Cornerstone OnDemand Acquires SkyHive's Skills-Intelligence Capabilities

Summit Acquires HorizonIQ

December 1, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Summit acquired HorizonIQ to combine Summit’s flexible, high-touch cloud and colocation with HorizonIQ’s automation and cloud operations modernization capabilities. The combined offering is intended to enhance resilience, support smarter cloud choices, and expand capabilities for workloads including AI and hybrid environments.

Phenom Acquires EDGE

February 21, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Phenom has acquired EDGE, a resource management and talent mobility platform, to strengthen its AI-powered workforce intelligence and resource planning capabilities. The acquisition adds advanced resource planning and talent mobility functionality to Phenom’s Intelligent Talent Experience platform, targeting professional services firms and global capability centers.

Cornerstone Acquires Talespin's Extended Reality Capabilities and Team

March 19, 2024

Software

Cornerstone OnDemand has acquired the extended reality (XR) learning capabilities and a team of specialized experts from Talespin to integrate immersive, AI-powered content authoring and skills analytics into its learning and talent experience platform. The acquisition adds Talespin’s XR experiences, CoPilot Designer no-code authoring tool, and generative AI learning labs to Cornerstone’s content subscriptions to accelerate immersive learning adoption across healthcare, manufacturing, retail and finance customers.

Workday Acquires HiredScore

February 27, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Workday has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire HiredScore, an AI-powered talent orchestration company focused on recruiting and internal mobility. The combined offering is intended to integrate Workday’s talent products with HiredScore’s responsible AI technology to improve talent acquisition and talent lifecycle outcomes. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of Workday’s fiscal year 2025 (ending April 30, 2024), subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

Cornerstone OnDemand (Clearlake-backed) Acquires SumTotal from Skillsoft

August 16, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Cornerstone OnDemand, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, has completed its acquisition of SumTotal from Skillsoft, combining two learning and talent SaaS platforms. The deal expands Cornerstone's capabilities and vertical expertise in regulated industries while bringing SumTotal's customers and technology into Cornerstone's portfolio as an add-on to the PE-backed platform.

INE Acquires CloudSkills.io

January 12, 2022

Education

INE, the technical training provider, has acquired CloudSkills.io, the cloud training business founded by Mike Pfeiffer, to expand its cloud content, labs, and career-path offerings. The deal brings CloudSkills.io's real-world cloud course content and expertise into INE's hands-on training platform to accelerate cloud skill development for students and enterprise learners.