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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

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.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

However, ND never hit its stride and had the potential to do so – the very first vendor, whereas you could use part of it via a jump drive (true). Adobe was the first vendor to use templates to create courses. Good ideas Saba – At the time, this was a brilliant idea. I never tested it, but they noted it.

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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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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. Especially on the vendor side, whereas pricing for systems, dropped in cost. Cornerstone Acquires Saba.

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The Business of Learning

eLearning 24-7

Welcome to the Business of Learning. I’m not referring to the dollar amounts of the buys, rather the number of vendors acquiring other vendors, the number of PEs buying a vendor and/or the number of companies outside of the space jumping in by buying a learning system vendor. It’s in the numbers.

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2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Recipients

Talented Learning

Innovation was stagnant and most vendor effort was invested in stealing customers from one another. Over the last five years, new LMS companies have poured into the marketplace filling an obvious need of customer service and targeted business solutions. Now small businesses and even individuals can easily and rapidly get going.