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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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However, the product person who first saw the value of a TOC was correct – although that has gone by the wayside. On the other hand, the purchase of a couple of vendors for the sake of buying for the people running or being actively involved with the product was not a good idea. Learn.com wasn’t a bad system.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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Anyway, to stop that “traditional” spin, they need a re-brand, something fresh, modern, new attitude approach – I just mean related to the learning system and so forth, not their name for example, rather the product/LOB. SuccessFactors acquired the Plateau LMS (way before SF was acquired by SAP).

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

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Old-school LMS companies (like SumTotal , Plateau , Learn.com , GeoLearning and Certpoint ) were acquired by much larger talent and HR-suite providers like SAP/SuccessFactors , Infor , Oracle and IBM. With that kind of captive customer, why would a talent management LMS vendor even bother to improve its product? Augment It!

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User Friendly or Hype?

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The number one reason people leave their current system or purchase a different e-learning product? Every time I see a product, two statements seem to be universal. If I am a potential customer, I would expect nothing less to come out of the vendor’s mouth on their product and user friendliness. SAP’s LMS.

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Something is Going on Down there in the LMS Market

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When you hear the term “browser agnostic&# , what this means is that the product or solution will work on any browser. The bandwagon rage are LMS vendors stating that their product/solution is optimized for tablets, specifically mentioning the iPad. DEPENDS on whose product your purchase. Browser Agnostic. Look around.

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2015 Talented Learning LMS Vendor Award Recipients

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SAP acquired SuccessFactors who had acquired Plateau. Oracle acquired Taleo who had acquired Learn.com and the list goes on. 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. Every time.

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LMS Vendors: U Can Survive – Innovate, Invigorate and Invent

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So, if you include Facebook like in your LMS, wouldn’t it be logical to assume that people would follow the same approach and mechanism, that they use in the actual real Facebook product? SAP SAAS bombed. What about Twitter? Greater than 90% send out links to information. One way really. Again, if this is part of your system.a

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