Absorb LMS vs. Adobe Learning Manager vs. Spekit

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Absorb LMS
Score 9.0 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
Adobe Learning Manager
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Adobe Learning Manager is a Learning Management System developed by Adobe Inc. that offers personalized learning at scale to employees, partners and customers alike. Compliant with GDPR guidelines, SOC2 TYPE 2 and FedRAMP Certifications, Adobe Learning Manager integrates with Adobe Experience Manager Sites, Adobe Commerce, Marketo Engage with out-of-the-box components and any other application through Open APIs, offering hybrid learning programs and detailed analytics.…N/A
Spekit
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Spekit is a just-in-time enablement engine that embeds answers, coaching, and sales content directly in the tools revenue teams use. From drafting prospect emails to updating deal stages in Salesforce or reviewing Gong calls, Spekit’s AI Sidekick understands what sellers need in the moment and surfaces the precise message, content asset, or process guidance to keep momentum moving. Built for Sales Enablement & Product Marketing Teams Spekit supports various use…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Absorb LMSAdobe Learning ManagerSpekit
Free Trial
YesYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Multiple Products
Absorb LMS

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Adobe Learning Manager
Chose Adobe Learning Manager
We considered Absorb LMS and Saba Cloud but found that Adobe Captivate Prime had better service and support but was also easier to integrate and deploy with our other services. The fact that we had a team member familiar with the platform also made it easy for us to pick Adobe …
Chose Adobe Learning Manager
We've considered alternatives only because the support and documentation of Adobe Captivate Prime is lacking. We have not made any purchase decisions yet but might switch to an alternative solution soon. This market space is growing faster during COVID and there are a lot of …
Chose Adobe Learning Manager
We chose it to replace Absorb. I think it’s better overall and has more features.
Chose Adobe Learning Manager
When we were looking for different Learning Management system we searched around for a long time, we tried to book a demonstration with Absorb Anywhere but they seemed to be very lax on there with replying and giving the information of what the system included before we had the …
Spekit

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Features
Absorb LMSAdobe Learning ManagerSpekit
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Absorb LMS
8.6
159 Ratings
5% above category average
Adobe Learning Manager
7.6
144 Ratings
7% below category average
Spekit
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Ratings
Course authoring8.5125 Ratings8.1126 Ratings00 Ratings
Course catalog or library9.3138 Ratings8.0139 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal8.3143 Ratings7.8134 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content9.0116 Ratings7.0127 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly7.6113 Ratings6.8117 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications9.6151 Ratings6.0135 Ratings00 Ratings
Assignments9.9130 Ratings7.8125 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance management9.7125 Ratings8.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning administration9.5155 Ratings7.0132 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics8.6152 Ratings7.0133 Ratings00 Ratings
Social learning6.484 Ratings8.0114 Ratings00 Ratings
Gamification5.681 Ratings8.025 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning9.8117 Ratings9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Absorb LMSAdobe Learning ManagerSpekit
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(156 ratings)
7.1
(149 ratings)
9.0
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(9 ratings)
6.0
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(61 ratings)
7.0
(45 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(5 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.5
(5 ratings)
8.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(143 ratings)
3.4
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.6
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.5
(4 ratings)
1.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(3 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
4.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
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Ease of integration
6.4
(2 ratings)
8.5
(30 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.2
(5 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
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Vendor post-sale
8.6
(4 ratings)
8.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.6
(4 ratings)
5.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Absorb LMSAdobe Learning ManagerSpekit
Likelihood to Recommend
Absorb Software Inc.
As a way to deliver eLearning content and track completion, I think Absorb handles our 7000+ users competently. In addition, their support team was always extremely helpful and responsive. When we went through the process of integrating Absorb with Skillsoft Business Advanced library, Absorb's team was very knowledgeable and helpful. I think teams needing more streamlined checklist-style OJT skills tracking will be disappointed by Absorb's feature. It takes 4-5 clicks for a user to trainer to sign off on one skill.
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Adobe
It's good if you have a good use case for that feed. I do know that you have to incorporate it in a process in isolation. It's not you don't realize the full value, so you have to incorporate it into an overall improvement process. I would say the pro cases are marketing optimization with respect to campaigns. And I would say that the areas it's not well suited is in distilling attribution. So if you were to take all of the improvements that it suggested, the numbers exceed revenue, which isn't real, but that's a hard problem to solve. Nobody's really solved that problem well. So distilling the attribution piece would be good. And it is well suited for marketing campaigns in the ideation phase of so
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Spekit
Spekit is extremely well-suited for customer-facing teams who truly have a business need for "just-in-time learning." While we all benefit from the concept of just-in-time learning, organizational representatives who must perform to a high standard in front of external-facing stakeholders particularly benefit from having quick access to processes, definitions, answers, contacts, and more in a tool that is easy to navigate. Spekit may not, however, be well suited for cash-strapped organizations that already have a content management tool like Confluence or SharePoint and can't afford to meet their customer-facing teams in the middle. While Confluence and SharePoint serve very important needs, they don't do a particularly good job of making content easy to find in a pinch. Spekit does.
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Pros
Absorb Software Inc.
  • Overall, Absorb LMS is pretty easy to use for learners and especially for admins. It's practical to create and manage course content - it provides the most crucial options and yet is lean enough not to overcomplicate the admin's life. The consistent and customizable "table-view" in most of the admin-areas is very helpful and easy to follow.
  • Using Enrollment Rules, Absorb LMS let you define who a course applies to and how they get enrolled. You can build rules based on learner attributes, such as department, location job role, group, to include or exclude specific audiences. The way Absorb LMS is using enrollment attributes, no other LMS actually can fulfill our requirements easier. Enrollment rules are mainly embedded in individual course options (you can also create scheduled enrollments outside of the courses).
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Adobe
  • Rich and engaging learning experiences that capture employees' attention.
  • Is multi-device capable so our teams can take classes where it's most convenient for them during the day, especially if they don't have an assigned static workstation?
  • Allows us to personalize compliance training based on where our employees are at in the organizational chart, competencies, and requirements.
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Spekit
  • Looks great, the design of the plug-in looks very streamlined. It makes a difference if a plugin is ugly.
  • Integration is great. It installs into Google Chrome in seconds. It's always accessible when you need it
  • Usability is amazing. It automatically places itself near tabs that you might need help on.
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Cons
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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Adobe
  • High initial set-up cost and licensing fees for all employees at one go
  • Once a courses been enrolled by employee, there's no function to remove those courses by themselves.
  • Mobile version not working very well and some contents not able to load, e.g. Leaderboard, Level.
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Spekit
  • Honestly, there are a lot of tools that do the same thing - there are lots of search tools for orgs that use too many tools to host content.
  • I truly despise all the little helpers when I download the extension. Its the worst, stop cluttering my chrome.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Adobe
Currently, our company uses this program and another competitor for our learning management software. We like the adaptability of this program and appreciate the customer service that Adobe provides, however the other program is starting to turn out to be a better value for our company as they improve their compatibility.
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Spekit
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Usability
Absorb Software Inc.
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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Adobe
In general, the user experience in Adobe Learning Manager is very satisfactory. The layout of the interface, the structure and the order of the available functionalities make it very intuitive and usable. The adaptation to mobile devices is very convenient since most of the participants connect through these electronic devices.
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Spekit
As an administrator, it is very easy to navigate. I can easily see which content is performing well, which content has not been touched. It's simple to teach new team members how to create content. We have added new authors easily in multiple groups in the business.
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Reliability and Availability
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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Adobe
On a few occasions, I've logged in to issue a test to a staff member and my course would just spin. I've had to reschedule several test attempts due to this. In my opinion, the issue was not resolved by Adobe
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Spekit
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Performance
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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Adobe
The performance of Adobe Captivate Prime is also extremely good. The user interface is fast and easy to load. The complexity is not nearly as bad as some of the other programs on the market. Speed was not impacted.
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Spekit
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Support Rating
Absorb Software Inc.
We absolutely loved both our sales representative, Mike Kuphos, and our Implementation manager, Joe Zizian. Joe has continued to be a great resource, even since we went live with our LMS and were moved into the maintenance stage! I sent over a quick question recently when I was stuck in the platform... within hours, he responded with a video walking me through how to do what I was having trouble with. I truly cannot say enough wonderful things about Joe and the level of customer service he has provided throughout implementation and beyond. I haven't really had to use alternate support methods.
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Adobe
I think they have a competent, friendly and "resolving" team. I have only ever been met with a willingness to assist any and every query I have come across. Roy who is one of the technical people is amazing, and so is my Customer Success Manager, Hema! I do not know what I would do without them.
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Spekit
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In-Person Training
Absorb Software Inc.
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Adobe
Training by my staff was quick. Could have been a bit longer. Had to pick up on things myself
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Spekit
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Online Training
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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Adobe
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Spekit
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Implementation Rating
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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Adobe
Trial period was great, and It let me plenty of time to try the different feature of the platform. However, when we decided to move forward, the ADOBE team was slow and not reactive at all. Actually after 2 years, I am still waiting for answers which is quite unacceptable.
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Spekit
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Alternatives Considered
Absorb Software Inc.
Absorb LMS is feature packed with small but smart elements (can have a username that isnt an email, can change the core language used in the platform, can change the font and layout) that offer greater security and accessibility for learners.
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Adobe
360 keeps up the Adobe learning manager. It even outclasses it in certain parts, but with a huge stalwart tech giant like Adobe, it is hard to keep up. Many of the features are present, but there's always that final touch missing. And it is always trying to play catchup.
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Spekit
Spekit may not be as robust as Confluence or organized as SharePoint, but its use of embedded tooltips (Speks) and browser extension put it in the S Tier for "just-in-time learning" platforms - particularly for customer-facing teams.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Absorb Software Inc.
Seems very expensive for limitations we have experienced.
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Adobe
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Spekit
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Scalability
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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Adobe
The product's overall scalability and flexibility is extremely good. I wish that the other products our company uses were this flexible! The product is easy to deploy across multiple departments and teams as needed.
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Spekit
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Professional Services
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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Adobe
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Spekit
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Return on Investment
Absorb Software Inc.
  • Our ROI is yet to be determined as we haven't fully rolled it out yet. We hope that this will improve our customer loyalty and advocacy, set us apart from competitors, and appeal to prospects as something that is extremely valuable. ROI measurements will include customer participation, satisfaction from learners and their managers and any new customers who quote the platform as a reason they chose us.
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Adobe
  • We are a small organization, so for now, we aren't quite sure if our ROI is working. But are confident in how this system will help us grow.
  • Our consumers have been truly delighted about the LMS and view us at a much more professional level now.
  • High level of security is very positive.
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Spekit
  • The time saved from using Spekit is incredible. No more calls/emails asking "what's this field for?" or "How do I do ?" It's all right there, thanks to Spekit.
  • Using Spekit has provided an unexpected morale boost because it's not only easy to use, but it's making work more enjoyable too.
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ScreenShots

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.

Adobe Learning Manager Screenshots

Screenshot of the platform for all learning needs.Screenshot of guided learning journeys.Screenshot of gamification.Screenshot of actionable insight from analytics.Screenshot of learning that’s engaging.Screenshot of measurable analytics.

Spekit Screenshots

Screenshot of where to sync and centralize content from existing content repositoriesScreenshot of the interface to surface answers and content with AI SidekickScreenshot of the AI used to create content and surface contentScreenshot of content engagement trackingScreenshot of Deal Rooms, used to accelerate the sales pipelineScreenshot of a curated learning path, which can be created with the Playlists feature