All around solid LMS for larger organizatons
March 18, 2025

All around solid LMS for larger organizatons

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Absorb LMS

Absorb LMS allows us to easily house, track, and manage all of our teams learning in one place, and bolter our training and development initiatives by strategically utilizing Absorb Amplify courses alongside our in-house content.

Pros

  • Clean, intuitive user UI.
  • Snappy admin and reporting experience.
  • Lots of template customization.

Cons

  • Default reports lack useful refinements (like date range) for a lot of reports.
  • Parent department names aren't able to be pulled in for everyday reporting.
  • The ADP Integration lacks access to many standard fields, lacks basic logic capabilities for data mapping, and cannot sync users from multiple ADP instances. It also only feeds back competency data, not the training and certification fields.
  • Information about pricing for upgrades is closely guarded, meaning there's no way of knowing which sales conversations are even worth pursuing. Having at least baseline prices (before discounts for plan level) would help immensely. It's hard to get a quick quote for literally anything you're considering.
  • Increased learner adoption.
  • Decreased requests for visibility of learner progress.
  • Excitement around our learning culture and opportunities.
  • Content Libraries (Absorb Amplify or 3rd Party Libraries)
  • Reporting & Insights (Absorb Analyze or Absorb Amplify Direct)
  • Ecosystem Integrations (Absorb APIs or Absorb Connectors)
  • Intelligent Recommendations
Many of their specialists are knowledgeable and friendly, but it can be difficult to get accurate answers from sales about what is possible within the app, and how much those features would cost. (lack of transparency)
Absorb LMS had the richest feature set for relative cost and promised seamless integration with ADP Workforce Now (somewhat overpromised).

Do you think Absorb LMS delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Absorb LMS's feature set?

Yes

Did Absorb LMS live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Absorb LMS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Absorb LMS again?

Yes

If a company is of a decent size, has a straightforward HRM setup, and is willing to invest the money in Absorb Amplify, Absorb LMS is a good value.

Absorb LMS Feature Ratings

Course authoring
6
Course catalog or library
8
Player/Portal
6
Learning content
8
Mobile friendly
7
Progress tracking & certifications
7
Assignments
7
Compliance management
7
Learning administration
7
Learning reporting & analytics
7
Social learning
6
Gamification
5
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning
7

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