Partnerships & Alliances (May-June 2020)

The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.

  • The Retail Doctor formed a partnership with Axonify, a leader in front-line employee training, to bring retail-specific training content to Axonify customers. Axonify’s complimentary library of ready-to-go, retail-specific, micro-content is available to customers within the Axonify Content Marketplace.
  • Brainshark, Inc., a data-driven sales readiness platform, and TopOPPS, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-based sales pipeline management and forecast predictability solutions, formed a strategic partnership. The partnership will empower sales organizations to deliver “in-the-moment” guidance that improves representatives’ skills at key points throughout the sales cycle.
  • Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a provider of enterprise-ready, cloud-based learning and talent management, announced a partnership with spatial computing company Talespin LLC, that will provide the startup’s extended-reality training solutions—which include virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality—using Cornerstone’s platform.
  • DigitalChalk, a learning management solution, merged with Selleration, a sales enablement company. Now called Sciolytix, the newly formed company will leverage immersive and predictive technologies to measure skills and behaviors, predict success, and prescribe a personalized learning experience.
  • Inkling and EdCast are partnering to improve how enterprises create and distribute mission-critical learning to their employees. The integrated offering combines the AI-powered Learning Experience Platform (LXP) from EdCast with Inkling’s mobile-first operational learning platform to enhance onboarding, training, and upskilling efforts across the enterprise.
Lorri Freifeld
Lorri Freifeld is the editor/publisher of Training magazine. She writes on a number of topics, including talent management, training technology, and leadership development. She spearheads two awards programs: the Training APEX Awards and Emerging Training Leaders. A writer/editor for the last 30 years, she has held editing positions at a variety of publications and holds a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University.