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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    A Cloud Guru (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AA 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

    AWS Self-Paced Labs

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AAWS Self-Paced Labs is a combination virtual IT training lab and elearning content built to help the user learn AWS services and gain certification in AWS.N/A

    iSpring LMS

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AiSpring LMS is an LMS developed by iSpring Solutions. iSpring LMS automates corporate training and helps to improve employee retention through quality onboarding, on-the-job training, gamification and engagement mechanics. With iSpring LMS, training and development professionals can launch eLearning fast, without any technical skills. Also, account owners can customize or white-label the learner portal to reflect their corporate branding. iSpring LMS's features…

    $16,050

    per year for 300 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    A Cloud Guru (discontinued)AWS Self-Paced LabsiSpring LMS
    Editions & Modules
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    Business - 300 users
    $16,050.00
    per year
    Business - 500 users
    $23,790.00
    per year
    Business - 1000 users
    $42,930.00
    per year
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details——No fees for storage or bandwidth.
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    Community Pulse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of A Cloud Guru (discontinued) and AWS Self-Paced Labs and iSpring LMS
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    iSpring LMS
    8.6
    37 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Course authoring00 Ratings00 Ratings9.036 Ratings
    Course catalog or library00 Ratings00 Ratings9.228 Ratings
    Player/Portal00 Ratings00 Ratings9.333 Ratings
    Learning content00 Ratings00 Ratings6.626 Ratings
    Mobile friendly00 Ratings00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings00 Ratings8.834 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings00 Ratings9.331 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.228 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings00 Ratings10.034 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings8.935 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings00 Ratings8.422 Ratings
    Gamification00 Ratings00 Ratings7.824 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings00 Ratings8.317 Ratings
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score6.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    365 Data Science
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Intellum
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (26 ratings)
    8.0
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    9.6
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    9.1
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    Usability
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    Availability
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    9.1
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    8.8
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    In-Person Training
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    9.1
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    Online Training
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    Implementation Rating
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    Configurability
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    Ease of integration
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    Product Scalability
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    User Testimonials
    A Cloud Guru (discontinued)AWS Self-Paced LabsiSpring LMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    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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    Amazon AWS
    Good for learning about the different AWS services in a non-real scenario. AWS Self-Paced Labs can be a bit overwhelming, and it is good to have the opportunity to see how the different services work.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    My specific scenario is, that I need to deliver courses in two languages to multiple departments, so iSpring helps me with that from beginning and creating courses, to translating, and then enrolling people. What could be better is how reports works. Right now you can check report either by course or by department/person, but I would need to see everything on one page, like every single enrolment.
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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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    Amazon AWS
    • Easy to learn about the different services offered by AWS in a non-real environment
    • Good to prepare for the AWS certification
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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
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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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    Amazon AWS
    • AWS in general can be a bit overwhelming, as there are so many options that sometimes is difficult to understand when to use each one of the services
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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
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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
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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
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    I never experienced any unavailability
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    Performance
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    Everything runs smoothly.
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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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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    iSpring Learn’s customer support receives high praise for responsiveness. Live chat and tutorials are noted as highly effective in promptly resolving technical issues. iSpring Learn is a strong LMS for organizations focused on efficiency, engagement, and ease of use, with excellent support to ensure adoption success. iSpring Learn is a strong LMS for organizations focused on efficiency, engagement, and ease of use, with excellent support to ensure adoption success.
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    In-Person Training
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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
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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
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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
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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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    Amazon AWS
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    iSpring is a more entry level LMS. It does not have the same level of features and benefits. For example, it does not have the same level of communication capability. It does not have the same level of reporting functionality. It does not have the same ability to build reporting. It also does not have the same level of communication capabilities
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    Scalability
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    Awesome. We have 10+ department, around 10 to 100 people in each and it is still very manageable
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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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    Amazon AWS
    • It will contribute to the incorporation of AWS technologies to our software products
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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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