Over the last two decades, the learning management system (LMS) technology market has evolved more dramatically than any other HR or HCM technology area, and for good reason. Organizations use learning applications across every department every day, thus these systems are an integral part of any organization concerned about productivity, organizational agility and operational excellence. These technologies enable organizations to demonstrate their investment in people, as LMS not only facilitate regulatory compliance and other forms of cost avoidance but also can improve internal mobility, career growth and the employee experience. This in turn tends to improve employee loyalty, retention and engagement.

This Value Index report evaluates the following vendors that offer products that provide learning management as we define it: Cegid, Cornerstone OnDemand, D2L, Docebo, Infor, Oracle, PeopleFluent, Saba, SAP SuccessFactors, Skillsoft, SumTotal Systems and Workday. We urge organizations to do a thorough job of evaluating LMS and other learning technology tools and offer this Value Index as both the results of our in-depth analysis of these vendors and as an evaluation methodology.