Training Industry Magazine - January/February 2018 - 63

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VitalSource, the leading platform for
institutions, campus stores, publishers,
and companies to create and deliver
educational and training content,
has acquired the assets of Seattlebased corporate learning-technology
leader, Intrepid Learning. Intrepid
Learning's and VitalSource's corporate
and professional business platforms
will launch under the brand Intrepid
by VitalSourceā„¢.
Instructure, a leading software-as-aservice (SaaS) technology company in
education and learning and performance
management, has acquired Practice, an
applied video microlearning solution
used to sustain continuous learning
cultures and drive innovation.

HighGround, a transformational employee
engagement platform provider, has
acquired Yoi Corporation, a leader in
predictive situational coaching. The
acquisition places HighGround at the
forefront of continuous performance
management, arming customers with a
new approach for enhancing employee
coaching, learning and performance.
Corel Corporation has acquired
ClearSlide, the sales engagement
platform leader that enables sales,
marketing and service teams to drive
more successful customer interactions.
With this acquisition, Corel will invest in
the development of ClearSlide's cloudbased platform, fueling its technology
leadership and enabling ClearSlide to
grow its business in new markets.

Kaplan
Professional
Education
(Kaplan Professional), a unit of global
education provider Kaplan, Inc., signed
an agreement to acquire the College
for Financial Planning (CFFP) from
Apollo Education Group, enhancing
its leadership role in educating and
preparing professionals in the financial
services industry globally by expanding
its already superb selection of offerings.
Callidus Software, a global leader in
cloud-based sales, marketing, learning
and customer experience solutions,
announced that it has acquired Learning
Seat, a cutting-edge provider of adaptive
training and compliance learning
content. The acquisition enhances
CallidusCloud Litmos Learning Platform
by adding nearly 500 courses.

INDUSTRY NE WS
INDEX TO QUANTIFY AND
BENCHMARK SALES READINESS

MindTickle, the company with a
comprehensive enablement platform
and a trusted by global sales leaders
to ensure always-ready sales teams,
launched the Sales Capability Index
(SCI), a capability score that, for the
first time in the industry, provides a
holistic, quantified assessment of sales
reps and team readiness, while also
producing a leading indicator of their
expected performance.
LEARNING SCIENCE RESEARCH

Fuse Universal, market leading nextgeneration learning solutions provider,
will collaborate with the computer
science department at University
College London (UCL) to explore
machine learning driven personalized

learning experiences. The project's
aim is to look into human learning
trends, to drive the development of
novel e-learning software systems that
provide a learning environment and
corporate training within organizations.
NEW SELF-REVIEW EVALUATION

15Five, the performance management
platform, announced a new quarterly
performance review feature, the BestSelf Review, designed to replace annual
employee evaluation. This researchbacked performance management
software facilitates quarterly or
biannual
performance
check-ins
where employees and their managers
reflect on progress over the previous
quarter, and work together to map
each employee's career trajectory and
development path.

VIRTUAL REALITY
MICROSIMULATION EXPERIENCE

Aquinas, the premiere learning
reinforcement software company,
unveiled a cutting edge virtual
reality simulation product. Dubbed
"Microsimulation Engine," the product
was recently previewed at the NYVR
Expo, where Aquinas co-led the
creation of the conference and advised
on the overall production.

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