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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

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A vendor who made not only poor business decisions with the likes of Percipio, but also with the monumental blunder of acquiring SumTotal. . The buy was a bad relationship in the making, one where the owner – “Skillsoft” and ownee “SumTotal” never seemed to get on track with one another. That’s it.

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History of the LMS

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SumTotal – Today? Owned by SumTotal – who ruined it, because by then it was GeoLearning Maestro (not that great). Owned by SumTotal – who ruined it, because by then it was GeoLearning Maestro (not that great). SumTotal called it SumTotal Maestro. NetG ruined them). Yet, very popular.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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NetG, Element K, being just two. Strategic blunder of major proportions in the acquisition of SumTotal has continued to hurt them (i.e., Fun fact – The new SumTotal front-end was from Percipio (Skillsoft’s LXP platform). Skillsoft – Dominated the course/content marketplace. Skillsoft).

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consolidation continues - BlackBoard + WebCT & more.

The Learning Circuits

And of course back in August we had WebEx buying Intranets.com and SumTotal (created out of Docent + Click2Learn) buying PathLore as I discussed in this post. The Resulting Big Five: (forecasted annual revenue) SkillSoft $200M+ NETg $150M-200M? It also doesn't bode well for WebCT's willingness to play with open source (sorry Harold!)

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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

First, on Monday, WebEx buys intranets.com for $45M in cash ( details ) then today SumTotal buys Pathlore for $29M in cash ( details ) and $19M in stock. And then I hear that back on July 27 Premiere Global Services announced that it was buying Netspoke for $23.2M in cash ( details ). A LMS company buys another LMS company.

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LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers

Tony Karrer

For the past several years during selection I've found that they trail Saba and SumTotal on needed capabilities and they were hard to use for particular tasks that were important to the clients involved. As these systems catch up, this will make the market really hard for Saba and SumTotal. ResultsOnDemand SumTotal Systems Inc.

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