The lede of this story is the EdCast acquisition by Cornerstone, a $5 billion giant in the corporate learning field that grew through acquisitions of Saba, Lumesse, Halogen, and others. But the article is a good overview of the space as a whole. The corporate learning market is complex, to say the least, and is depicted here as divided into a series of layers, ranging from the access layer (the productivity software where employees access learning resources) through the learning experience layer to the learning management system, business rules, and finally to the data layer in the back end. But more: "the big priority in most companies is to build an integrated platform for skills" which "requires a skills taxonomy for learning, one that understands careers and mobility, and one that can be used for recruiting."
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