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The 2018 Top 20 Learning Portal/LMS companies are the leaders in the learning technologies market, said Ken Taylor, president of Training Industry, Inc. These companies offer platforms that are customized to the learner experience and engage the learner across devices and through innovations like gamification. They also provide robust measurement and reporting for learning administrators and meaningful, immediate feedback for users.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

PeopleFluent introduces an exciting new range of capabilities to LTG’s portfolio of specialist digital learning businesses, which includes LEO Learning, gomo, Eukleia, PRELOADED and Rustici Software. This new offering expands the opportunity for all Group companies to offer a strategic, results-focused offer in the broader context of capabilities required for the modern workforce.

Together, LTG and PeopleFluent will form a global team of over 800 colleagues dedicated to delivering innovative, differentiated solutions for developing and managing talent to its customers, combining PeopleFluent’s international expertise in talent management with LTG’s market leading learning solutions (content, services and technology).

Learning Technologies Group plc (“LTG”), the integrated e-learning services and technologies provider, has entered into an agreement to acquire PeopleFluent, a leading independent provider of cloud-based integrated talent solutions focusing on all aspects of the employee lifecycle: recruitment, development, performance and compensation.