eLearning 24-7

JUNE 22, 2020

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. . Layoffs meanwhile started at Skillsoft in November 2019, then again in February 2020. Skillsoft Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.

SkillSoft 60

SkillSoft SumTotal SkillPort Scuttle 60

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 20, 2018

One of these platforms is Percipio by Skillsoft. 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. 3rd party content is available within the platform, they continue to sign up vendors – so that is a plus. Alignment to Business – aka KPIs.

SkillSoft 64

SkillSoft Productivity Product Metrics 64

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 23, 2014

Like many of you, I was surprised to find out that Skillsoft is in the process of acquiring SumTotal. The reason for the acquisition at least from a press release and information on the purchase (and available for viewing on the Skillsoft site), screams of HCM (Human Capital Management). Combination of Skillsoft and SumTotal offers comprehensive, content-rich HR solutions. I am always bothered when vendors see the entities as one in the same.

SumTotal 62

SumTotal SkillSoft SkillPort vendor 62

InsiderHub

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Over the next few months, CollectMyThoughts is providing a series of overviews on some business solution vendors in order to provide the most interesting and useful information for decision-makers. CollectMyThoughts provides an unbiased overview of a vendor’s key products. Skillsoft has been in the elearning industry for over 15 years, and has been among the innovative leaders in that particular arena – about as long as the industry itself has been in existence.

SkillSoft 70

SkillSoft vendor Providers Compliance Training 70

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

APRIL 3, 2012

The business of eLearning in corporate training continues to shift. The acquisition adds to SkillSoft's existing offerings in learning content and learning platform technology through the addition of Element K's complementary offerings in e-learning content, virtual labs, ILT print materials and custom development services." The Learning Solutions Conference and Expo had a 50% growth or vendors in the expo which tells me our business is alive and well.

Element K 46

Element K SkillSoft ElementK ILT 46

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

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). These are vendors who have been around a long time, build share of the market and generally speaking had early name recognition which has helped them in build business.

vendor 75

vendor Report Cornerstone OnDemand SkillSoft 75

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Well, not yet, but it is coming up and with that are all those wonderful vendors and that magical expo. But one of the biggest problems I see at such shows are the number of vendors who in hindsight I wished I avoided. I recall at ATD this past year, a vendor who was trying to sell people ahead of time their LMS. And, because many of the other vendors who are here at HR Tech, really are just average to poor (but not everyone). SumTotal by Skillsoft.

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vendor SharePoint Cornerstone OnDemand Saba 63

CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Change is constant today, and keeping pace with fast-moving business demands takes deliberate effort — this often impedes our best intentions to think forward, work strategically or adopt new practices. How important is it for vendors to listen to customers? It is absolutely critical and mutually beneficial for vendors and customers to develop an ongoing partnership — beyond sale and implementation. As a vendor, we can’t afford to guess what our customers need.

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vendor SumTotal Learning Technologies SkillSoft 55

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 20, 2013

The minus: vendors come out of the woodwork to tell you their system meets those needs. No vendor could say honestly that their system is the best for you, because they are missing a lot of information. Then spend the time to identify the right system for you and your business. Write vendors’ names on pencils and throw them at the ceiling. Whichever sticks – is your vendor. There is no one size fits all vendor. So many choices out there.

PeopleSoft 78

PeopleSoft LMS Oracle SkillSoft 78

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 5, 2011

Sometimes it is a result of the vendor, other times it is a failure of due diligence on the part of the soon to be customer. The vendor’s salesperson tells you want you want to hear. I expect nothing less from the vendor. If the vendor offers a couple of solutions, not all of those clients are going to be using the same solution – so who is using the solution like me? At one time, vendors were honest, stating “white papers&# as marketing materials.

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Custom SkillSoft Case Study eLearning Tools 52

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 27, 2011

I mean ever&# , from a senior executive at a mid to large size vendor that has been in the market for several years. Across the board, a large number of vendors (from small to large) saw increases in their quarter numbers. Especially, when vendors released their 2010 final numbers and saw big increases from the previous year. One vendor is months behind their release schedule. Another vendor is suffering Q/A issues. Identify the problem, the vendor too.

Trends 70

Trends Cornerstone SumTotal Saba 70

eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 29, 2020

From a vendor perspective there was a huge impact, but what was odd, is that some vendors still are living in the past, as though, this is a minor blip, and in 2021, everything will go back as it was – corporate wise that is.

eLearning Tools 86

eLearning Tools Compliance Training vendor Trivantis 86

Absorb LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

Left unaddressed, these present both financial and regulatory risks that could easily cripple your business. Yet, 78% of businesses say it’s “important or critical” that learning strategy is connected to business goals. This will ensure that staff time is spent on activities that elevate both short and long-term business objectives. Align L&D objectives with the needs of key business stakeholders.

Corporate eLearning 121

Corporate eLearning SkillSoft Brandon Hall Blended Learning 121

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 20, 2011

When they hit stride, other vendors take notice and soon, the lemming revolution begins. It’s a business marketplace for buyers and sellers. Not, some 3rd party aggregator like Skillsoft or Element K, where you can purchase courses from. Nor, a LMS vendor who enable their customers to sell their courses, but only people who have the same LMS vendor can buy and use them. 2011 will show profitable gains for a large portion of vendors across the sector.

Blended Learning 62

Blended Learning Productivity Product Innovation 62

Tony Karrer

MAY 15, 2007

Not only have they just completed the sale of their NETg subsidiary to SkillSoft for $270 million , but they have also announced they are selling Higher Education assets of Thomson Learning to a couple of venture funds for $7.75 This goes back to the discussion we had recently around the challenges for vendors: eLearning Business Alternatives - Good Discussion. Saw Thomson Corp exists Learning Market on Learning Reflections.

NETg 100

NETg Market SkillSoft vendor 100

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I’ve heard it from vendors. Many consumers, I surmise are doing it already without even realizing it, and even some vendors are too. Preferably on/off synch, but as I mentioned in my LinkedIn mini-post, most learning system vendors still are not on/off synch with said mobile app. The majority of vendors have two mobile apps – one for iOS and one for Android (and yes, it is easy to say one mobile app with two different OS versions).

SkillSoft 87

SkillSoft vendor System Learning System 87

eLearning 24-7

JULY 29, 2019

Too many times I find that when talking about content, 3rd party content providers, content driven strategies from learning system vendors (which is quite hot) and marketplaces place more of a general approach to buying and pushing it. Leadership, Business Skills, Safety, Compliance-related, Software, Coaching and Software skills. It is weird on how brand names from a content standpoint is a key driver in choosing who is going to be with that learning system vendor.

Content 52

Content Change SkillSoft NETg 52

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 6, 2018

Nowadays thanks to the growth of Learning Engagement Platforms, whereas content is a requirement – an essential no less, LMS vendors are jumping head first into the content marketplace that is viewable by all clients (rather than pitching the content via the phone or other comm method). If you went directly to the 3rd party course provider, they would sell the courses to you, then work directly with your vendor to add them. LMS vendor identifies possible options.

NETg 48

NETg Content SkillSoft vendor 48

CLO Magazine

MARCH 19, 2020

Excellence in E-Learning recognizes vendors that have rolled out an innovative and effective e-learning program or suite for a client. Bronze: Skillsoft and SumTotal Systems.

Blended Learning 44

Blended Learning SumTotal SkillSoft Coaching 44

eLearning 24-7

JULY 18, 2019

Over the past three months, we have been reaching out to learning system vendors throughout the world, seeking to find information on the number of female executives at their companies and whether or not they had a leadership development program, and if so, what are the breakdowns? As a result, vendors in those countries themselves do not collect or keep track of such data. There a couple of exceptions, and it is only noted in the study, with the vendor’s permission.

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Study Ratio NetExam vendor 52

eLearning Alchemy

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Entrepreneurs quickly saw the potential for profit and course libraries like Lynda.com , CBT Nuggets , and Skillsoft sprung up with massive content offerings. The initial sell : Overzealous vendors hawking eLearning as a cost saving initiative; and. Focusing on cost savings as the reason to invest in eLearning positions it (and all learning) as a cost, rather than a strategic business investment. Length: 876 words. Reading Time: ~4 minutes.

eLearning Tools 100

eLearning Tools Compliance Training SkillSoft Cost 100

Origin Learning

AUGUST 23, 2014

Provider awards recognize qualified service providers, vendors and consultants for their work on behalf of a client organization. The sub-categories under the Practitioner Awards include Business Impact, Collaboration, Global Learning, Innovation, Strategy, Technology and Trailblazer wherein executives from globally renowned organizations like Hewlett Packard, The Boeing Co., There’s no greater pleasure than to reap the fruits of your hard work.

CLO 133

CLO Saba SkillSoft IBM 133

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 21, 2016

Maybe you purchased it via Open Sesame, or Skillsoft. Maybe you scored it via Wiley, but in many possibilities you purchased the content thru your LMS vendor. It’s much easier than say going directly to the content provider, buying it from them and then having them talk to your LMS vendor to put it in for you (which, honestly you should do, because it will save you money). This isn’t the fault of Open S, rather it is just well, a reality of the business.

Courseware 45

Courseware Authoring Tools SkillSoft Industry 45

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 15, 2018

To the 2018-19 Learning System Grid,identifying the Leaders, Risers, Steady and Slow vendors for NexGen functionality. . For this year’s grid, an additional vendor was added per group (last year it was five per grid). NexGen Functionality Tier 2 (Not every vendor has all of these items, just an fyi). Thus there are vendors who I would buy on the grid, just as there are those I wouldn’t buy, for a variety of reasons, that are not tied to NexGen functionality.

Learning System 78

Learning System System SumTotal Grovo 78

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 24, 2019

Every vendor, with the exception of Blackboard (who is coming soon) can be found on FindAnLMS.com , my learning system search engine platform, an independent and trusted source to search, compare and engage with vendors in the learning system space. Rankings are based on 1,000 vendors across the globe. This includes vendors who have a content marketplace over those who don’t, thus they received more points on that feature, for example.

Learning System 58

Learning System System LCMS vendor 58

eLearning 24-7

MAY 27, 2015

That said, there were some hiccups and from an entire vendor wise (expo here) angle, some unique and some, uh. This year, I estimated a 55/60% e-learning, including some ILT vendors offering some type of e-learning component. . In all the years I have attended and have known about ATD (formally ASTD), this year is by far the most in terms of e-learning vendors, especially those in the LMS space. Vendor Time – Vendor Time. Vendors of Intrigue.

Conference 68

Conference SumTotal SkillSoft Cornerstone OnDemand 68

mLevel

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

All vendor ballots were voided. SkillSoft. Business Skills Library. SkillSoft. Executives Nominate 100 Solutions Across Expanded 30 Categories for Excellence. Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines, the industry voices of the enterprise learning and workforce technology market, announced today the Best of Elearning! Awards 2015 Finalists.

eLearning Tools 100

eLearning Tools Corporate eLearning eLearning Strategy SimWriter 100

Talented Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Imagine that your organization is informed in real-time about individual and program progress, as well as relevant business impact. Even if these new little cloud vendors offered more elegant features, they were not built to run in large-scale enterprise settings, so the chance of gaining a foothold was slim. Their position in the business gives them some leeway to “go rogue” if needed, to support their learning programs.

Wage and Hour Training 69

Wage and Hour Training Diversity Training DDI SumTotal 69

Talented Learning

JANUARY 12, 2016

We have spent the last two years interviewing hundreds of global learning technology professionals on both the vendor and practitioner sides of the fence. We ask them all about business drivers, trends, market opportunities, use cases, demand, competition and measurable successes. Today, based on our recent survey of 75 LMS vendors, 37% of LMS vendors offer an instant free trial of their LMS directly from their website without speaking to a sales professional.

Predictions 60

Predictions Market Trends ViewCentral 60

CLO Magazine

JUNE 11, 2017

Essentially, embed “just enough learning” into your digital work environment, and offer employees access to: An easy-to-use portal that recommends content and shows what other employees use to learn in their business function. Vendors like Degreed, EdCast and Pathgather provide these capabilities. Vendors like Lynda.com, Skillsoft, Grovo, Udacity, Udemy, NovoEd, SkillShare and others offer this. Vendors like Udacity and edX offer this.

Grovo 64

Grovo Digital SkillSoft vendor 64

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 1, 2017

Trends at the show – vendor wise, some real surprises, some not. . As I hit the floor, I saw only a couple of vendors. . There were vendors on the video angle, but again it was not a “hot scene” vendor wise. Missed opportunity for a lot of vendors in the video arena. . Mobile – Sure vendors noted it, but it wasn’t a driver. I wouldn’t place it in the hot category from vendor speak as it once was. Atlanta.

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vendor Oasis RFP SkillSoft 45

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 5, 2015

Picking a LMS vendor who says their system interfaces/integrates with your HRIS platform. Nearly every LMS vendor will state this. I rarely find a LMS vendor who says that they do not support or do not have experience integrating with HRIS system ABC. An easy way to do it, is to ask for a list of companies who have had their HRIS platform (specifically yours) with the vendor’s LMS. Now for the LMS vendor themselves.

Blended Learning 78

Blended Learning vendor ILT Compliance Training 78

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 8, 2018

Another vendor has one-page articles if you will, where learners print out and use. If you buy through a content marketplace on an LMS, LEP or other types of learning systems, the advantage is that the vendor (LMS for example) is responsible for putting it onto your system, and responsible for making sure it is updated (again, laugh here), and adding new content (again, assuming you bought it). First off, this vendor houses it on their own servers, not on the LMS.

Strategy 63

Strategy Content Online Learning Online 63

mLevel

DECEMBER 8, 2015

These honorees are: Skillsoft; Cisco; SuccessFactors, an SAP Company; Inxpo; IBM; Adobe; and Oracle. Duplicates were removed, vendor ballots were nullified as well as votes without a verifiable company domain address (ex.: 285 Chesterfield Business Parkway Chesterfield, MO 63005. With SumTotal Talent solutions, you can unlock hidden potential in your people and watch your business soar. 285 Chesterfield Business Parkway Chesterfield, MO 63005.

eLearning Tools 100

eLearning Tools Corporate eLearning eLearning Strategy eLearning Consultant 100

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 13, 2018

A press release from an LMS vendor that stated something not so accurate, but accurate enough. Course Marketplace as “System includes and or offers content” This is in relation towards learning system vendors, especially in the LMS, learning platform space and not so much LEPs (although some could do a better job at stating it in clarity). . And that is what the vendor is going for. Vendors are acutely aware of the difference between free and paid content. .

Market 32

Market vendor Wink Micro-Learning 32

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The Alternative Vendors of Learning. As in years past, there are plenty of vendors in the e-learning world who love to call themselves anything but an LMS. “We are the anti-LMS”, “Non-LMS”, “Knowledge Learning Platform”, “Training Management System”, “Neuroscience learning platform” and so on and so on. . A vendor can call themselves whatever they want if it makes them happy or sad too, I guess.

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vendor SCORM ILT SkillSoft 71

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The Alternative Vendors of Learning. As in years past, there are plenty of vendors in the e-learning world who love to call themselves anything but an LMS. “We are the anti-LMS”, “Non-LMS”, “Knowledge Learning Platform”, “Training Management System”, “Neuroscience learning platform” and so on and so on. . A vendor can call themselves whatever they want if it makes them happy or sad too, I guess.

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vendor SCORM ILT SkillSoft 71