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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Learning Management Suites, Q1 2008

Saba, SumTotal Systems Tie For Lead With Plateau Systems Hot On Their Heels

In Forrester's 90-criteria evaluation of learning management system (LMS) vendors, we found that Saba, SumTotal Systems, and Plateau Systems lead the pack by providing feature-rich offerings and...

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Report:Topic Overview: Human Resource Management

The most important investments that businesses and government organizations make are in their people. In addition to direct expenditures on compensation and benefits, organizations invest in...

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Report:TechRadar™ For Business Process Professionals: Human Resource Management Apps, Q1 2010

Core Components Show Maturity While Collaborative Elements Evolve

Human resource management (HRM) applications range from essential tools to hire and pay employees and administer benefits programs to strategic components for assessing and developing talent. More...

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Report:The ROI Of eLearning

A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Big Benefits From Learning Online

Online learning earns companies a positive return on investment (ROI) in less than a year. If you have a business that is spread across many locations, it makes good business sense to implement an...

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Report:Topic Overview: eLearning

eLearning is an online method of developing skills and knowledge across the entire workforce as well as with customers and partners. eLearning comes in many formats: self-paced courses, virtual live...

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Report:HRM Solutions: Traditional Models Clash With Next-Generation Processes And Technology

Human resource management (HRM) applications — consisting of six categories of solutions ranging from core transactions to strategic talent management — represent a market in transition....

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Report:How To Create A Comprehensive, High-Impact Learning Strategy

Training departments in companies of all sizes are revamping their training and learning programs. Why? Learning organizations must develop employee-centric, business-driven learning strategies that...

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Report:The Banking Industry Is Using Video To Better Meet Customer Needs

Banks are beginning to use video to carry on business with customers remotely. Through branch office videoconferencing or video-enabled Web conferencing, banks conduct high stakes business: selling...

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Report:Web Conferencing 2009 Market Overview

Pick A Portfolio Of Providers To Meet All Your Conferencing Scenarios

Web conferencing has become a key real-time collaboration priority for most enterprises. IT is working hard to pick the right suppliers, negotiate the right price, and drive adoption. But the market...

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Report:The ROI Of Telepresence

A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Major Value Of Virtual Presence

Telepresence, the life-size, "you are there" meeting experience, is a hefty upfront technology investment — but over five years globally dispersed organizations reap a return on investment...

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Report:The Workforce Is Changing; What Are You Doing About It?

The oldest of the 78 million US Baby Boomers are now reaching retirement age. Some will want to keep working — either full- or part-time — and others will have no other economic choice....

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Report:The Millennials Are Here! Are You Prepared?

The Millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are now entering the workplace. They bring sharp technology skills, a desire for challenging work, flexibility, mobility, and an ability to work well in...

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Report:How To Select A Learning Management System

Planning Is Critical To Success

Involve all major lines of business (LOB) and departments in selecting a learning management system (LMS) to ensure that it meets your business needs. A carefully planned LMS request for proposal...

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Report:Learning And Talent Management Join Forces

HCM Software Market In Rapid Transformation

In today's hypercompetitive environment for attracting and retaining talented employees, business process owners must have the ability to seamlessly assess employee competencies and job performance...

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Report:Get Serious About Informal Learning

Formal learning works for 20% of learning needs, while informal learning handles the other 80%. In the past, informal learning was turning to ask your teammate a question. Today, the rise of Web 2.0...

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Report:Use HR Analytics To Optimize Talent Processes

HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning

Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...

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Report:Time To Get Serious About Mobile Learning

The mobile landscape is changing daily — new devices and more secure device management platforms, easier accessibility to content from multiple devices, evolving mobile Web standards (e.g.,...

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Report:For Stickier Learning, Try A Dose Of Serious Gaming

When it comes to effective teaching, it's better to engage all of the senses. Interactive learning activities like simulations, immersive learning, and serious gaming put employees in virtual yet...

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Report:Informal Methods Challenge Corporate Learning

Learning Organizations Must Incorporate Informal Tools Into Their Total Learning Programs

There is a new employee learning paradigm. The formal course with multiple lessons is still around and will always have a place in the learning hierarchy, but informal learning with "knowledge...

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For Content & Collaboration Professionals

Report:Knowledge, Learning, And Work Unite!

Formal And Informal Learning Help Workers Do Their Jobs

A new generation of learning is here. Today, employees are working in a very fast-paced environment. They need learning that is immediate, relevant, and in the context of their work. The course...

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Report:Informal Learning Connects With Corporate Training Programs

Informal learning continues to gain ground in the corporate training environment as instant messaging (IM), blogs, communities of practice, and expertise location find homes in lines of business....

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Report:Learn From A Community: The eLearning Guild

The eLearning Guild's developers, trainers, and managers have access to an inexpensive collegial community of practice that offers materials, ideas, and thought leadership. The six-year-old guild,...

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Report:Telepresence: The Cadillac Of Videoconferencing

Life-Size Conferencing With No Perceived Latency

Telepresence videoconferencing emulates in-person meetings with life-size images of remote participants. Specially constructed telepresence rooms provide the lighting, sound, acoustics, furniture,...

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Report:Telepresence Comes In Less Expensive Models

But It May Not Have All The "Bells And Whistles" Of The Expensive Offerings

Two vendors, LifeSize Communications and Telanetix, offer telepresence conferencing at substantially lower upfront costs than their higher-priced competitors like Cisco, HP, Polycom, Tandberg, and...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Web Conferencing, Q2 2006

WebEx, Microsoft, and Adobe Are Close Leaders In Our Lab-Based Evaluation

Forrester evaluated six leading hosted Web conferencing solutions across 108 criteria. WebEx Communications Meeting Center garnered top scores because of its consistent high performance, coupled with...

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