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The Corporate LMS Software report analyzes customer success stories, social presence and data aggregated from online sources and social media properties to score eligible LMS vendors to award a weighted average. Market Leaders are vendors with a substantial customer base and market share. Leaders have the highest ratio of customer success content, content quality score, and social media presence relative to company size.

NetDimensions LMS, the global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning management systems, has launched a new version of NetDimensions LMS. NetDimensions LMS 13.2 includes a number of sought-after features and upgrades to the product suite, including SaaS platform infrastructure improvements, extended xAPI capabilities and enhancements to classroom resources.

Learning Technologies Group plc (“LTG”), the integrated talent management and learning technologies software and services provider, has announced the acquisition of the remaining 73% of Watershed Systems, Inc. Watershed, the global market leader in corporate learning analytics, has proven ability to harness data about learners to analyze and assess the impact of learning on organizational performance.

The award recognizes NetDimensions and Humentum’s five-year partnership, which has helped several organizations in the non-for-profit sector deliver eLearning solutions to people in over 160 countries. With offices in the US and UK, as well as regional hubs in Latin America and Africa, Humentum helps aid organizations and charities by providing training, consulting, convening, and insights to their members and clients with the aim of advancing the social sector and strengthening the capacity of the organizations they work with.

Affirmity offers a unique combination of expert analysis, consulting, training and software to optimize affirmative action and diversity and inclusion programs. The decision by LTG to establish Affirmity capitalizes on its strong reputation for client success and underscores LTG’s commitment to further enhance Affirmity’s best-in-class offerings and serve the growing needs of its clients.

The joining of NetDimensions and PeopleFluent sees NetDimensions cease to operate as a separate business within LTG. NetDimensions has joined PeopleFluent’s talent management offerings to form a core part of a newly created learning suite. The NetDimensions LMS product will be complemented by authoring and video solutions provided by gomo learning technology. The addition of gomo products to the PeopleFluent Learning suite enables direct deployment from gomo’s authoring tool to NetDimensions LMS. All products will continue to be available as standalone or fully integrated solutions.

The merger was announced on Tuesday 25 September 2018 at a shareholder presentation of LTG’s 2018 interim results. The joining of NetDimensions and PeopleFluent, which is scheduled to conclude by the end of October 2018, will see NetDimensions cease to operate as a separate business within LTG. LTG is to rebrand the NetDimensions LMS to form a key product within the PeopleFluent Learning offering. Alongside the newly-named NetDimensions LMS, PeopleFluent’s learning suite is to offer authoring and video solutions, provided by gomo learning technology. The addition of gomo products to the PeopleFluent Learning suite enables direct deployment from gomo’s authoring tool to NetDimensions LMS. All products will continue to be available as standalone or fully integrated solutions.

PeopleFluent’s Workforce Compliance and Diversity solutions offer a unique combination of expert analysis, consulting, and technology allowing organizations to design, implement, and track affirmative action and diversity and inclusion programs. The decision by LTG to separate the business from PeopleFluent highlights a commitment to develop an already successful business unit, leveraging LTG resources to further enhance offerings and serve the growing needs of clients and prospects.

The research report evaluates the learning science effectiveness of a number of leadership training and development tools currently available on the market, with the aim of showing how successful vendors enhance leadership thinking. “Learning Technologies Group’s strength is its broad portfolio of providers, combined with its emphasis on rich scenario-based training and the importance of business outcomes," said Todd Maddox, PhD, report author and learning scientist/research fellow at Amalgam Insights.

“PeopleFluent has a strong track record of supporting HR operations in large organizations with complex workforce needs—especially in industries prone to digital disruption. PeopleFluent is continuously innovating mature products while supporting newer offerings and is well attuned to emerging trends in consumer and enterprise technologies. The company has strong integrations across the entire product suite,” stated Lisa Rowan, Research Vice President, HR, Talent and Learning Strategies for IDC.

The annual Megabuyte Quoted25 Awards are an independent ranking of the UK’s best-performing public technology companies. In addition to listing the 25 best-performing companies overall, the awards recognize excellence across a number of different performance categories, including Highest New Entrant.

Aragon Research defines Leaders as organizations who possess comprehensive strategies that align with industry direction and market demand, and effectively perform against those strategies. NetDimensions’ position as a Leader is due to its strengths in: “We’re thrilled to have been named as a Leader by Aragon once again,” said Dale Solomon, Managing Director of NetDimensions.