Celebrating the best learning systems

Welcome to our annual celebration of learning systems excellence, the Talented Learning LMS Awards!

This is a fascinating time to be a learning industry analyst and consultant. With over 1000 learning systems and tools available — and AI transforming digital solutions at every turn — we’re seeing a nonstop stream of innovation from established and emerging players alike.

That’s good news for me. But if you’re a busy technology decision-maker, time is always limited. Navigating this rapidly changing landscape can quickly become overwhelming. That’s why we dedicate hundreds of hours to these awards and other premium research every year.

Our mission is to help you streamline your search, so you can concentrate on learning solutions that are the strongest fit with your organization’s unique needs and goals. There is no single “best” LMS, but there is a best LMS for every organization!

What’s New With Our LMS Awards

Now in its 10th year (wow!), the only way to win a Talented Learning award is to stand out among other solutions during our fiercely independent review process.

Our methodology has evolved over time, along with the market. In recent years, our categories revolved around three broad groups — All-Purpose Systems, Specialist Systems and Innovators to Watch — each with a similar number of winners.

But now you’ll find more “specialists” than all-purpose systems. So, to better define this expanding LMS market segment, we’ve added several more “specialist” categories.

And today, we’re honored to recognize 60 business-oriented learning systems in 6 categories:

2024 LMS AWARDS STRUCTURE

1. Best Enterprise LMS – Comprehensive all-purpose platforms that meet a wide variety of internal, external and professional education needs for large organizations.

2. Best Employee LMS – Designed for internal employee training, these systems help companies onboard, upskill and track employee growth and performance.

3. Best Customer/Partner LMS – Focused on educating critical external audiences, including customers, channel partners and franchises. These platforms are crucial for driving customer success, partner performance and business metric improvement.

4. Best Professional Education LMS – Built for associations and for-profit training companies that sell educational content as a primary source of revenue, these platforms facilitate content creation, distribution and monetization.

5. Best Supporting Learning Tech – Tools that enhance and complement core LMS platforms with critical features like gamification, community capabilities, video tools, assessment, AI-powered elements and more.

6. Best Learning Operations System – Solutions that manage training logistics, ensuring smooth operations for both virtual and instructor-led training.

And the LMS Awards Winners Are…

1. BEST ENTERPRISE LMS

Enterprise LMS platforms are versatile solutions, built to meet the diverse needs of organizations in most industries. These solutions could also be winners in individual categories because they support multiple use cases – employee training, customer/partner, professional education and beyond.

Because they are flexible by design, these platforms are typically preferred by companies, associations and others that want to drive learning engagement and performance improvement across multiple internal and external audiences.

Absorb LMS
Combining excellent customer service with top-notch functionality, Absorb LMS is a unified platform that enables organizations of all sizes to offer employees, partners, customers and members personalized learning paths for engaging onboarding and upskilling experiences.

Brainier
Recently acquired by talent acquisition and management system rising star, Clear Company, Brainier is a powerful, modern, user-friendly LMS designed to help organizations simplify training and drive performance improvement across all audiences.

Cornerstone OnDemand
With over 7000 customers, 140 million users, 4000 employees, three LMS solutions and more than a billion dollars in revenue, Cornerstone is the largest and most-used talent management and learning platform in the world.

CYPHER Learning
CYPHER Learning is rapidly gaining attention as one of today’s most advanced AI-driven LMS and authoring solutions. CYPHER is an affordable option for organizations that support learning among employees, customers, members and students.

D2L
Focused on enhancing the learning experience for both learners and instructors, D2L is a fast-growing, global learning solution that supports corporations, educational institutions and professional associations with a distinctive approach to skill development.

Docebo
Docebo, is the fastest growing LMS in the world, with over 3500 enterprise clients, 1000 employees and 30 million active users. Driven by forward-thinking design, this platform leverages AI to automate workflows, accelerate content creation, deliver personalized content, elevate the overall learner experience, and most importantly, measure results.

Learning Pool
Learning Pool is a flexible, scalable LMS focused on delivering personalized, data-driven learning experiences. This platform includes a powerful suite of tools for content creation, compliance management and advanced analytics, making it ideal for organizations that want to improve internal and external audience engagement and performance.

LearnUpon
LearnUpon is purpose-built corporate and association learning platform that helps organizations eliminate repetitive, manual tasks by making it possible to simultaneously build and deliver automated, dynamic, personalized learning for internal and external learners.

Litmos
Litmos provides a simple, yet powerful LMS that serves thousands of clients and 30+ million learners worldwide. This platform includes curated content collections, along with tools to manage courses and learners, automate tasks, conduct assessments, analyze data, integrate systems and generate reports.

Schoox
Schoox combines a laser focus on customer satisfaction and retention with an advanced platform that supports thousands of clients. Schoox specializes in helping global franchise companies manage the complexities of delivering personalized, meaningful learning experiences to internal teams, as well as franchisees.

2. BEST EMPLOYEE LMS

Employee LMS platforms are purpose-built to support workforce learning and development initiatives within organizations.

These systems help businesses manage employee onboarding, compliance training, skills development and career growth opportunities. They are essential tools for workforce engagement and performance improvement, particularly in industries where continuous learning and upskilling are key.

360Learning
360Learning is an innovative learning platform that fosters collaborative learning. It enables organizations to leverage in-house expertise for training while utilizing AI-driven tools to enhance engagement and streamline learning program creation and management.

5app
5app offers a unique, sleek learning platform for small and medium-sized businesses. It combines content management, adaptive learning journeys, cohort management and gamification to drive employee skills development.

DigitalChalk
DigitalChalk specializes in helping small and medium-sized organizations deliver instructional content while managing the complexities of continuing education, compliance training and employee development. This flexible, customizable learning platform includes comprehensive support services to help clients succeed.

FACTS
Formerly known as CD2 Learning, the FACTS LMS provides corporations, faith-based organizations and educational institutions with a highly configurable, extensible solution to create, deliver and measure meaningful learning experiences.

Gyrus Systems
Focusing on small and medium businesses and public sector compliance management, Gyrus offers a highly customizable employee training solution designed to support skill and competency development, track learning outcomes and optimize performance.

Neovation
The Neovation SmarterU LMS is a versatile learning solution designed for SMBs. Its strengths include role management, gamified content creation, AI proctoring, spaced-repetition learning and knowledge base development, alongside managed administrative services and content development.

PlatCore
With an employee LMS application that extends the popular ServiceNow business process automation platform, PlatCore enables organizations to reduce costs and add value while minimizing regulatory and compliance risk.

Tenneo
Tenneo (formerly G-Cube) is a full-featured corporate learning platform that links training with on-the-job performance. This makes it possible to drive measurable business improvements based on real-time need.

Totara
Built on an open-source foundation, Totara powers solutions delivered by dozens of global and local partners. This platform offers highly flexible learning and talent development capabilities used across diverse industries for a wide range of employee engagement and compliance training needs.

Valamis
Combining on user-centered design, data science and application integration capabilities, Valamis’ strengths include a sophisticated content recommendation engine, predictive analytics, productized integrations, e-commerce functionality and accessibility support.

3. BEST CUSTOMER/PARTNER LMS

Customer and Partner LMS platforms specialize in helping organizations deliver education and training to customers, channel partners, contractors, developers and other external constituents.

These systems are designed to facilitate critical onboarding, product training, certifications and ongoing education, which in turn drive product adoption, customer success and partner performance.

Adobe Learning Manager
This platform is expanding beyond its corporate LMS roots to provide a solid foundation for customer and partner education. Noteworthy features include a “headless” structure that supports branded content delivery in any application or website, and a fluidic player that displays any kind of content without plugins or downloads.

BrainStorm
BrainStorm offers innovative training solutions that empower organizations, employees, customers, and partners to enhance productivity through streamlined, high-impact software adoption training.

Eurekos
Rapidly growing in both Europe and North America, Eurekos is a full-featured customer, partner and association learning platform with advanced content authoring, audience segmentation, adaptive learning and e-commerce capabilities at an extremely affordable price point.

Gainsight
Gainsight is a leading customer success management platform that recently acquired and integrated Northpass LMS into its suite. This more holistic solution brings unique vision, focus and capability to teams responsible for customer experience, success, support and education.

Intellum
Backed by top-tier professional services, Intellum is a popular, versatile, service-based LMS solution designed to support employees, customers, and partners. It incorporates excellent AI-driven tools to deliver personalized, adaptive, measurable skills-based learning content.

MeltingSpot
MeltingSpot is a customer education platform that boosts user onboarding and engagement by embedding personalized learning content directly into digital products. This dramatically reduces support tickets while promoting product adoption and customer success.

NetExam
NetExam is a top-of-the line AI-powered LMS and authoring solution. It is designed specifically to facilitate measurable business success by solving the challenges of educating global channel partners, franchises and customer training organizations.

Skilljar
Skilljar is an adaptable LMS tailored for customer and partner education. Its strong content management, CRM integrations, and robust analytics capabilities help streamline onboarding, improve product adoption and drive customer success at scale.

Strigo
Strigo.io is a customer education platform focused on delivering hands-on, interactive learning experiences that enhance product adoption and engagement. Through practical, real-world scenarios, it enables companies to scale training for B2B customers, partners and internal teams.

Thought Industries
As a market leader in B2B customer and partner education, Thought Industries uses AI-powered learning to provide real-time, in-app learning solutions that measurably boost performance for external audiences, as well as internal sales and support teams.

4. BEST PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LMS

Professional Education Systems are designed specifically for organizations that create and sell educational content as their primary business, such as associations, commercial continuing education providers and entrepreneurial course creators.

These platforms include advanced features for content creation, marketing, e-commerce and course management, so organizations can efficiently monetize and deliver instructional programs to their target audiences.

aNewSpring
This versatile learning journey platform helps organizations put their learners’ experience first. It is used by training companies and continuing education providers seeking an easy, efficient way to create, manage and sell instructional content.

Authentic Learning Labs
Authentic Learning Labs offers a highly adaptive, API-driven, “headless” learning experience solution. Its multi-faceted capabilities empower training companies and professional associations to create, syndicate, track and analyze high-quality educational content through any LMS, website or app.

BenchPrep
BenchPrep is a digital learning platform that supports credentialing, certification and continuing education with scalable, data-driven solutions. Its capabilities focus on helping organizations deliver engaging, personalized learning experiences.

Blue Sky eLearn
Known for comprehensive client services and customer satisfaction, Blue Sky eLearn specializes in providing associations with elearning and virtual event solutions. Its comprehensive Path LMS is known for its user-friendly interface.

Cadmium
Cadmium offers two continuing education solutions. EthosCE focuses on education for medical and healthcare professionals, while Elevate is designed for associations. Both offer robust features for managing certifications, continuing education and virtual learning experiences.

Forj
Forj is a community engagement platform built for associations. It helps enhance learning experiences by fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing through virtual events, content management and robust analytics.

InReach
For associations and professional organizations that want a comprehensive continuing education platform, InReach is a strong solution. It combines flexible, user-friendly tools for managing and delivering accredited learning content, with capabilities for certification tracking, compliance management and virtual events.

LearningCart
LearningCart is an all-in-one ecommerce LMS platform that leverages AI to help organizations seamlessly create, sell and manage online courses, training products and events. It blends robust learning management with flexible content management, and an intuitive user interface designed for scalability and ease of use.

MapleLMS
Maple LMS is built for the unique needs of associations and non-profits. To ensure a cohesive learning experience, it combines certification management, continuing education and compliance training features with seamless association management systems (AMS) integrations.

TopClass LMS
TopClass LMS by WBT Systems is designed specifically for professional associations. With features like certification tracking and continuing education management, this platform was recently acquired by Advanced Solutions International (ASI), which further strengthened its capabilities and integration with association management systems.

5. BEST SUPPORTING LEARNING TECH

Best Supporting Learning Tech solutions are essential tools that enhance the effectiveness of instructional platforms and systems.

These tools focus on specific functions like video-based assessments, gamification, microlearning, or AI-driven learning engagement, making them critical enablers for successful learning outcomes.

Bongo
Bongo augments any LMS with scalable, high-stakes video assessments for sales, leadership, and partner training. This enables global and distributed organizations to measure real-world skills through interactive role-play and AI-driven evaluations.

Code of Talent
An AI-powered microlearning platform, Code of Talent is designed to accelerate professional learning and drive measurable business impact. You can test it out with a free trial to explore its rapid course creation capabilities, personalized learning paths and real-time progress tracking functionality.

Course Container
Course Container is a robust elearning content distribution solution that supports SCORM, video, and LTI formats. Its strengths include secure hosting, flexible licensing, version control and detailed analytics. This ensures seamless delivery and protection of courseware IP across any one or more LMS platforms.

Interflexion
This AI-powered role-play platform helps professionals develop leadership and interpersonal skills through personalized, real-time feedback, using interactive scenarios to drive measurable progress and improve self-awareness.

Learnie
Learnie is a community-driven microlearning platform that delivers bite-sized, gamified education. This helps instructors and learners create and share content, making it an engaging and collaborative solution for customers, partners, employees and members in a very non-LMS format.

Motrain
Motrain augments LMS solutions by providing a gamified learner engagement platform that incentivizes partner training through rewards, driving higher course completion rates and fostering brand advocacy, making it a powerful tool for improving engagement and performance in channel partner education programs.

MyQuest
MyQuest is an action-based microlearning platform that transforms traditional training into engaging, gamified experiences. It enables personalized feedback and real-time skill-building, so organizations can foster long-lasting behavioral change through interactive coaching and social learning.

Praxis Learning
Want to catch a startup in its early days? Check out this learning journey application. It’s an AI-enhanced social microlearning platform that helps organizations boost learning and retention before and after offsites, leadership retreats, launch kickoffs and other high-profile training experiences.

The Learning Network
The Learning Network integrates advanced custom XR/VR/AR training experiences with a state-of-the-art xAPI-driven reporting and analytics platform. This enhances any LMS with deep insights into immersive learner performance — making it ideal for high-risk sectors like the military, manufacturing, hazardous environments and energy.

Vistio
With AI-powered solutions like ServiceSim and AgentHub, Vistio enhances contact center agent performance by providing real-time guidance, training simulations and interactive tools. This makes it easier for agents to manage complex scenarios while improving metrics such as first-call resolution and customer satisfaction.

6. BEST LEARNING OPERATIONS SYSTEMS

This year, we’re expanding our coverage to include the emerging learning operations segment. These platforms help organizations manage logistics and administration for ILT, VILT, hybrid and event training programs.

These AI-infused tools are essential for training providers, corporate learning teams and educational institutions. Their value comes from the ability to dramatically streamline tasks like scheduling, resource allocation, instructor management, course enrollment, learning progress tracking, as well as ROI mining to optimize learning efficiency and effectiveness.

Accessplanit
To enable training companies to improve operational efficiency while managing in-person, virtual and hybrid programs, the Accessplanit training management system automates common administrative tasks like course scheduling, enrollment and reporting.

Administrate
Administrate is a powerful AI-driven, training management system designed for large-scale, global, live training operations. It includes features like automated schedule building and pressure testing, advanced integration, real-time communication tools, robust reporting and analytics that streamline logistics for ILT and virtual training.

Arlo
The Arlo training management system is designed for training providers and internal training teams in multiple sectors, including education management and corporate training. This platform automates and streamlines management of face-to-content content of all types.

Cognota
The Cognota LearnOps platform simplifies learning operations by aligning programs with business goals, centralizing resource management and maximizing training ROI. This enables organizations to effectively manage and measure their talent development initiatives.

Dante
This training management software solution is tailored to training providers. Working together with a user-friendly interface and excellent customer support, Dante simplifies course management and delegate tracking.

Process Street
Process Street is a user-friendly process management platform that enables organizations to automate HR, onboarding and other operational processes through customizable workflows. This ensures consistency and efficiency while providing visibility into task progress and accountability.

SimpliTrain
This unified LMS, TMS, and LXP works as a comprehensive training management platform. Through its user-friendly interface and customizable features, SimpliTrain enables organizations to manage training programs more effectively, streamline administrative tasks and enhance overall learning outcomes.

Training Orchestra
Training Orchestra is a powerful training management system that streamlines planning, management and delivery of training programs. It includes robust features for scheduling, resource allocation and reporting, which help organizations optimize training operations and enhance learner engagement.

Trainual
Trainual is a comprehensive onboarding and training platform that streamlines documentation of processes and standard operating procedures. This helps businesses effectively systemize training operations while enhancing employee learning experiences with accountability features and easy team access.

Whale
Whale is an AI-powered platform that simplifies documentation of standard operating procedures and internal knowledge. This helps organizations onboard and train employees much more efficiently, while providing easy access to vital resources for team growth.

Conclusion: Smart LMS Decisions Start with Specialized Solutions

There you have it — 60 exceptional learning systems worth considering when your business is ready to level up. So, whether you’re interested in a platform to support employee growth, drive customer education, streamline large-scale training operations or grow your budding business as a subject matter expert, you can find a strong solution among our LMS Awards.

Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you all for raising the bar and continuing to advance the learning industry!

Here’s to the bright future of learning. Thanks for reading!

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