Training Industry Magazine - May/June 2018 - 59

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Simplify Compliance, a portfolio
company of Leeds Equity Partners,
acquired
Bluepoint
Leadership
Development, Inc. ("Bluepoint"), a
provider of leadership training and
content. Bluepoint personnel will join
Simplify Compliance, helping to expand
its learning capabilities to include
best in class leadership training. This
is the fourth acquisition for Simplify
Compliance since its formation in 2016

The Adecco Group, the world's leading
HR solutions partner, announced it will
acquire General Assembly, a pioneer in
education and career transformation
that
offers
accelerated
learning
programs in high-demand 21st-century
digital skills. The acquisition will position
the Adecco Group as a leader in the fastgrowing up-/re-skilling segment.

BetterUp,
the
first
leadership
development platform to connect
coaching to sustainable behavior
change, is partnering with Watermark,
Silicon Valley's leading community of
senior and emerging women executives
and entrepreneurs, to make executive
coaching accessible to women at every
stage in their careers.

Docebo announced its inclusion in
the new LinkedIn Learning Integration
Partner Program. The integration gives
organizations and learners access
to LinkedIn Learning's entire catalogue
of more than 12,000 best-in-class
learning courses within their Docebo
Content Marketplace. It will allow users
to access, browse and subscribe to
quality learning content directly from
their Docebo platform.

Thinkful, the school that brings
high-growth tech careers to people
everywhere,
acquired
Bloc,
an
online education company. This deal
enables both companies to accelerate
development of new programs, provide
technical career acceleration and deliver
top talent to employers everywhere.
Thinkful and Bloc have a combined 12
years of experience building technical
education online.
SAP SE acquired Callidus Software,
a leader known for its lead
to money applications, including
sales
performance
management
and configure-price-quote. These
applications, marketed under the
brand CallidusCloud®, will provide
SAP and its customers a differentiated,
cloud-based customer relationship
management solution.

INDUSTRY NE WS
NEW RESEARCH INSTITUTE TO HELP
ADULT LEARNERS HARNESS POWER
OF EDUCATION

Strada Education NetworkSM, a national
nonprofit dedicated to strengthening
America's pathways between education
and employment, announced the
creation of Strada Institute for the
Future of Work (Strada Institute). Strada
Institute's research will identify solutions
for working adults and inform Strada's
mission impact investments aimed at
transforming educational pathways for
working learners.
INDUSTRY LEADERS COMBINE TO
CREATE GLOBAL PLATFORM FOR
DIGITAL CREDENTIALS

Credly will acquire Pearson's Acclaim
badging business in response to global

demand for digital credentialing and
talent recognition. The partnership
between Acclaim and Credly brings
two leading organizations together
and provides the most comprehensive
solution suite for skill recognition,
credential verification and talent
management.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON INSTITUTE
ADDS INNOVATIVE ANALYTICS-BASED
LEARNING PLATFORM

A new digital learning capability now
available from the Johnson & Johnson
Institute, a world leader in professional
education, provides hospitals and
surgeons across a range of specialties
with an unprecedented ability to assess
and enhance technical skills in robotic,
laparoscopic and open surgery with

the goal of improving outcomes and
reducing costs.
TWO INDUSTRY PLAYERS UNITE TO
PROVIDE VR LEARNING SOLUTIONS

Two learning & VR industry pioneers,
Aquinas & PeVRformance Group
are joining forces with the creation
of AquinasVR. The newly created
AquinasVR will lead the development
and production of VR experiences
and content to augment and amplify
corporate trainings and help bridge the
corporate skills gap.
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