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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PiiQ by Cornerstone

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACornerstone’s PiiQ is an SMB offering formerly known as Sonar6. PiiQ is aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses and includes core learning management and performance management systems, including content creation, mobile accessibility, and in-product reporting.

    $8

    per user per month

    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
    PiiQ by CornerstoneiSpring Learn
    Editions & Modules
    PiiQ Performance
    $8.00
    per user per month
    PiiQ Learning + Content
    $8.00
    per user per month
    PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance
    $15.00
    per user per month
    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
    PiiQ by CornerstoneiSpring Learn
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$1,000 per installationOptional
    Additional Details—Charges only for active users only. No fees for storage or bandwidth.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    PiiQ by CornerstoneiSpring Learn
    Considered Both Products
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    No answer on this topic
    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    PiiQ by CornerstoneiSpring Learn
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of PiiQ by Cornerstone and iSpring Learn
    Feature
    PiiQ by Cornerstone
    6.6
    11 Ratings
    21% below category average
    iSpring Learn
    8.6
    36 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Course authoring6.011 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Course catalog or library6.811 Ratings9.227 Ratings
    Player/Portal6.810 Ratings9.332 Ratings
    Learning content6.611 Ratings6.625 Ratings
    Mobile friendly7.98 Ratings9.026 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications6.210 Ratings8.733 Ratings
    Assignments6.711 Ratings9.330 Ratings
    Compliance management5.89 Ratings7.127 Ratings
    Learning administration6.611 Ratings10.033 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics6.911 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
    Gamification00 Ratings7.523 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings8.317 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    iSpring Learn
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Intellum
    Score6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bridge Learning Platform
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Bridge Learning Platform
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PiiQ by CornerstoneiSpring Learn
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    9.6
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (37 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.2
    (36 ratings)
    8.7
    (29 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.5
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PiiQ by CornerstoneiSpring Learn
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Well suited for:
    • A busy environment where you want learners to be self-sufficient and to be able to access learning solutions at a time that suits them.
    • For anyone who wants to access learning using different platforms such as iPad, mobile, PC, etc
    • Anyone who needs a more in-depth learning solution rather than an overview of key learning points.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • Enables employees to draft work goals and collaborate with their supervisors on a final version - improves mutual understanding right up front.
    • Combines performance goal ratings with competency ratings and provides a blended score. Simplifies the goal weighting so you don't have to do any calculations.
    • 9-box matrix provides useful definitions and descriptions so managers can prepare development notes or plans for individual employees.
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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
    • Would be good to have have a virtual "top level" (eg board) user built in to allow senior execs without a direct manager to be able to be set up with KPIs instead of having to create a dummy user
    • Reports have difficulty downloading if pop ups disabled or in some browser environments
    • When competencies are updated while a cycle is open, any changes don't effect that open cycle but only future ones. Would be nice to be able to have the option to apply changes to existing "open" cycles
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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
    It's not that CSB isn't a decent performance management system, but we have decided to go with just one vendor (Workday) for an HRIS/performance management/payroll system so we can directly relate pay to performance. We are more interested in having just one system that "talks" to the other pieces instead of having to work with several vendors. It reduces the hassle of having to communicate with different support teams, having different contracts, and so on.
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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
    There are specific things within the goals and competencies that are user-friendly. For example, the rating slider isn't great in my opinion. You can slide in between ratings which can create some odd scoring (if you use scoring). It seems a better solution would be a drop down where you select your rating. There are also some glitches in the system and have been told Cornerstone is aware of them but are focused on delivering new features. There are workarounds, but that doesn't seem to be a great answer.
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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
    So far 100%.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    I have to say ALWAYS.
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    Performance
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The saving process slows it down. It doesn’t auto save. If you leave a page, it will sometimes warn you, but not always. When you hit the save button, a window pops up that says creating/saving packets. It feels very archaic.
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    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    My assistant could better address this issue. My perception is that there is not immediate assistance, and that there can be a wait for help. That is not a negative, just a perception. I have not used support in two years.
    Incentivized
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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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.
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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
    I think we could have done a better job of rolling out the tool to our managers. We were under a tight timeline. In the training, we showed them everything and said go do it by this date. Looking back, I would have done it in pieces: for example, 2 weeks to write goals, 2 weeks to get sign-off from direct reports. I just let them go at it. Since then we’ve moved to agile development environment and are applying the technique to everything. In future would only do through change sprint. It is a big change I didn’t take it seriously enough.

    I had a team of 3 project managing. You need a champion from every department to make sure you’re getting it right and to make sure what’s happening is communicated. It’s not something you can do without input from department heads
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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
    Lesson.ly has been great to work with but it is a very clear and simple, user-friendly system that anyone can pick up with very little training as it is self-explanatory. It also has a great mobile interface and lots of different features that are easy to add for the admin but really impactful for the user.
    Incentivized
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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!
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    No answers on this topic
    iSpring Solutions, Inc
    Really perfect.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • It's tool and it's only as good as the person wielding it. The investment in PiiQ was accompanied by a quarterly cadence and manager feedback training. We feel like our employees are given regular feedback and bonuses are tied to objective accomplishment.
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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

    PiiQ by Cornerstone Screenshots

    Screenshot of PiiQ Performance Employee ReviewScreenshot of PiiQ Learning on DevicesScreenshot of PiiQ Manager/Employee Check-insScreenshot of PiiQ 9-box Talent MatrixScreenshot of PiiQ Learning Publish New ContentScreenshot of PiiQ Learning Searchable Library & Self-registration

    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