Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cornerstone OnDemand
Score 8.1 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
Salesforce
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce is a web-based CRM application that enables users to forecast revenues and track leads. It is a leading sales, service, and marketing app. Salesforce.com's Sales (CRM), Service, Platform and Marketing applications are designed to help companies connect with customers, partners, and employees in entirely new ways. According to the vendor, on average, reps using Salesforce see: a +29% increase in sales from greater visibility, +34% increase in sales productivity, and +42% increase in…
$25
per month
Pricing
Cornerstone OnDemandSalesforce.com
Editions & Modules
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Essentials
$25.00
Per User/Per Month
Professional
$75.00
Per User/Per Month
Enterprise
$150.00
Per User/Per Month
Unlimited
$300.00
Per user/Per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cornerstone OnDemandSalesforce
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Cornerstone OnDemand
Chose Cornerstone OnDemand
CSOD is by far the best talent management software I have used.
Chose Cornerstone OnDemand
I haven't used any alternative products that are similar to Cornerstone.
Salesforce
Top Pros
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Features
Cornerstone OnDemandSalesforce.com
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.3
124 Ratings
9% above category average
Salesforce.com
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New hire portal8.265 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools8.0108 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance tracking and reporting8.9117 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.4
110 Ratings
10% above category average
Salesforce.com
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Corporate goal setting8.191 Ratings00 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting8.394 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.8102 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.290 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.5105 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.1
114 Ratings
13% above category average
Salesforce.com
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Performance plans8.289 Ratings00 Ratings
Plan weighting7.976 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager note taking8.265 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans8.177 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking8.492 Ratings00 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow8.160 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.389 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow restrictions7.981 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.878 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting8.3108 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.9
56 Ratings
17% above category average
Salesforce.com
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Create succession plans/pools8.547 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.147 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search9.150 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development8.847 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
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Cornerstone OnDemand
8.2
64 Ratings
8% above category average
Salesforce.com
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Job Requisition Management7.844 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.340 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media8.437 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.937 Ratings00 Ratings
Customized Application Form8.139 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management8.242 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention8.439 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate Search7.940 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.140 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration8.235 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation7.937 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates8.457 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions8.158 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.553 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting8.161 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.8
179 Ratings
2% above category average
Salesforce.com
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Course authoring6.3130 Ratings00 Ratings
Course catalog or library8.6177 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal8.0164 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content8.3141 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly7.6130 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications7.6161 Ratings00 Ratings
Assignments8.0173 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance management7.8154 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning administration7.9176 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics8.2175 Ratings00 Ratings
Social learning7.0110 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
7.6
206 Ratings
4% below category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.2206 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings7.7197 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings7.5160 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings8.1201 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.5190 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings7.3160 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings7.2147 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.7174 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings7.5142 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
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Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
8.6
56 Ratings
11% above category average
Case management00 Ratings9.056 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings8.442 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings8.346 Ratings
Marketing Automation
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Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
7.6
188 Ratings
3% below category average
Lead management00 Ratings7.6184 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings7.5157 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
7.4
189 Ratings
5% below category average
Task management00 Ratings7.7180 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings6.737 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings8.0144 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
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Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
7.9
202 Ratings
2% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.5174 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings7.9191 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.3200 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
7.6
194 Ratings
3% below category average
Custom fields00 Ratings7.8192 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings7.8184 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings7.1136 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings7.8159 Ratings
Security
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Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
8.4
182 Ratings
0% below category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.6163 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.2156 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
7.2
125 Ratings
3% below category average
Social data00 Ratings7.3124 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings7.2121 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
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Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
7.9
168 Ratings
7% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings7.8164 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings8.0108 Ratings
Platform
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Cornerstone OnDemand
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Ratings
Salesforce.com
7.6
178 Ratings
0% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings7.6178 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cornerstone OnDemandSalesforce.com
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(249 ratings)
7.8
(321 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.7
(37 ratings)
9.0
(55 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(36 ratings)
7.8
(114 ratings)
Availability
7.3
(5 ratings)
9.8
(54 ratings)
Performance
6.4
(5 ratings)
9.0
(36 ratings)
Support Rating
6.6
(50 ratings)
6.9
(123 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(4 ratings)
7.9
(11 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(8 ratings)
9.1
(15 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(19 ratings)
1.0
(33 ratings)
Configurability
7.5
(218 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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8.9
(9 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.5
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.5
(4 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Cornerstone OnDemandSalesforce.com
Likelihood to Recommend
Cornerstone OnDemand
The dashboards and reporting needs more additional features to clean up the old reports, manage dashboards more effectively is my main concern. I recently launched one of three phases for dashboards and I noticed I cannot work efficiently seeing which dashboard is important to me, which has been shared with me. More organization is requested
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Salesforce
Salesforce is so customizable that I can't think of situations where you couldn't configure the tool to do what you need. If Salesforce hasn't developed the capability itself, there is a marketplace where anyone else can develop and upload their solution for others to use as well. Also, due to Salesforce's success and size, almost every other app/software that you can think of has or is working on an integration with Salesforce. So if you need to use a different tool for a certain function, you can more likely than not still integrate it with Salesforce to enhance value.
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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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Salesforce
  • Salesforce.com is extremely customizable. I would not consider it an out-of-the-box solution, although its standard fields allow for fundamental CRM activities and reporting.
  • Salesforce.com is able to integrate with 100s of third-party softwares—often times creating efficiencies in processes.
  • Reports within Salesforce.com have the ability to be simple as a standard Account report, or you can get very granular with your report filtering to segment a very specific result, eg. Accounts in California who are active clients and fall within the pharmaceutical industry and have a specified market capitalization.
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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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Salesforce
  • The Knowledge module can be improved. It is still limited compared to regular CMS. Still not possible to have a filter view per data categories
  • Using the Community portal also comes with a limited Community reply function that doesn´t allow text formatting. Very difficult to move staff away from emailing customers when this text box is very poor
  • Rigidity when you work in a big organization with same template. It needs to be a one fits all instance and the local needs are deprioritized because SF doesn´t allow customization
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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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Salesforce
There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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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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Salesforce
I'm a Millenial and more tech savvy, so learning this tool is more intuitive and I don't mind learning the ins and outs of the product. It can be cumbersome when permissions or new rules by our admins get enacted, that can cause disruptions in our workflows and annoyances. Overall, the usability is fine, and helps in my day to day more than causes disruptions
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Reliability and Availability
Cornerstone OnDemand
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.
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Salesforce
Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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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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Salesforce
Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
Points per Salesforce -
1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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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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Salesforce
The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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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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Salesforce
I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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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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Salesforce
I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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Implementation Rating
Cornerstone OnDemand
Due to the uncomplex data model, Cornerstone can be implemented very fast (2 - 4 months for each module), this makes it easy to deliver first results in an adequate way. Based on this, the implementation is not that complicated so you can strongly focus on HR-relevant topics and issues.
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Salesforce
Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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Alternatives Considered
Cornerstone OnDemand
The Sales Pitch for Cornerstone while being great, left us a bit disappointed when the tool got implemented. Although it is a game-changer and radically improved the learning experience the after-sales service has left us a bit disappointed. Since the overall package makes up for the situation, we can safely recommend it but while exercising caution.
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Salesforce
I've used Act CRM by Xperience previously. Salesforce is way more robust and intuitive and meets the needs of an enterprise company with enterprise clients way more effectively. I don't think there is another CRM in the market with the overall functionality and usability that can complete with the Salesforce platform for someone in my role.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Cornerstone OnDemand
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Salesforce
Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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Scalability
Cornerstone OnDemand
I have had no problem scaling the platform across various areas of the business
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Salesforce
I've worked with Salesforce since 2001 in companies ranging from 4 to hundreds of sales people and the system has been able to scale and perhaps more importantly expand (functionally) to the needs of larger organizations. In fact in my previous company, as a provider of a solution that integrated with Salesforce, we had customers that had thousands of sales people using Salesforce.
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Professional Services
Cornerstone OnDemand
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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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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Salesforce
  • It requires a lot of time to manage but does a good job keeping everything in one place
  • Managers! Quit having sales professionals create spreadsheets and reports ad hoc. The information is in SFDC. Build a report so you can get it yourself.
  • If used properly and not restricted and overmanaged, SFDC will provide huge ROI
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ScreenShots

Cornerstone OnDemand 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.

Salesforce Screenshots

Screenshot of Salesforce CRM - More than just a contacts database, Salesforce CRM is a centralized repository of customer information in the cloud.Screenshot of Salesforce Dashboards - Advanced reporting for Sales Executives, Sales Managers, or Service Managers allows you to keep a pulse on customer acquisition and satisfaction.Screenshot of Force.com Platform - More than a CRM or Service Application, Salesforce is a full cloud-based development environment supported by a rich ecosystem of integrated third-party application providers.