Blackboard Sees Strong Momentum in Corporate Learning

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB), a global leader in education technology, today announced that it has been positioned in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems, an influential report evaluating the completeness of vision and ability to execute of vendors in the market.

Blackboard has seen significant growth in the corporate learning space where an increasing number of corporations of all sizes have adopted the company's teaching and learning platform to deploy training programs efficiently and cost effectively. In the Magic Quadrant report, Gartner "evaluates vendors based on their ability to articulate current and future market direction, innovation, customer needs and competitive forces."

The report notes that, "In 2009, we evaluated Corporate Learning System vendors for comprehensiveness of their offering. Those that presented more effective components and capabilities generally improved in the areas of analytics, learner ease-of-use and support for structured social and informal learning. The social learning platform has emerged as a key component."(1)

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