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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    TalentLMS

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    TalentLMS is an LMS built for training success, presented as fully customizable and easy to manage, so that teams embrace training while feeling right at home. It is used to provide the right training to any team and every use, while giving expert guidance and support every step of the way.

    $149

    per month 1-40 users

    Joomla

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AJoomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A
    Pricing
    TalentLMSJoomla
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    $149
    per month 1-40 users
    Grow
    $299
    per month 1-70 users
    Pro
    $579
    per month 1-100 users
    Enterprise (Custom plan)
    Custom
    annual plan Starts at 1000 users
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    TalentLMSJoomla
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUsers can stay on the Forever Free plan and upgrade, or downgrade or cancel at any time. Higher volume plans available at additional cost. Discount available for annual billing, and for nonprofits.—
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    Community Pulse
    TalentLMSJoomla
    Considered Both Products
    Epignosis
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    The Joomla Project
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    TalentLMSJoomla
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of TalentLMS and Joomla!
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    8.5
    50 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Course authoring8.634 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library8.334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content8.231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly8.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications9.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments8.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management8.842 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration8.949 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics8.847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning7.322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gamification7.624 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning8.826 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of TalentLMS and Joomla!
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    Ratings
    Joomla!
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.351 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of TalentLMS and Joomla!
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    Ratings
    Joomla!
    6.6
    48 Ratings
    17% below category average
    API00 Ratings7.246 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.047 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of TalentLMS and Joomla!
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    Ratings
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.551 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings8.249 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings6.350 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.550 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.450 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings7.446 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of TalentLMS and Joomla!
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    Ratings
    Joomla!
    7.6
    52 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.951 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings7.650 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings7.150 Ratings
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    TalentLMSJoomla
    Small Businesses
    Tovuti LMS
    Score6.7 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    iSpring LMS
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bridge LMS, Skills & Performance Management
    Score7.4 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    TalentLMSJoomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (51 ratings)
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (44 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.3
    (28 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TalentLMSJoomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Epignosis
    TalentLMS is user-friendly enough for someone new to LMS management can get a site up and running in a relatively quick manner. It is rather intuitive to operate. My needs have been a rather small scale of 400 learners and TalentLMS more than meets the need to produce a professional-looking and operational website to send customers and staff. The point here is that although I do not know how well it can be up-scaled, it certainly delivers for small to medium organizations to need to get content online
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    The Joomla Project
    If your developers want to have some fun, Joomla offers the stability and friendliness to do custom coding. Certain marketing initiatives require us to get "cute" with the interface, and Joomla allows for that a bit easier than WordPress (and definitely easier than sites like Squarespace). The security of Joomla is also always a plus.
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    Pros
    Epignosis
    • Report creation and distribution
    • Course creation, launch, and individual assignments
    • End user friendly for people with little computer skills
    • API integration with such platforms as ADP, Microsoft.
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    The Joomla Project
    • Security. Its got many new features in the new Joomla! 4 which make the already good security even better. I like the ability to use my Yubi keys to log in with the new webauth standard, I don't think any other CMS has that built in
    • W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (with AA compliance)
    • Really good SEO that gets our sites to the top of the search engines again without the need for any extra things
    • Speed, it gets a really good score (100%) in the google lighthouse on our server, can't beat that
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    Cons
    Epignosis
    • Email notifications have arbitrary limits on what information can be included. For example, you cannot include the user password in any notification email regarding course enrollment, group enrollment, etc.
    • Notification emails are not sent out in a reasonable time frame. Sometimes, it takes over 20 minutes for a new user to get their registration email.
    • It would be nice to get reports in the base domain containing customer user fields from various branches.
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    The Joomla Project
    • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
    • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
    • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
    • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Epignosis
    The ease of use, the robustness of the offering, and familiarity. It does everything we need and probably more. We likley don't utilize all the functionality it has as it does what we want it to without having to dig that deep into its tools. Their course library also has saved us some time in terms of saving time from creating some basic courses.
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    The Joomla Project
    I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Epignosis
    The system is intuitive. It does not have a lot of features that are hidden behind secret menus or elsewhere. There are often multiple ways to get to the same place through different menus without having to go back to the home or root menu. It makes things pretty easy. Additionally, if there is something I can't figure out, there is documentation available to help with that.
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    The Joomla Project
    Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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    Reliability and Availability
    Epignosis
    I have never run into an issue with downtime in 5 plus years.
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    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Epignosis
    It loads fast. Screen transitions are quick. Nothing seems to ever lag.
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    The Joomla Project
    Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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    Support Rating
    Epignosis
    Quick answer, comprehensive, and customized. I sent an email with multiple questions and feedback about their new UI, and the agent addressed all of them directly and honestly no sugar-coating and no call center lingo. Most questions can also be addressed directly in their UI with a really good help center widget.
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    The Joomla Project
    Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Epignosis
    No answers on this topic
    The Joomla Project
    It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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    Implementation Rating
    Epignosis
    Implementation was relatively easy. When we set up a second branch, we needed a little help. But the support area is well-detailed. My clients had no experience with an LMS and their digital skills were limited. We had a long way to go. Nevertheless, it was relatively easy. It was rather quick!
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    The Joomla Project
    Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Epignosis
    Both are good, but the pricing and general value proposition of Talent LMS are better than Trainual in my opinion. Trainual is a bit more modern and cleaner looking from a user interface perspective, but it comes at a higher cost. Both platforms provide very similar features in the way of general functionality and user experience, but Talent LMS wins because of its better pricing model.
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    The Joomla Project
    We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
    But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
    Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
    It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
    With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Epignosis
    The product can create as similar or unique experiences for different branches as you want for training purposes
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    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Epignosis
    • Managers have used this internally to get new employees up to speed and trained faster. It's a great onboarding tool.
    • Externally, we help our customers better self-serve when they understand the software they are using. This reduces calls to Customer Support.
    • We've used training as an added incentive for our customers to maintain a higher level of service, resulting in increased ARR.
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    The Joomla Project
    • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
    • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
    Incentivized
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    TalentLMS Screenshots

    Screenshot of TalentLMS' learner view of a courseScreenshot of TalentLMS' training reportsScreenshot of TalentLMS's AI-powered Content CreatorScreenshot of the TalentLMS dashboardScreenshot of where to customize the TalentLMS portal