A year from now, the roster of eLearning companies will have changed significantly. Where will you rank? Will your products be competitive? Will your company be thriving? Will you still be in business?

Enterprise technology is rapidly converging. Big players are integrating eLearning, previously a distinct category, into their application suites. SAP, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Siebel and PeopleSoft have added eLearning to their offerings. New developments appear every week.

By this time next year, numerous eLearning pioneers will have dropped out of the race. Some of today’s eLearning vendors will have become spectacularly successful. They’re currently staking out alliances with non-traditional vendors to claim a share of the new workforce performance market.

The new world of learning for Global 2000 companies revolves around learning as a core business process. Learning is now being measured as a Key Performance Indicator.  

No company will make it alone in this environment. Everything is connected. There’s too much technology to track and too little time to track it, and you'd better understand how your products mesh with Web Services, real-time learning, enterprise integration, workflow management, business process management, workforce analytics, ad hoc contextual collaboration, continuous process improvement, business activity monitoring, performance portals, and true interoperability.

The future belongs to companies that can accurately plot their product migrations through this dynamic technology landscape. We’re here to help you through the maze.

A thirty-year veteran of the training, software, and eLearning industries, I thought I had a pretty good picture of what was coming down the pike in enterprise learning. After all, I’m CEO of eLearning Forum, have spoken at most of the major conferences here and in Europe, and literally wrote the book on implementing eLearning. I’m a strategic business guy.

Last year, I heard Sam Adkins describe his vision of workflow-based learning to the monthly meeting of eLearning Forum. Sam taught me more about the future of enterprise learning in 45 minutes than I had learned in the previous twelve months. Internet Time Group has since become Sam’s publisher.

Sam and I have both seen duty in the eLearning trenches since the early days. Sam founded the world’s first commercial online learning business, The Microsoft Online Institute; I developed the first business degree program for the University of Phoenix. Between us, we have nearly half a century of experience in the training and software business. We know what we’re talking about.

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Findings from Sam’s research have recently appeared in Chief Learning Officer, Certification Magazine, T+D, and Learning Circuits. Your may have heard him speak at TechLearn, TechKnowledge, ASTD, eLearning Week, or other venues. Elliott Masie calls Sam one of the “top eLearning analysts in the field today.”

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Read some of Sam’s articles. Check the summaries, tables of contents, and indexes of the current report series. Look at the photos and notes from our June meeting that put Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, SAP, Docent, Plateau, Thinq, Global Knowledge, Click2Learn, Saba, VCampus, and Knowledge Planet under one roof to discuss the evolution of real-time learning. Download our free research overview. Ask yourself what this vital market savvy would be worth to you.

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All the best!

Jay Cross, CEO
Internet Time Group

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