article thumbnail

Cornerstone-Saba Acquisition: What Does it Mean for LMS Customers?

Talented Learning

Cornerstone plans to acquire Saba for a hefty $1.395 billion. Here’s why: Cornerstone is shaking-up the lives of over 3000 Saba customers, primarily to pump-up cash flow for its investors. Doesn’t sound like Saba customers will see much upside anytime soon. Have you heard the news? 1) Good for Vector Capital!

Saba 98
article thumbnail

Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

Not only do companies buy learning tools to train and upskill employees, but many companies also sell learning as a product. In fact, for whatever product you sell there is likely an opportunity to sell training that helps make your product more useful, helpful, or valuable. And this, of course, lets new vendors reinvent the space.

Docebo 147
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

However, ND never hit its stride and had the potential to do so – the very first vendor, whereas you could use part of it via a jump drive (true). Adobe was the first vendor to use templates to create courses. Good ideas Saba – At the time, this was a brilliant idea. I never tested it, but they noted it.

Ideas 84
article thumbnail

Latest Takeaways from Craig Weiss

eLearning 24-7

It has been a wild week from the acquisition of Saba by Cornerstone to the ability to compare systems in detail on FindAnLMS, to the Coronavirus and the usage of Microsoft Teams as part of the L&D experience. Especially on the vendor side, whereas pricing for systems, dropped in cost. The Virus and Trade Shows in our Industry.

Saba 60
article thumbnail

The Cornerstone Acquisition

eLearning 24-7

The end of the LMS was a common theme, the impact of L&D will never be the same made the rounds (I guess training is okay then?). As with anything related to the learning system space, it is what the client – the customer wants to use the system for, and not necessarily what the LMS vendor (in this case) is pushing.

article thumbnail

Product Review: Saba Social

eLearning 24-7

I admit that in general I have been underwhelmed in the past with Saba. So, when I went and checked out Saba Social, Saba’s new social learning platform, I had very low expectations. Over 25 different social media types and Saba Social sticks with the ones everyone always sees – WHY? I was surprised.

Saba 69
article thumbnail

Saba Player Templates and Best Practices

Learning Developments

The question is “what is the best way to create a video based training course in Saba?” Use a player template in saba that will serve as the table of contents for the course. In Saba I do not have the ability to specify the size of a SCO window that is “popped up” from the table of contents. Is this the best practice?

Saba 53