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WILL Interactive, the nation's most
experienced and highly awarded
learning simulation and immersive
game developer, has expanded their
partnership with OpenSesame. WILL
Interactive now offers government HR
and training professionals a learning
solution that will increase course
completions, improve outcomes and
raise the performance of their employees
and organizations.
BTS GROUP AB (publ), a leading
global strategy implementation firm,
has agreed to acquire Coach in a Box, a
consultancy group offering innovative
coaching services on a global scale.
BTS's strategy aims to create a broader
base for future organic growth
while actively consolidating a highly
fragmented market. BTS also seeks
to serve new and existing customers
with innovative services based on
next generation, digital technologies.

Serenova, the most globally scalable
contact
center-as-a-service
(CCaaS)
provider, announced the acquisition
of TelStrat, a leading provider of
call recording, quality, analytics and
workforce management (WFM) solutions.
The acquisition plays a ro
le in
Serenova's mission of enabling simpler
customer experiences that drive revenue,
retention and loyalty. Serenova now
serves 1,100+ customers and is the
second largest independent CCaaS
provider worldwide.

Kallidus, a leading provider of learning
and talent management solutions,
announced that it has acquired
recruitment software provider Advorto
to support the next stage of its growth
strategy. The move creates a best-in-class
provider of a complete SaaS (Software
as a Service) end-to-end solution for
learning, performance, 360, recruitment
and talent management dedicated
to helping organizations manage the
entire employee development life cycle
more effectively.

Kaplan Professional (KP) and LearnCore
announced a strategic partnership,
continuing on their shared mission of
providing tailored learning solutions
for organizations addressing today's
business challenges. The partnership
will immediately make available
LearnCore's video coaching, sales
training, content authoring and social
accolade capabilities to KP's clients.

O.C. Tanner, the global leader in employee
recognition and workplace culture, has
agreed to acquire Accumulate Loyalty
Services Limited, a leading Australian
provider of employee recognition
and incentive solutions. This enables
O.C. Tanner to better support its large
multinational clients who have employees
and operations in Australia, and further
expands O.C. Tanner's presence in the U.S.,
Canada, Europe, Singapore and India.

INDUSTRY NE WS
TECH EDUCATION
TO ADDRESS SKILLS GAP

Apple co-founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak
announced the formation of Woz U,
a world-class digital institute to help
fill the employment gap for highpaying technology jobs across the U.S.
Woz U is designed to get people into
the workforce quickly and affordably,
creating long-term financial stability for
a new generation of tech workers while
providing prepared hires and training
solutions for businesses.
MOBILE APP REINVENTS
BUSINESS ENGLISH LEARNING

GlobalEnglish, the leader in technologyempowered business English learning
experiences, announced a new learning
experience with the launch of their mobile
app, GlobalEnglish Reach. This represents
a disruptive force for GlobalEnglish
and how it teaches business English

to millions globally. Reach creates a
new, skilled-based approach designed
for personalized daily microlearning
missions, available anytime and anywhere
to complement the proven structured
learning applications that serve hundreds
of thousands of learners globally.
FREE INTERACTIVE MODULES
IN ROBOTICS PROGRAMMING

Universal Robots, the pioneer and
market leader of collaborative robots,
introduced the online learning platform,
Universal Robots Academy, to ensure
that everybody with a desire to learn
the concepts of cobots can master basic
programming skills. The company is now
expanding the online training, adding
three new modules that teach users how to
create and work with coordinate systems,
variables and conditional statements,
and how to use the robot's wizard to
easily create a program for packaging.

A MORE HUMAN SOLUTION TO
IMPROVE EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

Globoforce, a leading provider of
social recognition, announced the
general availability of Conversations. A
continuous performance improvement
solution, Globoforce Conversations™
aligns,
connects,
and
develops
people and teams with more frequent
communication around priorities and
feedback to improve employee and
business performance. Conversations
is an extension of Globoforce's marketleading social recognition solution.

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