PiiQ by Cornerstone vs SumTotal Talent Development | TrustRadius

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Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 64 reviews and ratings

Score 5.7 out of 10

Based on 30 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

PiiQ by Cornerstone

SumTotal Talent Development

Course authoring

Course catalog or library

Player/Portal

Learning content

Mobile friendly

Progress tracking & certifications

Assignments

Compliance management

Learning administration

Learning reporting & analytics

PiiQ by Cornerstone

SumTotal Talent Development

Employee demographic data

Employment history

Job profiles and administration

Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.

Organizational charting

Organization and location management

Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

PiiQ by Cornerstone

SumTotal Talent Development

Pay calculation

Support for external payroll vendors

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

PiiQ by Cornerstone

SumTotal Talent Development

Balance details

Annual carry-forward and encashment

PiiQ by Cornerstone

SumTotal Talent Development

View and generate pay and benefit information

Update personal information

View job history

PiiQ by Cornerstone

SumTotal Talent Development

Report builder

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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Assign complete learning plans to users so they don't have to spend time searching for courses.
Export learner's transcripts so managers can easily see their employee's progress.
Embed Social Media feeds that are relevant to their business.

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Employee in Corporate

Printing Company, 51-200 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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Reporting
Mass importing of manual checks to be issued in California
Ability to fund pay cards immediately
Perform gross-up calculations within the payroll system automatically

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Manager in Finance and Accounting

Entertainment 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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SumTotal Talent Development 10.0

Based on 6 answers

I have transitioned from a position who supported the product to a position where I use the product. I continue to be impressed with the robustness of the product and how efficient it is. It is a user friendly software that can be used to navigate and accomplish tasks to meet organizational requirements.

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Kimberly Barricklow

Revenue Application Analyst

Spectrum HealthHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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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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SumTotal Talent Development 2.0

Based on 2 answers

I do not find SumTotal to be intuitive. I feel we need to adjust our needs to meet the functionality available in the tool.

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Account Manager in Professional Services

Professional Training & Coaching Company, 1001-5000 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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No score

No answers yet

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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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No score

No answers yet

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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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Director, Human Resources

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

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SumTotal Talent Development 6.1

Based on 6 answers

I am supporting SumTotal Learn because I have been using the product since 2015 as a user and as an implementation consultant. The application provides the overall learning solutions to large organizations. It is in compliance with GDPR, CFR 11, and other regulatory requirements hence suitable for industries having mandatory compliance requirements. From value for money to customer support, SumTotal earns good credits for its performance, features, etc.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 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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No score

No answers yet

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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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No score

No answers yet

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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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Administrator in Other

Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employees

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When I came to my company, they had been using a "light" LMS called Articulate. It was cheap and bare bones; i.e. not a lot of features, really just a platform to launch eLearning from and not real interface for student to utilize. When I began to overhaul the training department, this was one of the first things I changed. Articulate would only run courses built in their software, and the software was not 508 compliant. In addition, we had no ability to create learning plans, house transcripts, customize the interface, or manage the students. I made the choice to select and LMS that was a true LMS with all of the features that were critical to our clients' needs. Thus far, SumTotal has been able to support all of our needs, except one; mobile learning that is media rich

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Verified User

Administrator in Other

Management Consulting Company, 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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Executive in Manufacturing

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Clean front-end user interface for easier course catalog management.
Reporting has been more difficult than previous LMS.
Audience building has more variables making it more difficult to manage.
Slower overall client turnaround due to admin side interface.

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Verified User

Employee in Human Resources

Hospital & Health Care 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

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SumTotal Talent Development Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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