HRchitect Technology Vendor News: Saba Appoints Mark Robinson as Chief Financial Officer

May 16, 2013

Proven Executive to Leverage Experience in Building Businesses for Growth and Success

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – May 7, 2013 – Saba (OTC Pink: SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, announced today the appointment of Mark W. Robinson as Chief Financial Officer. Saba anticipates that Mr. Robinson will assume his new position with the Company on or prior to June 3, 2013. In this role, Mr. Robinson will report to the Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Robinson brings to Saba 25 years of executive leadership experience in building a range of technology companies. He joins Saba after spending nearly five years with Calypso Technology, Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer for this multinational software and professional services company. Prior to joining Calypso Technology, Inc., he served as Chief Financial Officer of Discus Dental, a manufacturer of consumer goods and medical devices. He was previously Chief Financial Officer of Q Comm International, a leader in prepaid telecommunication products. He also served in several other management roles at companies including Prometrix/KLA-Tencor and Hewlett Packard Corporation.

“Mark brings deep experience from technology companies and important leadership skills that will help drive the planning and execution of our immediate and long-term financial strategies,” said Shawn Farshchi, interim Chief Executive Officer of Saba. “He is joining at a pivotal point in our evolution. His experience will prove invaluable as we aim to expand our reach into new markets and penetrate key segments.”

Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Robinson said, “This is an exciting time to be joining Saba. The company is executing on its cloud product strategy for next-generation talent management solutions, is led by a talented team and is positioned to address very attractive markets. I am energized by the challenge and look forward to contributing to the company’s success.”

Mr. Robinson earned his M.B.A. and B.S. in Finance & Marketing from The University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

About Saba

Saba (OTC Pink: SABA) enables global organizations to build a transformative workplace that leverages the advent of social networking in business and the ubiquity of mobile to empower an organization’s most mission-critical assets – its people. The company provides a set of people-centric enterprise solutions to various businesses and industries worldwide. Saba delivers cloud-based learning, performance, planning and collaboration solutions to transform the way people work.

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HRchitect’s HRtechnology Vendor News: Oracle Releases Oracle Learn Cloud 13A

April 4, 2013

 If you are looking for a new Human Capital Management (HCM) System, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 16 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR, Talent Management and Workforce Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

Advanced Global Functionality and Usability Enhancements Provide Richer Learning Experience for Oracle Learn Customers

News Facts

To help organizations develop a high-performance and aligned global workforce, Oracle has introduced Oracle Learn Cloud 13A.
The latest version of the learning management system (LMS) expands its global reach with additional time zones, languages and date format preferences, along with usability updates to help increase adoption and convenience.
Part of the Oracle Cloud, Oracle Learn Cloud is a comprehensive solution for delivering, tracking, managing and reporting on all types of formal and informal training. Using a single platform to access online, virtual and on-the-job training, organizations can design tailored user experiences through highly configurable learning portals with a unique user interface to manage learning globally.

User-Friendly Enhancements Drive Global Consistency and Efficiency in Learning

Educating and training employees in compliance with company and other federal regulations is crucial for legal purposes. Yet managing learning across geographies and regions can be challenging, particularly when accounting for regional differences in languages, work days, and work weeks.
With updates to usability and global preferences, Oracle Learn Cloud 13A paves the way for a richer learning experience that accelerates learner adoption to enhance performance and streamline the learning process.
New functionality provides customers with more global options, flexibility and consistency using one single learning system:

o With expanded options for time and date formats, including 36 new time zones, administrators and learners around the world can create and view courses in their local time zones regardless of where they are located. Users can also set their own start day of a work week to avoid schedule conflicts. For example, if you are located in the US and want to schedule a course in China, your learners can attend the same course from China without disruption.

o Oracle Learn Cloud is now available in 19 languages, including Polish, Dutch and Danish, which were added to this release.

Redesigned interfaces for users and administrators to enrich the user experience, including a tabbed interface that allows administrators to more easily discover content and training opportunities.

Supporting Quote

“Learning is critical to aligning an increasingly global workforce, though organizations must understand there isn’t a ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution to training,” said Jim Obsitnik, group vice president and general manager, Oracle Learn Cloud. “Oracle Learn Cloud incorporates new enhancements to support learning on a global scale, helping organizations achieve maximum efficiency through a centralized cloud-based learning management system that delivers unique, tailored user experiences to maximize learner adoption.”
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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 16 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

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Saba Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2011 Results…from Saba

September 25, 2010

 

Subscription Revenue Increased 7% Year-Over-Year to $14.9 Million – First Quarter Total Revenues of $26.8 Million, Up 4% Year-Over-Year

HRchitect featured Saba in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Saba participated in the Learning Management Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow. A.G. Lambert, the VP of Marketing with Saba appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on August 14, 2009.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is here to help!

Saba, the premier provider of people systems, today reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2010.

“The first quarter increase in total revenues reflects solid growth in our subscription and professional services revenues,” said Bobby Yazdani, Chairman and CEO of Saba. “Customers’ buying preferences in the quarter validated their enthusiasm for our advanced SaaS offerings and yielded an approximately three-fold increase in the annual contract value of new SaaS bookings over the same period last year.”

First Fiscal Quarter 2011 Results

Revenue. For the first quarter ended August 31, 2010, total revenues increased 3.9% to $26.8 million from $25.8 million in the same period of the prior year. Subscription revenue was $14.9 million, an increase of 6.6% on a year-over-year basis. License revenue was $4.5 million, a decline of 22.1% on a year-over-year basis. Professional services revenue was $7.5 million, an increase of 22.0% on a year-over-year basis.

Gross Margin. Gross margin was 63.1% in the first quarter compared to 64.7% in the same period of the prior year. The gross margin reflects higher levels of subscription revenue and professional service revenue relative to license revenue.

Earnings per Share. First quarter GAAP net loss per share of $0.06 compares to fully diluted earnings per share of $0.03 in the same period of the prior year. Non-GAAP diluted earnings in the first quarter of breakeven compares to $0.07 per share in the first quarter of the prior year.

Non-GAAP results are computed by adjusting GAAP results to exclude the impact of certain items including (i) non-cash amortization of intangibles, (ii) non-cash charges related to share-based compensation expenses, and (iii) restructuring costs. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is included in the financial statements accompanying this press release.

Cash. Cash generated from operations in the first quarter increased to $1.4 million from $0.7 million in the same period of the prior year. Total cash and cash equivalents at the end of the first quarter were $33.2 million, an increase of 53.8% from the end of the first quarter of the prior fiscal year.

Deferred Revenue. Deferred revenue at the end of the first fiscal quarter was $34.4 million, an increase of 11.6% from the end of the first quarter in the prior fiscal year.

Customers. Saba added 30 new customers during the first quarter of fiscal 2011.

Share Repurchase Program. In March 2010, Saba announced that its Board of Directors authorized the use of up to $5.0 million in the aggregate for the repurchase of shares of the company’s common stock. Under the share repurchase program, Saba repurchased 150,000 shares during the fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2010 and had $4.2 million available for future repurchases.

First Quarter Highlights

During the first quarter, Saba signed 30 new customers worldwide, including Cummins, Halliburton, France Telecome Espana Sa, Isuzu Australia, ITC Hotels, New Balance Athletic Shoe and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Saba also expanded existing relationships with a number of organizations worldwide, including: Baker Hughes, Bank of Tokyo, Hartford Financial Services, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Sydney Water, Six Continents Hotels, Saudi Aramco, and Solutia.

In addition, key announcements by Saba since the beginning of the first quarter include:

– Saba announced the general availability of Saba Live, its next-generation cloud-based enterprise business networking solution. Saba Live includes powerful Web 2.0 social tools integrated with Saba Centra Web Conferencing for real time collaboration. Saba Live provides users with rich personal profiles, competency-driven expertise, blended learning, secure groups and workplace analytics to deliver an unprecedented collaboration experience. Saba Live is another proof point that Saba is reinventing the collaborative Learning space.

– Saba announced its inclusion in Forbes Magazine’s ranking of “Most Trustworthy Companies” for 2010. Saba has been determined to exhibit transparent accounting and prudent management by Audit Integrity, an independent financial analytics company. The ranking is based upon more than 100 factors used to assess corporate accounting and management practices.

– Saba also announced People 2010 — Saba Global Summit. The annual meeting of Saba’s customers, partners and thought leaders will be held November 1st — 4th at the Westin Boston Waterfront. The event will feature seven conference tracks and over 70 interactive sessions, including 20 hands on workshops, and keynote speakers, including Gary Hamel, author of Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, professor at London Business School and “the world’s most influential business thinker” according to the Wall Street Journal. People 2010 — Saba Global Summit will be an opportunity for hundreds of participants to share best practices and coming developments in people systems.

Business Outlook

The following statements are based on current expectations as of the date of this release. These statements are forward-looking, and actual results may differ materially. Saba does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements in any way or for any reason.

For fiscal 2011, ending May 31, 2011, we confirm our prior guidance of total revenues between $121 million and $124 million, GAAP net earnings of $0.15 to $0.19 per share on a fully diluted basis and non-GAAP net earnings of $0.34 to $0.38 per share on a fully diluted basis. Due to customers’ seasonal spending patterns, Saba continues to expect that revenues, earnings and cash flows will be weighted more heavily towards the second half of the fiscal year.

The fiscal year 2011 non-GAAP outlook excludes non-cash amortization of intangibles and charges related to stock-based compensation expenses.

For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com
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GeoLearning Announces New Web Site and Messaging to Launch Next Generation of Learning Management Solutions …GeoLearning

January 28, 2010

 

Businesses Utilize GeoLearning to Outsmart, Outmaneuver, and Outperform

HRchitect includes GeoLearning in our list of top Learning Management Systems that businesses should consider. GeoLearning competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Learning Management Systems in December 2008, where they were crowned the winner. Also, Todd Premo, Director of Solutions, and Chris Lennon, Senior Product Manager, from GeoLearning appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on February 6, 2009.  If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

GeoLearning, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand learning and performance platforms, announced today its new Web site and messaging built upon the ‘Outsmart, Outmaneuver, Outperform’ theme. The Web site (www.geolearning.com) extends the GeoLearning brand, offering valuable information to new market segments.

“In today’s challenging business environment, organizations are looking for new ways to leverage their assets. Traditional approaches to learning and talent management have primarily focused on internal employees. Our new GeoMaestro platform allows organizations to harness the knowledge of their channel partners, resellers and customers to significantly improve business performance,” said Frank Russell, president and CEO of GeoLearning. “It has never been more important to boost agility in rapidly changing market conditions, improve business performance and productivity, and increase customer retention and acquisition. GeoLearning’s solutions allow our customers to meet business goals and increase revenue.”

Business professionals are using GeoLearning’s Extended Enterprise solution to turn external training initiatives into profit centers. Programming is easily developed and delivered on-demand instantly, providing a functional and flexible way to provide training, certification and knowledge assets.

GeoLearning’s cloud-computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) model delivers the GeoMaestro Learning Management Suite entirely on-demand. The Internet-hosted learning management platform enables organizations to capture, create, manage and share knowledge to improve workforce productivity, accelerate critical business processes, and drive organizational performance. The system centralizes and automates the entire process, making the administration of the enterprise solution effective and efficient.

By providing a flexible and scalable solution, more than 700 organizations worldwide access GeoLearning solutions. The new Web site features whitepapers, webinars, and free tools, providing comprehensive real-world examples that help build a business case and demonstrate return on investment.

For more information on GeoLearning, please visit www.geolearning.com
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Peopleclick Authoria Expands Compliance and Diversity eLearning Offerings Through a Strategic Partnership With emTRAiN…from Peopleclick Authoria

January 26, 2010

 

Partnership Provides Clients With Comprehensive On-Demand Video Training Courses via Advanced SaaS eLearning Management System

HRchitect includes Peopleclick in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors and Authoria in our list of top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Peopleclick Authoria, currently serving 60 percent of the Fortune 100 with best-of-breed suite solutions for Talent Acquisition, Talent Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, announced today a partnership with emTRAiN, the leading provider of multi-media, HR compliance training. Through this strategic alliance, the Company will introduce clients to Peopleclick Authoria Compliance and Diversity eLearning, a new service offering that provides organizations on-demand, online e-learning compliance and diversity educational tracks.

This SCORM-compliant service offering includes a wide-range collection of e-learning tracks ranging from EEO/Preventing Discrimination, Lawful Termination, Disability Discrimination and Fostering Diversity to Preventing Harassment, and gives clients the flexibility and efficiency needed to manage their compliance educational needs across their entire organization. In addition, this new offering is compatible with any learning management system (LMS) and gives clients the ability to access and reuse web-based learning content across various platforms. With a LMS enterprise dashboard, clients can also track and measure several learning platforms at once, creating an effective system for managers to ensure compliance within various departments of their organization.

“As an industry-leading compliance and diversity learning provider, emTRAiN has led the way in development and execution of online course materials. Through this partnership, Peopleclick Authoria expands its offerings to include a robust, user-friendly, web-based training program that was designed with the HR professional in mind. With Peopleclick Authoria Compliance and Diversity eLearning, clients experience compelling educational videos that help ensure the success of their compliance and diversity initiatives across their entire organization,” said Randy Jesberg, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Peopleclick Authoria Workforce Compliance and Diversity Solutions. “We are continually looking for ways to support our clients through eLearning initiatives across the full Talent Acquisition and Talent Management arena. The proven platform provided by emTRAiN provides a strong new eLearning delivery option not only for our Compliance and Diversity products, but for the entire Peopleclick Authoria set of solutions as well.”

“We are pleased to announce this partnership with Peopleclick Authoria, as they continue to be a workforce compliance and diversity solutions leader in the marketplace,” said Janine Yancey, CEO and Founder of emTRAiN. “Together, our goal is to help organizations gain essential knowledge that will prepare them for potential compliance issues. This new service offering provides Peopleclick Authoria clients with online training courses that depict real-world scenarios, which reinforces and ensures that employees are retaining the knowledge and then can apply this knowledge towards everyday workplace situations.”

To learn more about Peopleclick Authoria, please visit www.peopleclick.com
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Saba Delivers Strong Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results…from Saba

January 9, 2010

 

Grows Non-GAAP EPS by 75% and Invoicing by 10% year-over-year; Increases cash balance by 77% year-over-year; Extends leadership with 30 new enterprise customers across learning, performance and talent management solutions

HRchitect featured Saba in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Saba participated in the Learning Management Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow. A.G. Lambert, the VP of Marketing with Saba appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on August 14, 2009.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people management software and services, today reported financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended November 30, 2009.

“We continued to win major new customers while expanding relationships with the world’s leading global enterprises and governments. More and more enterprises are looking to Saba for unified people management solutions that drive business performance by aligning, engaging, developing, and mobilizing their people while fostering collaboration across their value chain,” said Bobby Yazdani, Chairman and CEO of Saba. “Our record of profitable growth and momentum in winning new customers while expanding existing customer relationships underscores the validity of our growth strategy.”

Second Quarter Financial Results

  • Total revenues for the quarter ended November 30, 2009 were $27.5 million, up 6.4%, from $25.8 million in the same period of the prior year.
  • Saba Performance and Talent Management products achieved record high product bookings in the quarter, representing 12% of total product bookings in the quarter.
  • Gross margin for the quarter ended November 30, 2009 was 65.7% compared to 59.6% for the same period of the prior year.
  • GAAP net income for the quarter ended November 30, 2009 was $666,000, or $0.02 per share on a fully diluted basis, compared to a loss of $355,000, or $0.01 per share, for the same period last year.
  • Non-GAAP net income for the quarter ended November 30, 2009 was $2.1 million, or $0.07 per share on a fully diluted basis, compared to non-GAAP net income of $1.1 million, or $0.04 per share on a fully diluted basis, for the same period of the prior year. Non-GAAP net income excludes non-cash amortization of intangibles and charges related to stock-based compensation.
  • Cash balance for the quarter ended November 30, 2009 was $22.9 million compared to $12.9 million at the end of the same period in the prior fiscal year. Saba repurchased 1,384,920 outstanding shares of common stock for approximately $4.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2010.
  • Saba invoiced $29.4 million in the quarter ended November 30, 2009, up 10%, compared to $26.7 million in the same period last year.

Second Quarter Business Highlights

Customers

  • Added 30 new enterprise customers bringing total new customers up to 50 during the first six months of Fiscal 2010, up from 39 new customers in first half fiscal 2009.
  • Strengthened leading base of Global 2000 customers during the quarter with wins at Baker Hughes, Bayer Healthcare, Banco Itau, McDonalds, Mars, Owens and Minor, Unicredit Group, Santander, and Saudi Aramco.
  • Expanded relationships with a number of existing large enterprise and public sector customers including 3M, Bose Corp, Synthes, Trillium Health Centre, UNUM Group, Varian Medical Systems, Kwik-Fit Group Limited, Les Hopitaux Universitaires, Blackbaud, Brinker International, Lincoln Electric Holdings, Westat, and Westinghouse Electric.
  • Saba OnDemand solutions reached a user base of over 3.6 million users, including such customers as Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville).

Products

  • Announced major new platform release, Saba Enterprise 5.5, as the industry’s first truly unified people management platform. Saba 5.5 delivers an updated, engaging, and easy-to-use Web 2.0 user interface that visually unifies information so that, whether a user is trying to create a succession pool, start a performance review, or manage a team of employees, the view of the employee information is consistent. Users at all levels are able to make better decisions with more complete and consistent people intelligence.
  • Announced availability of Saba People Management Cloud, delivering Saba’s people management solutions on Amazon Web Services. The Saba People Management Cloud will give companies the elasticity to use as little or as many of Saba’s services as they need, while paying only for what they use, with no up-front expenses.

Awards & Recognitions

  • Recognized in Bersin & Associates Talent Management Systems 2010: Market Realities, Implementation Experiences, and Solution Provider Profiles as the market leader for enterprises with over 10,000 employees. The study touted Saba Enterprise’s extensive configurability, embedded collaboration for talent management adoption and its integrated, sophisticated, workforce planning application.
  • Recognized in the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Saba was the only vendor in the people management solutions market to receive recognition in this report.
  • Recognized for growing momentum in social software by Chief Learning Officer Magazine who bestowed a Learning in Practice Award for “Excellence in Social Networks” to the company. The Excellence in Social Networks Award recognizes providers that have deployed wikis, blogs, communities of practice, social networks and/or any other employee communication and collaboration platforms for a client in the past year.

For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com
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Plateau’s iContent Continues Momentum with Addition of Six New Partners…from Plateau

December 17, 2009

 

Anderson-davis, Inc., Aterias, K Alliance, Safety Skills, Syntrio, Inc. and Wombat Security Technologies added to Popular Learning Content Solution

HRchitect featured Plateau in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Plateau participated in the Learning Management Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow2009 event. Jeff Kristick, Sr. VP Marketing of Plateau Systems appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on April 3, 2009.  If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Plateau Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class SaaS solutions for talent management, announced continued momentum with its iContent Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution with the addition of six new partners: Anderson-davis, Inc., Aterias, K Alliance, SafetySkills, Syntrio, Inc. and Wombat Security Technologies. These new partnerships expand the online content titles available through iContent, giving users access to an expanded catalogue of learning content to meet diverse and specialized training requirements.

iContent, the industry’s first and only Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution, alleviates online content management hassles by providing a single, centralized place for procuring and hosting third-party and custom developed content. This approach allows organizations to find, purchase and deliver relevant e-learning to their end-users quickly, easily and cost effectively. Today, more than 1.4 million users in 154 countries are using iContent to deliver and access e-learning content, spanning a wide range of users and industries including government, retail, manufacturing, healthcare and finance.

iContent is a fully managed service and portal that supports the delivery and management of online content, including hosting, testing, validation and updates. Currently, the iContent eCommerca Portal houses more than thousands of customer-created courses and supports an expansive library of pre-packaged titles from more than 30 leading content vendors. The latest companies to join Plateau’s robust community of online learning content providers include: 

  • Anderson-davis, Inc. – Regarded as an international leader in anti-harassment, ethics, diversity and leadership education, the partnership with Anderson-davis will make content titles on preventing sexual harassment, building respectful workplaces, conducting investigations and facilitating the healing process available through iContent.
  • Aterias – Known for its government-specific harassment and “NoFear” training, Aterias’ employment law compliance training content is designed to reduce the amount of discriminatory harassment in the workplace and encourage employees to disclose violations of the law and government waste without fear of retaliation.
  • K Alliance – iContent customers will have access to K Alliance’s on-demand IT training materials covering a wide variety of topics, including IT certifications, IT skills, government training, Department of Defense training, soft skills and desktop applications.
  • SafetySkills – Through the partnership, SafetySkills will make its best-in-class online safety training programs on a variety of topics available via iContent, including emergency response, human resource compliance, occupational health and safety, driver safety and hazmat transportation.
  • Syntrio, Inc. – Key business topics, including occupational health and safety, workers compensation, legal compliance, general business and management skills, Syntrio will make its library of more than 100 titles available through iContent.
  • Wombat Security Technologies – As provider of Anti-Phishing Phil, an online training game that focuses on cyber security awareness, Wombat Security Technologies’ has partnered with iContent to make its engaging and interactive gaming tool used to educate employees about harmful phishing scams that may endanger their computers and electronic data available on-demand.

”Since launching in 2006, iContent has experienced significant growth across our user base, partners and content library as organizations recognize the benefits of Content-as-a-Service offerings in terms of budget, time and resources,” said Lee Wright, Sr. Director of Services for iContent at Plateau Systems. “These new partnerships expand the iContent library and give our users access to third-party content offerings in HR, diversity, IT and cyber security training from some of the industry’s top learning content providers.”

For more information about Plateau, visit www.plateau.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Cornerstone OnDemand Named Among the Top Ten Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Los Angeles…from Cornerstone OnDemand

November 17, 2009

 

HRchitect featured Cornerstone OnDemand in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Charles Coy participated in the HRchitect WebMingle on January 16, 2009. Cornerstone OnDemand participated in the Talent Management Systems Beauty Pageant in December 2008, where they were crowned the winner. Cornerstone OnDemand also participated in the Learning Management Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow event. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a leading provider of on-demand learning and talent management software and services, today announced it has been recognized as one of the top ten fastest growing private companies in Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

“We’re proud to be recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal for the company’s strong performance and aggressive growth over the past few years,” said Adam Miller, President and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand.  “Fostering a culture of innovation, team work and a never-ending focus on providing best-in-class client service has been essential to the success of our business.  In the coming year, we will further propel the company’s growth by continuing to invest in the quality of our software, the success of our clients and the strength of our team.”

The Fastest Growing Private Companies in Los Angeles list is comprised of the top 100 companies based in the greater Los Angeles area.  Companies are ranked by their percentage growth in revenues from 2007 through 2008.  To qualify, companies must be privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles County.  The Los Angeles Business Journal reviewed more than 1,000 submissions before narrowing the field to 100 finalists.

Cornerstone OnDemand continues to be ranked among the fastest-growing software companies in the U.S. by other respected lists such as Inc. magazine’s Inc 5000 and Deloitte’s 2009 Technology Fast 500, which recognized Cornerstone for 311 percent revenue growth from 2004 to 2008.

For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com.

 

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Learn.com, Announces Record Breaking Q3 2009 and Year to Date New Client Acquisition, Revenue, and Partnerships as the Company Approaches its 11th Year of Service to Clients…from Learn.com

November 11, 2009

 

The World’s Largest Cloud LMS Provider Named Best in Industry for 4 Consecutive Years

HRchitect includes Learn.com in our list of top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Learn.com, the leader in cloud delivered workforce development and productivity, today announced that the company’s business performance shattered historical records in 2009. The company not only has signed a record number of new clients but the year to date through Q3 2009 has been the best sales bookings period in company history. More importantly, Learn.com was able to achieve this impressive growth while still maintaining positive net income and cash flow on a GAAP basis, an uncommon accomplishment in the Learning and Talent Management space. This strong performance across every metric underscores the value Learn.com brings to its clients and validates Learn.com’s best-in-class platform and pure cloud computing business model.

“During the most challenging economic period of the past 80 years, Learn.com was able to accelerate its growth by continuing to demonstrate its significant and unparalleled value proposition to new clients. Learn.com has always been the most innovative company in our space and once again we were pioneers by launching our Guaranteed ROI pledge to our clients. More and more clients were able to prove the many facets of hard and soft dollar savings and ROI using Learn.com. The results are irrefutable – training is how organizations realize excellence in execution. One watershed study points to firms’ investment in training as being the single most powerful predictor of stock price. Our unyielding dedication to client success and satisfaction using Learn.com products and people has paid dividends for our clients and in return, for Learn.com. While most of our competitors were downsizing this year, Learn.com added 25% more in net new headcount, and we are continuing to increase our employee base to maintain our peerless service to our clients. Even more satisfying than our great results is the positive impact Learn.com has had for our clients,” said Jim Riley, Chief Executive Officer at Learn.com.

Beyond deepening current strategic partnerships with some of the world’s biggest names new relationships were forged with Taleo (Nasdaq:TLEO), and others. These relationships further demonstrate that Learn.com improves business results and adds significant value to our partners’ ecosystems. These well planned partnerships allow Learn.com to penetrate new channels as well as provide Learn.com clients a one-stop-shop for pre-hire to retire solutions, with unmatched value, depth of functionality and ease of use.

“Our latest research shows that employee development is one of the most vital elements in a high-performing organization today,” said Josh Bersin, CEO of Bersin & Associates, a leading industry research and advisory services firm. “Taleo’s partnership with Learn.com now enables the company to offer a complete solution for corporate learning management.”

The relationship with Taleo brings together the unequivocal market leaders in our respective categories to provide the only pre-hire to retire unified talent management platform with a global footprint and world class capabilities and flexibility.

Another milestone was Learn.com’s launching of the World Wide Content Exchange and the Learn.com Personal Edition (http://my.Learn.com) which has over 30 structured job profiles with skills and curricula mapped to assist the US workforce in skill retraining in an unprecedented time of skill shift in the US Economy. Now any person in the world can access over 30,000 web based courses, live on line courses, college degree programs, accredited courseware for the Healthcare and manufacturing sector as well as course authoring and sharing.

Other YTD 2009 Accomplishments
• Again voted the best Enterprise Learning Management (LMS) system by the 50,000 readers of ELearning! Magazine (3rd Consecutive Year)
• Voted best Talent Management System by the 50,000 readers of ELearning! Magazine
• Over 95% Client Renewal Rates
• Opened and staffed an office in London, UK
• Announced Planned Cloud Computing Center in Amsterdam to support EMEA clients
• Enhanced the Learn.com Report Exchange to enable clients to share and download free custom reports they can share across their Learn.com applications
• Invested heavily in a state-of-the-art redundant infrastructure and state-of-the-art SAS 70 facility for its Cloud Computing clients – more speed, power and redundancy
• Added 224,000 subscribers with just one new client

Learn.com also added and expanded relationships with Enterprise clients such as: Pete’s Coffee, Sykes Enterprises, CKE Enterprises, Vermeer Corporation, Smith & Nephew, Intuit, Verigy, Orica USA, St. Jude Children’s Research, US Department of Commerce, Classic Residence by Hyatt, Cartier, Michelin North America, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, General Services Administration (GSA), Jackson Hewitt, Extra Space Storage, and hundreds of others.

For more information on Learn.com, please visit www.learn.com

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Kenexa Recognized as a Talent Management Systems Leader in Bersin & Associates Research…from Kenexa

November 11, 2009

 

Market Study by Leading Research Firm Acknowledges Kenexa’s Sophisticated Analytics Tools, Strong Integration of Assessments

HRchitect featured Kenexa in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Kenexa participated in the Talent Management Systems panel and the Talent Acquisition Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow event. Ron Hanscome, VP of Product Strategy with Kenexa appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on June 26, 2009. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Kenexa (NASDAQ:KNXA), a global provider of business solutions for human resources, today announced it has been recognized as a market leader in the recently released Talent Management Systems 2010: Market Realities, Implementation Experiences, and Solution Provider Profiles. The study, conducted by Bersin & Associates, the only research and advisory firm focused solely on enterprise learning, talent management and talent acquisition, is a comprehensive market review and buyers’ guide for talent management software systems.

The report found that, despite the recession, the talent management systems market has thrived over the last year and vendors have seen significant growth. Based on market data and information provided by vendors, Bersin & Associates project that the market will expand by 15 percent over the coming year. The report also found that the market is crowded with many providers with similar solutions. The key differentiator that drove overall satisfaction was the customer experience, including partnership relationships with vendors and customer service. According to Bersin, organizations are no longer willing to sacrifice functionality in order to standardize technology and are expecting more from their providers.

“We are pleased to have been recognized in Bersin’s research. Kenexa’s industry-leading applications are built using innovative technology and driven by customer requirements, giving our clients what they need on an integrated platform. This, along with our commitment to Extreme Service, is what sets Kenexa apart from the competition and has sustained our growth in this economy,” commented Rudy Karsan, Kenexa’s CEO.

“Our goal is to address the real business impact of these systems and identify the market leaders. Despite the economic recession, the talent management software market continues to outpace new spending on core human resource management software. While it is still a very competitive market, the real market leaders are starting to emerge,” said Josh Bersin, president, Bersin and Associates.

Out of 24 companies profiled, Kenexa ranked No. 4 in market share by revenue and by number of enterprise customers.

Kenexa offers Integrated Talent Management (ITM) to facilitate each step of the employee lifecycle. The SaaS-based applications are unified through common services and enable clients to have access to continuous upgrades, expert functionality and streamlined customer support for single point solutions or across multiple Kenexa applications delivering holistic talent management.

The Bersin & Associates study particularly acknowledged the strength of Kenexa’s sophisticated reporting and analytics tools and the integration of its market-leading psychometric assessments. 

Karsan concluded, “By leveraging the expertise of our more than 100 industrial organizational (I/O) psychologists, HR researchers and recruiters, as well as the best practices we’ve learned from more than 20 years in the industry, Kenexa enables organizations to not just deploy technology but to maximize its business value.”

The 400-plus-page study is based on detailed briefings and product demonstrations provided by 24 vendors; completed surveys from 460 HR, learning and development, and information technology professionals; and more than 40 interviews with HR and talent leaders.

For more details about the study, please visit www.bersin.com/tmsystems.  

For more information on Kenexa, please visit www.kenexa.com

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Cornerstone OnDemand Recognized for 311 Percent Revenue Growth by Deloitte’s 2009 Technology Fast 500 …from Cornerstone OnDemand

October 23, 2009

 

Talent management software firm advances its ranking among the fastest-growing technology companies in North America

HRchitect featured Cornerstone OnDemand in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Charles Coy participated in the HRchitect WebMingle on January 16, 2009. Cornerstone OnDemand participated in the Talent Management Systems Beauty Pageant in December 2008, where they were crowned the winner. Cornerstone OnDemand also participated in the Learning Management Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow event. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based learning and talent management solutions, today announced it has advanced its ranking from no. 431 to no. 388 on Deloitte’s 2009 Technology Fast 500 list of fastest-growing technology companies in North America.  Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the five year period from 2004 to 2008.  Cornerstone grew 311 percent during this period. 

Despite the down economy, Cornerstone continues to outperform its competitors, enjoying triple-digit growth of new client bookings and a nearly 300 percent surge in active subscribers over the past year.  Cornerstone is also significantly expanding its global reach via the company’s strong-performing European division and strategic reseller partnerships with firms such as ADP Employer Services, which has more than 550,000 clients worldwide. 

“It is an honor to be recognized by Deloitte and the Technology Fast 500 as one of North America’s fastest growing technology companies,” said Adam Miller, President and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand.  “Cornerstone’s momentum over the past few years can be attributed to the quality and innovation of our software, our dedication to providing best-in-class client service, and the success of our global sales teams and reseller channels.  We will continue to invest in these key areas to ensure the success of our clients and the continued growth of the company into 2010.”  

In addition to the Technology Fast 500, Cornerstone recently was ranked among the top 100 fastest growing private software companies in the U.S. by Inc. magazine.  Miller also was named 2009 CEO of the Year by the Technology Council of Southern California.

For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com.

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Saba People Management Cloud to Be Available on Amazon Web Services Platform…from Saba

October 22, 2009

 

HRchitect featured Saba in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Saba participated in the Learning Management Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow. A.G. Lambert, the VP of Marketing with Saba appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on August 14, 2009.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced Saba People Management Cloud, an edition of Saba’s people management solutions to be delivered on Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

By enabling Saba’s award-winning products for the Amazon cloud, large and mid-sized enterprises will be able to easily unify, engage, mobilize, and foster collaboration across their value chain while simultaneously reducing overall project implementation costs.  Amazon Web Services has become a leader in cloud computing services and provides a proven, trusted, robust, and highly scalable platform to support Saba’s On Premise and OnDemand services.

The Saba People Management Cloud will give companies the elasticity to use as few or as many of Saba’s services as they need, while paying only for what they use, with no up-front expenses. Both OnDemand and OnPremise customers will be able to take advantage of the Saba People Management Cloud as business needs dictate.

“Saba’s goal is to change the ROI equation for people management solutions by delivering a people management cloud that enables value-added services to reduce costs and increase efficiencies” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba. “The AWS cloud platform will allow customers to re-configure business processes to gain significant efficiencies in logistics, commerce, distribution, and other third-party services.”

For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Learn.com named as a Leading Talent Management Provider…from Learn.com

October 12, 2009

 

HRchitect includes Learn.com in our list of top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Learn.com, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity announced today that Bersin & Associates, the only research and advisory firm focused solely on enterprise learning, talent management, and talent acquisition, named the company a leading provider in its latest study, Talent Management Systems 2010: Market Realities, Implementation Experiences, and Solution Provider Profiles. The study also highlights Learn.com’s development innovation; compliments the company’s completeness of vision and newest product modules, SkillScore and MyProfile.

According to the study, “Learn.com has consistently been one of the fastest-growing and financially solvent companies in the learning management market. Today the company offers a broad set of features for performance management, career and succession management, compensation management, and recruitment management in one product – the LearnCenter platform. A talent management system, the LearnCenter platform rests on a single database to manage employee profiles, competencies, jobs, organizational hierarchies and content across all of the talent management process. We believe that the Learn.com is well-suited for U.S.-based organization that would like an integrated LMS, LCMS, collaboration and performance management solution. The product’s ease of implementation and ease of use are appealing to organizations with limited IT and HR administration teams. “

“LearnCenter is well-suited for organizations of all sizes requiring an integrated performance management solution,” said Josh Bersin, president of Bersin & Associates.

“The recent partnership between Taleo and Learn.com, will bring together Taleo Development competitive performance management product and today’s 100% SaaS, primary “go to market partner”, Learn.com,” Bersin stated in his blog titled Taleo 10. “The Learn.com partnership is likely to go well.”

According to the Bersin & Associates study, “Learn.com has experienced a high growth rate within the last year and has gained significant market share, and Learn.com is in the top 10 providers in market share by revenue.” Also highlighted in the study are Learn.com’s advanced social tools to support informal and social learning in enable employees to easily share knowledge, collaborate with co-workers and leverage personal networks. According to the study, “The use of social tools is important in preparing for the next-generation solution provides with the growing use of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.”

Learn.com is also named among the vendors with a strong internal development effort, continuously enhancing the platform to ensure better integration with other modules and more features. According to the study, “Internal development allows the solutions provider to focus on building high-valued integration points, integration workflow and process management, and designing a streamlined user experience.”

Currently, Learn.com offers strong profile management allowing users to update their own profiles on a field by field basis, with users will also able to control data viewing by role. This will streamline succession planning, modeling performance and focusing on true skills and work history. Learn.com also offers its own collaboration tool, the WebRoom, making the LearnCenter platform a unique system.

To access the full Bersin & Associates Report visit the Bersin & Associates website, www.bersin.com.

For more information on Learn.com, please visit www.learn.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Plateau Positioned in “Leaders Quadrant” of Leading Industry Analyst Firm’s 2009 Corporate Learning Systems Magic Quadrant…from Plateau

September 23, 2009

 

Company’s Focus on Customer Success Makes Plateau Highly Attractive to Customers Deploying Global Learning and Talent Management Solutions

HRchitect featured Plateau in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Plateau participated in the Learning Management Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow2009 event. Jeff Kristick, Sr. VP Marketing of Plateau Systems appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on April 3, 2009.  If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Plateau Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class SaaS solutions for talent management, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Plateau in the Leaders Quadrant of its recently released “Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems (CLS).” This year’s report evaluated 17 vendors in the corporate learning systems market based on Gartner‘s assessment of their “Ability to execute” and “Completeness of Vision.”

“We are pleased that Gartner recognizes Plateau, which we believe is for our market strength and leadership in consistently conceiving and delivering thoughtful, flexible learning and talent management solutions that allow customers to solve real workplace challenges,” said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau Systems. “Our recent launch of Plateau Talent Gateway further demonstrates Plateau’s thought leadership and highlights our ability to understand how emerging technologies, like social networking, are relevant to learning and how they can translate into business value for our customers. As the first talent management solution to fuse a complete talent profile with a social networking and portal platform, and link it directly to Plateau’s Talent Management Suite, Plateau Talent Gateway has the potential to transform the learning industry and further bolster Plateau’s position in the market.”

Gartner identifies Leaders as those vendors who “not only meet the market’s current requirements, which are continually changing, but also anticipate future requirements. Vendors must also articulate how they will address these requirements as part of a vision for an expanded CLS. In addition, Leaders have a track record of financial performance and an established market presence. Their installed base gives them a strong presence in the CLS market, and they demonstrate continued growth in customers and revenue. The market perceives Leaders as thought leaders, with well articulated plans for product development, marketing and channel support. Leaders have the highest combined scores for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. These strategic providers will continue to drive the market forward by broadening their CLS functions and integration. Buyers can expect that, as a group, Leaders will be considered as part of most new product purchases and will continue to have high success rates in winning new business.”

According to Gartner, “The CLS market has shifted from a relatively narrow software market focused on supporting training or e-learning to the creation of broader social learning platforms. These platforms make learning more integral to the actual work that people do. In particular, advanced learning and development (L&D) programs now focus on increasing business performance and creating communities of learners who teach each other, often on the job within the task that the learner needs to perform.”

Dovetailing with Gartner‘s views on how social networking is transforming learning, Plateau Talent Gateway brings the best of social networking, portal, and Web 2.0 technologies together in a single solution and provides 80 drag-and-drop tools including blogs, wikis, discussion groups, digital asset libraries, expert location and RSS feeds — made available through configurable, standards-based JSR 286 portlets. Organizations are deploying this collaborative solution to drive workforce productivity and innovation, facilitate information-sharing and employee collaboration and extend formal, informal and just-in-time learning activities inter- and intra- enterprise-wide.

Today, more than 10 million users across 250 organizations, including the largest corporate, non-profit and government learning institutions, have adopted Plateau’s learning and talent management solutions to optimize employee performance and increase workforce productivity.

For more information about Plateau, visit www.plateau.com.

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Bersin & Associates Completes In-Depth Research Bulletin on the Buyer’s Need for an Adaptive LMS…from Learn.com

September 8, 2009

 

HRchitect includes Learn.com in our list of top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Learn.com, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced recently that Bersin & Associates, the only research and advisory firm focused solely on enterprise learning, has completed an in-depth research bulletin, titled The Latest in Enterprise Learning & Talent Management – Learn.com: Update on a Fast Growing LMS Company. In this bulletin, Josh Bersin, President and Founder of Bersin & Associates examines the changing market for learning management systems, and discusses how Learn.com has evolved its strategy to continue its growth and success.

Bersin & Associates, a leading authority for the LMS and HR systems market, highlights one major customer satisfaction issue in this bulletin (Volume 4, Issue 31) that continues to come up – the need for an “Adaptable LMS”.  The research points to the challenge of automating training and knowledge-related business processes, which is compounded by the fact that most companies have unique training processes and business requirements and each tracks its own key performance indicators. As a result of these challenges, LMS systems have had to deal with hundreds of configuration options, customizations and customer driven changes. The research suggests that this is the single biggest challenge buyers have in their LMS implementation and deployment process and that almost all LMS systems receive poor marks in these areas.

“LMS systems have had to deal with hundreds of configuration options, customizations and customer driven changes. Vendors have struggled with this for years and, even today, the single biggest challenge buyers have in their LMS implementation is the customization of the system to meet their particular business requirements. This is where Learn.com has some unique advantages,” said Josh Bersin, President and Founder of Bersin & Associates.

The Bersin & Associates Research Bulletin highlights some of Learn.com’s Adaptability Advantages as: 

-      The Learn.com platform is a true SaaS platform, enabling customers to login, customize the system, administer their environment and manage the system without the need to implement any in-house software. All customers run on the same “version” of the platform in a “multitenant” environment. Learn.com benefits from this since all of the company’s customers run on the same version of the LMS software.

-      The user experience is fully configurable (CSS-enabled)

-      The platform includes content management, collaboration and other generalized tools that go beyond learning. This means that the platform is really an end-to-end “portal system” in addition to an LMS.

-      The platform has a unique capability to build “sub-LearnCenters” in a tree-like structure. This means that, once an organization implements Learn.com, they can build “sub-portals” which can either inherit all the setup and configuration options or operate with a totally different look, feel, workflow and set of business rules – all without ever having to customize the software source code.

“Since Learn.com is the only LMS that provides such extreme flexibility without the need for custom programming, our clients get a custom solution in less time, for less cost, with greater reliability and scalability.  The more than 2,500 system administrators of our Global clients agree that Learn.com’s extreme adaptability to any business need for both internal and external audiences is a major contributor to their successful initiatives.  The bottom line is simple – our clients get better results,” said Jim Riley, Chief Executive Officer at Learn.com.    

To download a copy of this report please visit www.learn.com/adaptive

For more information on Learn.com, please visit www.learn.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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