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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cornerstone OnDemand

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ACornerstone OnDemand is a cloud-based application for talent management. Cornerstone offers suites for recruiting, training, performance monitoring and planning, learning, and HR data management. It is scaled for enterprises.N/A

    iSpring Learn

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AiSpring Learn is an LMS developed by iSpring Solutions, a company that provides more than 59,000 clients with an eLearning software ecosystem. iSpring Learn automates corporate training and helps to improve employee retention through quality onboarding, on-the-job training,…

    $7,968

    per year for 100 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    Cornerstone OnDemandiSpring Learn
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    500 Users
    $3.75
    per month (billed annually) per user
    300 Users
    $4.10
    per month (billed annually) per user
    100 Users
    $6.64
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cornerstone OnDemandiSpring Learn
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional Details—Charges only for active users only. No fees for storage or bandwidth.
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    Community Pulse
    Cornerstone OnDemandiSpring Learn
    Considered Both Products
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Chose Cornerstone OnDemand
    My background is that I have been a teacher for more than thirty years. I have worked with a few different Learning Management Systems and when it came time for my company to implement its own LMS I evaluated more than twenty other Learning Management Systems. I went through …
    Incentivized
    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    Chose iSpring Learn
    All of these have their benefits, but none really had a better LMS than iSpring Learn. They throw in off the shelf courses, but if you're needing a good learning management system you are going to make-do with these others.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    65 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    74%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    Cornerstone OnDemandiSpring Learn
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Cornerstone OnDemand and iSpring Learn
    Feature
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.7
    131 Ratings
    5% above category average
    iSpring Learn
    -
    Ratings
    New hire portal7.968 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools7.8113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting7.4124 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Cornerstone OnDemand and iSpring Learn
    Feature
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.9
    113 Ratings
    10% above category average
    iSpring Learn
    -
    Ratings
    Corporate goal setting7.794 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting8.097 Ratings00 Ratings
    Individual goal setting8.4105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility7.893 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance tracking7.6108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Cornerstone OnDemand and iSpring Learn
    Feature
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.4
    118 Ratings
    12% above category average
    iSpring Learn
    -
    Ratings
    Performance plans7.692 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plan weighting7.279 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager note taking7.468 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans7.380 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review status tracking8.095 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rater nomination workflow7.363 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review reminders7.892 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions7.084 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency6.881 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting7.3112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Cornerstone OnDemand and iSpring Learn
    Feature
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.8
    57 Ratings
    12% above category average
    iSpring Learn
    -
    Ratings
    Create succession plans/pools7.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate ranking8.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate search7.851 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate development8.448 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Cornerstone OnDemand and iSpring Learn
    Feature
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.2
    65 Ratings
    0% above category average
    iSpring Learn
    -
    Ratings
    Job Requisition Management7.844 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.840 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media6.437 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting6.337 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customized Application Form7.839 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resume Management6.442 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention6.739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Search6.440 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking7.540 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration7.835 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation7.237 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates7.558 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Permissions7.859 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.454 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting7.662 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Cornerstone OnDemand and iSpring Learn
    Feature
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.3
    186 Ratings
    3% above category average
    iSpring Learn
    8.6
    36 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Course authoring4.8137 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Course catalog or library8.3184 Ratings9.227 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.0171 Ratings9.432 Ratings
    Learning content8.2146 Ratings6.625 Ratings
    Mobile friendly8.7134 Ratings9.026 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications7.8167 Ratings8.833 Ratings
    Assignments8.0180 Ratings9.330 Ratings
    Compliance management7.1161 Ratings7.227 Ratings
    Learning administration6.4183 Ratings10.033 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics6.2182 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Social learning7.0115 Ratings8.021 Ratings
    Gamification00 Ratings7.523 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings8.317 Ratings
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Score6 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cornerstone OnDemandiSpring Learn
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (256 ratings)
    9.6
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (37 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.6
    (36 ratings)
    8.7
    (29 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.1
    (114 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cornerstone OnDemandiSpring Learn
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    I feel Cornerstone OnDemand is a great solution for companies that have a large amount of compliance training that needs to be assigned and closely tracked. The features of dynamic groups (based on specific user criteria) allows you to target very specific audiences. The assignment functionality gives you great flexibility on when the assignment runs and how often, and also provides many options for due dates (static date or dynamic date - x days from hire date, date assigned, etc.). This has allowed us to have a clear and consistent user experience for both our newly hired employees and our seasoned employees.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    iSpring Learn supports short, engaging courses ideal for corporate training programs, especially in finance-related industries. It pairs well with bite-sized content for compliance training, product knowledge, or soft skills development. For companies that need an LMS up and running quickly, iSpring Learn offers a simple setup process and an intuitive interface that doesn't require extensive technical knowledge. If a company needs extensive customization for branding or workflows, iSpring Learn may not be as flexible as some alternatives.
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    Pros
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • Automatic recurring assignments are easy to get that refresher training out without needing to assign it fresh each time.
    • Reporting 2.0 makes it easy to write and share your reports with just selected filters. Making it easy for people receiving it to just change what they need to see.
    • Learning Admin Console makes it easy to peek at what is going on in your portal and open up connected reporting when needed.
    • Success Center is a great resource for getting peer answers to questions and learning about the releases and suggesting changes that should be added to the roadmap.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    • Automatically re-enrolling employees when a certificate expires. Set it and forget it!
    • If set up properly from the beginning, you don't have to do much, with the roles and groups settings, you can automate a large portion of the course management.
    • I can provide visibility to anyone about any employee necessary, allowing me to put more responsibility on my managers, instead of doing it all myself.
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    Cons
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • Sometimes finding the right answer to your support question can be a bit more difficult than it should be.
    • I would like to see more OSHA related courses.
    • At times, the administrative interface seems to need to be updated, but the tradeoff honestly might be the absolute rock-solid stability of the platform.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    • Some limitations where you can't create exactly what you want either in the design of interactions or lack of varied interactions
    • Images cannot be moved to where you want them on the interaction slides
    • Layout of interactions can't be adjusted and overides your powerpoint background
    • If you have to edit a course and delete it off iSpring Learn then the records of all the people associated to that course are swiped and there's not a way of retrieving the information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    As long as pricing stays reasonable, we will likely stay with Cornerstone for at least one more contract renewal. It would be a large task to migrate all of our content to a new system. However, the LMS landscape is diversifying with new startups that are showing some real innovation.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    In the past I could not encourage my students to take online training. The results and the questions were hard to be given. When I used the iSpring Suite along with iSpring Learn, my dreams came through and most of the time my students are online and take good training with my programme.
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    Usability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Easy to use, easy to learn, lots of support during the learning process. There are a few parts of the system we don't use and I'm hesitant to begin using because other clients have said they're difficult and cumbersome (certifications) or outdated (libraries)
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    Sometimes, things just aren't intuitive enough. For example, burying the catalog in the settings area makes no sense at all. The same goes for permissions and year reviews. It was a massive oversight that really caused a lot of confusion for all of our managers. It caused distrust in the LMS simply because someone who designed and developed it did not think that an employee review should be private to them, their direct supervisor, or the supervisor above. Instead, ANY manager could read ANY employee review. I have mentioned this several times throughout these questionnaires, and as you can see, I still find it incomprehensible that a company that wants to promote its software as a multifaceted solution could be so blind to something so critical, especially in terms of privacy.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    I haven't really had any major availability problems. The service is practically impeccable but it is true that at times, due to server and latency problems, the application has been slower. But these have been specific issues that have resolved themselves.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    I have to say ALWAYS.
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    Performance
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Pages do not load quickly. Often times any action or selection of a box, drop down, check, pretty much ANY Javascript interaction causes the whole entire page to load/reload/start doing something in the background. This makes a nightmare for having to mass edit courses or upload ILT sessions. It's the one of the archaic web designs they use that really bugs me as an admin and makes working in the portal at times intolerable and insufferable
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Its always important to have support when you are facing problems and when you are the main admin of the organization. Cornerstone Support is very supporting when you have not found the answer in the help guide. its very useful to have a team support to guide you.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    Our account rep Katie Connor is fantastic. She is very responsive to our requests. She does not try to over sell. She has setup training sessions for us any time we asked. Finally, she is a very nice person we like working with. She also has been patient with us as we figure out our renewal
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    In-Person Training
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    we use also to admin all our training in person events and sessions. Its easy to admin this kind of trainings and automatize some processes we have. Also de user experience and the integration with other systems helps to the employees to use more. All modules integrated oriented to develop people is the principal reason to have CSOD. The training administration is very complete and allows to automate many processes.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    We can say that most of my students attend my classes twice a week and that's not enough for someone to learn. I put some training for them to do at home and they really enjoy doing them. The kind of progress they make is really satisfying for them and they are always learning.
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    Online Training
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The online modules are pretty good. You can access them at any time, which we have done. You learn a lot in the beginning, but having the ability to retake short lessons when you are working on those items was very helpful.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    As a teacher, I used to spend a lot of time correcting my students' papers. Now with iSpring Learn, my time has been saved and everything is done automatically. All the time I can check my students' progress and I know which exams they have taken or they should take. On the whole, online training has really helped a lot of teachers
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    Implementation Rating
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The implementation was pretty difficult. We felt they (Cornerstone) didn’t properly allocate the resources to complete our implementation in the timetable we wanted.

    For example, we worked on Workday and SSO integrations - work that we had specifically contracted for in advance. When we were ready to work on that project, they didn’t have the people ready to help us, so it took a lot longer than necessary. That was my biggest pain point.

    The implementation approach we went with was a self-led implementation. We would speak to the implementation manager once per week, and self-trained. We met with implementation manager to discuss issues, review things that we’d learned for 1 hour. We found that wasn’t enough. Other things would come up outside that one hour window that we couldn’t get answers to. We didn’t have anyone to ask about those things and we had to wait to ask during our weekly meeting.

    The advantage of the self-led implementation approach was that it was really inexpensive – significantly less than the implementation cost for the other systems that we looked at. I also liked that we could pace ourselves. There were however big roadblocks. We would have to make sure the right resources were available. We had an implementation/project manager with a lot of experience and felt that the person was knowledgeable but missed on a few things.

    In hindsight, I would still go with the self-led implementation, but knowing what I know now, I would ask for the integration person to be available more. I would work that into the contract. With single sign-on, we needed deep linking to build direct links through a Single Sign-On tool, e.g. when someone gets an email, it directs them to training. But it has to go through SSO to get them to the correct link. Deep linking wasn’t turned on in our system and they had to activate it. We encountered little things like that – sequencing pre-requisites which were problematic. We tried to troubleshoot ourselves.

    I recommend you consider contracting for some extra implementation hours and determine when they are going to be available. Work it into the contract that you have the ability to call tech support during implementation. In addition to weekly implementation meetings, they have technical webexes – 4 every week, but 2 didn’t apply to us – one as we were using SSO. The challenge is they were not always relevant – we had specific questions that didn’t fall into those categories
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    When I talked to my colleagues or informed them to search for a programme before iSpring Learn, they were not successful in designing and implementing a programme like this. I am sure they have done a lot to implement it in the best and educational way. That was not that easy as we thought.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The user experience is a lot better than using SumTotal as an admin CSOD makes working easy. Without having workarounds. Reporting is a lot better than both platforms. Reporting in CSOD is complex however easy to manage and create when you understand the data points collected
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    I reviewed a few different LMSs before deciding on iSpring Learn. I can't remember the names, but I chose iSpring Learn primarily because I liked that it was just a PowerPoint add-on, which made it easy to use, and I liked the price!
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    It is important to be familiar with the terms and annual increases in licenses and other aspects of the contract. I recommend analyzing this from the beginning and the permanence is relevant because Cornerstone updates its modules and brings out new features that may allow you to leave a module to acquire another
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    It's a great product with some pieces that are set but many things that can be customized as needed for individual needs
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    Really perfect.
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    Professional Services
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    As I have said before, I have no doubt that the services of the Cornerstone sales people were very good. In particular, our salesperson spent a lot of time in contact with us to make the process go smoothly. Perhaps being a large company in some cases the times were slowed down but it is something normal to take into account.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • We are in the process of trying to increase employee engagement through content expansion. We are in the early stages of this.
    • The Edge Import Tool, in conjunction with Reporting 2.0, has done a great job of helping to automate/semi-automate tasks for huge time savings.
    • Maintaining compliance. Achieved through dynamic/automated groups, assignments, communication, and reporting.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    • iSpring has enabled me to deliver professional education to very high-level learners.
    • Due to the reviews of my users, many more learners have purchased my courses.
    • Several professional colleagues have inquired about my experience setting up online courses on iSpring Learn. I told them it was easy, logical, and no hassle; they will love the level of support.
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    ScreenShots

    Cornerstone OnDemand Screenshots

    Screenshot of A personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee dataScreenshot of With Cornerstone Learning, go beyond compliance and training - truly develop an engaged and collaborative workforce.Screenshot of Cornerstone Recruiting takes care of all talent acquisition needs and provides candidates with an amazing experience.Screenshot of With Cornerstone Performance, benchmark your people's performance, align them with your strategy, and provide feedback that matters.Screenshot of Cornerstone HR offers a personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee data.Screenshot of With Content Anytime, quickly deliver hundreds of eLearning courses covering key soft-skills such as communication, time management, leadership, teamwork, and emotional intelligence.

    iSpring Learn Screenshots

    Screenshot of iSpring Learn LMSScreenshot of Mobile LearningScreenshot of Detailed StatisticsScreenshot of Learning ContentScreenshot of the user management interfaceScreenshot of the Training Calendar