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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACornerstone’s PiiQ was an SMB offering that included core learning management and performance management systems, based on Sonar6 which was acquired by Cornerstone in 2012, and ultimately discontinued in 2022.

    $8

    per user per month

    Litmos

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/ALitmos is a cloud-based Corporate LMS. Core features include a course builder, assessments and quizzes, surveys and feedback, eCommerce, virtual classrooms, certifications, course library, SCORM and TIN CAN support, reporting, and gamification tools.N/A
    Pricing
    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Litmos
    Editions & Modules
    PiiQ Performance
    $8.00
    per user per month
    PiiQ Learning + Content
    $8.00
    per user per month
    PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance
    $15.00
    per user per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Litmos
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$1,000 per installationNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Litmos
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Litmos
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
    145 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    134 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    145 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    103 Answers
    Features
    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Litmos
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued) and Litmos
    Feature
    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
    6.6
    11 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Litmos
    7.2
    159 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Course authoring6.011 Ratings6.6134 Ratings
    Course catalog or library6.811 Ratings7.6149 Ratings
    Player/Portal6.810 Ratings6.3129 Ratings
    Learning content6.611 Ratings7.9132 Ratings
    Mobile friendly7.98 Ratings6.7131 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications6.210 Ratings7.9152 Ratings
    Assignments6.711 Ratings8.1145 Ratings
    Compliance management5.89 Ratings8.4143 Ratings
    Learning administration6.611 Ratings7.8152 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics6.911 Ratings7.3152 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings5.394 Ratings
    Gamification00 Ratings6.269 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings8.058 Ratings
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    iSpring LMS
    Score9.6 out of 10
    iSpring LMS
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bridge LMS, Skills & Performance Management
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Litmos
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    7.7
    (171 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (37 ratings)
    7.4
    (153 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.2
    (36 ratings)
    5.5
    (13 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (141 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.5
    (9 ratings)
    5.7
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Litmos
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Litmos
    Limos is great for introducing a topic, and taking refreshrs yearly on info already know. Some courses are better suited to a live course, with discussion and questions. We support people with complex medical needs, and review with a nurse is critical.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Litmos
    • Houses all training types in one place
    • Allows us to organize trainings so we can share what is needed with one group, but hide the same content from others
    • Gives us access to reporting to show what courses have been completed and which ones still need done
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    Cons
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    • 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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    Litmos
    • Learner Search: This will be highly valuable for our team especially because our staff do not only use Litmos to take courses but equally use it to search for content that they need to do their jobs in the moment. Users should be able to search using keywords to easily locate specific content.
    • Knowledge Base Feature: In addition to the search function above, some of our content we find can be better organized in knowledge bases for easy access. If Litmos has a knowledge base feature, it would help us have all our learning content in one place.
    • Module Copying Feature: The current module copying feature allow us to make copies of module copies from another course but which are still linked to and affected by changes in the original course. It will be useful to be able to copy courses/modules and make them entirely independent of the original course.
    • Creating Instances of Library Courses: We find that for Litmos courses, it is hard to assign different compliance due dates to separate user groups. It might be useful to be able to create copies of the Litmos courses on the platform so that we can apply different compliance dates for separate teams or groups of users.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Litmos
    For what we need in the very near future, Litmos does not offer us the required capability. Ideally, we are looking for an integrated LMS, coaching, mobile support and content creation platform. Litmos may have the LMS part covered but there are other platforms that do this better along with providing an integrated all-in-one service or at the very least support API integration with other vendors to meet our requirements.
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    Usability
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    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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    Litmos
    Litmos is reliable, stable, and easy to use. Support is amazing, with great response times and customer success managers. I've implemented Litmos in 3 organizations and am working with another one currently. The features and functionality Litmos offers rival those of any other LMS out there.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    So far 100%.
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    Litmos
    It is extremely rare for Litmos to be "down", and maintenance windows are always communicated well in advance.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Litmos
    Litmos is rather quick and responsive for our learners. Reports can be a tad slow depending on the amount of information you are querying.
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    Support Rating
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    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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    Litmos
    If I could give it a negative rating I would. Worst support from any program I have had. Everything is back and forth in the support ticket. The one time I tried to chat they could not support the question. Their support page is so full of sections and products I can never find anything I need, even with a customized home page. I was hopeful that once they left SAP support might improve but it has not. I don't even know who my account executive is. Nobody has ever reached out to me. I need someone to guide me through best practices for our company and there is nobody to do that.
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    In-Person Training
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    Litmos
    It was a good overview of the platform, but of course it was more of a basic overview of how to use the platform. The team provided a good training, but I would of liked a better deep dive into some of the features.
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    Online Training
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    We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.
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    Litmos
    Some of the best online training I've taken from any LMS platform. It was well put together and kept me engaged the entire time. It has a good amount of HR Compliance mixed with soft skills training that the team liked. Overall, it has a robust online suite of training that any company can use.
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    Implementation Rating
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    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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    Litmos
    The company received a change in learning style from the old to this newer style. From our perspective, it was just a case of swapping out the scores and adjusting the language. The initial show-and-tell about the library we could use and how to use the materials was instrumental. From the learner's perspective, it was all very self-explanatory.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Litmos
    I made a choice of this tool because of great review message on internet about the advantage of litmos. Also as cost is concerned I saw it to be favourable to me more than other which are Abit expensive. Litmos also have intuitive user interface which made me to fall for it.
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    Scalability
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    Litmos
    Overall we find that Litmos' capability to organize folks by "Teams" is adequate for our needs... though there are some limitations, especially when it comes to supervisory staff being able to assign content to their employees. It would be nice for hierarchal assignments to be possible (directors being able to assign content to their direct reports... AND those under them).
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    Return on Investment
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    • 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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    Litmos
    • For one of our product lines, what used to require 8-10 onboarding calls now only needs two and we are aiming to get that down to just one or potentially none. Customers can learn on demand using the courses we have constructed for them and continue their learning live with trainers.
    • By hosting all of our training in one place, we have made onboarding much more straightforward for employees — they can learn the product (same training we give customers) and also get their InfoSec and other training in one place.
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    ScreenShots

    PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of PiiQ Performance Employee ReviewScreenshot of PiiQ Learning on DevicesScreenshot of PiiQ Manager/Employee Check-insScreenshot of PiiQ 9-box Talent MatrixScreenshot of PiiQ Learning Publish New ContentScreenshot of PiiQ Learning Searchable Library & Self-registration

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