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Cornerstone Learning vs SAP SuccessFactors comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
Organizations experience complex ROI from Cornerstone Learning, with mixed immediate returns but benefits in training management and compliance.
Sentiment score
5.3
SAP SuccessFactors improves processes, reduces costs, and enhances employee experience, with varied opinions on ROI timelines and financial gains.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.8
Cornerstone Learning support is reliable, responsive, with knowledgeable staff, but could improve in first-level support and ticket resolution speed.
Sentiment score
6.2
SAP SuccessFactors support varies, with premium praised but regular criticized for slow responses and inconsistent technical expertise.
Customer service and support are very user-friendly and supportive.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Cornerstone Learning offers flexible scalability, minimal disruptions, and consistent performance for diverse organizational needs and large-scale operations.
Sentiment score
7.8
SAP SuccessFactors offers scalable cloud architecture, integrating seamlessly but some modules have limitations compared to on-premise solutions.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Cornerstone Learning is highly stable, reliable, and secure, with rare brief instabilities quickly resolved by the support team.
Sentiment score
7.5
SAP SuccessFactors is widely stable and efficient, despite occasional integration issues and update-related downtime across regions.
It does not have significant issues and is reliable.
I hardly ever encounter any stability issues, as SAP SuccessFactors is very good and stable.
 

Room For Improvement

Cornerstone Learning requires enhancements in UI/UX, reporting, app integration, support, navigation, content customization, and third-party platform integration.
SAP SuccessFactors struggles with integration, usability, customization, localization, pricing, updates, and user configuration preferences.
Cornerstone needs to be more adaptable by generating content by just giving keywords.
The change management process during the initial launch was not effectively handled, leading to a poor user experience.
Advisories can only be placed at the bottom, which is less effective as employees may not scroll down to see them.
 

Setup Cost

Cornerstone Learning enterprise pricing ranges from $10 to $11 per user with additional costs for modules, services, and integrations.
SAP SuccessFactors is costly but valued for functionality, with pricing flexible via user count, modules, and negotiation opportunities.
Cornerstone is reasonable in terms of pricing and not very expensive compared to other LMS.
The licensing costs are quite high, which is a typical scenario for such solutions.
 

Valuable Features

Cornerstone Learning offers customizable analytics, automation, and integration, emphasizing user-friendliness, mobility, scalability, and strong support for dynamic training.
SAP SuccessFactors offers comprehensive HR solutions with modular flexibility, robust onboarding, AI integration, and enhanced user interfaces.
It allows internal content management, playlist creation, using external links for learning, and supports various AI training.
SAP SuccessFactors has advantages in providing AI-driven initiatives such as candidate screening and matching features within the recruitment module.
Employees can view their goals, performance, ratings, and employee information, which enhances the employee experience.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cornerstone Learning
Ranking in Talent Management
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Learning Management Systems (LMS) (7th), Virtual Training (4th)
SAP SuccessFactors
Ranking in Talent Management
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
95
Ranking in other categories
Cloud HCM (1st), Talent Acquisition (2nd), Global Payroll (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Talent Management category, the mindshare of Cornerstone Learning is 2.8%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP SuccessFactors is 19.7%, up from 19.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Talent Management
 

Q&A Highlights

US
Aug 10, 2017
 

Featured Reviews

Vibha  Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Streamlined compliance training and efficient session creation empower diverse industries
Creating a session requires just one click, which makes data ready efficiently. Reporting-wise, Cornerstone is the best. It allows internal content management, playlist creation, using external links for learning, and supports various AI training. All the compliance training, code of conduct, and audits are handled through Cornerstone, making it beneficial.
Marissa Schwan - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to deploy, stable, and scalable
SuccessFactors has a best practices model for HR across the board, but there are multiple industries. For example, the pharmaceutical, engineering, and professional services industries may have different processes based on their business requirements and operations. SAP and Workday have one approach across industries. As employee experience becomes increasingly important, the kind of employees appointed in an engineering environment, a pharmaceutical environment, and a professional service environment are very different, meaning their experience touchpoints may differ and require adjustments. SuccessFactors should consider building their best practices around critical industries to help companies become more differentiated in the markets they operate in. As a company, we have 118,000 followers on LinkedIn, and the unemployment rate in South Africa is quite high, at more than 30 percent. When we advertise a job, the number of CVs and applications we receive from people who want to work for us is overwhelming, we can get up to 600 CVs for a single vacancy. To make the process more efficient, we need to use artificial intelligence to identify the key elements of the job profile and match them to the CVs of the applicants. The pre-selection questions are helpful in reducing the number of applicants, but they don't measure the suitability of the CVs and profiles. This is something that needs to be built into the system, but it doesn't currently exist in the market. We have a good pre-selection program, but it doesn't take into account experience, qualifications, professional memberships, work experience, or critical performance indicators. We have enough information from CVs and LinkedIn profiles for the system to match the vacancy profile with the applicant's information and rank them from most suitable to least suitable.
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Answers from the Community

US
Aug 10, 2017
Aug 10, 2017
I see them less in recent new contracts for larger organisations, which are typically won by the other ones mentioned in Q2. From what I have seen from Sumtotal, it is a fine LMS but may be a bit old fashioned with less appealing learning experience. Other attention points are availability of experienced consultancy services in your area and the integration with other modules in the Talent suit...
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GV
Aug 8, 2017
I see them less in recent new contracts for larger organisations, which are typically won by the other ones mentioned in Q2. From what I have seen from Sumtotal, it is a fine LMS but may be a bit old fashioned with less appealing learning experience. Other attention points are availability of experienced consultancy services in your area and the integration with other modules in the Talent suite, as some of these have been acquired, so integration may be an issue.
US
Aug 10, 2017
Thanks Geert Van.. Appreciate your response. Helpful!
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
57%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Educational Organization
48%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Is Cornerstone Learning reliable for content organization?
I think the organizational management of Cornerstone Learning is great. My organization uses this learning software and the way different content types are managed is very useful for our training ...
Does Cornerstone Learning provide you with good reports?
Cornerstone Learning provides great reports for your training programs and the performance of your employees on them. What's more, you get skills graphs which my company finds the most valuable for...
Why would you recommend Cornerstone as a platform for virtual training?
Hello, I think that Cornerstone is more than suitable for virtual training. For one, it gives you a really big array of tools and customizations to be able to deliver your employees high-quality t...
What are the biggest differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors?
Differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud,w and SAP SuccessFactors:w Oracle: "simple interface and deep customization to suit the purpose." SAP: Multiple functionalities that increase process effi...
What is better, SAP HCM or SAP SuccessFactors?
When it comes to user experience, SuccessFactors is unquestionably superior, as it provides end users with a new experience and an advanced user interface. Additionally, the entire concept of SF is...
What do you like most about SAP SuccessFactors?
The tool is easy to use for performance management. We haven't experienced any issues with SAP SuccessFactors for performance management, which is great. However, since we're still learning to use ...
 

Also Known As

Cornerstone Learning Suite, Saba Cloud
SuccessFactors
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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City of Cape Town, ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd., TransAlta Corporation, Keolis, PT XL Axiata Tbk, National Football League (NFL), Plan International, Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company, China Talent Group (CTG TMO), Umicore S.A., Butterfield Bank, Skril
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