Avature ATS is an applicant tracking and recruiting software solution offered by Avature.
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Cornerstone OnDemand
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Cornerstone OnDemand is a cloud-based application for talent management. Cornerstone offers suites for recruiting, training, performance monitoring and planning, learning, and HR data management. It is scaled for enterprises.
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
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Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Avature ATS
9.1
2 Ratings
14% above category average
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.5
65 Ratings
4% above category average
Job Requisition Management
10.02 Ratings
8.044 Ratings
Company Website Posting
10.02 Ratings
8.140 Ratings
Publish to Social Media
10.02 Ratings
6.937 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting
8.02 Ratings
6.937 Ratings
Customized Application Form
10.02 Ratings
8.039 Ratings
Resume Management
6.02 Ratings
6.942 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
10.02 Ratings
7.239 Ratings
Candidate Search
8.02 Ratings
6.940 Ratings
Applicant Tracking
9.01 Ratings
7.840 Ratings
Collaboration
9.02 Ratings
8.035 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation
10.02 Ratings
7.537 Ratings
Email Templates
10.02 Ratings
7.758 Ratings
User Permissions
10.02 Ratings
7.959 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts
8.01 Ratings
7.654 Ratings
Reporting
8.01 Ratings
7.762 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Avature ATS
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Ratings
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.7
131 Ratings
5% above category average
New hire portal
00 Ratings
7.968 Ratings
Manager tracking tools
00 Ratings
7.8113 Ratings
Compliance tracking and reporting
00 Ratings
7.5124 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Avature ATS
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Cornerstone OnDemand
8.0
113 Ratings
12% above category average
Corporate goal setting
00 Ratings
7.894 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting
00 Ratings
8.197 Ratings
Individual goal setting
00 Ratings
8.5105 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility
00 Ratings
7.993 Ratings
Performance tracking
00 Ratings
7.7108 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Avature ATS
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Ratings
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.4
118 Ratings
12% above category average
Performance plans
00 Ratings
7.792 Ratings
Plan weighting
00 Ratings
7.279 Ratings
Manager note taking
00 Ratings
7.568 Ratings
Performance improvement plans
00 Ratings
7.380 Ratings
Review status tracking
00 Ratings
8.195 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow
00 Ratings
7.463 Ratings
Review reminders
00 Ratings
7.892 Ratings
Workflow restrictions
00 Ratings
7.184 Ratings
Multiple review frequency
00 Ratings
6.981 Ratings
Reporting
00 Ratings
7.5112 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Avature ATS
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Ratings
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.1
57 Ratings
16% above category average
Create succession plans/pools
00 Ratings
7.348 Ratings
Candidate ranking
00 Ratings
8.348 Ratings
Candidate search
00 Ratings
8.251 Ratings
Candidate development
00 Ratings
8.648 Ratings
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
As it is a very complete tool, with many features and that sometimes ends up being a little complex, I would recommend it only for medium-sized companies. Perhaps in a large company, it could complicate the processes a little instead of making it easier. But it's a great tool!
I feel Cornerstone OnDemand is a great solution for companies that have a large amount of compliance training that needs to be assigned and closely tracked. The features of dynamic groups (based on specific user criteria) allows you to target very specific audiences. The assignment functionality gives you great flexibility on when the assignment runs and how often, and also provides many options for due dates (static date or dynamic date - x days from hire date, date assigned, etc.). This has allowed us to have a clear and consistent user experience for both our newly hired employees and our seasoned employees.
Search capabilities - ability to pipeline top talent.
Communication with hiring managers in the hiring manager portal - resumes/notes don't get lost in email and are always accessible to anyone involved in the hiring process.
Ability to customize - we've been able to change work flows for different needs, and different business groups as well.
Automatic recurring assignments are easy to get that refresher training out without needing to assign it fresh each time.
Reporting 2.0 makes it easy to write and share your reports with just selected filters. Making it easy for people receiving it to just change what they need to see.
Learning Admin Console makes it easy to peek at what is going on in your portal and open up connected reporting when needed.
Success Center is a great resource for getting peer answers to questions and learning about the releases and suggesting changes that should be added to the roadmap.
Sometimes finding the right answer to your support question can be a bit more difficult than it should be.
I would like to see more OSHA related courses.
At times, the administrative interface seems to need to be updated, but the tradeoff honestly might be the absolute rock-solid stability of the platform.
As long as pricing stays reasonable, we will likely stay with Cornerstone for at least one more contract renewal. It would be a large task to migrate all of our content to a new system. However, the LMS landscape is diversifying with new startups that are showing some real innovation.
Easy to use, easy to learn, lots of support during the learning process. There are a few parts of the system we don't use and I'm hesitant to begin using because other clients have said they're difficult and cumbersome (certifications) or outdated (libraries)
I haven't really had any major availability problems. The service is practically impeccable but it is true that at times, due to server and latency problems, the application has been slower. But these have been specific issues that have resolved themselves.
Pages do not load quickly. Often times any action or selection of a box, drop down, check, pretty much ANY Javascript interaction causes the whole entire page to load/reload/start doing something in the background. This makes a nightmare for having to mass edit courses or upload ILT sessions. It's the one of the archaic web designs they use that really bugs me as an admin and makes working in the portal at times intolerable and insufferable
Its always important to have support when you are facing problems and when you are the main admin of the organization. Cornerstone Support is very supporting when you have not found the answer in the help guide. its very useful to have a team support to guide you.
we use also to admin all our training in person events and sessions. Its easy to admin this kind of trainings and automatize some processes we have. Also de user experience and the integration with other systems helps to the employees to use more. All modules integrated oriented to develop people is the principal reason to have CSOD. The training administration is very complete and allows to automate many processes.
The online modules are pretty good. You can access them at any time, which we have done. You learn a lot in the beginning, but having the ability to retake short lessons when you are working on those items was very helpful.
The implementation was pretty difficult. We felt they (Cornerstone) didn’t properly allocate the resources to complete our implementation in the timetable we wanted.
For example, we worked on Workday and SSO integrations - work that we had specifically contracted for in advance. When we were ready to work on that project, they didn’t have the people ready to help us, so it took a lot longer than necessary. That was my biggest pain point.
The implementation approach we went with was a self-led implementation. We would speak to the implementation manager once per week, and self-trained. We met with implementation manager to discuss issues, review things that we’d learned for 1 hour. We found that wasn’t enough. Other things would come up outside that one hour window that we couldn’t get answers to. We didn’t have anyone to ask about those things and we had to wait to ask during our weekly meeting.
The advantage of the self-led implementation approach was that it was really inexpensive – significantly less than the implementation cost for the other systems that we looked at. I also liked that we could pace ourselves. There were however big roadblocks. We would have to make sure the right resources were available. We had an implementation/project manager with a lot of experience and felt that the person was knowledgeable but missed on a few things.
In hindsight, I would still go with the self-led implementation, but knowing what I know now, I would ask for the integration person to be available more. I would work that into the contract. With single sign-on, we needed deep linking to build direct links through a Single Sign-On tool, e.g. when someone gets an email, it directs them to training. But it has to go through SSO to get them to the correct link. Deep linking wasn’t turned on in our system and they had to activate it. We encountered little things like that – sequencing pre-requisites which were problematic. We tried to troubleshoot ourselves.
I recommend you consider contracting for some extra implementation hours and determine when they are going to be available. Work it into the contract that you have the ability to call tech support during implementation. In addition to weekly implementation meetings, they have technical webexes – 4 every week, but 2 didn’t apply to us – one as we were using SSO. The challenge is they were not always relevant – we had specific questions that didn’t fall into those categories
Avature is much better than OpenHire! OpenHire didn't give us the ability to share resumes or notes through the system and was very complicated to keep track of candidates that applied to multiple jobs or duplicate candidates. Was also very archaic in the interfacing and usability. Avature gave us many more options to customize our system.
The user experience is a lot better than using SumTotal as an admin CSOD makes working easy. Without having workarounds. Reporting is a lot better than both platforms. Reporting in CSOD is complex however easy to manage and create when you understand the data points collected
It is important to be familiar with the terms and annual increases in licenses and other aspects of the contract. I recommend analyzing this from the beginning and the permanence is relevant because Cornerstone updates its modules and brings out new features that may allow you to leave a module to acquire another
As I have said before, I have no doubt that the services of the Cornerstone sales people were very good. In particular, our salesperson spent a lot of time in contact with us to make the process go smoothly. Perhaps being a large company in some cases the times were slowed down but it is something normal to take into account.