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Cornerstone was built for compliance. Intellum is built for growth.
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Why It’s Time to Switch

Your LMS Should Power Growth—Not Prevent It

Cornerstone was built for compliance. Intellum is built for growth.

Outdated Admin Workflows

Manual assignments, clunky reporting, painful integrations

Siloed Learning Experiences

Limited multi-audience support, weak social tools

Slow Rollouts, Minimal Insight

Complex onboarding, hard-to-access data

Intellum vs. Cornerstone

See the Difference

Cornerstone was built for compliance. Intellum is built for growth.

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Intellum
Skilljar
Why it Matters
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Learning Audiences
Intellum
Supports customers, partners, employees, and complex audience needs
Skilljar
⚠️
Lacks advanced audience segmentation and personalization
Why it Matters
Reach every learner—drive engagement and retention across all business units.
Category
Authoring
Intellum
Game-changing content editing, flexible, no SCORM dependency
Skilljar
⚠️
Requires coding for design, limited template flexibility, ILT customization issues
Why it Matters
Build engaging content fast—eliminate bottlenecks and reduce admin overhead.
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Analytics & Reporting
Intellum
Easy-to-use, actionable reporting, system-wide insights
Skilljar
⚠️
Analytics are clunky, limited, and hard to find; lacks custom report automation
Why it Matters
Make data-driven decisions—prove impact and optimize programs in real time.
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Content Personalization
Intellum
Deep customization for unique user sets and branded experiences
Skilljar
⚠️
Lacks personalized learning paths, design customization is limited
Why it Matters
Deliver tailored learning—boost engagement and learning outcomes for every audience.
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Social Learning
Intellum
Supports collaborative learning and engagement
Skilljar
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Lacks social interactivity, underdeveloped communication tools
Why it Matters
Foster community—accelerate knowledge sharing and peer-driven growth.
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Gamification
Intellum
Engaging, competency-based experiences and behavior change tracking
Skilljar
⚠️
Limited interactive content, quiz/assessment options are basic
Why it Matters
Drive motivation—turn learning into measurable performance improvements.
Category
E-Commerce
Intellum
Flexible, supports certification, onboarding, and compliance at scale
Skilljar
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Supports eCommerce, but limited by analytics and reporting gaps
Why it Matters
Monetize learning—scale programs and track revenue impact with confidence.
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Implementation & Support
Intellum
White-glove onboarding, responsive support, continuous improvement
Skilljar
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Reliance on Skilljar team for changes, complex permissions, slow feature delivery
Why it Matters
Launch fast—get expert help and ongoing partnership, not just a platform.
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Scalability
Intellum
Proven at global scale, multi-state, multi-enterprise, rapid growth
Skilljar
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Some features only for enterprise, struggles with multi-domain data separation
Why it Matters
Grow without limits—support every learner, everywhere, as your business expands.

Why It’s Time to Switch

Your LMS Should Power Growth—Not Prevent It

Intellum vs. Cornerstone

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Customers of all sizes have switched from outdated legacy platforms to Intellum.

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Built on two decades of innovation,
Intellum LMS is the most modern and easy-to-manage platform available.

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Courses
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Insights
Community
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For Employees
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One Platform, All Audiences

Eliminate silos and unify your training strategy with an intuitive solution designed for customers, partners, and employees.

Built to Scale Learning—Not Just Check the Box

Leverage over two decades of experience navigating complex challenges with leading enterprises.

AI Authoring: Create and update content in minutes, not weeks, with Evolve
Automated Assignments: Let AI handle compliance, onboarding, and reminders
Personalized Learning: AI-curated paths, branded portals, dynamic delivery
Real-Time Reporting: Tie learning to business outcomes like churn, revenue, support deflection
Enterprise-Ready UX: Tailor experiences by audience with consumer-grade interfaces

Integrations that Scale

Leverage over two decades of experience navigating complex challenges with leading enterprises.

AI Authoring: Create and update content in minutes, not weeks, with Evolve
Automated Assignments: Let AI handle compliance, onboarding, and reminders
Personalized Learning: AI-curated paths, branded portals, dynamic delivery
Real-Time Reporting: Tie learning to business outcomes like churn, revenue, support deflection
Enterprise-Ready UX: Tailor experiences by audience with consumer-grade interfaces

Introducing
Intellum AI

Create and manage enterprise learning programs in a fraction of the time with agentic approaches to common tasks for content creators, managers, and learners.

Creator Agent

Generate content quickly from raw materials.
Automate best practices and improve quality.
Free your team to focus on high-value tasks.

Manager Agent

Say what you want and watch it work.
Automate learner assignments and program workflows.
Make reporting and analysis as natural as asking a question.

Learner Agent

Learn with your own personal tutor.
Identify gaps and personalize learning.
Go deep on topics that need more time and practice.
Switching ROI Calculator

Prove the ROI of Switching

Use our in-line ROI calculator to see exactly how much time and cost Intellum can save your team.

Maximizing ROI with Cornerstone OnDemand: A Deep Dive into Costs, Usage, and Learning Impact

When evaluating your learning management system (LMS), it’s critical to look beyond just the platform and consider its full economic and operational impact. Let’s walk through what a typical Cornerstone OnDemand setup might look like based on the data you provide.

💰 The Real Cost of Cornerstone OnDemand

Your organization currently invests $

annually for your Cornerstone LMS license. In addition to that, you incur an extra $

each year in support, maintenance, and other associated costs. These figures represent your baseline annual investment in the platform.

To manage the system, you have

LMS administrators, each dedicating about

hours per month to keeping things running smoothly. With an average hourly cost of

per admin, the internal cost of administration quickly adds up — and is often an overlooked part of total LMS spending.

🌍 The Reach of Your Learning Program

Currently,

employees engage with your LMS. On average, each employee completes about

training hours annually. With an average hourly cost of

per employee, that training time translates into a significant investment in workforce development.

Your LMS houses approximately

learning activities, offering a broad range of content to support employee growth.

📈 Measuring Cornerstone’s Effectiveness

At present, your course completion rate within Cornerstone is

Depending on your organization’s priorities, this may or may not be a cause for concern.

You’ve rated the importance of driving completion and learner engagement as

which frames how urgent it is to improve engagement strategies, optimize content delivery, or possibly explore supplemental tools to boost learning impact.

👩🏫 Learning in Onboarding

Your onboarding program welcomes

new hires each year. It takes about

months to fully onboard a new employee, and you estimate that

of that process is learning-focused.

These insights are crucial for assessing whether your LMS is effectively supporting early employee success and long-term retention.

🎯 Focusing on What Matters Most

When asked about your top goal for improving education outcomes, you identified

Whether you’re aiming for greater efficiency, stronger compliance, more robust skill-building, or faster onboarding, aligning your LMS strategy with this goal can help you unlock more value from your investment.

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Integrations that Scale

Leverage over two decades of experience navigating complex challenges with leading enterprises.

Connect to Salesforce, Workday, Okta, Zoom, Teams
Sync with HRIS and CRM systems
Automate with APIs and Pub/Sub events
Flexible SSO and permission controls

What Can Company_Name Gain By Switching to Intellum?

By switching to Intellum, Company Name’s LMS admins will save [X]% of their time — about [Y] hours each per year — so they can focus on designing better learning experiences instead of wrestling with manual enrollments and reports.

More Impact = Learning That Sticks

Higher learner engagement and course completions.

Typical Intellum customers see completion rates improve by 2–3x. With your current completion rate of [Z]%, you could see it move toward [New Completion Rate]%.

These improvements mean fewer knowledge gaps, stronger compliance, more certifications, and a culture where training actually changes behavior.

Faster Productivity = Business Impact

New hires get productive faster.

As learner engagement increases, new hire onboarding times decrease. Your new hires could ramp [X months or Y weeks] sooner on average, recapturing [Onboarding Cost Savings per Employee] of potential productivity per employee.

With [Annual Number of New Hires] hires each year, that’s [Total Productivity Savings] of potential productivity unlocked annually — enough to fund a meaningful initiative or two!

Bottom-Line

By switching to Intellum, the [Company Name] team gains over [Total Hours Gained] hours of collective capacity to manage high-impact programs and build high-value learning.

The model projects:

  • Hard dollar ROI: [Hard Dollar ROI %] — from license and admin cost reductions
  • Soft dollar savings: [Soft Dollar Savings] — from improved learner completion and faster onboarding

Switching from Cornerstone to Intellum would pay for itself in just [Payback Period].

That’s the kind of efficiency and impact any business leader will want to own.

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What Can Company_Name Gain By Switching to Intellum?

Less Admin = Reclaimed Capacity

Admins get time back for strategic work

By switching to Intellum, Company Name’s LMS admins will save [X]% of their time — about [Y] hours each per year — so they can focus on designing better learning experiences instead of wrestling with manual enrollments and reports.
More Impact = Learning That Sticks
Higher learner engagement and course completions.
Typical Intellum customers see completion rates improve by 2–3x. With your current completion rate of [Z]%, you could see it move toward [New Completion Rate]%.
These improvements mean fewer knowledge gaps, stronger compliance, more certifications, and a culture where training actually changes behavior.
Faster Productivity = Business Impact
New hires get productive faster.
As learner engagement increases, new hire onboarding times decrease. Your new hires could ramp [X months or Y weeks] sooner on average, recapturing [Onboarding Cost Savings per Employee] of potential productivity per employee.
With [Annual Number of New Hires] hires each year, that’s [Total Productivity Savings] of potential productivity unlocked annually — enough to fund a meaningful initiative or two!
Bottom-Line
By switching to Intellum, the [Company Name] team gains over [Total Hours Gained] hours of collective capacity to manage high-impact programs and build high-value learning.
The model projects:Hard dollar ROI: [Hard Dollar ROI %] — from license and admin cost reductionsSoft dollar savings: [Soft Dollar Savings] — from improved learner completion and faster onboarding
Switching from Cornerstone to Intellum would pay for itself in just [Payback Period].
That’s the kind of efficiency and impact any business leader will want to own.

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