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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cornerstone Galaxy

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ACornerstone Galaxy is a cloud-based application for talent management. Cornerstone offers suites for recruiting, training, performance monitoring and planning, learning, and HR data management. It is scaled for enterprises.N/A

    Engagedly

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Engagedly is a talent management platform that combines employee performance management, learning and development, engagement measurement, recognition, career growth, and workforce analytics. The platform supports desk-based and frontline employees through configurable modules, workflow automation, integrations, and a mobile application. Engagedly product overview Key Capabilities Performance management: Organizations can set goals and…

    $8,500

    per year per installation

    Pricing
    Cornerstone GalaxyEngagedly
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cornerstone GalaxyEngagedly
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequired$1,000 one-time fee per installation (starting cost)
    Additional DetailsPricing is customized based on the suite/modules implemented and the size of the organization
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    Community Pulse
    Cornerstone GalaxyEngagedly
    Considered Both Products
    Cornerstone OnDemand
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    Engagedly Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    65 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    54 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    70 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    72%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Cornerstone GalaxyEngagedly
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Cornerstone Galaxy and Engagedly
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    6.5
    134 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Engagedly
    -
    Ratings
    New hire portal7.569 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools5.7116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting6.3127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Cornerstone Galaxy and Engagedly
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    8.4
    115 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Engagedly
    8.1
    16 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Corporate goal setting8.596 Ratings8.715 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting8.099 Ratings7.713 Ratings
    Individual goal setting8.0107 Ratings7.015 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility8.595 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Performance tracking9.0110 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Cornerstone Galaxy and Engagedly
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    8.5
    122 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Engagedly
    8.0
    16 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Performance plans8.594 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Plan weighting8.581 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Manager note taking9.070 Ratings7.315 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans9.082 Ratings6.713 Ratings
    Review status tracking9.097 Ratings7.714 Ratings
    Rater nomination workflow8.064 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Review reminders8.094 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions9.086 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency9.083 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Reporting7.3116 Ratings7.014 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Cornerstone Galaxy and Engagedly
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    6.5
    58 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Engagedly
    -
    Ratings
    Create succession plans/pools6.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate ranking5.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate search8.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate development7.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Cornerstone Galaxy and Engagedly
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    5.8
    67 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Engagedly
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    Ratings
    Job Requisition Management7.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company Website Posting8.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting9.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customized Application Form8.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resume Management5.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention5.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Search6.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking6.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration4.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation5.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates4.560 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Permissions3.061 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts3.556 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting3.564 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Cornerstone Galaxy and Engagedly
    Feature
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    7.4
    191 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Engagedly
    -
    Ratings
    Course authoring7.7141 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library7.4189 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.0176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content7.2151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly6.5138 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications6.0172 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments8.0185 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management7.8166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration8.0188 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics7.6187 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning6.7119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cornerstone GalaxyEngagedly
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SumTotal (legacy)
    Score7.9 out of 10
    SumTotal (legacy)
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PeopleFluent
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cornerstone GalaxyEngagedly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (262 ratings)
    8.3
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (37 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.7
    (46 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (37 ratings)
    9.8
    (14 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.1
    (114 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cornerstone GalaxyEngagedly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Cornerstone Galaxy is a good solution for larger companies that focus on training and want to offer a variety of options to their employees and departments. It is highly customizable. It does require a tech savvy team to set-up, and maintain. This is not a set-it-and-forget-it system. From an LMS perspective, it wouldn't be my top choice for employees who only need a mobile-friendly approach.
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    Engagedly Inc.
    Engagedly has a huge range of possibilities and we chose it because of all the functionalities it offers. I'm not marking my rating a 9 or 10 because of the UI. If you're an active user (e.g. in the people department) then you get used to the UI fast enough. However, if you only use it twice per year (like all our other users) it can be difficult to find what you need. That being said, Engagedly offers a truly broad range of HR-related functionalities and we're very happy about that!
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    Pros
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • Ability to provide multiple customizable access roles from general end user to full system admin and anything in between
    • Powerful reporting system in the LMS to track a plethora of data points within the platform (user data, training information, transcript information)
    • Great options to customize the look and feel of your "home page" to best meet your company's needs and goals.
    • Ability to customize the transcript view for learners (i.e. when Completed training will move to their Archived transcript, what to do with Inactive training on transcripts)
    Incentivized
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    Engagedly Inc.
    • setting up review cycles so they can be repeated and capture all data along the way
    • creating the structure of a goal from individual all the way up to the company that is easily tracked
    • employee engagement/recognition that our employees are actually excited about
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    Cons
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • Sometimes finding the right answer to your support question can be a bit more difficult than it should be.
    • I would like to see more OSHA related courses.
    • At times, the administrative interface seems to need to be updated, but the tradeoff honestly might be the absolute rock-solid stability of the platform.
    Incentivized
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    Engagedly Inc.
    • performance management - setting this up is quite complicated
    • reports in all sections aren't always user friendly
    • no help videos in the new U.I
    • The survey module is quite basic, you cant set up surveys with answers that lead to different routes, i.e. if no ask this, if yes ask that
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    As long as pricing stays reasonable, we will likely stay with Cornerstone for at least one more contract renewal. It would be a large task to migrate all of our content to a new system. However, the LMS landscape is diversifying with new startups that are showing some real innovation.
    Incentivized
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    Engagedly Inc.
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    Usability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Easy to use, easy to learn, lots of support during the learning process. There are a few parts of the system we don't use and I'm hesitant to begin using because other clients have said they're difficult and cumbersome (certifications) or outdated (libraries)
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    Engagedly Inc.
    The amount of features available is a lot, but they are hard to navigate due to the UI not being on par with them. Still if used properly, Engagedly is useful to keep track of multiple individuals and their personal goals.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    I haven't really had any major availability problems. The service is practically impeccable but it is true that at times, due to server and latency problems, the application has been slower. But these have been specific issues that have resolved themselves.
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    Engagedly Inc.
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    Performance
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    I haven't seen many issues at all with load times. Sometimes learning assignments will take longer then expected but it is still reasonable. They have taken great effort over the last couple years to speed things up like reports and search results so I expect that effort to continue in the coming year.
    Incentivized
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    Engagedly Inc.
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    Support Rating
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Its always important to have support when you are facing problems and when you are the main admin of the organization. Cornerstone Support is very supporting when you have not found the answer in the help guide. its very useful to have a team support to guide you.
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    Engagedly Inc.
    Absolutely! We love engagedly because we haven't faced any kind of lagging or such issues in website. It also has a convenient app through which you can access everything. They are very polite and address to each and every query relating to software which may cause hinderence in the process.
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    In-Person Training
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    we use also to admin all our training in person events and sessions. Its easy to admin this kind of trainings and automatize some processes we have. Also de user experience and the integration with other systems helps to the employees to use more. All modules integrated oriented to develop people is the principal reason to have CSOD. The training administration is very complete and allows to automate many processes.
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    Engagedly Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The online modules are pretty good. You can access them at any time, which we have done. You learn a lot in the beginning, but having the ability to retake short lessons when you are working on those items was very helpful.
    Incentivized
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    Engagedly Inc.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The implementation was pretty difficult. We felt they (Cornerstone) didn’t properly allocate the resources to complete our implementation in the timetable we wanted.

    For example, we worked on Workday and SSO integrations - work that we had specifically contracted for in advance. When we were ready to work on that project, they didn’t have the people ready to help us, so it took a lot longer than necessary. That was my biggest pain point.

    The implementation approach we went with was a self-led implementation. We would speak to the implementation manager once per week, and self-trained. We met with implementation manager to discuss issues, review things that we’d learned for 1 hour. We found that wasn’t enough. Other things would come up outside that one hour window that we couldn’t get answers to. We didn’t have anyone to ask about those things and we had to wait to ask during our weekly meeting.

    The advantage of the self-led implementation approach was that it was really inexpensive – significantly less than the implementation cost for the other systems that we looked at. I also liked that we could pace ourselves. There were however big roadblocks. We would have to make sure the right resources were available. We had an implementation/project manager with a lot of experience and felt that the person was knowledgeable but missed on a few things.

    In hindsight, I would still go with the self-led implementation, but knowing what I know now, I would ask for the integration person to be available more. I would work that into the contract. With single sign-on, we needed deep linking to build direct links through a Single Sign-On tool, e.g. when someone gets an email, it directs them to training. But it has to go through SSO to get them to the correct link. Deep linking wasn’t turned on in our system and they had to activate it. We encountered little things like that – sequencing pre-requisites which were problematic. We tried to troubleshoot ourselves.

    I recommend you consider contracting for some extra implementation hours and determine when they are going to be available. Work it into the contract that you have the ability to call tech support during implementation. In addition to weekly implementation meetings, they have technical webexes – 4 every week, but 2 didn’t apply to us – one as we were using SSO. The challenge is they were not always relevant – we had specific questions that didn’t fall into those categories
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    Engagedly Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The user experience is a lot better than using SumTotal as an admin CSOD makes working easy. Without having workarounds. Reporting is a lot better than both platforms. Reporting in CSOD is complex however easy to manage and create when you understand the data points collected
    Incentivized
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    Engagedly Inc.
    We used SharePoint Forms to make customized forms for ourselves but it did not work well. Our IT needed to build a system from scratch with a help of an external developer team and they were simply not capable of creating something that complicated. Engagedly already has a great platform and it was a life saver for us that we can just start using after the streamlined implementation period for a brief period of time. With SharePoint, we kept having weekly meetings for over 1.5 years to fix bugs, add necessary functions, etc. after the implementation.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    It is important to be familiar with the terms and annual increases in licenses and other aspects of the contract. I recommend analyzing this from the beginning and the permanence is relevant because Cornerstone updates its modules and brings out new features that may allow you to leave a module to acquire another
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    Engagedly Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    It's a great product with some pieces that are set but many things that can be customized as needed for individual needs
    Incentivized
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    Engagedly Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    As I have said before, I have no doubt that the services of the Cornerstone sales people were very good. In particular, our salesperson spent a lot of time in contact with us to make the process go smoothly. Perhaps being a large company in some cases the times were slowed down but it is something normal to take into account.
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    Engagedly Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • We are in the process of trying to increase employee engagement through content expansion. We are in the early stages of this.
    • The Edge Import Tool, in conjunction with Reporting 2.0, has done a great job of helping to automate/semi-automate tasks for huge time savings.
    • Maintaining compliance. Achieved through dynamic/automated groups, assignments, communication, and reporting.
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    Engagedly Inc.
    • We haven't used it long enough to calculate ROI (YET), but - we've had EEs who never engaged with performance management before who are excited to use the program
    • It has already provided a better framework to set up goals for our teams
    • Neg impact - limited feed of info from HRIS - requires some manual data to uploaded.
    Incentivized
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    Cornerstone Galaxy Screenshots

    Screenshot of A personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee dataScreenshot of With Cornerstone Learning, go beyond compliance and training - truly develop an engaged and collaborative workforce.Screenshot of Cornerstone Recruiting takes care of all talent acquisition needs and provides candidates with an amazing experience.Screenshot of With Cornerstone Performance, benchmark your people's performance, align them with your strategy, and provide feedback that matters.Screenshot of Cornerstone HR offers a personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee data.Screenshot of With Content Anytime, quickly deliver hundreds of eLearning courses covering key soft-skills such as communication, time management, leadership, teamwork, and emotional intelligence.

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