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Cornerstone OnDemand

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What is Cornerstone OnDemand?

Cornerstone OnDemand 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.

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Popular Features

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  • Course catalog or library (185)
    8.4
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  • Assignments (181)
    7.8
    78%
  • Learning reporting & analytics (183)
    7.7
    77%
  • Learning administration (184)
    7.6
    76%

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What is Cornerstone OnDemand?

Cornerstone OnDemand 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.

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Features

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

8.2
Avg 7.3

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

8.3
Avg 7.3

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

7.8
Avg 6.8

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

9.1
Avg 7.2

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

8.6
Avg 7.3

Learning Management

Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.

7.5
Avg 7.1
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Product Details

What is Cornerstone OnDemand?

Cornerstone powers the future ready workforce, with HR software and solutions designed to unite people, teams, technology and business, and inspire a work environment of growth, agility and success for all. With an AI-powered and skills-forward system designed for the contemporary workforce, Cornerstone helps organizations modernize the learning and development experience, deliver the most relevant content from anywhere, accelerate talent and career mobility, and establish skills as the universal language of growth and success across the business. Cornerstone serves over 7,000 customers and 90M users and is available in 180 countries and 50 languages.

  • Learning & Development: Support learners' skills with learning management software.
  • Recruiting & Onboarding: Fill job reqs faster with an engaging candidate experience and a streamlined recruiting and onboarding process.

  • Performance Management: Build a high-performing culture that motivates people to meet their potential.

  • Engagement Surveys: Measure the business impact of talent programs and gain a clear picture of employee engagement and satisfaction.

  • Extended Enterprise: Expand learning to audiences that are critical to the organization, like partners or customers.

  • Core HR: Consolidate and uncomplicate HR processes into one place to better support, reward, and engage people.

  • Workforce Planning: Maximize workforce efficiency through thoughtful planning and a collaborative, data-driven approach.

  • Analytics & Reporting: Make better, more informed talent decisions with predictive analytics and visualizations.

  • Integration & APIs: Connect to a broader ecosystem to move data where it has its greatest impact.

Cornerstone OnDemand Features

Onboarding Features

  • Supported: New hire portal
  • Supported: Manager tracking tools
  • Supported: Compliance tracking and reporting

Performance and Goals Features

  • Supported: Corporate goal setting
  • Supported: Subordinate goal setting
  • Supported: Individual goal setting
  • Supported: Non-hierarchical goal setting
  • Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
  • Supported: Performance tracking

Performance Management Features

  • Supported: Performance plans
  • Supported: Plan weighting
  • Supported: Manager note taking
  • Supported: Performance improvement plans
  • Supported: Review status tracking
  • Supported: Rater nominations
  • Supported: Rater nomination workflow
  • Supported: Review reminders
  • Supported: Workflow restrictions
  • Supported: Review transfer
  • Supported: Multiple review frequency
  • Supported: Reporting

Succession Planning Features

  • Supported: Create succession plans/pools
  • Supported: Candidate ranking
  • Supported: Employee profiles
  • Supported: Candidate search
  • Supported: Candidate add
  • Supported: Candidate development

Recruiting / ATS Features

  • Supported: Job Requisition Management
  • Supported: Company Website Posting
  • Supported: Publish to Social Media
  • Supported: Job Search Site Posting
  • Supported: Customized Application Form
  • Supported: Resume Management
  • Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
  • Supported: Candidate Search
  • Supported: Applicant Tracking
  • Supported: Collaboration
  • Supported: Task Creation and Delegation
  • Supported: Email Templates
  • Supported: User Permissions
  • Supported: Notifications and Alerts
  • Supported: Reporting

Learning Management Features

  • Supported: Course authoring
  • Supported: Course catalog or library
  • Supported: Player/Portal
  • Supported: Learning content
  • Supported: Mobile friendly
  • Supported: Progress tracking & certifications
  • Supported: Assignments
  • Supported: Compliance management
  • Supported: Learning administration
  • Supported: Learning reporting & analytics
  • Supported: eLearning
  • Supported: Assessments
  • Supported: Live online learning
  • Supported: In-person learning
  • Supported: Micro-learning
  • Supported: Video learning
  • Supported: eCommerce
  • Supported: AICC-compliant
  • Supported: SCORM-compliant
  • Supported: Tin Can (xAPI) compliant
  • Supported: Social learning

Additional Features

  • Supported: Airtight integration across modules - from recruiting to learning to performance
  • Supported: Machine learning and predictive analytics to get actionable information from your talent data

Cornerstone OnDemand 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.Screenshot of With Cornerstone Careers, provide continuous career development and expert coaching​.Screenshot of Actionable insights

Cornerstone OnDemand Videos

Cornerstone Products Overview Unified Talent Management Video
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Cornerstone OnDemand Integrations

Cornerstone OnDemand Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAll
Supported Languages50 languages

Frequently Asked Questions

Cornerstone OnDemand 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.

Brassring, SilkRoad Life Suite, and Workday Human Capital Management are common alternatives for Cornerstone OnDemand.

Reviewers rate Candidate ranking and Candidate search highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Cornerstone OnDemand are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Cornerstone OnDemand is a versatile platform that has been widely used across various industries for different purposes. Users have found the software to be helpful in streamlining employee development and engagement, compliance training, and performance management. The platform allows organizations to track and assign training, host both in-house and virtual sessions, and automate processes for annual performance reviews and long-term succession planning. Additionally, Cornerstone OnDemand is effective for large-scale compliance training, offering general training, and serving as an API for internal and external candidates.

One of the key benefits of Cornerstone OnDemand is its ability to centralize all employee-related information in one place, making it a convenient solution for learning, performance management, recruiting, onboarding, talent management, and compensation modules. Organizations have used the software to consolidate processes and HR systems on a single platform, which has proved to be highly efficient. The platform's user-friendliness has garnered positive feedback from users, particularly in managing change management and assigning specific e-learning to multiple departments worldwide.

Moreover, during the Covid pandemic, Cornerstone OnDemand has enabled uninterrupted learning by allowing organizations to continue training remotely. It serves as a global Learning Management System solution that can be utilized to manage corporate training records for both online and classroom instruction. The software also offers social learning platforms for cohorts and tools for completing observation checklists.

Furthermore, Cornerstone OnDemand caters to the individualized needs of organizations with complex setups by allowing unique settings across multiple divisions. It can be used to document training for quality management systems, health and safety protocols, product knowledge for field personnel, and more. The software also helps non-profit organizations move their training programs online while reaching a broader audience.

In summary, Cornerstone OnDemand has proven to be a valuable tool for developing employees' skills and engaging them effectively in various industries. It facilitates compliance training, automates performance management processes, centralizes employee-related information, supports remote learning, and caters to the individualized needs of organizations. Users have praised its user-friendliness and its ability to streamline processes, making it a versatile and indispensable solution for many businesses.

Attribute Ratings

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Rebecca Brink | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User experience.
  • Admin tools are quick and easy to use.
  • Platform works to promote learning strategies.
  • Finding some compatibility issues with IE that tech team is unable to explain or help with.
  • Exam functionality is not sophisticated.
  • Acknowledgement courses have too many steps for users - could be streamlined.
September 24, 2020

The Good and Bad - no ugly!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very easy from an admin perspective to build curriculum.
  • Has some very good standard reports that assist with collecting data.
  • Easy navigation from a learner's perspective.
  • Communities is a little challenging adding the learning and discussions boards - lots of clicking around to get where you want.
  • More question type capabilities in the exams.
  • Evaluations - if I change the Likert scale the report defaults back to the standard and I have to manually edit the report to show the actual scale.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Communicates updates to the system in a timely fashion, giving you ample lead time to make preparations prior to feature introduction or deprecation.
  • Has a variety of reporting options ranging from simple to complex to meet various needs.
  • Allows for customization in terms of design and usage to address your organization's unique needs.
  • Over time, it has become more difficult to get assistance from Cornerstone employees, forcing us to rely more on other clients for feedback rather than Cornerstone itself.
  • New functionality is helpful, but it seems like clients could use more hand-holding than Cornerstone sometimes provides.
  • It feels like client suggestions are rarely taken into consideration when updating the platform.
September 23, 2020

#1 in Learning for a Reason

Jennifer Goodwin, SPHR, SHRM-SCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Mobile app.
  • Tools for content creation - Playlists, Curriculum, Learner Home, Featured Training, etc.
  • Customization! Almost every element can be changed to exactly how we want it.
  • There are a lot of resources for help, which is great, but there are a mix of locations to find them. It would be nice if they were all in one central location.
  • The HR Suite product is very basic. I am hoping the new merger with Saba will help improve this tool.
  • They don't have a way to roll up changes in the pilot portal into the production portal, so when you test changes, you then have to manually made those updates in production. I've worked with software elsewhere that they can just push those changes into production.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of administration.
  • Accessible support.
  • Ease of use for end users.
  • Cross module unity (you can tell some of the modules are managed by a different development team. They look different to the administrator on the back-end.
  • Ability to include an outlook calendar invite for check-in meetings.
  • Reporting flexibility.
September 23, 2020

CSOD is a great LMS

Jess Foster | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Robust admin capabilities.
  • Ease of use both administratively and for our end-users.
  • Reversioning with reporting - it's a bit clunky to have agile-type training where we expect learners to go through training more than once. Reporting becomes a lot more manual in these scenarios.
  • Reporting is tricky - there's a learning curve to understand how to get the right information. I know work is being done in reporting 2.0 but I would love to see more template reports for common reports your customers use.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Love the flexibility in configuration.
  • Great audit trail.
  • Easy to administrate.
  • Some of the feature development feels isolated from other parts of the system.
  • In can take a while for client suggestions to make it onto the improvement roadmap.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Robust capabilities.
  • Customization.
  • Branding.
  • Overly complex for a small business.
  • Not enough live support.
  • Little support for small business.
  • It's hard to get real help (a live body) on the system.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Constantly improving the software.
  • Paying attention to customers' needs.
  • Lots of options offered to learn more about how to use Cornerstone.
  • Lots of add-ons available from CSOD or partners.
  • Should listen more to customers' suggestions in the Client Success Center.
  • Support is sometimes responding too slowly.
  • The administrator experience is sometimes clunky.
Chelsea Polette, M.A. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • LMS database has condensed our catalog into a manageable library.
  • LXP allows for a great user interface that is visually pleasing and easy to use.
  • Reporting has been more flexible than any other LMS.
  • There is so much customization, it can be unwieldy for admins.
  • The test engine is confusing to use.
  • Reporting 2.0 can be difficult to get used to.
September 22, 2020

Cornerstone OnDemand Rocks!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Instructor Led Training
  • Competency Management
  • Virtual Instructor Led Training
  • Employee Development Planning
  • Check-in Conversations
  • MS Teams Integration
  • Skillsoft Integration
  • Enhancements on reports, but those are coming soon
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting - able to quickly pull reports and share with shareholders.
  • Notifications - employees receive initial notification and reminders before and after a due date.
  • Instructor-Led Sessions - employees can view all available ILTs and register for the session that best suits their needs.
  • Easily identify and deactivate outdated material.
September 22, 2020

Cornerstone is Recommended

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Great courses in Cyber U
  • Easy to navigate through the Performance Review for end users
  • Check-ins are the best
  • Administrative set up on the back end is not very user friendly
  • More Office Hours available for one-on-one help
September 22, 2020

Cornerstone OnDemand

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Organized your training within your catalog
  • Ease of assigning training
  • Reporting and analyzing metric
  • Ability to easily create unique user experiences
  • Can be clunky at time
  • Learning curve can be steep for some users
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting - For the most part, there is a report for everything in the system. A few sections need more enhancements (e.g. Community Reports), but overall if you have the information in the system you can pull a data analysis on it. Reporting 2.0 has also made great strides over the years and the future is bright with this robust reporting tool.
  • Cornerstone Check-Ins - A lot of companies are looking at Continuous Performance and I think the tool Cornerstone is building is going in the right direction. Often I find myself referencing what Cornerstone is doing when there are questions about tools supporting continuous performance.
  • Reporting 2.0 - While this is also on my Pros list, I think it's still new and has some usability issues. One area that's difficult is the setup and permissions. There are A LOT of permissions to navigate through and recently I found that even if you have the reporting permission for one area of the system, if you didn't have the permissions to actually see that area of the system you couldn't get it to show up on a report. There are a lot of dependencies on these permissions and it's not always clear.
  • Global Product Support: As long as I've used Cornerstone, GPS has been very inconsistent. Sometimes you get tickets answered quickly, other times it can take over a month. Often you don't get the root causes to the problems. Support also doesn't seem to be localized, so if I open a ticket it may be answered by someone in a different timezone which also impacts time for responses to be received/reviewed.
  • Overall system enhancements - There are some enhancements that definitely are improvements, but they may not take into consideration how end users are using the system. For example, there was an enhancement to change what a button did in the system so that it could connect with new Cornerstone functionality. Unfortunately, this new functionality was still in Early Adopter mode and folks weren't ready to launch the new functionality. Would love to see more of an opportunity for customers to weigh in on the pros/cons and when people should enable smaller changes to the system.
September 22, 2020

My 2020 CSOD Admin review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User management - Constraints and Permissions
  • Numerous Learning Objects - Online, Events, Material, Videos, more...
  • Reporting - Both Standard and Custom reporting options
  • Admin - Menu Navigation
  • Bulk Management of training completions
September 22, 2020

Cornerstone Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Admin Training - multiple options and content on how to use the system.
  • Customer Services - online portal and in-person is always good.
  • Setting up security roles and permissions - too cumbersome and confusing.
  • Need a mobile app that includes more than the learning module.
September 22, 2020

Cornerstone Learning

Stephanie Dorsey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Help documents for learning
  • Training on products
  • Flexibility of products
  • Observation checklists can be tricky to navigate
  • Updating content and how that affects Curriculum/re-versioning
  • Certification management can be frustrating for expired users
  • Removing content for terminated employees could be easier, instead of removing content item by item, would be nice to be able to remove all content from active transcript to removed transcript
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting is one of Cornerstone's strong points. With reporting 2.0 you can create data from almost any content in the system, and share it via automation with other users.
  • I love that you can set permissions for individual users and groups down to the smallest detail. One group of users can see, do and interact with one items, while others in another group only have access to items you have pre-defined.
  • Automated registration emails are fantastic. Once the defaults are set up, the LMS delivers emails based on various transactions that happen with the system. It is fully automated, and truly a set and forget function. It replaces a lot of mundane emailing tasks.
  • There is a steep learning curve. Due to that reason, a better customer service structure is needed. While the community knowledge bank is great, it takes time to search for an answer and you need to know the term you are searching for. Getting support via a help ticket is hit or miss, and takes a very long time to get an answer or solution for anything above a basic problem.
  • Parts of the LMS do not use the same terminology as others. For that reason, when searching for an answer you may spend hours only to realize, Cornerstone is calling it something else in help, when in fact it is listed differently in the portal.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cornerstone has GDPR approved data security, which is required for our global use.
  • Flexibility in configuration allows us to tailor the user experience according to regulations and specific needs.
  • Up time. It is extremely rare that there is a critical problem that negatively affects our users ability to access.
  • Dashboards are very limited compared to what I am used to seeing in platforms like ServiceNow.
  • Sometimes the flexibility can be a double-edged sword, in that there are many ways to get something wrong.
  • Mobile app - while it is great for consuming content, some items, like banners linking to the mobile portal instead of keeping users within the app, could use improvement.
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