Buying Learning Systems
After more than two years of intense research, 111 LMS reviews, 90 learning technology blog posts, dozens of LMS selections and 25 original webinars, we are proud and finally ready to introduce our first paid publication – The Talented Learning
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By our estimates, more than 800 LMS vendors compete in today’s learning platforms marketplace in 2019 (up from 600 we originally tracked in 2014). These LMS vendors range from global software companies to tiny cloud vendors. Why so many? How
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It is too easy to overpay for an LMS in 2016. In recent posts, I’ve described how cloud LMSs are disrupting and expanding the market with their customer friendly license models and shrinking implementation fees. They are at it again with a
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As little as five years ago, it was common for average LMS implementation fees to exceed $100,000. An LMS needed to be installed and then configured in either the vendor’s data center or at a client location. IT played a time-intensive,
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“How much does an LMS cost?” As an LMS research analyst and vendor selection consultant, I get a version of that question often from both LMS buyers and sellers. The true yet unsatisfying answer is that “it
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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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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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Getting final budget approval for a learning management system (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.
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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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