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D2L: Continuing emphasis on services and completion of move to SaaS model

By Phil Hill. Posted on March 3, 2019

If you want story of aggressive migration to SaaS model (public cloud) for an LMS company, look no further than D2L and Brightspace. Transformation to be complete in 2019.

Blackboard Learn Ultra in 2018: Is it ready and does it matter?

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 12, 2018

Asking and updating a three-year-old question about an important LMS development.

Blackboard CEO’s First 100 Days: Reorganization and Learn Ultra Updates

By Phil Hill. Posted on April 22, 2016

Just over four years after Providence Equity Partners acquired Blackboard and three years after they brought in Jay Bhatt to replace co-founder Michael Chasen, the company hired Bill Ballhaus as its new CEO at the beginning of January. 100 days in, Ballhaus is starting to make changes to the organization and providing some insights into future corporate directions. […]

Blackboard Ultra Update: Some Clarity

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on February 26, 2016

Blackboard’s VP of Teaching and Learning, Valerie Schreiner, was kind enough to give Phil and me a fairly thorough update on the Ultra strategy on Wednesday. Their strategy is clearer to me now. That strategy, which I am about to share with you, is fairly coherent, reasonably interesting, and practically plausible in principle. There are still […]

After Customer Feedback And Further Delays, Blackboard Changes Learn Ultra Strategy For LMS

By Phil Hill. Posted on February 16, 2016

A full seven months after BbWorld 2015, Blackboard has yet to move any new functionality for Learn Ultra from “in development” or “in research” to “available” according a new public webinar. That is, Learn Ultra is no further along from a customer delivery perspective than they were in July 2015, when they were already a […]

Clarification on Cloud, SaaS and Multi-tenant Language

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 10, 2012

In several recent posts I have argued about the importance of cloud-based platforms, and Michael Feldstein has written some insightful analysis on the subject. Quite often the terms Cloud and SaaS (software as a service) are misunderstood, or at least used differently as the terms get redefined, which is common in technology markets. Last week I wrote […]

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