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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

I thought about this, as you can tell, and said to myself, okay, let’s write a post where the e-learning history and thus learning systems, authoring tools, and alike are intertwined with good and bad ideas. Cornerstone Track Record for Learning System Acquisitions Mixed. And the rest is history.

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Learning Systems for 2018 (#25 to #16)

eLearning 24-7

This year’s Top 50 learning systems for 2018 is now out, and we are doing it a bit different this year. While I track now 1,300 learning systems around the world, the rankings are based on 1,000. If a system was built using a theme from WordPress or other types of blog sites, they were removed too.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

They weren’t the first person who said that to me, it is very common to hear it from other learning system execs, CEOs even, founders too, salespeople equally so. When I did an analysis back in 2012 for example, I had a list of 429 learning system vendors (at that time, I listed them as LMS). Yet, very popular.

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Do We Still Need the LMS?

CLO Magazine

billion into various types of learning and training companies in 2016, and the number appears to be going up in 2017. Saba Software, one of the pioneers in enterprise learning technology, was founded less than 20 years ago, and since then the market has exploded. Why all the investment?

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

Talented Learning

Four years ago, very few consultants had sufficient knowledge or desire to match potential buyers with specialized “ extended enterprise learningsystems. Other well-known independent players like Cornerstone , Saba and Workday opted to compete by building their own talent suites. LMS Demand: New Waves of Unexpected Interest.

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Gender in the Workplace Study

eLearning 24-7

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? Background. Again, methodology will be noted. .

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Don’t Believe the Hype. Learning Management Systems Are Alive and Well

CLO Magazine

That’s why Salesforce still competes against Oracle and Microsoft — the CRM old guard — as well as Base — the innovative new guys in the CRM space. That’s funny, because this is exactly what a good LMS system does today. Modern learning systems come packed with all the tools modern organizations need.

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