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Cornerstone OnDemand
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330 Ratings
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64 Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is well suited for having a single or almost-single source of training for a very large organization. The ease of putting a course into the system and making it available across the enterprise or pushing it out as an assignment with a due date is great. It also handles the ability to push out large amounts of training to users through assignments pretty well, although sometimes it does take a while to process.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employeesPiiQ by Cornerstone
Well suited for:
- A busy environment where you want learners to be self-sufficient and to be able to access learning solutions at a time that suits them.
- For anyone who wants to access learning using different platforms such as iPad, mobile, PC, etc
- Anyone who needs a more in-depth learning solution rather than an overview of key learning points.

Verified User
Professional in Human Resources
Staffing and Recruiting Company, 51-200 employeesFeature Rating Comparison
Onboarding
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7.3
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New hire portal
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8.3
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Manager tracking tools
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6.8
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Compliance tracking and reporting
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6.7
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Performance and Goals
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7.8
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Corporate goal setting
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.2
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Subordinate goal setting
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8.5
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Individual goal setting
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.3
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Line-of sight-visibility
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6.7
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Performance tracking
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8.4
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Performance Management
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8.0
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Performance plans
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9.0
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Plan weighting
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7.5
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Manager note taking
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7.5
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Performance improvement plans
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.8
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Review status tracking
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.4
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Rater nomination workflow
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.1
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Review reminders
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.6
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Workflow restrictions
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.0
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Multiple review frequency
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.9
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Reporting
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.7
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Succession Planning
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.6
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Create succession plans/pools
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.5
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Candidate ranking
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.9
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Candidate search
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.0
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Candidate development
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.1
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Recruiting / ATS
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.1
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Job Requisition Management
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.2
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Company Website Posting
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.1
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Publish to Social Media
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.3
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Job Search Site Posting
Cornerstone OnDemand
6.9
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Customized Application Form
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.5
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Resume Management
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.2
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Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.2
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Candidate Search
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.3
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Applicant Tracking
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.2
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Collaboration
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.3
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Task Creation and Delegation
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.2
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Email Templates
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.2
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User Permissions
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.2
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Notifications and Alerts
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.3
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Reporting
Cornerstone OnDemand
9.1
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Learning Management
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.5
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6.5
Course authoring
Cornerstone OnDemand
6.8
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6.0
Course catalog or library
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.7
PiiQ by Cornerstone
6.7
Player/Portal
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.4
PiiQ by Cornerstone
6.7
Learning content
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.2
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6.4
Mobile friendly
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6.6
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7.8
Progress tracking & certifications
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.4
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6.2
Assignments
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.8
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6.6
Compliance management
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7.4
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5.8
Learning administration
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7.7
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6.5
Learning reporting & analytics
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.1
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6.7
Social learning
Cornerstone OnDemand
6.2
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Pros
Cornerstone OnDemand
- Access to a huge community of training resources training webinars and social communities. Cornerstone does a great job with providing administrators with the tools and people to get connected on utilizing the product.
- Ability to load or upload files of data. I used Cornerstone with a smaller company and now I'm with a company with a larger employee group. Cornerstone's ability to load certain data for specific features saves administrators time and effort when carrying out tasks and projects.
- Access to permissions and constraints. This allows us to either centralize or de-centralize tasks to our organization partners based on business needs.
- Cornerstone's available integrations in the Edge Marketplace also is becoming extremely helpful. With so many applications within a business, we're looking to have a "hub" where our employees can have a one-stop shop for learning.

Verified User
Analyst in Human Resources
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employeesPiiQ by Cornerstone
- 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.
Director, Human Resources and Administration
Abode CommunitiesReal Estate, 51-200 employees
Cons
Cornerstone OnDemand
- There are a lot of resources for help, which is great, but there are a mix of locations to find them. It would be nice if they were all in one central location.
- The HR Suite product is very basic. I am hoping the new merger with Saba will help improve this tool.
- They don't have a way to roll up changes in the pilot portal into the production portal, so when you test changes, you then have to manually made those updates in production. I've worked with software elsewhere that they can just push those changes into production.
HR Manager
JK Moving ServicesTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
PiiQ by Cornerstone
- 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

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesLikelihood to Renew
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 9.7
Based on 25 answers
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.
Learning Management System Administrator, Training Specialist
Tennant CompanyMachinery, 1001-5000 employees
PiiQ by Cornerstone
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.

Verified User
Employee in Human Resources
Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employeesUsability
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 8.8
Based on 25 answers
Cornerstone OnDemand in general has very good usability. It is easy for end users to start using it. We don`t need to provide any trainings for learners or line managers. At maximum we can create one pager with general information. It is easy to search trainings. You don’t need to know the ID or full name of training.
Business Solutions Specialist
NestléFood & Beverages, 10,001+ employees
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 7.9
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.

Verified User
Employee in Human Resources
Construction Company, 201-500 employeesReliability and Availability
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 8.2
Based on 2 answers
It was down for a couple of hours in our first month. Occasionally, in the evening we have trouble logging in even though it is not a maintenance window.

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employeesPiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 10.0
Based on 1 answer
So far 100%.

Verified User
Vice-President in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesPerformance
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 2.7
Based on 2 answers
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
LMS Administrator
H&E Equipment Services, Inc.Machinery, 1001-5000 employees
PiiQ by Cornerstone
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.

Verified User
Vice-President in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesSupport Rating
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 6.2
Based on 34 answers
They are still working out issues with their support ticket system. I think we are now experienced enough that when we submit a ticket, there is not a quick easy answer and involves higher levels of support so it does tend to take a LONG time to get assistance. When there is a major issue, their communication is getting better but when you have a defect to report or a high level support it's going to be a while. They do have EXCELLENT online help, a very active online community where customers help customers and great user groups so there is other avenues of help
Talent Management Analyst
BKD CPAs & AdvisorsFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.2
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.
Director, Human Resources
Viewpointe Archive Services L.L.C.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
In-Person Training
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 3.9
Based on 2 answers
Very personable and patient. Features that I'm sure to them are very simple and repetitive were trained with patience and understanding.
LMS Administrator
H&E Equipment Services, Inc.Machinery, 1001-5000 employees
PiiQ by Cornerstone
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 5.1
Based on 5 answers
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.

Verified User
Manager in Professional Services
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0
Based on 1 answer
We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.

Verified User
Vice-President in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesImplementation Rating
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 8.0
Based on 13 answers
Dig deep on what your current processes are and how they match up to Cornerstone OnDemand functionality. It's not that the Cornerstone OnDemand is bad, it just the amount of work it requires you to do to get your current data to fit into their system.

Verified User
Manager in Professional Services
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPiiQ by Cornerstone
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
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

Verified User
Vice-President in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is lightyears ahead of HealthStream. HealthStream's system is archaic and does not have any features besides basic compliance training. HealthStream is not visually appealing and users simply choose to log in and complete only what has been assigned to them. Cornerstone's catalog is so much more user friendly and inviting.
Instructional Designer & Training Consultant
Henry Ford Health SystemHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees
PiiQ by Cornerstone
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.

Verified User
Administrator in Other
Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employeesScalability
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 9.1
Based on 1 answer
It can accomodate any number of users (that you're willing to pay for) and serves as a training archive
LMS Administrator
H&E Equipment Services, Inc.Machinery, 1001-5000 employees
PiiQ by Cornerstone
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Cornerstone OnDemand
- Increased Performance Development - We were aiming for a more involved performance process between employees and managers. This is something that we continue to develop, but Cornerstone's Check-Ins functionality is the tool needed to bring performance into the future. Even just setting up the system to allow for one on one check-ins is a huge advancement in foster great communications between managers and employees.

Verified User
Employee in Human Resources
Human Resources Company, 5001-10,000 employeesPiiQ by Cornerstone
- 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.

Verified User
Executive in Manufacturing
Construction Company, 201-500 employeesScreenshots
Pricing Details
Cornerstone OnDemand
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Required
* One-time fee
Cornerstone OnDemand Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—PiiQ by Cornerstone
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—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 |
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PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance | $15.001 |
PiiQ Learning + Content | $8.001 |
- per user per month