Vendor Analysis
published on May 11, 2023
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Totara’s learning platform
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Learning Platforms profile on Totara is a comprehensive assessment of Totara’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of learning platforms and identifying vendor suitability for learning platform RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the learning platform sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Totara’s learning platform and the company’s market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the location of delivery centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
Totara began as a startup in 2011 in New Zealand. It aimed to give organizations the freedom to shape their learning and development choices through an open-source ethos. In 2023, Totara enables talent development around the globe, with its products used to train millions of users.
Totara started as an LMS: fundamentally the core platform deployed with most clients. The Totara Talent Experience Platform was launched in 2020 and comprises three core modules: Learn, Engage, and Perform, which offer a continuum of increasingly complex features and functionality which can be switched on according to an organization’s needs and learning maturity.
Buyers (of all organizational sizes) looking for a modular, scalable (up to 1m+ users), and cost-effective learning platform, which can be configured to local requirements through a network of carefully allocated expert partners, should consider Totara’s Talent Experience Platform.