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Cornerstone Learning vs SAP SuccessFactors vs Workday comparison

 

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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 offers efficiency and HR benefits, but high costs and long ROI periods challenge financial justification.
Sentiment score
7.3
Organizations report improved engagement and satisfaction with Workday, experiencing significant time savings and positive ROI through effective streamlining.
 

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 receives mixed reviews; praised for efficiency yet criticized for bureaucracy, response delays, and offshore handling.
Sentiment score
6.9
Workday customer service gets mixed reviews; appreciated for responsiveness, but lacks speed and expertise in regional needs.
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 is scalable, supporting diverse user sizes, though some module limitations exist; users generally report satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.9
Workday's scalability and customization effectively support diverse organizations, ensuring adaptability and integration across departments and locations.
 

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 rated highly for stability despite occasional performance and integration issues during updates or high-demand periods.
Sentiment score
8.1
Workday is praised for its reliability, achieving 97% uptime, with most users rating stability between seven and ten.
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 needs analytics, integration, and usability improvements; users face customization, interface, and deployment challenges.
Workday needs improvements in analytics, global payroll, UI, integration, customization, support responsiveness, and cost-effectiveness to enhance user experience.
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 provides a flexible pricing model, suited for large enterprises, with annual licensing and negotiable costs.
Workday's high pricing is justified by comprehensive features and support, though smaller organizations may find it costly.
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 user-friendly HR solutions with strong integration, mobile access, and AI-driven tools for efficient enterprise management.
Workday offers user-friendly navigation, integration tools, and HR capabilities, enhancing efficiency through customization, analytics, and secure data management.
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.
 

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. The mindshare of Workday is 18.0%, up from 16.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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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.
Akash Nigam - PeerSpot reviewer
User-friendly, well-organized, offering a structured step-by-step process for configuration
I would really like to see a more robust timekeeping solution in Workday. Currently, most organizations are using Kronos for timekeeping and Workday for HR data. They then integrate Workday with Dimensions to manage time-related activities and payroll processing. I think if Workday could enhance its timekeeping solution to match the functionality and flexibility of Dimensions, it would be a really good product. Another area for improvement is payroll. Workday payroll is not very extensively used in the North American market, but it is more widely used in Europe. There is a lot of complexity in payroll processing in North America, but I think there is still a lot of room for improvement in Workday. In the next release, I would like to see pre-built or predefined connectors for Dimensions and other applications. Currently, we have to use Boomi or another middleware application to integrate Workday with these systems. I think pre-built connectors would be very helpful, especially for Dimensions, which we do not currently have a connector for.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
56%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Educational Organization
48%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Educational Organization
27%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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 ...
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....
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...
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 customizatio...
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 expe...
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 per...
What do you like most about Workday?
I like its UI and UX. When we were using Oracle or SAP, the UI/UX wasn't very user-friendly for the employees.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workday?
If you go with the launch implementation approach, the solution is generally not very expensive. If you want to add m...
What needs improvement with Workday?
If you want to add more features to your subscription, Workday becomes expensive.
 

Also Known As

Cornerstone Learning Suite, Saba Cloud
SuccessFactors
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