Claudio Erba is the founder and CEO of the Italian company called Docebo (dō-CHAY-bō), an e-learning company that has developed an open-source LMS. It can be run on the cloud as SaaS on a fee per-user basis or it can be purchased and installed locally. Docebo differentiates itself from competitors by having small and medium […]
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Deborah S 7:25 am on June 1, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Great summary! Your comment about the continued growth of the company despite competition is consistent with a report I read from Bersin & Associates. The author of the report, David Mallon, suggested that the number of LMS providers continues to grow fuelled by the entrance of smaller companies.
Deborah
troos 4:01 pm on June 1, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yes, there does seem to be many small but successful ventures in the LMS, CMS, SMS and TMS markets. It also seems, however, that for every new idea that makes these ventures successful, another one is bought out and absorbed by the larger corporations such as Blackboard. For example, a company called MoodleRooms, providing online hosting and technical support for the Moodle platform was recently bought by Blackboard so now Blackboard has invested in Moodle. It all seems rather strange to me but I guess if you can buy out the competition, that is one way of maintaining a market status.
Tim
mackenzie 2:29 pm on June 1, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
It’s interesting to see a product, originally created for education being specialized for businesses. Usually it’s the other way around. It’s also great to see they are succeeding by becoming specialists in business training. I wonder what might happen if other LMS providers get wind to the market potential for business. Although, my experience tells me that these companies are slow to shift (Moodle creators agree) and therefore may never catch up to Docebo, especially if the company continues to evolve to meet the needs of its customers. I wonder what Docebo offers that Blackboard and Desire2Learn don’t?
Cheers, Steve
troos 4:05 pm on June 1, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Steve
I think Docebos main catch for the business market is their willingness to adapt their technology to suit the needs of their clients. They even offer to provide full course development and learning object creation for their clients. This is very attractive for businesses since they do not need to hire educational experts to do this development.
Tim
gillian 9:40 am on June 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Tim,
I am curious how the company can refer to itself as “open source” if it requires user fee for web-based users or a purchase price for downloaders?
troos 2:12 pm on June 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Gillian
Open source just means that the source code that the software is developed with is made available to the clients. There is no patent or copyright on the particular programming of the software. In this way, if they so desire, the clients can redesign the code to fit their personal preferences. Docebo does offer a free version for up to five users; essentially to try it out. There are also several examples of companies who offer Moodle, also an open-source product on a per-user fee basis (MoodleRooms and Lambda Solutions to name two).
Tim