Training Industry Magazine - September/October 2021 - 59

COMPANY
NEWS
ACQUISITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Bigtincan,
a
world
leader
in
sales
enablement automation, announced that
it will acquire Brainshark. The acquisition
will allow Bigtincan to further expand its
course authoring and content creation
solutions. This move will strengthen
Bigtincan's role as a leader in the sales
enablement and readiness market.
Cognizant has acquired digital
engineering assets from privately
held project management agency
Hunter Technical Resources. Cognizant
continues to expand in key digital focus
areas, including engineering, cloud,
data, and artificial intelligence. With this
acquisition, Cognizant will be able to
better provide clients with capabilities to
compete in the modern digital landscape.
Seismic, the global leader in sales
enablement, announced its acquisition
of Lessonly, the training, coaching and
enablement solution. With Lessonly,
Seismic's platform can provide a
seamless seller experience with quick
and easy access to marketing and sales
content, alongside learning programs
and coaching plans, all in one location.
DataCamp, the leading interactive
learning platform, strengthened its
partnership with learning experience
platform Degreed, providing all Degreed
clients with free access to their most
successful data literacy courses. The
courses, which require no prior experience
in coding, are ideal for organizations
initiating digital transformation projects.
Whatfix, a leader in digital adoption
solutions, acquired learning management
system Nittio Learn. The move comes
amidst a groundbreaking quarter, and
further advances Whatfix's application
training ability by enabling more
personalized, adaptive learning. The
acquisition will lead to a dramatically
reduced ramp-up time for new learners.
Cornerstone OnDemand, a global
leader in talent management software,
has entered into a definitive agreement
to be acquired by Clearlake Capital
Group, L.P., a private equity leader. As
a result, Cornerstone will become a
private company, but will continue to
provide market-leading software-as-aservice
solutions.
INDUSTRY NEWS
NEW ORGANIZATIONAL CRISIS
CURRICULUM TO KEEP WOMEN
IN THE WORKFORCE
The Mach 1
Group
(Mach
1),
an
award-winning crisis, strategic
communications and public affairs
firm, unveiled its new service offering:
Championing Women Leaders,
Curriculum for Supporting Women
in the Workforce. This program is a
crisis planning and communications
curriculum for companies faced with
females leaving the workforce.
WALMART TO PAY 100% OF
COLLEGE TUITION AND BOOKS
FOR ASSOCIATES
Walmart announced that it will pay
100% of college tuition and book fees
for associates through its Live Better U
education program. This move aims to
provide approximately 1.5 million partand
full-time Walmart and Sam's Club
associates in the U.S. with debt-free
college degrees or trade skills.
LEARNING PERFORMANCE
BENCHMARK TOOL
Mind Tools for Business launched a
free, confidential L&D comparison
tool called The Learning Performance
Benchmark, to help measure the impact
of organizations' learning strategy, as
well as gauging organizations' learning
maturity. The Learning Performance
benchmark helps L&D leaders perform
gap analyses, while also comparing
their function's strategy against
industry peers.
PARTNERSHIP TO ADDRESS HISTORIC
RISE IN MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
MINES & Associates, a nationally
recognized
business
psychology
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firm, announced their partnership
with eMindful, the leading provider
of live, virtual mindfulness solutions.
The partnership will help MINES &
Associates support behavioral health of
their employees, clients, and members.
The move will combine eMindful's eM
Life solution with MINES' award-winning
Employee Assistance Program offerings.
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