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Skillsoft buying SumTotal – My Take

eLearning 24-7

Like many of you, I was surprised to find out that Skillsoft is in the process of acquiring SumTotal. 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. Getting back to Skillsoft and SumTotal. They are not.

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The Cornerstone Acquisition

eLearning 24-7

I bring this up, because after it was announced that Cornerstone will be acquiring SumTotal, the pundits went out and espoused some very interesting ideas. I never put innovation and SumTotal in the same sentence. SumTotal was never innovative. They were not the first ones with a mobile app. That is their core audience.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. You could say for everyone learner or just a group of learners, you could do this for every publisher that the vendor offered. SumTotal – Today?

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Vegas and The Learning Conference Scene

eLearning 24-7

Yet there is something there, something that grabs hold and takes you on a journey of discovery, exploration, and acquirement of knowledge. They are not the only vendor who goes against why WBT was established in the first place but having an impact (negatively) will ensure that your data – recommendations is misleading.

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NexGen Learning System Grid 2018-19

eLearning 24-7

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).

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

I personally think what has hurt them in the greater market is the push by so many vendors (some of which are legit competitors) to refer to them as “traditional”, citing how long they have been around. Knowledge Arcade makes up 50% of their sales (for 2020), and will likely do at least that for 2021. Skillsoft).

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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. The cloud enables new LMS vendors to create and support one product that all customers use providing economies of scale in research, customer support and required investment capital. The 2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Winners