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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Litmos

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ALitmos is a cloud-based Corporate LMS. Core features include a course builder, assessments and quizzes, surveys and feedback, eCommerce, virtual classrooms, certifications, course library, SCORM and TIN CAN support, reporting, and gamification tools.N/A

    Thought Industries

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AThe Thought Industries platform enables enterprise organizations to create, manage, distribute, monetize, and analyze their end-to-end customer education and external training initiatives. The solution addresses the unique needs of customer education, and aims to make it easy to handle complex learning operations at scale to empower growth. Its administrative capabilities include native tools and thirdparty integrations, businesses boost learner engagement, operationalize processes, and…N/A
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    LitmosThought Industries
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    LitmosThought Industries
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    LitmosThought Industries
    Considered Both Products
    Litmos
    Chose Litmos
    Litmos is pretty comparable to these other LMSs. The only LMS that does a little more with creating embedded courses and options for creating courses right within the LMS that are very interactive is Thought Industries. Litmos is pretty great at just straightforward offerings …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    133 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    132 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    95 Answers
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    Features
    LitmosThought Industries
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Litmos and Thought Industries
    Feature
    Litmos
    7.3
    116 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Thought Industries
    7.4
    4 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Course authoring7.9101 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Course catalog or library6.7109 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Player/Portal7.995 Ratings8.44 Ratings
    Learning content7.198 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly7.096 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications7.1112 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Assignments7.0106 Ratings2.33 Ratings
    Compliance management6.4105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration8.0109 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics7.9110 Ratings8.44 Ratings
    Social learning7.868 Ratings6.93 Ratings
    Gamification6.143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning7.827 Ratings00 Ratings
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    LitmosThought Industries
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    Tovuti LMS
    Score10 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    iSpring Learn
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Skilljar by Gainsight
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bridge Learning Platform
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LitmosThought Industries
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (128 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
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    Usability
    6.7
    (110 ratings)
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    Availability
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (104 ratings)
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    Configurability
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    7.5
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    LitmosThought Industries
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Litmos
    For us, Litmos does what we need it to do. It houses all of our training in one place and allows us to send it out to our entire staff quickly and easily. The only area we really struggle is with eSignatures. We use this feature for memos, but instead of using the actual eSignature, we use an assessment because it gives us the ability to lock it after one attempt so that someone doesn't log back in and show that it's no longer signed.
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    Thought Industries
    Thought Industries is perfect if you are trying to scale your customer education business for a growing customer base. It is more expensive than their competitors, but the price is worth it based on the product and experience. Thought Industries is likely great for smaller customers, although we are an enterprise-level customer. If you are not offering multiple modalities for your training program, Thought Industries (or any LMS for that matter) might not be the best investment.
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    Pros
    Litmos
    • Content Authoring: Litmos has a good content authoring tool that provides options for designing engaging and interactive courses.
    • Reporting: Litmos reporting tools and reporting engines are clear to understand, the come with useful features that allow for tracking completion, learning and engagement.
    • Course Library: Litmos has an extensive course library that we can reorganize into learning pathways to accomplish set learning objectives for our team.
    • Customer Support: We have seen Litmos Customer support improve over the time we have been customers. Not only are there helpful resources within the Litmos University, we also have access to skilled support from our Customer Success Manager and the Litmos Technical Team.
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    Thought Industries
    • Built in eCommerce pages and purchasing options.
    • Data to drive real-time decision making.
    • Customization options.
    • Team to work with our needs and custom scope.
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    Cons
    Litmos
    • Litmos' email automation leaves a lot to be desired. When using SAML single sign on, a user can forward a reminder email to a colleague and it will include the link for _their_ training, if the recipient completes the training it report as being completed by the sender.
    • Litmos' functionality around assessments is terrible. It is impossible to give partial or weighted credit for a question during marking. It's impossible to undo a mistake in marking or go back to the question. Hotspot questions are not worth using. Learners entering a test again after completing but before marking is done will erase their attempt's ability to be marked. There is more that is just unacceptable here. We make tests using microsoft forms because it's easier and more accessible.
    • Many group admins are also learners, and will so infrequently use their admin portals, that they should not default to admin.
    • We have imports from our HR platform to Litmos, which is convenient. Occasionally someone gets set up twice, which is a problem with the intergration or stuff that helpdesk does. However, merging two learner records should not be a huge hassle of enumerating all of the courses and manually marking them complete. There should be a way to do this in the software.
    • Reporting in general leaves a great deal to be desired. There should be some more controls for xAPI/tincan modules that allow us to customize the level of tracking there. Articulate Rise uses a manifest that gives the LMS what it needs to integrate, why can't we see interaction data from the eLearning there like we could with LRS statements? If I make a storyline block or have a rise interaction, I should be able to see all the elements folks click and what they get hung up on.
    • Litmos should support standard Training and L&D measurement frameworks. There's no reason we shouldn't at least be able to have a dashboard for a course that includes survey data, assessments, boosts, and maybe a manual place to put in business impact KPIs. Think kirkpatrick/Phillips ROI.
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    Thought Industries
    • Lacks the ability to make courses required
    • Cannot pull a report for a course(s) to show who has not started the course
    • Cannot reset gamification or run specific gamification campaigns
    • Although SCORM compliant, SCORM courses often break or do not show as complete on the learner side even when the module is marked as complete on the back end
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Litmos
    For what we need in the very near future, Litmos does not offer us the required capability. Ideally, we are looking for an integrated LMS, coaching, mobile support and content creation platform. Litmos may have the LMS part covered but there are other platforms that do this better along with providing an integrated all-in-one service or at the very least support API integration with other vendors to meet our requirements.
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    Thought Industries
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    Usability
    Litmos
    It's really easy to use. I just search the platform for my requirements, play a demo before downloading it, and then drag and drop it into my LMS. It couldn't be simpler. The only reason it isn't a 10 is that some courses don't have better summary descriptions or additional materials.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Litmos
    It's never been an issue. It's always good to go
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    Performance
    Litmos
    Never had any type of performance issues for Litmos
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    Support Rating
    Litmos
    If I could give it a negative rating I would. Worst support from any program I have had. Everything is back and forth in the support ticket. The one time I tried to chat they could not support the question. Their support page is so full of sections and products I can never find anything I need, even with a customized home page. I was hopeful that once they left SAP support might improve but it has not. I don't even know who my account executive is. Nobody has ever reached out to me. I need someone to guide me through best practices for our company and there is nobody to do that.
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    Thought Industries
    The customer support and customer success teams are really great. BUT, it is their product team that sends them into a super high rating. The product team has worked with me on several occasions to try to solve the business challenges that I have.
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    In-Person Training
    Litmos
    It was a good overview of the platform, but of course it was more of a basic overview of how to use the platform. The team provided a good training, but I would of liked a better deep dive into some of the features.
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    Online Training
    Litmos
    Some of the best online training I've taken from any LMS platform. It was well put together and kept me engaged the entire time. It has a good amount of HR Compliance mixed with soft skills training that the team liked. Overall, it has a robust online suite of training that any company can use.
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    Implementation Rating
    Litmos
    We have done two implementations. The first wasn't completed by me, but the second was. I had to do a lot of data migration across from the first system into the new instance. This was really time-consuming, and it would have been great to have had an option for someone else to have completed this for us. Learning about the tool has also been up to us, and whilst the content was good, it was also high level and broad, and then getting into the specifics of our setup was really just left to us to complete on our own and have a go. We got there, but probably could have been faster with some additional support from a consultant.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Litmos
    I made a choice of this tool because of great review message on internet about the advantage of litmos. Also as cost is concerned I saw it to be favourable to me more than other which are Abit expensive. Litmos also have intuitive user interface which made me to fall for it.
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    Thought Industries
    Thought Industries is better on the financial side and as far as ease of use. It is more affordable than Docebo and is more aligned to an external customer use case. Docebo and Tovuti seemed to be more for internal training. Tovuti was less expensive, but it was a little harder to use although it had more quiz features.
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    Scalability
    Litmos
    Pretty easy to scale this LMS and can be deployed companywide in all departments for us. The team's function allows you build separate teams that can easily be assigned specific courses, so it makes it much easier to deploy
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    Return on Investment
    Litmos
    • For one of our product lines, what used to require 8-10 onboarding calls now only needs two and we are aiming to get that down to just one or potentially none. Customers can learn on demand using the courses we have constructed for them and continue their learning live with trainers.
    • By hosting all of our training in one place, we have made onboarding much more straightforward for employees — they can learn the product (same training we give customers) and also get their InfoSec and other training in one place.
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    Thought Industries
    • Multiple Months with $20,000 in eCommerce Sales.
    • Site Up Time and Engagement has remained steady for all 4 years.
    • Course authoring is faster and more efficient.
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