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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cornerstone Galaxy

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ACornerstone Galaxy 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.N/A

    IBM watsonx Orchestrate

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AIBM® watsonx™ Orchestrate® leverages AI to automate complex workflows. The solution helps build, deploy, and manage AI assistants and agents. It offers a catalogue of pre-built agents and tools, low-code agent builder, multi-agent collaboration capabilities, and integrations with enterprise apps.

    $530

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    Pricing
    Cornerstone GalaxyIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Editions & Modules
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    Essential
    $500
    per month per subscription
    Essentials
    $500
    per month Per subscription
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    Enterprise
    Standard
    Enterprise
    per month Per subscription
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cornerstone GalaxyIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional Details—IBM watsonx Orchestrate can be deployed and run on IBM Cloud, AWS, or on-premises. Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
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    Community Pulse
    Cornerstone GalaxyIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Considered Both Products
    Cornerstone OnDemand
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    65 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    138 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    54 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    125 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    70 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    140 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    102 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    72%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    111 Answers
    Features
    Cornerstone GalaxyIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Cornerstone Galaxy and IBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    6.5
    134 Ratings
    11% below category average
    IBM watsonx Orchestrate
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    New hire portal7.569 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools5.7116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting6.3127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Cornerstone Galaxy and IBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    8.4
    115 Ratings
    14% above category average
    IBM watsonx Orchestrate
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    Corporate goal setting8.596 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting8.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Individual goal setting8.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility8.595 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance tracking9.0110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Cornerstone Galaxy and IBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    8.5
    122 Ratings
    21% above category average
    IBM watsonx Orchestrate
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    Performance plans8.594 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plan weighting8.581 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager note taking9.070 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans9.082 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review status tracking9.097 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rater nomination workflow8.064 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review reminders8.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions9.086 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency9.083 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting7.3116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Cornerstone Galaxy and IBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    6.5
    58 Ratings
    4% below category average
    IBM watsonx Orchestrate
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    Create succession plans/pools6.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate ranking5.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate search8.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate development7.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Cornerstone Galaxy and IBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    5.8
    67 Ratings
    20% below category average
    IBM watsonx Orchestrate
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    Job Requisition Management7.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company Website Posting8.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting9.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customized Application Form8.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resume Management5.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention5.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Search6.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking6.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration4.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation5.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates4.560 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Permissions3.061 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts3.556 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting3.564 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Cornerstone Galaxy and IBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    7.4
    191 Ratings
    5% above category average
    IBM watsonx Orchestrate
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    Course authoring7.7141 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library7.4189 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.0176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content7.2151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly6.5138 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications6.0172 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments8.0185 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management7.8166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration8.0188 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics7.6187 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning6.7119 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Cornerstone GalaxyIBM watsonx Orchestrate
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SumTotal (legacy)
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    PeopleFluent
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cornerstone GalaxyIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (262 ratings)
    7.8
    (133 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (37 ratings)
    4.5
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    6.6
    (46 ratings)
    7.3
    (79 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (37 ratings)
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.1
    (114 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cornerstone GalaxyIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Cornerstone Galaxy is a good solution for larger companies that focus on training and want to offer a variety of options to their employees and departments. It is highly customizable. It does require a tech savvy team to set-up, and maintain. This is not a set-it-and-forget-it system. From an LMS perspective, it wouldn't be my top choice for employees who only need a mobile-friendly approach.
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    IBM
    For starters, most enterprise-grade organizations and Customers struggle to align their current IT estate and landscape with fast-moving, agile, AI-driven automation and development initiatives. All tooling, governance, structure, and frameworks available to support and facilitate the incorporation of this new but still cross-system technology layer are essential to minimize the risks of data leaks, unauthorized access, unbridled token consumption, and other issues. For some businesses and organizations with a handful of systems or a smaller footprint, the platform could be a bit too complex.
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    Pros
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • Ability to provide multiple customizable access roles from general end user to full system admin and anything in between
    • Powerful reporting system in the LMS to track a plethora of data points within the platform (user data, training information, transcript information)
    • Great options to customize the look and feel of your "home page" to best meet your company's needs and goals.
    • Ability to customize the transcript view for learners (i.e. when Completed training will move to their Archived transcript, what to do with Inactive training on transcripts)
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    • New and improved natural language processing yielding better results helps the assistants understand the intention behind the query.
    • Preserves context of communication, allowing the customers to establish inquiries on the website and continue on the mobile app without having extra informational input.
    • Intelligent conversations mean that complex paths that are branched based on the user's inputs allow for a much more natural flow of the conversation than fixed scripts.
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    Cons
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • 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.
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    IBM
    • I think that it needs to be able to integrate better with the knowledge catalogs. It currently provides a default database, which isn't quite large enough for enterprise use. We can connect that then to an external source, but it'd be nice if we could able just to instantiate one straight away.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    IBM
    Currently we are using to develop chatbots based on client provided flow what kind chatbot required for client either button or free text chatbots. we will decided accordingly flow and develop chatbot using IBM Watson. We will integrated custom components if required which is not present in library. Action flow and dialog flow we are currently in chatbot.
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    Usability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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)
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    IBM
    With the growing use of AI and chatbots, it's very easy to use, and the conversational language makes it easier than keyword searches in a document. The contextual language processing is impressive. It's easy to integrate into our internal portal. The use of this tool would depend on each company's security and data sensitivity.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    IBM
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    Performance
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    I haven't seen many issues at all with load times. Sometimes learning assignments will take longer then expected but it is still reasonable. They have taken great effort over the last couple years to speed things up like reports and search results so I expect that effort to continue in the coming year.
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    IBM
    To develop chatbots based on client provided flow what kind chatbot required for client either button or free text chatbots. we will decided accordingly flow and develop chatbot using IBM Watson. We will integrated custom components if required which is not present in library. IBM Watson library anyone can easily learn and develop chatbots.
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    Support Rating
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    IBM
    We've rarely had to engage support, but they've always been prompt in responding and very attentive. Support experiences have been extremely positive (but we're mostly happy that we just don't have any cause to routinely need support in the first place!).
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    In-Person Training
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    IBM
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    Online Training
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    IBM
    Excellent course material.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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
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    IBM
    Overall the implementation was simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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
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    IBM
    Strong ITSM and HR workflow automation with governance, ServiceNow excels in IT/HR but lacks flexibility for cross-departmental use cases such as demand planning, finance close, or procurement analytics. Orchestrate supports a broader set of enterprise functions beyond IT service automation. So, watsonx is a better approach than any other available tool in the market as of now, based on the use cases I've encountered and my efforts to understand the essence of the service.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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
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    IBM
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    Scalability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    It's a great product with some pieces that are set but many things that can be customized as needed for individual needs
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    IBM
    From past 3+ years I am using IBM Watson in our current project easily can implement and manage and monitor user how their using. Is there and update also just update dialog is just enough to change no need to touch any other templates. Multiple language will support, and action and dialog speak recognize chatbot we can create as per client requirement. Overall, as of now good experience with IBM Watson.
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    Professional Services
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    IBM
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    Return on Investment
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • We are in the process of trying to increase employee engagement through content expansion. We are in the early stages of this.
    • The Edge Import Tool, in conjunction with Reporting 2.0, has done a great job of helping to automate/semi-automate tasks for huge time savings.
    • Maintaining compliance. Achieved through dynamic/automated groups, assignments, communication, and reporting.
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    IBM
    • As a very small team WxO give us more time back and handles manual tasks.
    • WxO helps us reduce manual errors (and the time it takes to find and resolve.)
    • WxO, as a task scheduler and reminder system, helps us not forget certain key events with time-dependent requirements.
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    ScreenShots

    Cornerstone Galaxy Screenshots

    Screenshot of A personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee dataScreenshot of With Cornerstone Learning, go beyond compliance and training - truly develop an engaged and collaborative workforce.Screenshot of Cornerstone Recruiting takes care of all talent acquisition needs and provides candidates with an amazing experience.Screenshot of With Cornerstone Performance, benchmark your people's performance, align them with your strategy, and provide feedback that matters.Screenshot of Cornerstone HR offers a personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee data.Screenshot of With Content Anytime, quickly deliver hundreds of eLearning courses covering key soft-skills such as communication, time management, leadership, teamwork, and emotional intelligence.

    IBM watsonx Orchestrate Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM® watsonx Orchestrate® homepage UI when you enter into the product.Screenshot of Catalog of AI agents and tools in different domains from multiple partnersScreenshot of Creating agents - from scratch or using a pre-built templateScreenshot of Multi Agent Collaboration - Employee Support Manager AgentScreenshot of IT domain agents from IBM and other partnersScreenshot of Integrations from multiple common applications