are, then you have definitely visited one or more of the following blogs and probably follow them on Twitter as well! Happy reading! Let’s find out… 1.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Nowadays though, vendors have changed the message to mean e-learning as in e-learning courses and not an umbrella term. . ” One vendor recently told me they were not a “Soviet Era LMS” Another told me LMSs were dead (not even close). I have Spoke as my vendor to watch in 2019. Authoring tool? e-learning.

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Talented Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

EPISODE 19 – TOPIC SUMMARY AND GUEST: On our previous episode , we talked about the increasing popularity of customer success programs among high-growth companies – especially software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Every business can benefit from educated customers. But there’s definitely a gap.

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 20, 2022

Never assume that they know the terminology in the industry, nor assume that what you think one term means, doesn’t necessarily mean what the vendor thinks it means. In the Enterprise and Large Enterprise it is not uncommon to get pricing that is quite high, especially if the vendor knows procurement is involved.

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 7, 2020

How do you explain why these three vendors were selected, how the process for analysis was conducted, and what are the results? Why these three vendors? Simply due that when a consumer is looking at an LXP, or say Degreed or EdCast or Fuse, the other two vendors are part of the final process. Where do you start? Here is how.

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Docebo

AUGUST 12, 2020

This type of operation requires people in different departments, since this is definitely beyond the scope of just one person, or even a single department. These will give you a good roadmap for where you want to head, and help you decide whether the LMS vendors you’re considering can get you there. What are your learning needs?

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Talented Learning

JULY 13, 2017

See More Vendors in our LMS Directory. Three years ago, this vendor was happy to gobble up even the smallest LMS customers who educated and sold themselves via a free trial. The self-service capability is still in place, but the business model and pricing are now geared towards disrupting the highly competitive mid/large global market.

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Talented Learning

JUNE 5, 2017

See More Vendors in our LMS Directory. Adobe Captivate Prime is a clean, modern, easy-to-use LMS that makes a lot of sense for small businesses on their first or second learning platform. Small-to-medium businesses with basic employee compliance and skills training. See More Vendors in our LMS Directory. We can help!

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 30, 2016

We learn it in business, especially sales. I mention this, because in the e-learning world, there are winners and losers, albeit we do not call the vendors who lose out to a deal with a customer or an opportunity, losers. But make no mistake, one vendor is going to win and one or many will not. Not publicly at least. .

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Talented Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Troy is a “triple threat” learning innovator with deep expertise as a content development practitioner, solutions consultant and technology vendor. These broader business ecosystems naturally bring opportunities to offer extended online training. But sending learners to a different vendor LMS for each course makes no sense.

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