360Learning vs. Absorb LMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
360Learning
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
360Learning headquartered in Paris offers their workforce training learning management system.
$8
per month per user
Absorb LMS
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Absorb LMS aims to empower organizations to train employees with the skills needed to stay modern and relevant in today's fast-paced world. The LMS software focuses on aligning learning needs with business demands.N/A
Pricing
360LearningAbsorb LMS
Editions & Modules
Team
$8
per user, per month
Business
Contact Sales
Enterprise
Contact Sales
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
360LearningAbsorb LMS
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
360LearningAbsorb LMS
Considered Both Products
360Learning
Chose 360Learning
We had a lot of reasons for choosing to partner with PSA for our Learn 360 platform. The others were a much larger price, were not as easy to use, were not as feature-rich, and didn't have us plugged into so many relevant titles at any time. They also didn't seem as adaptable …
Absorb LMS
Chose Absorb LMS
At the end of the day, Absorb LMS had the best user experience. When we looked at all the options, we felt like Absorb was superior in user experience, learning tools, and the content creator. Additionally, the support they promised (and that we've experienced), made them a …
Chose Absorb LMS
Much more easier set-up, internal content creation and content uploading.
Chose Absorb LMS
More mature a company and product. Slightly more professional look and feel.
Chose Absorb LMS
Absorb was able to come on top because it was the only LMS system that met 95% of our needs. While we vetted several systems, this one worked the best for us. We are very unique in how we use our training system, so it was refreshing to have a company provide us with what we …
Chose Absorb LMS
Absorb [LMS] had [many] of the same features. Many of the vendors had a lower base price with additional pricing for the add-ons. From a cost perspective, the majority of software providers' costs were higher with all of the required addons. For the features required Absorb …
Features
360LearningAbsorb LMS
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
360Learning
8.4
20 Ratings
3% above category average
Absorb LMS
8.9
157 Ratings
9% above category average
Course authoring8.819 Ratings8.5124 Ratings
Course catalog or library8.018 Ratings9.6137 Ratings
Player/Portal8.517 Ratings8.9141 Ratings
Learning content8.56 Ratings9.2115 Ratings
Mobile friendly6.216 Ratings7.6111 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications9.118 Ratings9.8149 Ratings
Assignments9.017 Ratings9.8128 Ratings
Compliance management7.54 Ratings9.8123 Ratings
Learning administration8.919 Ratings9.6153 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics8.819 Ratings8.8150 Ratings
Social learning8.618 Ratings7.582 Ratings
Gamification8.413 Ratings6.979 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning8.94 Ratings9.7115 Ratings
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User Ratings
360LearningAbsorb LMS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(20 ratings)
9.1
(157 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.4
(1 ratings)
8.4
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(4 ratings)
7.8
(61 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.7
(143 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.5
(1 ratings)
7.5
(4 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
4.6
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(5 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
360LearningAbsorb LMS
Likelihood to Recommend
360Learning
360Learning is an ideal choice for organizations looking to decentralize their learning and development initiatives and engage internal experts. With its user-friendly course builder, the platform enables us to easily train employees throughout the organization. The Champion Solution serves as a powerful project management tool, ensuring collaboration and alignment with SMEs to create top-notch content. The transparency in 360Learning's roadmap and the excellent support from the customer success team further enhance the overall experience. By choosing 360Learning, organizations can unlock the potential of their internal experts and revolutionize their learning and development processes
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Absorb Software Inc.
I would highly recommend Absorb. From the implementation team and then the handoff to our client support manager the customer support alone makes it worthy of my recommendation. I have never built/managed an LMS platform before and I find it very user friendly and capable of doing 98% of what I need it to do. We have been in the system almost a year and one of the struggles I had using the reporting tool has already been resolved and updated.
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Pros
360Learning
  • Ability to record video and screen casting through the platform.
  • Social component similar to Facebook.
  • Users can rate tasks and courses for immediate feedback about the content.
  • Exceptional customer care.
  • Easy to use for the content creators and for the end user.
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Absorb Software Inc.
  • Customizing the user interface was fairly simple and our learners WANT to use the platform because it looks so nice.
  • Admins have so many tools at their fingertips to pull reports, create new users, author new courses, and more!
  • Absorb LMS has been the solution to so many problems we had experienced in our previous LMS: ease of use, course library, course authoring, tracking, reporting, etc.
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Cons
360Learning
  • Sometimes the platform isn't as intuitive as I'd like
  • Frequent updates that can impact the guidelines we establish for our internal employees
  • Catalog access for courses is linked to programs requiring participants to retake a program instead of just replaying a singular course. This is being addressed in a future update.
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Absorb Software Inc.
  • The "And" and "Or" rules for self + automatic enrollment could be spelled out more to clarify who we're enrolling into courses
  • The thumbnail and poster "Upload photo" section is confusing. There should be a "Favorites" folder where we can easily find most commonly used posters and thumbnails
  • more education around Absorb analyze essentials
  • How the Featured courses section ranks courses is confusing on the back-end. I need to switch the primary one to second place to feature the new one first. But if the previous one now becomes second place, what happens to the old course that was in second place? I've noticed the order you select on the back-end for this isn't always reflected on user side
  • Same comment as Featured Courses but for appearance of billboards. Hard to position each in the right order
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Likelihood to Renew
360Learning
Since I started in our organization, 360Learning has evolved and keep evolving and makes the experience easier and better.
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Absorb Software Inc.
We love the ability to have a user-friendly system that integrates well with our different HR interfaces (we have 3 systems that feed data/employees into the system). It makes it easy to track course completions and report out on metrics enterprise-wide. In addition, the ability to provide consistent education to staff who are geographically dispersed is a huge incentive for us, and Absorb LMS does this seamlessly.
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Usability
360Learning
You don't really need to be trained to use it, it's like social media. If not, there's full documentation available, it's not a steep learning curve at all. There's lots of advice about how to better use the platform too. I don't see any need for improvement here but left a 9/10 JUST in case.
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Absorb Software Inc.
There is room for improvement with anything - and Absorb LMS value this by making their 'submit an idea' function prominent. When selecting platforms, a MoSCoW tool was developed and Absorb LMS easily ticked mre boxes than any of its competitors for features that were necessary for our style of business.
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Reliability and Availability
360Learning
No answers on this topic
Absorb Software Inc.
We have never had any major issue with Absorb's availability. Any outages that have occurred have been planned an communicated. Any small issues that occur within the Absorb platform have been addressed efficiently and quickly by support and the development team
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Performance
360Learning
No answers on this topic
Absorb Software Inc.
We have experienced infrequent issues with things like load times on reporting, or pages timing out, but for the large majority of our time within the system things have worked as they should
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Support Rating
360Learning
We have amazing support from the Customer Success Director.
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Absorb Software Inc.
[...] is a ROCK star- having her as part of our support team has been a game changer. She is a true problem solver at heart and has an unique ability to retain who we are as a company and match that with what can help us most. She has been a game changer for our internal admin team and is supporting us through a business review to help guide us in the best direction on our constant growth.
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Online Training
360Learning
No answers on this topic
Absorb Software Inc.
The training was comprehensive - there were existing modules to learn functionality but working with Absorb staff, and receiving recordings of those walk-throughs, made a rapid understanding of the LMS achievable and covered the necessary material that was needed and allowed for specific questions to be addressed.
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Implementation Rating
360Learning
I was not part of the implementation.
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Absorb Software Inc.
The implementation of Absorb went very seamlessly. We previously had the Oracle LMS and importing user data and getting the new system up to speed was painless. The smooth transition helped leaders and staff gain confidence early in the application/company and we have had a successful partnership with Absorb since.
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Alternatives Considered
360Learning
We had a lot of reasons for choosing to partner with PSA for our Learn 360 platform. The others were a much larger price, were not as easy to use, were not as feature-rich, and didn't have us plugged into so many relevant titles at any time. They also didn't seem as adaptable or have an AI component built in.
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Absorb Software Inc.
All sites provided at least a basic LMS platform, and Talent was probably the closest in terms of features and like-for-like comparison. Ultimately, none of the others had the same level of course creation and it would either have meant outsourcing or spending a significant amount of time building the courses which was not ideal as we would still be paying for the service during this time. Absorb had the best course creation software of all evaluated which is why we chose it, although it was also by far the most expensive of those evaluated.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
360Learning
No answers on this topic
Absorb Software Inc.
Seems very expensive for limitations we have experienced.
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Scalability
360Learning
No answers on this topic
Absorb Software Inc.
We have already scaled our LMS from a couple hundred users to 1000 users and have plans to scale even larger. We use the LMS across multiple internal departments. countries and user types. Absorb has made it easy to integrate and scale and we will continue to scale in the near future.
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Professional Services
360Learning
No answers on this topic
Absorb Software Inc.
We work directly with Kirsten Spak, who has continuously
provided timely and quality help for myself as the lead and our organization.
Kirsten has helped us ensure that we are going about things as efficiently and
is always willing to walk through things to demonstrate suggestions and
functions. As we look to expand our offerings further, Kirsten has helped
strategize for the best approach, which has helped our workflow and the
end-user experience. As we are still relatively new users, but using the LMS
every day, Kirsten has been very patient and provided clear instruction on
processes when we were unsure of what to do and has been able to troubleshoot,
with her team, functions that were desired but not availability at the time, to
provide us with solutions.
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Return on Investment
360Learning
  • We have gone from having 0 learners to having 24 actively engaged learners in a year.
  • We have put our customer service folks through customer service training and have been able to retain 2 demanding customers.
  • We have gone from having 1-2 new courses per month to having over 100 titles available on demand for our learners.
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Absorb Software Inc.
  • Lighter administrative load, we went from 20-30 support tickets per month to 1 or 2.
  • Our course setup and configuration time now takes less than 5 minutes. In our previous system it took us close to 15 minutes to publish a course.
  • We have been able to push administrative responsibilities to department level administrators, because of the ability to have department level admins, who only have access and control of their department users and content.
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ScreenShots

360Learning Screenshots

Screenshot of 360Learning's homepageScreenshot of the 360Learning course learnerScreenshot of the 360Learning authoring toolScreenshot of 360Learning academies / customizationScreenshot of 360Learning stats

Absorb LMS Screenshots

Screenshot of a company's unique identity with a training interface that is custom-designed for the brand.Screenshot of a company's image and values with a training interface that is tailored to the brand's specific needs.Screenshot of the course creation workflow, that offer a diverse set of formats, including instructional videos, quizzes, and assessments.Screenshot of Absorb's course details page, accessible from the course catalog dashboard, used to give learners an understanding of the course material.Screenshot of learners' progress insights, used to make data-driven decisions with the reporting capabilities of Absorb LMS.Screenshot of course creation with Create AI Beta.