Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

This week Kenexa , one of the largest and most successful HR and talent acquisition consulting companies, announced the acquisition of Outstart, a pioneering company in the market for e-learning tools, learning management, collaboration, and mobile learning solutions.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

This week Kenexa , one of the largest and most successful HR and talent acquisition consulting companies, announced the acquisition of Outstart, a pioneering company in the market for e-learning tools, learning management, collaboration, and mobile learning solutions.

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Outstart Corporate Learning Market Consulting 40

Janet Clarey

JANUARY 23, 2009

This week’s featured system is OutStart. By way of background, Jeff told me that OutStart has two flavors: Participate, their general social software solution and TrainingEdge.com, their SaaS solution which includes LMS, collaborative authoring, and social media specifically configured to support learning. Thanks Jeff! Generation21.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In the last 90 days we have seen SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors , followed by Oracle’s acquisition of Taleo , and then the smaller Kenexa acquisition of Outstart and PeopleFluent acquisition of Strategia. The talent management systems market has been under quite a bit of stress lately.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In the last 90 days we have seen SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors , followed by Oracle’s acquisition of Taleo , and then the smaller Kenexa acquisition of Outstart and PeopleFluent acquisition of Strategia. The talent management systems market has been under quite a bit of stress lately.

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Outstart Integrate Oracle System 40

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 10, 2011

Outstart, who purchased Hot Lava, a mobile learning company, and who advertises in large size on their web site about mobile learning, doesn’t have an app. Saba Centra. The #1 selling tablet in the world, iPad and its new iPad2 and there are 4 vendors. This is why, only 4 vendors offer an iPad or iPhone app for download.

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 16, 2012

They purchased Outstart, a LMS. Two examples: In 2010, a person at Saba was talking about their system to me. What about Kenexa? They are a HCM. Right now, they are separate LOBs (lines of business) but will they eventually fall under the spell of integrating the two? He said, you are right.

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