PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued) vs. Rippling HCM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Cornerstone’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
Rippling HCM
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Rippling HR is a human resources platform for managing employee records, onboarding, benefits, time and attendance, compliance, and other core people operations in one system. It serves as the HR layer of the broader Rippling platform, giving companies a central place to manage the employee lifecycle while connecting HR data to payroll, IT, and finance workflows when needed.
$8
per month per user
Pricing
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Rippling HCM
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
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Rippling HCM
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$1,000 per installationNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFor additional pricing details visit the Rippling pricing page.
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Community Pulse
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Rippling HCM
Features
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Rippling HCM
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
6.6
11 Ratings
22% below category average
Rippling HCM
-
Ratings
Course authoring6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Course catalog or library6.811 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal6.810 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content6.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications6.210 Ratings00 Ratings
Assignments6.711 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance management5.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning administration6.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics6.911 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.0
1133 Ratings
10% above category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.7807 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings8.8835 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings9.1945 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings9.1844 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings9.1982 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings9.2877 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings9.0673 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.2
1179 Ratings
12% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings9.31064 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings9.0749 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.91028 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.51034 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.4799 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings9.3701 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.3
1058 Ratings
13% above category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings9.41021 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings9.3973 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings9.3727 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.1
1226 Ratings
11% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings9.41162 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings9.51212 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings9.31010 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings8.5679 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings9.0874 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
8.8
527 Ratings
9% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.8528 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.0
639 Ratings
18% above category average
Report builder00 Ratings8.7619 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings9.0585 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings9.2531 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.4
874 Ratings
16% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings9.5851 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings9.3667 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.0
517 Ratings
11% above category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings9.1445 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.9475 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings9.1441 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings8.9472 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.2
598 Ratings
15% above category average
Performance plans00 Ratings9.2528 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings9.2500 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings9.2531 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings9.4563 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings9.3488 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Rippling HCM
9.1
438 Ratings
14% above category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings9.1364 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings9.1375 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings9.2393 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings9.1374 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)
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Ratings
Rippling HCM
8.9
502 Ratings
13% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings9.0400 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.9383 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings9.1339 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.7350 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings9.0349 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.8385 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings9.0471 Ratings
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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iSpring LMS
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Score 9.6 out of 10
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.1 out of 10
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AITalent LMS
AITalent LMS
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Rippling HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(40 ratings)
9.1
(1285 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
3.0
(2 ratings)
8.9
(28 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(37 ratings)
9.3
(1282 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(36 ratings)
8.9
(959 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
7.9
(14 ratings)
Configurability
6.5
(9 ratings)
7.5
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
PiiQ by Cornerstone (discontinued)Rippling HCM
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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Rippling
It has a favourites section for commonly used functions. This is perfect for logging in pre-sift and managing my timekeeping. It is easy to view my payslip. It is well-documented and accurate, and it also provides me with an accurate timeline for when to expect my pay to clear. Overall, very easy to use and great interface.
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Pros
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  • 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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Rippling
  • Keeping track of and entering time off and watching time of approvals
  • Providing fast links to access accounts for health/retirement benefits
  • Extremely convenient access to see how much money is left in my flexible savings account and reordering a new card if I need one
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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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Rippling
  • Rippling could improve their payment days. Currently they make employee payments around the 15th and 30th of the month, but it varies slightly with every month. It would make more sense to do this payment on every other Friday or every other Monday.
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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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Rippling
I've been fully impressed with the tool so far in my 6 months of being a daily user. It's rare to run into an issue that can't be solved. Customer service is quick to respond and are usually very helpful. The price is great for the upgrade we got from our past tool. We hit our ROI within the first month.
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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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Rippling
I think you are redundant with these questions. I have mentioned how easy of to use and a great tool for tracking activity. It wastes no time and has what you need. I am pleased with its usability, and if it were up to me, I would keep using it.
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Reliability and Availability
Discontinued Products
So far 100%.
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Rippling
I like that the availability in using Rippling at any given time is useful to me. Getting on the site freely when I need gives me security of knowing that I can be in control of viewing health insurance and hours information. I have yet to get any errors in using the Rippling app.
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Performance
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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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Rippling
Rippling's performance has been great, no errors or glitches yet so far. I am confident that Going from one page to the next and all its complexity usage does not lag or times out, it works effectively and efficiently. While using Rippling and other apps it does not tend to slow it down, works great. No complaints.
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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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Rippling
They have been quite responsive to questions and clarifying settings, approaches, listening to feedback. Their knowledge base and training seem well-established and user-focused. Really like their offerings in Rippling U to help orient admins on features, functionality, and best practices. The IT implementation specialist was kind, efficient, and walked us through each screen, explaining different scenarios as we got things configured. They followed up after each call with action items, recommendations, and made themselves available between working sessions. The whole process felt very productive.
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In-Person Training
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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Online Training
Discontinued Products
We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.
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Rippling
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Discontinued Products
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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Rippling
It's really easy to implement in comparison to other tools or applications. Different key points are easily configured and implemented as per need, having different configurations in systems. Implementation is something which binds the different parameters of an organization in a single row. Implementation of rippling is much easier, quicker, and error free than any other software. I recommend it strongly!
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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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Rippling
Rippling far outshines Employment Hero from an LMS perspective; the EH LMS is really bad and has very little functionality, as well as being completely user-unfriendly. The UE is much better with Rippling, no more searching for things that are in obscure places or running reports that need refining to the extreme.
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Scalability
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Rippling
I can go on here and see all my hours and pto plus health benefits. I like to have the work handbook handy to refer to legal things. How to work my role within it's limits. Being able to put in my hours and view when they are approved is a huge benefit for me.
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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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Rippling
  • It was great to receive money from other country.
  • It was very helpful to use an user friendly platform for my first oversea job.
  • It was great to keep track of the amount of money I've received for the time I was employed overseas.
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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

Rippling HCM Screenshots

Screenshot of the Rippling Dashboard: Employees' home for their payroll, benefits, documents, devices, expenses, and apps.Screenshot of Rippling Payroll: Runs payroll in 90 seconds. Pays employees and contractors around the world. Automatic tax filing.Screenshot of Rippling Benefits Administration: For the management of employees' Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits.Screenshot of Rippling Single Sign-On: Employees can access all of their SaaS apps in one click from their Rippling dashboard.Screenshot of Rippling’s Time & Attendance platform. This integrates with the rest of the product suite so that when employees clock in, their approved hours automatically synced with payroll and accounting systems.Screenshot of Rippling Mobile Device Management: To manage employees' computers and devices 100% remotely.