Skilljar Wins Fourth Consecutive Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Award
December 12 2018 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Skilljar’s Customer Training Platform Wins
Silver for Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for
External Training
Skilljar, the leading Customer Training Platform for
enterprises, today announced that it has won a Brandon Hall Group
Excellence in Technology Award for the fourth consecutive year.
Skilljar was awarded silver in the Best Advance in Learning
Management Technology for External Training category.
“It is an honor to once again be recognized by Brandon Hall
Group for providing our customers with an intuitive and effective
learning environment,” said Sandi Lin, CEO and Co-founder,
Skilljar. “We will continue to push the ‘innovation envelope’ as
more and more enterprises realize the tangible business value of
providing high-quality customer and partner training.”
A panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, and
Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executives evaluated the
entries based upon the following criteria: fit the need, design of
the program, functionality, innovation and overall measurable
benefits.
“We were blown away,” said Mike Cooke, Chief Executive Officer
of Brandon Hall Group. “Our research was confirmed by the entrants’
responsiveness to the needs of employers who seek to align
technology to the goals of their businesses. Every Technology Award
entry embodied a win-win proposition for employers and
employees.”
In 2018, Skilljar secured a $16.4 million Series A financing
round led by Mayfield and Shasta Ventures, doubled headcount and
has been recognized with multiple other awards including the Best
Customer LMS from the Talented Learning LMS awards, the 2018
Seattle Business Magazine Tech Impact Award and placement on
Training Industry’s Learning Portal Companies Watch List.
A full list of Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology
winners can be viewed at
http://www.brandonhall.com/excellenceawards/past-winners.html.
About Skilljar
Skilljar delivers an innovative training platform which enables
businesses to provide scalable and effective customer education.
The enterprise-grade solution is used by hundreds of companies to
accelerate customer onboarding and product adoption by enabling
multimedia course creation, an intuitive and mobile-responsive
learning environment, and automated CRM data integrations. Founded
in 2013, Skilljar is based in Seattle and backed by top-tier
venture capital firms Mayfield, Shasta Ventures and Trilogy Equity
Partners. For more information, visit www.skilljar.com.
About Brandon Hall Group, Inc.
With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of
delivering world class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall
Group is the most well-known and established research organization
in the performance improvement industry. We conduct research that
drives performance, and provides strategic insights for executives
and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.
Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought
leadership, research and expertise in Learning and Development,
Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition and
Human Resources. At the core of our offerings is a Membership
Program that Empowers Excellence Through Content, Collaboration and
Community. Our members have access to research that helps them make
the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, combined
with research-powered advisory services customized to their needs.
(www.brandonhall.com).
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