We performed a comparison between CYPHER Learning and SAP Litmos comparison based on our users' reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Users liked SAP Litmos' intuitive interface, which enables seamless navigation. It offers multiple customization options, allowing users to tailor their courses to their needs. SAP Litmos' extensive library of lessons offers users a diverse selection of educational materials. CYPHER Learning is praised for its exceptional training videos, gamification, and personalized content. Its excellent tracking capabilities ensure accurate monitoring of learners' progress. SAP Litmos needs better custom rule creation and integration with SuccessFactors LMS. Users would also like improved dashboards and more storage flexibility. CYPHER Learning requires improvements in its grading system and more online exams for higher-order thinking skills.
Service and Support: Some users say SAP support responds promptly and resolves critical issues efficiently. Others have reported difficulties contacting technical staff and longer wait times for responses. Reviews of CYPHER Learning's support have been mostly positive. Customers appreciate the quick response time and expertise of the support team.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for SAP Litmos is considered somewhat complex but generally manageable. Deploying CYPHER Learning is straightforward, and professional assistance is accessible if needed.
Pricing: Some users deem SAP Litmos too costly due to extra charges for specific features. CYPHER Learning offers competitive and reasonable pricing, with no added expenses for the core product. CYPHER Learning has a more straightforward, more adaptable pricing system.
ROI: SAP Litmos accelerates the onboarding process. CYPHER Learning has demonstrated substantial cost savings, minimized logistics and travel expenses, and enhanced overall efficiency and productivity.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer SAP Litmos over CYPHER Learning. Users appreciate SAP Litmos's intuitive interface, easy navigation, and comprehensive features. They particularly like the ability to personalize the dashboard and access a wide range of courses. The platform's modern design and additional functionalities, such as event scheduling and automated emails, enhance the learning experience. Although CYPHER Learning also offers valuable features like gamification and personalized content, SAP Litmos stands out for its user-friendliness and continuous innovation.
"It's just fully managed online and manages the whole process from the start of the student engagement all the way through their training, communicating with them via the platform, and completion of their training. It's one of the few platforms that just works."
"The lessons we offer in each course can be both in written format and in audio or video format. This dramatically helps participants to choose their best way of learning."
"It brings students together in one place with teaching materials. Also, it has a social capability to it by way of forums and groups. That is definitely important for our programs. There has been a lot of engagement in our programs."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to use private external portals through which we can sell our courses, which is enormous. This feature is one of the primary reasons we stitched from our previous LMS, as it allows us to grow and create customization. We can customize the portals within CYPHER Learning for specific clients, and that's huge."
"We also use the platform for automation and adaptive learning purposes. The ability to set trigger rules that show or hide specific class sections or assignments is as optimal as possible. Because it is intuitive, it is easy to create content for students in a personalized way. And it is very intuitive for the students."
"The usability makes it easy for our doctors to find whatever they're looking for. The groups help them interact with each other, creating a kind of network and a place of engagement. It's not just a platform to go and learn and get out. It's a place where they can actually interact with other doctors and share experiences."
"It is a platform that has everything. It is very powerful and intuitive. And because it is so user-friendly, it allows anyone without any knowledge of LMS platforms to make a course, publish it, and monitor it."
"I am able to monitor the classes: who has entered, who has not entered yet, and who has viewed the classes. If we are working on an assignment it allows me to upload an assessment rubric where they can see and learn about their progress."
"Content Author removes the need for a third-party solution for content creation."
"Litmos has an excellent user interface. It's well designed and intuitive. It also has a great content engine. I'm one of the admins, so I create content in the system and use that to produce courses. We make our own training content and credit records. They recently added a new feature called the Course Content Creator, and I'm a big fan. I also like that Litmos lets you record online and face-to-face training so you can create what they call Instructor-led Training Events (ILT)."
"This complete product is highly scalable. Licensing is not based on number of total users on the system but rather only on active users. Litmos only charge for the number of users engaged in training. This is what makes this solution ideal for scale."
"This is a very scalable solution. We had over 10,000 students in our instance and their billing model makes scaling affordable to do."
"The plug-and-play format can be deployed immediately which is unlike its competitors that take three to four months."
"Its pricing is good, and its performance is good when it works."
"There is a couple of good features available, you can customize the dashboard, CSA, and home page. You can customize the solution to your business standards. SAP Litmos offers a library of 2,500 plus courses to premium members. They have a good library of pre-built courses. It's a variety of soft skill courses including management, and marketing. You can offer these courses to your students, which is excellent."
"It incorporates the majority of the elements."
"Screen sorting can be improved by providing more filtering options."
"There is further work to be done on the translation accuracy of international languages. It is really a challenge to have a system for perfect translation, especially as there are unique dialects embedded in different languages. In the future, the platform can have an integrated application that can "precisely" translate languages."
"One thing that has been a problem is that CYPHER Learning doesn't save the students' work while they are doing it. For example, if you are on a Google Doc, and you close your Google Doc, then you come back, the work that you did has been saved. However, in CYPHER Learning, if for some reason the student clicks out of CYPHER Learning and goes back in, whatever they typed isn't saved. That is an area that they need to improve. A lot of my students may write an essay, but if they are two paragraphs in and their iPad crashes or something, when they go back, they are like, "All my work is gone." So, this would be an area that I would recommend for improvement in CYPHER Learning. It needs to auto save, and it doesn't auto save. That is definitely a weakness."
"CYPHER Learning should definitely offer live video conferencing integration."
"There are some tools that facilitate dialogue but not many that help produce continuous interaction. There is room for improvement in the area of interaction. I'd like to see more ways for the student to communicate with their classmates."
"One thing I find annoying is that the system is quite limited when it comes to roles. I was used to our old system where I could create custom roles to cater to specific users and that's not available in CYPHER Learning."
"Most of our wish list for CYPHER Learning has already been addressed. One that we are still asking them for is to include competencies from different industries, since they have industry partners. These would be the competencies that these industries need so that we can make sure that we are developing our students toward those competencies or skill sets."
"Due to the complexity of our business, we would welcome more options for access rights management."
"The rules are not very flexible in terms of administration. They have a predefined system with three standard rules that cannot be customized, modified, added, or removed."
"The auto-assign feature that auto assigns courses to learners and puts them into a different learning path has had a bug for the last year and a half. My team has spent numerous hours trying to troubleshoot and fix that, but it's still broken. Until they fix that, it's going to be a higher admin burden for people to manage."
"The solution lags in defined security parameters with only three predefined roles available."
"You cannot make a course optional, so if I assign a course to someone, the system assumes that they have to complete it."
"The reporting function of SAP Litmos needs major improvements. The reports are not at par with other solutions on the market. It's not user-friendly or effective reporting which we can retrieve from other places."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved as they are not of the same standard and detail as those seen in Power BI. The graphics for the reporting could also be improved."
"Lacks a variety of language options."
"One feature that a few of my clients have been requesting is CPD. We should be able to capture CPD points for users within the system to be able to report on those."
CYPHER Learning is ranked 1st in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 50 reviews while Litmos is ranked 6th in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 11 reviews. CYPHER Learning is rated 9.0, while Litmos is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CYPHER Learning writes " Rules engine allows us to automate aspects of our training, and we get full visibility into individual students' progress". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Litmos writes "Comes with many advanced functionalities, and makes the users interested in the training with its amazing UI/UX". CYPHER Learning is most compared with Moodle, TalentLMS, Canvas LMS, Google Classroom and Cornerstone Learning, whereas Litmos is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors Learning, Cornerstone Learning and ConvergePoint Employee Training Software. See our CYPHER Learning vs. Litmos report.
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