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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. But here’s the rub: Although an acquisition may be good for companies and investors on both sides of the deal, it’s rarely a treat for customers of the acquired business. Doesn’t sound like Saba customers will see much upside anytime soon.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

The Learning Technology market is big. In fact, the entire learning tech market is now over $4 Billion in size and it continues to be one of the most dynamic technology markets in the world. Amazon’s web services business, which is more than $20 Billion in size, now offers an entire academy of training for AWS’s customers.

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Saba to Acquire Halogen Software in 2017’s First Big HR Technology Deal

CLO Magazine

While consolidation in the HR technology space isn’t much of a surprise anymore, Saba Software’s announced acquisition of Ottawa, Canada-based Halogen Software was a bit unexpected. According to a joint release , the deal “will extend Saba’s position as a leading provider of end-to-end SaaS talent management solutions.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

It’s a bad idea before it even goes to market. The wonderful thing about acquisitions is that very few people publicly know who is on the market, who isn’t (but is open for acquisitions), and what the financial status is – unless the company is public, which is an outlier in our space. I chose the groupings route.

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Product Review: Saba Social

eLearning 24-7

I admit that in general I have been underwhelmed in the past with Saba. So, when I went and checked out Saba Social, Saba’s new social learning platform, I had very low expectations. Over 25 different social media types and Saba Social sticks with the ones everyone always sees – WHY? I was surprised.

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2016 LMS Market Trends, Observations and Predictions

Talented Learning

The 2016 LMS market is not what you think. We ask them all about business drivers, trends, market opportunities, use cases, demand, competition and measurable successes. We incorporate what we learn from each conversation into our analysis and understanding of the learning technology market.

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Latest Takeaways from Craig Weiss

eLearning 24-7

It has been a wild week from the acquisition of Saba by Cornerstone to the ability to compare systems in detail on FindAnLMS, to the Coronavirus and the usage of Microsoft Teams as part of the L&D experience. In past recessions, the e-learning market took a hit. Cornerstone Acquires Saba. A year ago, Saba went buying.

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