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Training Industry

The 2017 Content-Development Companies Watch List

Raleigh, NC (USA), May 2017 - Training Industry has announced its 2017 Content Development Companies Watch List as part of its mission to continually monitor the training marketplace for the best providers of training services and technologies.

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Friendly Competition

The Quad, a New Social-Community Feature

Saint Louis, MO (USA), May 2017 – ej4, an award-winning eLearning-content and learning-management-system (LMS) provider has added a new social-community feature to its LMS, Thinkzoom. This new space was created to encourage learners to connect with other learners for friendly competition, knowledge sharing, and training reinforcement for a more engaging learning experience.

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Upside LMS

LinkedIn's Workplace Learning Report

Pune (IN), May 2017 - LinkedIn recently released a report on workplace learning entitled "2017 Workplace Learning Report", highlighting the top trends and challenges in 2017 that L&D professionals are tackling. While the report has generated buzz in the industry, companies are increasingly faltering to find new ways and means to tackle the challenges. UpsideLMS, a highly regarded SaaS learning-management system, has once again put itself in the driver’s seat to help companies surmount the problems and emerge unscathed.

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Courses on Demand

Editable eLearning Content without the Uploads

Chester (UK), May 2017 - Global eLearning supplier EssentialSkillz have launched a new product that enables any client to deploy and update fully editable off-the-shelf training from the EssentialSkillz training library in their own LMS without the need to re-upload course files after editing. 

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Health and Safety

Acheson and Glover Chooses Kallidus Content Services

Cirencester (UK), May 2017 - Acheson and Glover Ltd manufacture a wide range of construction and landscaping products for both the commercial and residential sectors. They employ over 400 staff and have a very broad and diverse customer base of both construction professionals and domestic consumers. All of their Health and Safety Training was previously done face to face and took over an hour, putting a lot of strain on the training department.

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Language Skills Gap

Strong Appetite for post-Brexit UK Language Learning

London (UK), May 2017 – The producers of the language-learning app Lingvist have announced their latest data findings, showing that the UK is taking the right steps towards becoming a more multilingual society in the post-Brexit era. They examined nine months of learning data before and after Brexit (August 2016 - April 2017) and found that Britons’ appetite for language learning strengthened despite the UK’s decision to leave the EU. 

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Combined Organization

Saba Completes Acquisition of Halogen Software

Redwood Shores, CA (USA), May 2017 - Saba Software Inc. has announced the completion of its acquisition of Halogen Software, Inc. Saba, Vector Capital and its affiliates, and Michael Slaunwhite, Halogen’s co-founder, executive chairman, and largest shareholder, have acquired Halogen for CAD$12.50 per share in cash. 

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