The NetDimensions Talent Suite solution comes at it from a global perspective.  Headquartered in Hong Kong and traded on the London Stock Exchange, NetDimensions has clients and feet on the street all over the globe.  The LMS portion of their product is called NetDimensions Learning.  NetDimensions Learning is a LMS for organizations in high consequence industries with tough regulatory requirements such as energy, pharma, airlines, healthcare and government. NetDimensions  is in the group of long standing LMS companies that was not acquired by the large players.  Like most companies in that group, they don’t have the complete hire-to-fire Talent suite of products, but they have an extremely powerful learning and performance management system. Historically, NetDimensions had a tight focus on extended enterprise learning, but they currently downplay that in lieu of integrated talent management.  There is however, links on their main Solutions menu for extended enterprise and ecommerce leading to decent information. To support the extended enterprise, NetDimensions has global, mobile, enterprise reporting, ecommerce, domains, Software Developers Kit (SDK), and social collaboration functionality.  NetDimensions also has an internal group that provides portal development services to create super tailored front ends for the LMS.  The product is straightforward, easy-to-use, yet lacks some [...] The post LMS Reviews: NetDimensions Learning appeared first on Talented Learning.

Founded in 95 and headquartered in Ireland, WBT Systems is a leading provider of eLearning software.  WBT Systems targets the association market and extended enterprise in the commercial space. WBT’s flagship product is TopClass, a web-based Learning Management System that enables employees, members, partners or any learners globally to access training and events. It is amazing how much information is on the WBT Systems site.  It literally took all day to read and digest all their information, documentation, position papers, case studies, videos and more.  What I really like is the thought leadership on association learning.  They have written it out and there is no doubt that they are experts. The TopClass LMS is a powerful LMS yet lacks some of the newly available tools of gamification, advanced social, mobile apps and on-the-job training.  What they do have is top notch professional development, continuing education and comprehensive ecommerce capabilities.   Almost every association host conferences for their users and for many associations these events comprise the majority of their training.  WBT Systems has neatly integrated conference management in the LMS.  Administrators can manage conference, tracks, speakers, registration, payment, continuing education credits, instructors and feedback.  This was a feature set requested many times over the [...] The post LMS Reviews: WBT Systems TopClass LMS appeared first on Talented Learning.

I’ve been anxious to get to this review of ExpertusONE with all their award winning recently in the industry.  I couldn’t wait to see if it was hype or reality.  It’s reality. Undeniably, the ExpertusONE LMS is cool.   No LMS vendor can invest equally in all parts of their product.  You have to pick what you want to be good at and invest more heavily in those features. Expertus, the makers of the ExpertusONE LMS, has chosen to be good at extended enterprise.  Expertus wanted to build a LMS from the ground up and make it act and feel like today’s best ecommerce and social media sites.   They have.   They are pushing the envelop in mobile, social, gamification, virtual classroom, eCommerce and  integration.  In each category, they show up with deeply integrated technology that is going further than the norm.   Some examples: The Mobile app has "presence sensing" that automatically confirms a users attendance in an instructor led event Unlike many LMSs, the social features are seamlessly integrated everywhere for all users and not just bolted onto the side of the LMS eCommerce features support complex global tax and VAT rules REST APIs, the next generation web services, [...] The post LMS Reviews: ExpertusONE appeared first on Talented Learning.

You’re welcome.  I just read through eLogic Learning’s 1041 page eSSential v9.2 User Manual so you wouldn’t have to.  The upside — I now know this system. Let me tell you about it. Founded in 2001, eLogic Learning is a mature and proven industry leader in strategy, design and implementation of training and development products and services.   eLogic Learning makes the eSSential LMS.  They also provide mLearning, eLearning, gamification, video and animation custom content development services.  With the full package of LMS product and services,  they are able to provide complete impactful solutions -not just technology — to their customers. Essential sums up eSSential.  This is a traditional LMS in terms of deep, configurable administrative capabilities.  You can do a lot of heavy LMS lifting with extreme user, organization, notification, eLearning, certification, instructor led and order management.   The front end user experience looks like what you would expect.  You can access the catalog, your transcript and your mandatory or purchased learning.  Organizations can brand the LMS so that it  mimics an organization’s existing colors, logos, layout and fonts.  They have a nice Dynamic Content Page Management feature that allows you to tailor the front end on a portal basis so that you can [...] The post LMS Reviews: eLogic Learning’s eSSential LMS appeared first on Talented Learning.

All vendors and former vendors know Cornerstone OnDemand. Winning 100+ deals a quarter, they make every competing vendor shake and quake.  They have feet on the street everywhere. They have solutions for every industry, every language, every company size and every business problem.   Actually, vendors, you all should just go home and stop playing.  Cornerstone, you win. I joke…but only a little. For all of you non-vendors, Cornerstone OnDemand is a leading global provider of a comprehensive learning and talent management solution delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The talent management solution consists of recruiting, learning, performance, social, compensation and succession modules.  Cornerstone currently empowers over 14 million users across 191 countries and in 41 languages. They are one of the only talent providers, if not the only,  that has never taken their eye off the extended enterprise LMS market. Having lost so many times to Cornerstone over the years, I thought it was only fair that I spend double the time on this review, find some holes and restore some modicum of competition to the industry.  What I found, was a great extended enterprise LMS and company I remembered competing against.   Cornerstone supports extended enterprise initiatives with deep social, certification, [...] The post LMS Reviews: Cornerstone OnDemand appeared first on Talented Learning.

One of the biggest lessons I learned while selling learning management systems (LMS) was that customers didn’t understand all the licensing options that were available to them as they entered into the buying process and as a result made poor (or no) vendor selections.  In fact, their preferred license model and true status of the budget, was almost never discussed or revealed until well into the sales process. As I became more experienced, I found that this secrecy was not intentional -many LMS buyers are overwhelmed by all the pricing approaches and pushiness of the vendors and are not familiar with their own corporate budget and purchasing process for large ticket items.  It is easier to ignore the licensing issue until you find vendors you like — usually from a functional standpoint. The smartest buyers though, always have a commanding understanding of their business model and to license and contract for their LMS or any enterprise software.  The smartest buyers also share budget and license preference information with vendors as soon as possible to use as a qualifier and then a negotiation chip. Smart buyers know their requirements, use case scenarios and business case -cold, and never get the project [...] The post The 3 Licensing Models of LMS or any Enterprise Software appeared first on Talented Learning.

What is a social LMS you may ask?  In TOPYX’s case, its a modern, cloud-based LMS with deep, usable and integrated social collaboration features  — included in the base price.  TOPYX by Interactyx is an entry level, easy to setup and maintain, internal employee and/or extended enterprise social LMS.  Their target market is global, small-to-medium sized corporations, associations and public organizations.  (Just mentally replace the Ys in TOPYX and Interactyx with an "i" and you will know how to pronounce it.)  They claim over 10,000,000 users of their social LMS. Yesterday, I wrote about the The 3 Licensing Models of LMS and TOPYX falls into the Annual License category with a twist.  They charge $22,500/year per and they don’t count users or monitor bandwidth.  This fee provides unlimited user eLearning management, social learning, mobile access, branding and reporting and a free implementation.  For additional annual fees  you can add languages, ecommerce, integrations and other premium features.  Even with all options in, it seems like a good deal for the extended enterprise where its hard to predict usage and a really good deal if you have tens of thousands or more users. They have solutions and corporate focus in 4 out of [...] The post LMS Reviews: Interactyx’s TOPYX Social LMS appeared first on Talented Learning.

It is fun doing these LMS reviews.  Sometimes I find exactly what I expect.  Other times, I end up in a very different place. Mindflash is a case of the latter.   I wasn’t sure I wanted to do this review but ended up spending more time than usual as it turned out to be a capable extended enterprise application. These folks are neither a LMS, nor a LCMS, nor an authoring tool by traditional standards.  Yet, they definitely have some features of all that are neatly tied together to provide a really easy, inexpensive, extensible, no-risk solution that is perfect for getting into customer, channel and employee eLearning. They have a monthly release of new features in their Cloud-only solution so they are the kind of company you can grow with over time if you are just getting started. Mindflash targets the many smaller organizations of fifty to a few thousand users that see value in training, invest in training, but have yet to make the leap into eLearning.   Every growing commercial organization has to take the first step into eLearning at some point — it is just too expensive and restrictive not to.   Mindflash is that first step.  Mindflash is a [...] The post LMS Reviews: Mindflash appeared first on Talented Learning.

I spent the last month, nose-to-the-grindstone, reviewing LMS solutions for extended enterprise suitability. We’ve reviewed about 25 solutions and have published 11 reviews of the best LMS solutions we found so far.  I also spent many years successfully selling high-end LMS solutions. Vendors, I’m going to tell you something you already know, I’ve always suspected and now finally confirmed- there is not a ton of functional difference between LMS vendors.  75% of the solutions I reviewed have almost identical core LMS functionality that manages content, users and reporting.  The other 25% are comprised of varying degrees of advances in ecommerce, social, mobile, compliance, globalization and integration. What that means for LMS (and TM) vendors and salespeople is that you have to work awfully hard to get competitive separation from the competition with your 25% and business savvy. It’s all too easy to get lumped in with the 75% and never have a chance of winning. I believe that if you know the "right" publicly available information about a potential client and your primary contact -before your first discovery call -you can break out of the pack and give yourself a fighting chance to win. I always wanted to be the one who stood out — early.  A 90-120 [...] The post Achieve Competitive Separation Out of the Gate — Vendor Eyes Only appeared first on Talented Learning.

Saba has been in extended enterprise solutions since the beginning of the LMS industry.  I saw my first Saba presentation 15 years ago when they presented to us at Wilson Learning on how we could support our many global clients with their LMS.  A lot has happened in our industry since then but Saba is still here and still talking extended enterprise. Yesterday we attended Saba’s webinar presented by Charles DeNault on partner, channel and customer training.  It was really good and I’ll post the link when it’s up.  It’s the first extended enterprise webinar or whitepaper by one of the large integrated talent management providers in 2014.   Very refreshing to see a refocus on this key topic along with so many real life examples proving the business case. All the TM providers have been too busy worrying about integrated talent management and have forgotten that the scale of external LMS solutions dwarf the size of internal employees solutions.  Saba hasn’t forgotten and they have some of the best customers and case studies of extended enterprise solutions in the industry. Cisco, EMC, Yum Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut), NetApp, eTrade, H&R Block and American Red Cross are all long time extended enterprise customers delivering training to millions and [...] The post LMS Reviews: Saba Learning@Work appeared first on Talented Learning.

Today, over 10,500 learning and talent professionals from 92 countries are getting back to work, more than a little tired from this week’s ASTD 2014  learning, partying and travel. Talented Learning attended ASTD as part of the press corps and we talked to vendors every minute the exhibition floor was open.  We searched out learning technology vendors and asked every one we spoke to how their solutions impact extended enterprise learning, who they compete against and how they differentiate. Here are Talented Learning’s "Top 12″ ASTD 2014 Learning Technology Take-A-Ways: #1 — Augmented Reality Leading Innovation In Extended Enterprise Solutions Now this is cool stuff and made for the extended enterprise.  Performance support has reached a new level.  The idea is your smart phone,  tablet or Google Glass helps you identify a physical item (patient or product for example) and then automatically connects to training, support materials, 3-D animations, how to guides, social networks or experts.   Here are our favorite examples: Sumaria Networks uses augmented reality to help Avaya channel sales people and technicians to identify phone models and provide targeted performance support and training.  Check out this video of what we saw on the show floor on You Tube. Origin Learning developed [...] The post "Top 12″ ASTD 2014 Learning Technology Take-A-Ways appeared first on Talented Learning.

Social learning — hype or reality?  If you lined up the 100 greatest minds in our industry, you would get 50 opinions on either side of the argument.  You know what they say about opinions… So, what is social learning?  Social learning refers to all the informal ways people learn through observation and interaction with others then modeling learned behaviors.   This could be anything from kids learning sassy language at school to you sharing professional advice with LinkedIn groups to working one-on-one with a mentor.  I think most people would agree that the majority of everyone’s daily learning happens informally vs. sitting in a classroom. For organizations,  the question becomes, can we formalize this informal learning, get it into our LMS and capitalize on it?  Phrased like that, it seems kind of silly, but as an industry, we’ve been trying to do exactly that for over a decade. In the year 2000, most LMS systems already had collaboration centers and threaded discussion groups tied to courses or groups of users.  I’ve seen few client organizations use these original social learning features effectively.  Turns out that the overhead of managing and keeping content fresh is pretty heavy and the effort collapses under its own weight without a [...] The post Social Learning — How Social is Your LMS? appeared first on Talented Learning.

We’ve all been there — pan left, right, scroll down, left, zoom, right, down, too far, ugggh — reading a full size webpage on our phones is painful. If users are panning to use the LMS, you can guarantee they will only use it as a last resort.  For extended enterprise LMS initiatives where your users are mainly voluntary users, this is not an option. Over the last few months, Talented Learning has reviewed about 25 LMS solutions and we are tracking the mobile capabilities (and much more) of each solution.  If you have been shopping for a LMS lately,  you’ve noticed that every vendor says they are a mobile LMS and you can use on any device. While this may be technically true, if you dig deeper, you will frequently uncover these limitations: You can access the LMS from any device browser, you just have pan or have eagle eyesight to read anything Learners can access from a mobile device but not administrators You can launch mobile and manage mobile content, but the LMS interface is still the scrolling and panning version Tablets but not smartphones are supported and the tablet version is the same as the desktop Mobile users are detected and served up a limited [...] The post The Mobile LMS Race: Responsive Design vs. Apps appeared first on Talented Learning.

A few months ago, we noticed there was no central place on the internet where one could find unbiased information on extended enterprise learning technology.  Extended enterprise learning is defined as the learning efforts for your non-employees such as channel partners, customers, prospects, members, franchises, resellers and distributors -so we started Talented Learning to do just that. We began by reviewing LMS solutions and started compiling extended enterprise case studies from each vendor and categorizing them by industry.  As it turns out, the hi-tech industry is an early adopter of extended enterprise learning technology.  Why? Their products are constantly changing The have many non-employees who sell, implement and service the equipment Customers need to learn how to use the products Prospects need to be self educated There is really no other way to get the information out other than using learning, social and mobile technology.  What are the measurable benefits hi-tech organizations see from educating their extended enterprise of channel, customers and prospects? Educating prospects translates into new sales with less active sales effort Increase sales from existing customers Improve your brand loyalty Reduce customer support calls and increase customer satisfaction Expand into new global areas and markets easier Here are the top 10 [...] The post Top 10 Hi-Tech Extended Enterprise Case Studies appeared first on Talented Learning.

Here is a hypothetical scenario — your company just developed a new hi-tech diagnostic control for automobiles and put you in charge to find a way to certify 1347 global technicians working for 300 of your channel partners across North America.  You have an operations and not a training background and you think a LMS is a car.  Luckily you  have access to all the marketing and maintenance materials for the new product.  Oh, by the way, you’re given 30 days to find and launch a solution.  What do you do?  Go! Well, after reviewing Docebo, I would go and evaluate them. Docebo has built a pure cloud LMS that over 28,000 organizations have used globally since 2005.  (By the way, it’s pronounced "doe-chea-bo" and not "doe-see-bo" or "dos-a-bo" ) Back to our scenario…with Docebo you could: Go to their website and sign up for a free 14 day LMS trial with no credit card and no implementation fees Use their wizard to launch your LMS and brand it with your company logo, background and colors in 5 minutes Upload your Power Point presentations, PDFs, Video, Audio, Word, files and easily assemble into learning paths  — in French Canadian, English and Spanish or 30 other languages Create a test [...] The post LMS Reviews: Docebo LMS appeared first on Talented Learning.

Hello? Hello?  Is anybody out there using Tin Can? I’ve been holding this rusty Tin Can for over a year and starting to feel a little silly that I might have been taken in by the hype.  In our Top 12 ASTD 2014 Take-A-Ways post last month,  we commented on how the Tin Can hype seemed to be waning in comparison to last year.  We wanted to dig further and find out "why" and also compile case study examples of how organizations were using Tin Can.  We were surprised at what we found.  Nothing. Is Your Tin Can Rusty? Tin Can or the Experience API is the new content/elearning standard touted as the successor to SCORM.  Tin Can simplifies the tracking and recording of any learning event - no matter how informal or non-traditional making it easier to use and less limiting than SCORM. Yeh!  That should be good for something!  Something really great that we can’t do already with our LMS! Hmmm….wait a minute, currently in LMS solutions, you can track the completion of just about any learning event from instructor led, virtual classroom, eLearning, Word, Power Point, videos, podcasts, documents, web pages, Sharepoint docs, wikis, blogs, external learning events, college classes, conferences and [...] The post Tin Can Update — Looking Rusty appeared first on Talented Learning.

One, if by land, and two, if by sea… World, get ready for the next British invasion- here comes Growth Engineering,  their Academy LMS and their plucky view of learning management.  This company is cool and they are at war with boring eLearning! Growth Engineering entered the learning management market differently than most LMSs and it shows in their solutions, product, services and marketing.  Eight years ago, instead of deciding to be a LMS, they decided to help organizations sell better. Salespeople are a diva lot.   They are busy, self-important, competitive and confident know-it-alls.  It’s hard to teach them anything. (I know, I was a LMS salesman for 13 years. ) Growth Engineering deduced that the only way to change the behavior of salespeople, was to make the salespeople want to consume the content and want to come back.  (Sound familiar?) They partnered with the U.K.’s top sales and marketing institutes and converted their proven ILT content into engaging, scenario-based, video-laden, gamified, social learning content.   With the online version, salespeople can earn certification and accreditation in approximately 50% of the time and a fraction of the cost making it feasible for Growth Engineering to take an end-to-end sales improvement solution to corporations on a large scale. Out of [...] The post LMS Reviews: Growth Engineering Academy LMS appeared first on Talented Learning.

A few years ago the acquisition frenzy hit and transformed the learning management industry into the talent management industry or so we thought… In case you had a life and were not paying attention, here was the blow-by-blow action as I remember it — SuccessFactors, with the opening volley bought Plateau then was acquired by SAP.  Oracle, in response, purchased Taleo who just acquired Learn.com.  Vista says "I’m in" and bought  SumTotal who had recently acquired GeoLearning.  Certpoint was snatched up by Infor.   Saba and Cornerstone decided to build all the talent suite functionality themselves. Workday built partnerships with all the LMS providers.    The unaquired, standalone LMS providers feasted on the market carnage as the NextGen LMS solutions were being born.  Those were the days.   The Writing on the Talent Suite LMS Wall The writing was on the wall though: The top LMS products are now part of talent and HR suites LMS products must be integrated into talent or HR suites to survive Standalone LMS products were a thing of the past A funny thing happened though that reaffirmed my belief in the cyclical nature of history.  It was the same thing that happened 10+ years ago when the big HR providers tried to build (vs. buy) their own [...] The post 10 Reasons Not to Buy a Talent Suite LMS appeared first on Talented Learning.

Last week, I relearned the same lesson I’ve learned many times before.  Instead of calling a plumber when detecting the leak, I changed into my DIY hero suit, strapped on my tool belt and magically transformed a 30 minute professional fix into an all day, three trip to the hardware store mess.  My theory at the beginning of the day was to quickly save the $150 plumber bill, but I cost myself so much more in lost time, materials and productivity (and the skin on my knuckles) that I wish I would have made the call. The same thing happens every day with qualifying LMS vendors .  Buyers worldwide strap on their "qualifying" tool belts to try to determine which of the 500+ LMSs they should include in their proposal or RFP process.  Do you know what it costs to qualify a LMS vendor?  Let’s find out. The Often Repeated Scenario Is this you?  You work for an organization that creates and sells continuing education training for financial and insurance professionals.  You are looking to replace your LMS to manage your growing global training business, content and audiences.  You have been running a homegrown Moodle LMS system for years but have outgrown it on a multitude [...] The post The Hidden Cost of Qualifying LMS Vendors appeared first on Talented Learning.

Associations, trade organizations, unions, non-profit groups and other member organizations have been adopting learning technology at an accelerated pace over the last few years.  Foundation to their mission, these organizations provide social collaboration, professional development, information, best practices and research to support their members and potential members.  To some degree, every member based organization provides opportunities for their members to learn and grow. Historically, these learning opportunities were delivered in person at annual tradeshows or regional workshops.  With the evolution of eLearning, virtual classrooms, social learning, and mobile learning, it is now possible to extend the learning opportunities globally.  To manage it all, member-based organizations need a Learning Management System that is integrated into their association management system to keep track of all the learners, content, registration, purchase, completion, certifications, continuing education credits, accreditation and more. Five years ago, only large, national or global associations could afford the substantial investment of purchasing and deploying a LMS.  With the advent of the Cloud LMS providers, LMS solutions for member-based organizations are no longer cost prohibitive and are available to associations of all sizes and budgets.  Many solutions start at a nominal rate and implement in days or weeks allowing your non-profit organization [...] The post Top 10 Association LMS Case Studies appeared first on Talented Learning.

Unfortunate training and development professionals worldwide toil endlessly creating and providing non-measurable training for their employees.  They justify their corporate cost by avoiding compliance risk.  They are not invited to sit at the executive table.  They are the first to lose their job in a tight economy.   They are the butt of the "people that can do and people that can’t train" joke.  They are the owners of an ever shrinking budget and are asked to do more with less. They can’t spend what they need to make great, engaging, gamified eLearning content.  Instead, they are using Articulate Presenter to convent existing Power Point presentations to compliance eLearning that their employees hate, deployed via an LMS they both hate.   Blehh.  Existence as a cost center is such a drag. Is this you?  I hope not, but if so, I have a solution to turn your professional life around.   Take a Walk on the Wild Side of  Measurable Training On the measurable side of training it’s all milk, honey, fun and games.  We provide the best, most engaging, eLearning content and learning environments in the world.  Our budgets are ample and our content is so good, we can sell it and people want to buy it!  Our users [...] The post Take a Walk on the Wild Side of Measurable Training appeared first on Talented Learning.

"It is nor Social , nor Mobile  Nor NextGen, nor Gamified, Nor any other LMS Belonging to the Cloud. O, be some other name! What’s in a name?   That which we call a Cloud LMS  By any other name would be so sweet? " That’s some good poetry.  I’ve always been amazed that Shakespeare blogged about LMSs way back when.  He’s the reason I got in the LMS blogging business.  If he were around today, I’d imagine he’d be blogging about how ridiculous it  is to have 5 names and endless awards for the same thing — a Cloud LMS.  It’s really difficult to keep it all straight but let me show you this math equation I’ve been working on: Cloud LMS = Mobile LMS = NextGen LMS = Gamified LMS = Social LMS That should simplify things for you as you research options for your next LMS.  I think Shakespeare would be proud though mystified by my succinctness.   What is a Cloud LMS? There is no formal definition, so here is mine.  Cloud, NextGen, Social, Mobile and Gamified LMSs are LMSs born in the last five years.    They are the modern LMSs built using all the modern tools and techniques.  The solutions are available in the cloud for [...] The post A Cloud LMS By Any Other Name appeared first on Talented Learning.

I love acquisitions.  They shake things up and restack the competitive deck giving new competitors a chance.  My reaction to Skillsoft acquiring SumTotal Systems has went from "Wow!" to "Hmmm" to "Eureka" to "Yeah!" in a few short days.   Here was my staged progression of thoughts:   Wow My very first thought was I can’t believe Vista Equity Partners was able to unload SumTotal Systems.  Vista is a private equity firm that purchases flailing software companies, implements their significant best practices, turns them around and sells them and that of course was the plan with SumTotal.  However, Vista was never in the LMS and talent marketplace before and they struggled mightily for years until they learned that we’re an odd and very educated breed of buyers that prefer experienced pros to college kids. They also spent a fortune buying and integrating complimentary TM product companies to create an end-to-end talent management suite to compete with SAP and Oracle. They paid a high price but now SumTotal has a modern, powerful, competitive, integrated suite of products.  They also have hundreds maybe thousands of customers on legacy products that they are still supporting.  Somewhat of a nightmare scenario for Skillsoft to inherit in [...] The post Skillsoft Acquires SumTotal: Crazy or Genius? appeared first on Talented Learning.

If you have been reading our blog (thank you), you know that the Cloud LMSs have changed the LMS game.  They were born within the last five years and are fully mobile, social and gamified.  Cloud LMSs have engaging user interfaces, customer friendly license models and they are the ideal solution for the voluntary users of extended enterprise learning. No matter how badly you want to upgrade to a cloud LMS though, many of you in both extended enterprise and internal employee LMSs feel you are stuck contractually or practically in your old-school LMS.  Worse yet, you feel that you are probably paying too much for that paltry privilege.  I don’t doubt that you are, but there is a way out.  First step, take this five-question quiz to find out if you are getting fleeced by your LMS vendor.   #1:  Did You Marry Your LMS Vendor Before 2011-2012? The business models of LMSs has changed with the advent of the Cloud LMS solutions five years ago.  They have made the traditional LMS vendors and their business model obsolete.  Before 2010 longer-term contracts, perpetual licenses, high-cost implementations, poor customer service and no pricing differentiation for extended enterprise users reigned.  Today, consumption pricing, [...] The post Are You Getting Fleeced By Your LMS Vendor? appeared first on Talented Learning.