{"id":10019,"date":"2015-02-13T01:14:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/partnerships-alliances-jan-feb-2015\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T20:43:42","slug":"partnerships-alliances-jan-feb-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/partnerships-alliances-jan-feb-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnerships &#038; Alliances &#8211; JAN\/FEB 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Second City Communications,<\/strong> the\u00a0business solutions division of improvisational theater The Second City<u>,<\/u>\u00a0and <strong>SAVO,<\/strong> a market leader in sales productivity solutions, partnered to expand Second City\u2019s RealBiz Shorts Sales content library into the sales enablement space. This alliance will provide video-based sales training solutions and a day-long co-creation event at The Second City theater in early 2015. Second City Communications also launched RealBiz Shorts Talent, with video content developed in collaboration with 20 global companies as founding members.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unicorn Training<\/strong> has invested in game studio <strong>Amuzo, <\/strong>with the two partnering to bring the mobile and cross-platform game experience to educational games for the corporate sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xerox<\/strong> announced an agreement that expands its learning portfolio with the acquisition of <strong>Intrepid Learning Solutions\u2019<\/strong> learning services. Xerox\u2019s acquisition does not include Intrepid\u2019s cloud-based learning technology business, which will continue to go to market under the Intrepid Learning brand. The two companies will launch a partnership alliance to present clients with unified learning options using Intrepid\u2019s technology and Xerox\u2019s e-learning, consulting, administration, and classroom training programs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>OpenSesame,<\/strong> a marketplace for buying and selling e-learning, formed a new strategic partnership with <strong>CLMI Safety Training and Demos<\/strong> to address the growing gap between needed skills and existing talent. CLMI Safety Training will offer top courses through OpenSesame on topics such as chemical safety, hearing conservation, and forklift safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18],"class_list":{"0":"post-10019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-magazine","7":"tag-training-today","8":"magazine_issues-january-2015"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.2 (Yoast SEO v25.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Partnerships &amp; Alliances - JAN\/FEB 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/partnerships-alliances-jan-feb-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Partnerships &amp; 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