eFront Learning vs. Skilljar by Gainsight

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
eFront Learning
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
eFront is a flexible LMS platform for enterprises that need advanced security measures and extensive customization to train masses of employees, partners, and customers. According to the vendor, eFront is designed to be an adaptable enterprise LMS, and gives users complete control over their virtual training environment and data. Additionally, the vendor says it blends well with any other infrastructure. The vendor’s value proposition is that eFront helps the user’s business grow…
$1,000
per month
Skilljar by Gainsight
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform is a solution to educate, engage, and retain everyone a business interacts with. An external LMS for customer and partner education, it is a Gainsight solution since the 2025 acquisition.N/A
Pricing
eFront LearningSkilljar by Gainsight
Editions & Modules
Business
$1,000.00
per month
Enterprise
$1,500.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
eFront LearningSkilljar by Gainsight
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
eFront LearningSkilljar by Gainsight
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
eFront Learning
8.7
3 Ratings
6% above category average
Skilljar by Gainsight
9.3
26 Ratings
8% above category average
Course authoring9.03 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Course catalog or library8.73 Ratings9.025 Ratings
Player/Portal8.92 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Mobile friendly7.63 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications8.83 Ratings8.026 Ratings
Assignments8.62 Ratings10.019 Ratings
Compliance management9.63 Ratings8.517 Ratings
Learning administration9.03 Ratings10.024 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics8.43 Ratings9.526 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Gamification00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Customer Training Tools
Comparison of Customer Training Tools features of Product A and Product B
eFront Learning
-
Ratings
Skilljar by Gainsight
9.7
3 Ratings
0% above category average
Customer Feedback Collection00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Customer Training Library Curation00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
User Permissioning00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
eFront LearningSkilljar by Gainsight
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(5 ratings)
9.5
(78 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(53 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(52 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
eFront LearningSkilljar by Gainsight
Likelihood to Recommend
Epignosis
You must have an IT staff with knowledge of PHP in order to install and maintain the system. This is not a plug and play solution by any means. If you have that staff, this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It's a very robust system. Once we solved initial bugs caused by our own errors during installation, the support desk requests have dropped to almost zero, with nearly 2,000 users online every day. That's a good, solid program.
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Gainsight
Skilljar is fantastic for structured onboarding processes. If you're
looking to streamline and standardize the onboarding experience for your
customers, especially for software or complex products, this platform
is a gem. It allows you to create step-by-step courses guiding users
through functionalities, reducing confusion and accelerating their
learning curve.When you need versatility in content delivery, Skilljar is spot-on.
Whether it's video tutorials, interactive quizzes, downloadable
resources, or live webinars, the platform accommodates various formats.
It's perfect for accommodating different learning styles and ensuring
engagement.
For scenarios that demand highly complex simulations or immersive
learning experiences, Skilljar's capabilities might fall short. While it
supports interactive elements, extremely sophisticated simulations
might require additional specialized software or platforms.
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Pros
Epignosis
  • courses management
  • quizes management
  • variety of addons
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Gainsight
  • Unlimited courses, learning paths, quizzes, pages, plans, and certifications
  • Ease of use for students, administrators, and content creators
  • Customer Success and Service are top notch. The CSMs are genuinely committed to helping you achieve your metrics and goals
  • Asking for and listening to customer feedback for enhancements
  • Developer Center where people with little to no coding experience can learn how to use and apply HTML templates and code snippets to customize your site
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Cons
Epignosis
  • Merging this software may be difficult and cumbersome at times
  • Reporting features can be worked on for better and easier usability
  • Not very easy to organize files/folders in the system
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Gainsight
  • Would love to see parent/child courses so that when something is updated in the parent course that change is automatically reflected in the clones of that course.
  • Features that allow for the translation of content to allow access to content across languages.
  • Re-onboarding process when the usage of Skilljar changes hands within out company in order to address knowledge gaps.
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Likelihood to Renew
Epignosis
I'm not sure what else is out there that has the ability to do what our organization needs. We've come across things we didn't like about it, but due to costs of switching and possibly lack of other options, we'd probably renew with eFront. Also, we've invested a lot of time in the software and it seems to be satisfactory at this point.
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Gainsight
I like what you are using and how we are doing it. Also, changing systems is a lot of work
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Usability
Epignosis
For most situations, it is extremely easy to learn and use. There are ergonomic issues that seem a bit tedious, but overall, we are seeing a very high success rate with new registrants. They are learning the material and earning their certificates at a rapid pace. This is a good program once it is properly installed by a knowledgeable systems architect.
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Gainsight
The learning curve for Skilljar is not too steep, and I've renewed our contract twice now. I've been able to add additional administrators and get them up to speed on platform functionality within a day. Plus, Skilljar provides awesome resources to help you learn how to use is. The Help Center has articles for almost everything, and when in doubt, their amazing CSMs (like ours, ...) provide exemplary support/advice.
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Support Rating
Epignosis
Two disadvantages: 1. Many staffers who respond don't know how to solve the problem using the User Interface - they want to work from the back end, to which I have no access. 2. The support staff are in Europe and I am in California, so there is an overnight delay in getting a response.
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Gainsight
I have opened several support cases in the past and at times felt like little was being done to resolve the issues I was having. For example, when searching the use against a training credit, Skilljar said the code was fully used, yet only 1 had been used. The support team seemed to not have interest in learning why this was happening and ensuring it does not happen again. The issue was resolved with this particular case, but I have no idea if it was the only training credit having this issue. At times I feel like the issues we encounter do not seem as important to the support team
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Online Training
Epignosis
I'm not the most technical person, so some of the training didn't make sense to me. It wasn't a complete training - it was more topical. The people working at EFront were happy to answer my questions later when I resorted to learning it by doing. This was very valuable to me.
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Gainsight
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Epignosis
It's important to have a robust course catalog before launching. Courses should be QC'ed to be sure there are no errors or other problems. Don't let engineers write quiz questions! Remember that well-formed quiz questions are not designed to trick or fool the user - they are used to reinforce learning through repetition of important concepts. The "grade" isn't as important as the assurance the information has stuck.
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Gainsight
Do a good job of preparing your internal teams (IT, Salesforce, etc.) about the work they will have in the process
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Alternatives Considered
Epignosis
Unfortunately I have not had the chance to try other products, however I would think eFront would stack up fairly well against competitors and it provides all the necessary tools to stay compliant and excel at having efficient KICs.
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Gainsight
Skilljar provides stronger customization features, more code snippet options, more styling tools, and more effective integrations. These include Credly, Salesforce, and SCORM. Additionally, the catalog is all part of the same system, making it easy to manage. The analytics tools are also more robust, and the customer service is much more helpful and responsive
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Return on Investment
Epignosis
  • We decided not to continue the trial because it will be either very expensive or impossible to modify the system to our requirements
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Gainsight
  • Our customers seem to be getting onboarded efficiently. Giving our customers a good experience helps us retain them longer.
  • So far, we are still not able to come up with solid metrics that it provides evidence of ROI. If Skilljar could somehow come up with clear, actionable metrics about customer success and how that relates to ROI then I think it would be vastly better. To be fair, we roll the cost of using Skilljar in the overall price, otherwise, we would charge customers and have a revenue stream to measure.
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ScreenShots

eFront Learning Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of ReportsScreenshot of CourseScreenshot of View of eFront administrator dashboard, including key actions and a summary of courses, users, completions and sign-ins.Screenshot of View of eFront administrator course catalog view with functionality to manage courses and change view mode.Screenshot of eFront Administrator system reporting includes users, courses, tests, certificates and all other reporting functions.

Skilljar by Gainsight Screenshots

Screenshot of the Skilljar Dashboard, where all needed tools are accessed through a single interface.Screenshot of The training portal, which is the URL where published courses will be located, and where trainees can register for, access and complete training.

This URL can be set up as a custom domain using a website, like training.yoursite.com. Or a Skilljar domain can be used, like yoursite.skilljar.com. The look of the training portal can be customized to match a company's brand and colors.Screenshot of some of the analytics to measure  and track learner progress, in the analytics suite where content success is analyzedScreenshot of content that can be offered with Skilljar’s authoring tools. Multiple learning pathways based on user role, skillset, or use case can be created, as well as native video and audio with embedding from external hostsScreenshot of the built-in assessment & certifications engine that enables users to showcase their expertise, along with built-in assessment tools and verifiable badges and certificates.