A Cloud Guru (discontinued) vs. Articulate 360

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
A Cloud Guru (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
A Cloud Guru (ACG) was a cloud learning resource that offered access to updated courses, labs, and learning paths. In 2021 the company was acquired by Pluralsight, and its training is no longer available.N/A
Articulate 360
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Articulate 360 is an e-learning platform for creating workplace training. Users can build engaging courses with AI-enhanced authoring, simplify collaboration, and quickly share content. A subscription includes robust onboarding resources and access to a community of 1.5M pros.
$1,124
per year
Pricing
A Cloud Guru (discontinued)Articulate 360
Editions & Modules
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Articulate 360 Standard - Academic - Teams Plan
$1,124
per year
Articulate 360 Standard - Personal Plan
$1,199
per year
Articulate 360 AI - Personal Plan
$1,449
per year
Articulate 360 Standard - Teams Plan
$1,499
per year
Articulate 360 AI - Teams Plan
$1,749
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
A Cloud Guru (discontinued)Articulate 360
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsIf you’re new to Articulate 360, you can try it out free of charge for 30 days. After the trial period is over, you can subscribe to one of our packages. Articulate 360 is available on the Articulate website and through Articulate Authorized Resellers.
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User Ratings
A Cloud Guru (discontinued)Articulate 360
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(26 ratings)
9.3
(518 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.7
(25 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(373 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(9 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
A Cloud Guru (discontinued)Articulate 360
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
If your organization is technical-based and offers its employees different online courses to enhance their knowledge, then A Cloud Guru will be perfect for you. There are multiple courses available from different cloud platforms. The platform is easy to use and navigate and does not require much knowledge. Even if you do not have basic technical knowledge, the courses available in A Cloud Guru are designed in such a manner that a non-technical person will understand the concept easily.
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Articulate Global, Inc.
E-learning trainings are the focus of Articulate 360. Rise is easy to use, offering polished final products but with rapid production. Storyline is powerful authoring software perfectly suited to sophisticated projects that require custom interactions or technical animations. Conditional triggers and javascript capability make Storyline as customizable as you might need for a training with advanced audience interaction.
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Pros
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  • The team at A Cloud Guru is excellent at responding to user feedback that is submitted through their website.
  • The content created is well organized and aligns to certification paths.
  • The content is accessible on mobile and web platforms, which is great for learning on the go.
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Articulate Global, Inc.
  • It provides training for new users and opportunities for users to continue to develop their skills in this space.
  • It provides a community for its users to collaborate and solve problems together as needed.
  • It allows for collaborative work between users on the same team and makes the review process simple and easy.
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Cons
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  • More material on other cloud providers GCP, Azure, Huawei.
  • Extend the sandboxes to other cloud providers not only AWS.
  • Include more material for non-technical people, sometimes the sales teams are completely lost in the platform but they would like to learn about it.
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Articulate Global, Inc.
  • There are some minor issues with screen recording that make the experience feel more clunky than some other tools.
  • There are feature requests on the community pages that have been there for a very long time and have not been added.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
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Articulate Global, Inc.
I haven't seen any other platform for developing learning materials that is as comprehensive or as reliable as Articulate has proven to be for our use. Because our group has a number of PowerPoint power users, the PowerPoint integration with Articulate is particularly beneficial.
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Usability
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Articulate Global, Inc.
As I stated before, the usability is somewhat SST learning her for a new introduction of different designers, and because of the constant changes, it often feels like there are things that are hidden or hard to find when you're in the workflow.
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Reliability and Availability
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Articulate Global, Inc.
I love how when there is any downtime that the user can still access the tool
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Performance
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Articulate Global, Inc.
Pages load fast, the videos play normally, and I haven't seen any delays in the system
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Support Rating
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The support team of A Cloud Guru is quite quick. There are scenarios where A Cloud Guru was not working in my organization. We reached out to their support team and they quickly resolved the issue. Also, if any individual is facing issues accessing A Cloud Guru, their support team is quick to resolve the issue.
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Articulate Global, Inc.
I rate the overall support for Articulate 360 ​​with a 9. On the one hand because of the smooth and accurate support from Articulate's support team (usually within 24 hours) and on the other because of the commitment / use of a community (e-learning Heroes) where I have all kinds of insights from other helpful users.
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In-Person Training
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Articulate Global, Inc.
The instructors don't know how to use it.
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Online Training
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Articulate Global, Inc.
The online training options given by the online tutorials, forums, and "E-Learning Heroes" community are simply awesome. Examples galore, easy to understand descriptions including step-by-step guides, images, occasionally videos, and the "Articulate Insiders" sub-community give you more materials to learn about Storyline than you are likely to be able to read.
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Implementation Rating
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Articulate Global, Inc.
Outside of having to dedicate a powerful enough PC for the installation and having to update Flash in our browsers there really isn't much pain involved in using Articulate. For the most part this is an easy to implement and roll-out product. The installation occurs quickly and smoothly with no additional steps needed.
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Alternatives Considered
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The main differentiator was the contents as we were interested in a cloud platform other similar platforms did not have the below: it is very good to establish cloud learning development plans and then track them and manage them for the team. The platform supports learning tracks, exams, and sandboxes with all major cloud providers guarantees that you don't get an accidental charge as a result of [the] testing and exploring the cloud
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Articulate Global, Inc.
For me, since I had used Articulate prior to using Lectora, I found Lectora to be very archaic. It was cumbersome to create triggers, and I had issues getting my scenarios to play correctly. My company switched to Articulate after my request, and I was able to recreate all of our modules into Storyline. Now I am able to manage our scenarios with efficiency and ease. Articulate products are intuitive and very easy to understand
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Scalability
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Articulate Global, Inc.
Easy to use. Cheap. It has a lot of features.
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Return on Investment
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  • Engagement scores around investment in L&D have increased.
  • There's excitement around upcoming changes to our technology instead of fear we have seen in the past.
  • We feel confident we will be able to deliver these new technologies - although we are at the start of our journey.
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Articulate Global, Inc.
  • Definitely more accessible course creation. How we're able to add accessibility features into our trainings is unparalleled with captioning, with voice overing, with alternate texts for images. There's so many ways that it creates our trainings to be more accessible for our audience.
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