PiiQ by Cornerstone vs Degreed

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Professional in Human Resources

Staffing and Recruiting Company, 51-200 employees

Degreed is well suited for large companies where you want to keep track of your employees progress. It makes it easy to access all learning material in one stop. Degreed integrates with Udemy, Harvard Manage Mentor, LearningHub, and many more.

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Jose Colmenero

Software Developer

American AirlinesAirlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Degreed

Course authoring

Course catalog or library

Player/Portal

Learning content

Mobile friendly

Progress tracking & certifications

Assignments

Compliance management

Learning administration

Learning reporting & analytics

Social learning

Pros

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.

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Gene Aldava, SPHR

Director, Human Resources and Administration

Abode CommunitiesReal Estate, 51-200 employees

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Enterprise-wide provisioning of required and/or optional trainings.
Clean presentation of anything our admin's need to show with great feedback opportunities and participation rates.
Accountability and progress tracking is pretty spot on as you progress through a course.

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Hayden Anderson

Senior Enterprise Account Development II - Team Lead

LucidComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Cons

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

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C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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Keeping in touch with co-workers in the same team is a little hard.
The news feed can be distracting with too many articles thrown at you.
Hard to keep track of most popular courses.

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Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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.

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Employee in Human Resources

Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employees

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No score

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Usability

PiiQ by Cornerstone 7.8

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.

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Employee in Human Resources

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Reliability and Availability

PiiQ by Cornerstone 10.0

Based on 1 answer

So far 100%.

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Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Performance

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.

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Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.1

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.

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John Gwynn

Director, Human Resources

Viewpointe Archive Services L.L.C.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Degreed 8.5

Based on 2 answers

While it's great for the management and tracking of employees learning, there is still room for growth. It could use more courses and content developed by Degreed rather than relying on external platforms content.

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Jose Colmenero

Software Developer

American AirlinesAirlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0

Based on 1 answer

We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

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

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Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Verified User

Administrator in Other

Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employees

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I think that in a business setting, Degreed is more streamlined to benefit us than almost any other tool. Canvas is great in higher/lower education where the learning is the actual product. In a business setting, tools like Degreed and Bridge do a wonderful job helping our employees build and show their own ROI to upper management.

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Hayden Anderson

Senior Enterprise Account Development II - Team Lead

LucidComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

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.

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Verified User

Executive in Manufacturing

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Serves as an additional supplementary resource for learning to many employees.
Can be good way to upgrade skills.
Needs to have better focused learning pathways to make learning process smoother.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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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
PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance	$15.00¹
PiiQ Learning + Content	$8.00¹

per user per month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Degreed Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

Degreed for Enterprise provides SaaS based pricing with annual contracts aligned to an organization's size. Degreed is free for individuals.

Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend