Energage Talent Management vs. SumTotal (legacy)

TalentQuest excels at having all needed information about employees and employers in one place for easy access from both parties. This is crucial when onboarding so that the employee is not lost or discouraged by anything upon the first meeting. Also, the management within the app in terms of team building and development is useful. I believe this is a less appropriate website for those looking to just keep track of employees applying for a job at your organization. It is a website that does much more than that.

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Very good for learning and development and training of employees. For Applicant tracking, recuirement, onboarding, and enablement, I prefer SAP SuccessFactors or Skillate. I also found that the SumTotal app is not very friendly on android and crashes sometimes and it is not optimized for mobile. Hence I end up never using it.

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• Able to separate candidates and easily view their profile.
• The application allows team building across multiple departments.
• Onboarding and development of new employees is easier with TalentQuest.

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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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• More friendly mobile version.
• An app version for easy access.
• More introductory instructions for employees onboarding.

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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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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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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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We have our own IT support to assist in SumTotal issues, however, we have had to log in cases directly. Support is mediocre at best.

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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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• We are a small foundation. The only ROI we've seen from this platform, honestly, is that it saves us time rather than money. We wasted a lot of time with employee management in the past, and now we have a more seamless process because of Talent Quest. We are saving more time than money, but that was our goal.

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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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