Buying LMS
In 2016, most people are accustomed to social media and the conventions associated with profiles, friends, posts, liking and sharing. But how are these new social business behaviors influencing social learning features of today’s learning
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The 2016 LMS market is not what you think. We have spent the last two years interviewing hundreds of global learning technology professionals on both the vendor and practitioner sides of the fence. We ask them all about business drivers, trends,
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Learning management systems didn’t die. They evolved, and today we recognize them. Brief LMS History Corporate LMSs were invented almost 30 years ago to manage and report on the training and compliance of their employees and contractors. They
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There are more than 80,000 professional associations the U.S. alone. Each of these organizations provides some level of continuing education – either as a basic member benefit or to generate incremental revenue streams. Historically,
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When this decade began, only large, rich associations could afford the substantial investment required to purchase and deploy a learning platform and online content. With the advent of the cloud and software-as-a-service business model,
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There are hundreds of LMS vendors in the world. Many are generalists that build comprehensive and confusing LMS products that can manage the learning for any type of user population including employees and the extended enterprise audiences. The
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You need to attract more prospects, train your customers and external sales channel and you heard that this LMS thing can solve your problems. You Google “LMS” and you find 600 LMS companies, countless advertisements and hopefully a few of my
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See More Vendors in our LMS Directory The Crowd Wisdom LMS by Community Brands is a pure extended enterprise LMS and is extremely cool. They have left employee learning management behind with the other 599 LMS vendors and they focus on measurable
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A common perception in the learning, talent and extended enterprise world is that 80% of LMS functionality is common to all 600+ learning management systems. But based on my recent in-depth review of 80+ solutions, I would say 50% is a more
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In a recent post, Intro to Continuing Education and the Admin Nightmare, I started exploring the world of complex continuing education management and the associated administrative challenges for both learners and organizations. My point in looking
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I am an independent learning technology selection consultant and I help my clients select the right learning management system (LMS) for them based on their business needs. In a recent article about conducting better LMS demonstrations, I advised
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When you invest in an LMS, you are sticking your neck out professionally by committing $100,000 or $1,000,000 to a system that touches every employee, channel partner and/or customer in your business ecosystem. It’s your responsibility to
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See More Vendors in our LMS Directory At 27 years, Gyrus Systems has been in learning management longer than any other vendor I have reviewed. The current product, GyrusAim LMS, is a fifth generation product meaning this is the fifth complete
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Getting final budget approval for an LMS is kind of like pushing over a Coke machine — it usually takes a few tries. The buying cycle for a new or an upgraded LMS averages 12-24 months — and can easily take much longer. This
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See More Vendors in our LMS Directory We are kicking off the Talented Learning 2015 LMS Reviews with a review of the TalentLMS made by Epignosis. The TalentLMS true is a multitenant cloud LMS meaning all TalentLMS clients access the same LMS via
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Contrary to other analysts in the learning technology industry, I come at LMS buying topics from a vendor’s selling standpoint. After selling 100+ learning solutions, I’ve developed a viewpoint that is much different from someone
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If our previous post on The Business Case for Customer Learning piqued your interest in the benefits of educating customers, this post will show you how to build a rationale to obtain funding for customer learning initiatives. Organizations that
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I sold high-end LMSs for 13 years and never dreamed there was so much variety in the LMS marketplace. LMS vendors get used to competing against the same vendors for the same type of opportunities, and it’s easy to ignore the other LMS segments
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If you’ve been reading our blog (thank you), you know that cloud LMSs have changed the learning platform game. They were born at the start of this decade, and are designed from the ground up to support mobile, social and gamification
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I love acquisitions. They shake things up and restack the competitive deck giving new competitors a chance. In only a few short days, my reaction to Skillsoft acquiring SumTotal Systems has shifted from “Wow!” to “Hmmm” to “Eureka”
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