A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) vs Udemy for Business

Likelihood to Recommend

Where it's strong: Linux, open source technologies, web development administration, virtualization and automation, cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, CI/CD trainingWhere it's lacking: The more traditional aspects of IT -- Windows, Active Directory, IT Service Management. storage administration and networking basics... advanced networking also, like CCNA, would be nice.

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Anthony Tutrone

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

WWEMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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Udemy for Business is a perfect solution for lower-cost training that enables your team to learn and explore new skills without having to pay the literal $10's of thousands of dollars to engage an external trainer for remote or in-person training.However, Udemy is not as good for situations where your reports may feel that they will have lots of questions to be answered. Udemy for Business's responsiveness to questions is good, but can never be as good as real-time questions and feedback.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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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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Business relevant content: The tool provides access to numerous online courses.
Customization: We can customize the content we offer our employees.
Measure engagement: We can track user behavior and leaning patterns.

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Dustin Hovey

Sr. Strategist & SEM Manager

SendGridMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 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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The lectures are sometimes great, but it is also sometimes hard to stay engaged.
The grouping of categories could be refined.

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Jose Colmenero

Software Developer

American AirlinesAirlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) 6.0

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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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Support Rating

A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) 10.0

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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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Udemy for Business 8.8

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The support of the person that made the courses varies some are fast others are very slow to get any feedback or help. A knowledge base could be helpful. I haven tried to contact Udemy for Business for platform support reasons. The web platform overall seems to be stable and the same across all devices.

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Javier Carrion

Quality Assurance Analyst

equivantComputer Software, 201-500 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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Udemy is used for different profiles. There are some specific skills that some people need to learn that other platforms don’t offer. On the other hand, this platform is sometimes cheaper than others.

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Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA, MSc in Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing Manager

Paradise Professional Delelopment SchoolHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 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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Making the onboarding process for staff faster.
Help the marketing staff to be constantly updated with the latest changes in digital marketing tools such as Google Ads/Facebook Ads.
Provide access to training anywhere and anytime our company needs.

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Tony Phan

Country Manager

Weshop PhilippinesRetail, 11-50 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

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Udemy for Business Editions & Modules

Edition

Team	$360¹
Enterprise	Contact sales team

per user/per year (5-20 users)

Additional Pricing Details

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