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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. Also, this kind of move is often driven by financial considerations – for example, to increase profitability or drive down operating costs. Here’s why: Cornerstone is shaking-up the lives of over 3000 Saba customers, primarily to pump-up cash flow for its investors.

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Top 20 Enterprise Learning Systems 2022

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Metrics – These will tell you the story of learning. I wouldn’t touch the Saba solution, which has another alphabetical salad of letters, because CBX is significantly better. The analytics on CBX, while solid, needs a major UI/UX revamp, and more metrics that align for today’s workforce. The admin side, ditto.

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Latest Takeaways from Craig Weiss

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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. for example, is especially bad. Cornerstone Acquires Saba. A year ago, Saba went buying.

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Can you recommend an LMS?

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Folks seem fine with the vendor noting how awesome their support is, without extracting any metrics or verifiable data. . I’ve seen many a metric and viewed details that you the consumer would not have access to. What is provided to the client are right to the point metrics, status updates, follow-ups and more.

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Types of Learning Systems

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IOL stands for impact of learning (an actual term for metrics that is better than ROI). Heavy use of metrics – A lot of metrics and analytical analysis here – going beyond learning platforms in general, and depending on the LMS, might exceed that too. . Has an LRS – this helps drive those metrics.

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The Cornerstone Acquisition

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A few vendors refer to themselves as a training management system, ignoring the fact, that a training management system is focused heavy around scheduling capabilities, and thus, they are not a training management system – Rise by Articulate is one example. A legit training management system would be Training Orchestra. Bottom Line.

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

Talented Learning

Other well-known independent players like Cornerstone , Saba and Workday opted to compete by building their own talent suites. For example, via API, you could augment core virtual classroom functionality in a standalone LMS with virtual classroom capabilities that extend beyond the firewall. The goal was integrated talent management.

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