Cornerstone OnDemand vs. Oracle PeopleSoft HCM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cornerstone OnDemand
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
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.N/A
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
Oracle's PeopleSoft HCM is a complete, customizable suite including Global Core Human Capital Management, Workforce Management, Workforce Service Delivery, and Talent Management. PeopleSoft can be integrated to run on the Oracle Cloud.
$85
Per User Per Month
Pricing
Cornerstone OnDemandOracle PeopleSoft HCM
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Benefits
$85.00
Per User Per Month
Pension Administration
$85.00
Per User Per Month
Human Resources
$185.00
Per User Per Month
Payroll
$225.00
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cornerstone OnDemandOracle PeopleSoft HCM
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Cornerstone OnDemandOracle PeopleSoft HCM
Considered Both Products
Cornerstone OnDemand
Chose Cornerstone OnDemand
I used when working with a former employer. They chose SAP because they were already using SAP for a lot of other HR purposes. This made it easy to combine and implement with the others.
Chose Cornerstone OnDemand
Other products were either inferior or too expensive. The one product that was closest to what we needed was Halogen. In the end, our selection of Cornerstone was based on:

  • Breadth of services
Chose Cornerstone OnDemand
It was the easiest to use and configure and had the better ratio between price and service offered. It was also the most accurate system to fulfill our requirements (certification management, pool of candidates...). The design and technology of the solution was great. The …
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Cornerstone OnDemandOracle PeopleSoft HCM
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.8
131 Ratings
7% above category average
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
7.7
47 Ratings
3% below category average
New hire portal8.068 Ratings8.147 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.8113 Ratings7.243 Ratings
Compliance tracking and reporting7.5124 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.0
113 Ratings
12% above category average
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
3.0
36 Ratings
91% below category average
Corporate goal setting7.894 Ratings3.634 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting8.197 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.6105 Ratings4.636 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility7.993 Ratings1.834 Ratings
Performance tracking7.8108 Ratings1.936 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.5
118 Ratings
13% above category average
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
2.9
41 Ratings
92% below category average
Performance plans7.892 Ratings2.840 Ratings
Plan weighting7.279 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager note taking7.668 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.480 Ratings3.739 Ratings
Review status tracking8.195 Ratings2.839 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow7.463 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.992 Ratings2.834 Ratings
Workflow restrictions7.184 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency6.981 Ratings2.637 Ratings
Reporting7.5112 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.2
57 Ratings
17% above category average
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
3.7
32 Ratings
72% below category average
Create succession plans/pools7.548 Ratings4.531 Ratings
Candidate ranking8.448 Ratings3.530 Ratings
Candidate search8.351 Ratings3.331 Ratings
Candidate development8.748 Ratings3.728 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.7
65 Ratings
6% above category average
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
4.6
37 Ratings
51% below category average
Job Requisition Management8.144 Ratings4.235 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.240 Ratings4.733 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.237 Ratings1.730 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.137 Ratings2.834 Ratings
Customized Application Form8.239 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management7.242 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.439 Ratings5.727 Ratings
Candidate Search7.240 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.040 Ratings6.736 Ratings
Collaboration8.235 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation7.737 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates7.858 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions7.959 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.754 Ratings6.235 Ratings
Reporting7.862 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.2
186 Ratings
2% above category average
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
-
Ratings
Course authoring4.8137 Ratings00 Ratings
Course catalog or library8.1184 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal7.8171 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content8.1146 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly8.6134 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications7.6167 Ratings00 Ratings
Assignments7.8180 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance management7.0161 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning administration6.5183 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics6.3182 Ratings00 Ratings
Social learning7.0115 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
6.3
72 Ratings
22% below category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings6.568 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings5.766 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings4.868 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings5.266 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings6.158 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings8.063 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.956 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
6.5
63 Ratings
21% below category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings6.259 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings5.243 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings6.254 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings7.157 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings7.155 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings5.742 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
6.2
50 Ratings
26% below category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings6.243 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings5.749 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings6.739 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
6.8
71 Ratings
17% below category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.161 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings8.669 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings5.748 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings3.841 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings7.665 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
9.0
28 Ratings
12% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
6.3
67 Ratings
17% below category average
Report builder00 Ratings7.564 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings4.257 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Cornerstone OnDemandOracle PeopleSoft HCM
Small Businesses
Paycor
Paycor
Score 7.3 out of 10
Dayforce Powerpay
Dayforce Powerpay
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Workday HCM
Workday HCM
Score 8.4 out of 10
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 9.2 out of 10
Infor Human Resources
Infor Human Resources
Score 7.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cornerstone OnDemandOracle PeopleSoft HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(256 ratings)
5.7
(80 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(37 ratings)
3.0
(11 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(37 ratings)
4.0
(8 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(5 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(5 ratings)
5.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
6.6
(36 ratings)
1.0
(5 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(4 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(10 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(10 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Configurability
7.1
(114 ratings)
2.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.5
(3 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.5
(4 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.0
(3 ratings)
3.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cornerstone OnDemandOracle PeopleSoft HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
Cornerstone OnDemand
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.
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Oracle
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM is great for onboarding new hires. The process, including some newer direct entry features, has been streamlined and made more intuitive. However, there is a steep learning curve for those who are completely unfamiliar with enterprise systems as a whole. In my experience, Oracle PeopleSoft HCM's updates have historically failed to improve the intuitiveness of navigation and features even through a move to a SaaS configuration in the cloud. This makes it hard to train new HR staff because there may be five different ways to accomplish the same thing and none of them are intuitive enough to just "figure out". This has been a bone of contention for me for all Oracle products for my entire 20+ year career, and it has never been fully addressed.
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Pros
Cornerstone OnDemand
  • 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.
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Oracle
  • Oracle PeopleSoft HCM is one of the best product and has helped implement the complex Business functionalities in the Higher Education business in a very streamlined process.
  • Oracle PeopleSoft HCM helped in moving from 34 different legacy system to one centralized system which helps immensely in maintaining the data and reporting purpose.
  • Oracle PeopleSoft HCM also helps immensely in data analytics and trend analysis which helps immensely in preparing for the resourcing and planning for the peak season in advance and be better prepared to handle the quarterly on annual activities.
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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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Oracle
  • We have issues with students using Time & Labor for multiple jobs, where time is incorrectly calculated, including negative balances where none exist.
  • The application is complex and some areas, especially Time & Labor, are very difficult to troubleshoot. The overall level of complexity has increased over the years.
  • We also use Campus Solutions and had to split apart HCM and CS, significantly increasing our maintenance overhead and creating inter-system issues that aren't always resolvable.
  • Campus Solutions has developed a solution for managing preferred names and gender identity that is missing/ incompatible with the HCM product.
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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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Oracle
PeopleSoft HCM has provided a very flexible platform for our HR needs. The ability to add customizations to handle some of our unique business processes have been critical in the longevity of our PS HCM use. We've been able to handle a wide variety of business processes for multiple subsidiaries due to the ability to customize when needed.
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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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Oracle
Oracle HCM has been around for more thab a decade and is a preferred package to use for Human capital management.Ease with which upgrades happen and how updates are pushed has come thru a long way of improvement and research over the years.Oracle has moved toward cloud based architecture which will help in its customers keep at par with current industry trends.
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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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Oracle
I give this rating because we have had no issues in the area of the product's overall availability. In my opinion the resources are there when we need them and the features serve the purpose they are set to do. I feel things have gone really well as far as the availability of the product.
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Performance
Cornerstone OnDemand
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
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Oracle
This is highly dependent on the server setup you implement. You need to make sure you've included enough hardware to support your users. Not enough power will quickly rear its ugly head. If you've got the correct setup, the product will operate quickly and provide a good user experience. Oracle is slowed down by certain realtime interfaces to other systems, but this can be addressed by your technical team relatively easily.
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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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Oracle
Overall support has been positive and Oracle has gladly sent out representatives to meet with our teams in person. Despite sometimes sow and inadequate fixes, their willingness to try and meet face to face helps give them a better name in our organization. Sometimes their people do not understand unique needs of the industry, and it can be a challenge to explain that one size does not fit all. Finding the appropriate IT support for our unique requests has been hit and miss.
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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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Oracle
In my opinion, training in Oracle PeopleSoft HCM is arduous at best. In my experience, there are numerous issues with creating training environments and that makes practice in a sandbox costly. I prefer asynchronous simulated environment training for this reason, but that costs even more due to the development and testing time needed to create that training. eLearning is always there with only the need to keep it up-to-date.
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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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Oracle
It was a great training tool and provided all of the necessary information we needed to implement the sites for our clients. We were provided with a great deal of resources in regards to Oracle CRM. We didn't have any issues with the training at all. The only thing I would say would that there could be more FAQ's for users to read through
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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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Oracle
When we implement Oracle and Taleo to different clients it typically goes pretty smoothly. When we do system upgrades we usually test the main issues the clients are having just to make sure there are not outstanding issues or errors. I don't have any examples where implementation went poorly. It typically goes well and clients are pleased with the final result. The only complaint would be the time it takes to implement
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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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Oracle
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM is a well known product, with a history of being a successful tool for large organizations. It has a wide variety of features and tools available to assist human resources needs. As mentioned before though, for smaller organizations, it probably offers much more than is necessary compared to something like BambooHR or WebHR which offer most features one would want without the need to integrate with other softwares.
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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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Oracle
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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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Oracle
In my opinion I rate this high because we have had no issues in this area and so that is why I give it such a high rating. There is no issue with the product's overall scalability. In my opinion this has been a positive from my team and client's view.
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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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Oracle
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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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Oracle
  • As a long time PeopleSoft user, my institution has found great advantages of being involved in the HCM realm such as first-hand information, a complete suite of solutions as well as regular updates to stay up with federal and state regulations.
  • Ease of use of development, customization, maintenance and usage perspectives can lead to a better management of financial resources, that minimizes expenditure while providing all necessary resources.
  • Opportunities to provide better customer service and meet organizational policies have to lead to a positive outlook on the tool and its features.
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ScreenShots

Cornerstone OnDemand Screenshots

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