Understand the Market

Learning technologies are software tools, applications, systems or platforms used for the purpose of administering, authoring and delivering learning, along with tools used for learning through social collaboration. Our State of the Industry report, “The State of the Learning Technologies Market,” focuses on learning management systems (LMS), learning experience platforms (LXP), experiential learning technologies and advanced learning technologies. 

Our market segment intelligence is derived from more than 15 years of corporate training marketplace analysis and sizing. We have compiled this data from more than 500 training and development vendor submissions to our annual Top 20 awards lists.

What’s Included In This Report

• Market Sizing. 

• • Learn about the size of the global and North American corporate training markets, the breakdown of spending, including internal and external spending, and the size of the global and North American learning technologies markets. 

• Sourcing Practices. 

• • Find out how providers approach the learning technology market, how programs are commonly structured and sold, and other insights on the current buyer experience.

• Market Insights. 

• • Discover what technologies organizations are using for employee training, popular examples of these technologies, common features and capabilities these technologies offer and which industries are spending the most money on these learning technologies.

• 2023 Top 20 Learning Technologies Companies. 
• Mergers, acquisitions and funding in the learning technologies market. 

What’s Not Included

• Benchmarking. 
• Geo-splits. 
• Demographics. 
• Expenditure per employee. 
• Learning hours used per employee. 
• Expenditures as a percentage of payroll. 
• Payroll and revenue. 

Who is the Best Fit for This Report

• Learning and development professionals. 
• Learning technologies providers. 
• Buyers and suppliers looking for: 
  • Market education. 
  • Competitive insights. 
  • Data-driven research. 
  • Information regarding strategic decisions and investments. 

Why We Did the Report

The learning technologies industry has been one of the most innovative and quickly changing segments of the training market. Training Industry introduced the Top 20 Companies Lists for learning technologies training in 2010 to help L&D professionals locate the best potential training partner for their organizations’ needs. This report uses data and market insights to cover changes in the learning technologies development market over time, the size of the current market, universal and emerging topics and trends based on our Top 20 Learning Technologies Companies List.