Jay Cross is blogging the VNU Supplier Summit. There are lots of nuggets in his notes, and of particular interest to me was the session by Bryan Chapman, an LMS analyst with Brandon Hall, who had some numbers associated with average LMS license prices.
They seem important enough to be quoted below:
Average price per seat of LMS
Trainees:
500 users
10000
25000
Licensed
1st year
$83
$22
$17
3 year license & maintenance
$42
$12
$9
Hosted
1ST year
91
18
13
3 year
84
16
12
The vendors in the post-secondary CMS world get very upset when their customers start publishing the numbers for their individual license deals, which has made it extremely difficult to get a view of what an average seat is costing across different size license bases. My general impression, though, is that the difference between the post-secondary CMS and corporate LMS license prices is not as big as I had initial thought. – SWL
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