A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) vs PiiQ by Cornerstone | TrustRadius

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Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 6 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 64 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Course authoring

Course catalog or library

Player/Portal

Learning content

Mobile friendly

Progress tracking & certifications

Assignments

Compliance management

Learning administration

Learning reporting & analytics

Pros

The videos are short and easy to ingest. This is super important! Long videos get boring and people lose interest quickly
New training videos for new technology are always being added regularly
In addition to new videos, existing training videos are updated when software or technology changes, ensure that you always have current information while you're learning

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Anthony Tutrone

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

WWEMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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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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Gene Aldava, SPHR

Director, Human Resources and Administration

Abode CommunitiesReal Estate, 51-200 employees

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Cons

The merger with A Cloud Guru has confused things a bit. They're slowly replacing the Linux academy branded training with ACG training (which is fine) but if we found ourselves losing access to training videos while we were in the midst of watching them
A more robust community would be nice. There's the Slack channel, but I wish there was more robust community features
It would be nice to be able to download videos locally on desktops and laptops. This helps greatly with rewinding the video to reiterate key learning points

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Anthony Tutrone

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

WWEMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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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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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 3.0

Based on 2 answers

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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Employee in Human Resources

Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) 6.0

Based on 1 answer

The site can have some issues. It can be difficult to return to the training module you were viewing after some time away from the site and you have to relogin. We've also had issues where the session will time out at random points, which makes it frustrating to move on to the next videos in the module when you have to re-login and try and find which one you left off on.

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Anthony Tutrone

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

WWEMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.0

Based on 37 answers

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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Employee in Human Resources

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 10.0

Based on 1 answer

So far 100%.

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Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Performance

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 7.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) 10.0

Based on 1 answer

I've never had to communicate with Linux Academy's customer support aside from some minor billing issues, which were easily ironed out in a very quick manner.

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Anthony Tutrone

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

WWEMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.3

Based on 36 answers

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.

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Director, Human Resources

Viewpointe Archive Services L.L.C.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0

Based on 1 answer

We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0

Based on 2 answers

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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Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We've tried CBT Nuggets, Pluralsight, ITProTV, and even official training programs directly from the software vendors. Linux Academy outranks them all simply because of the quality of the training videos compared to the monthly costs. It's hard to beat its affordably, especially when the training material is such high quality and engaging

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Anthony Tutrone

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

WWEMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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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.

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Verified User

Administrator in Other

Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Linux Academy keeps us on the cutting edge, that's a huge positive impact.
We're able to use Linux Academy to help earn IT certifications for our employees
It keeps our employees wanting to learn more, which improves our skillsets as a whole.

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Anthony Tutrone

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

WWEMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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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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Verified User

Executive in Manufacturing

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Editions & Modules

Edition

Free	$0.00¹
Personal Basic	$31.59 ($379.00)²
Personal Plus	$41.59 ($499.00)²
Business Basic	$41.59 ($499.00)²
Business Plus	$58.25 ($699.00)²

per month
per month (per year)

Additional Pricing Details

Contact Sales for Enterprise Pricing. https://acloudguru.com/solutions/business

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$1,000*

* per installation

PiiQ by Cornerstone Editions & Modules

Edition

PiiQ Performance	$8.00¹
PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance	$15.00¹
PiiQ Learning + Content	$8.00¹

per user per month

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Rating Summary

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

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