Cornerstone OnDemand Strengths, Domain Expertise, and Key Differentiators
Cornerstone is entering a new phase of its galactic journey by incorporating digital agents into its marketing blitz designed to make next-generation learning management software relevant, effective and affordable for thousands of its customers.
At its recent Spark user conference, Cornerstone CEO Himanshu Palsule upped the ante by introducing bundles of its HCM offerings segmenting them into learn, performance management and skills for strategic workforce planning.
Without providing details, Cornerstone said the bundles will be attractively priced to entice its installed base of over 7,400 customers to upgrade to Cornerstone Galaxy, its all-encompassing HCM suite introduced in 2024 for learning, performance, and skill intelligence supported by AI agents and guardrails reinforced by human involvement.
The future of Cornerstone Galaxy will cover a range of tasks such as recording data, monitoring alerts and dispensing medicine in a healthcare setting using agents mapping to the skills required to handle those tasks with or without human input or supervision, all of which need to be preset according to industry and institutional requirements.
At least 800 customers running different versions of Cornerstone, Edcast, Saba and Sumtotal are considered ripe targets for an immediate upgrade that could help the vendor drive double-digit increases in annual recurring revenues over the next year or two.
Palsule said another growth lever is its partnerships with Salesforce and Microsoft by expanding the power of Agentforce, the Generative AI proxy of the former, and Copilot, the digital assistant for the latter. In the case of Agentforce, Cornerstone will help with the training, testing and certifying of agents and agent actions with compliance in mind. For Microsoft, Cornerstone aims to deliver shortcuts for users by recommending courses while accessing Copilot Chat and Office 365.
Judging from the reactions from some of the more than 1,200 attendees of Spark, the upside is that customers reckon the intrinsic value of running Cornerstone to navigate a maze of thorny training, compliance and employee development issues, not to mention the skills gap that is expected to widen with baby boomers retiring in droves and being replaced by a new generation of young and inexperienced workers.
Cornerstone OnDemand Recent Developments
Recent developments at Cornerstone OnDemand include the introduction of Cornerstone Galaxy AI in April 2025. This AI-powered platform aims to support workforce adaptability by identifying skills gaps and providing personalized learning experiences. It integrates with existing Cornerstone solutions, such as Cornerstone Learn and Cornerstone Elevate, to provide a unified approach to talent development.
Cornerstone OnDemand Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Activities
In March 2024, Cornerstone acquired Talespin, a spatial learning company specializing in extended reality (XR) technologies. This acquisition enabled Cornerstone to offer immersive learning experiences, integrating XR into its learning solutions to address skills gaps and talent shortages across various industries.
Cornerstone's acquisition of SkyHive Technologies in May 2024 provided the company with AI-powered skills intelligence capabilities. This acquisition enhanced Cornerstone's ability to offer predictive labor market intelligence and automated job architecture management, supporting organizations in building agile workforces.
Cornerstone OnDemand Customers in ARTW Customer Database
Leveraging a rigorous data-centric research methodology, APPS RUN THE WORLD asks the simple question: Who’s buying Cornerstone OnDemand applications and why? And we provide the answers – supported by decades of research – to our clients around the world. Our Customer database has over 100 data fields that detail company usage of Cornerstone OnDemand and other enterprise apps by function, customer size, industry, location, implementation status, partner involvement, Line of Business Key Stakeholders and IT decision makers contact details. List of Verified Cornerstone Learning Cloud, Cornerstone Performance Cloud, Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud customers.
Cornerstone OnDemand Overview
1601 Cloverfield Blvd, Suite 600 South
Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
1 310-752-0200
https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/
Ownership: - Clearlake Capital Group
Number of Employees: 3600
Functional Markets: HCM,
Key Verticals: Banking and Financial Services, Communication, Education, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Media, Non Profit, Oil Gas Chemicals, Professional Services, Retail, Utility,
Cornerstone OnDemand Key Enterprise and Cloud Applications
Cornerstone Learning Cloud, Cornerstone Performance Cloud, Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud
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Cornerstone OnDemand Customers - Breakdown by Geo, Size, Vertical and Product
List of Verified Cornerstone OnDemand Customers
No. of Cornerstone OnDemand Customers: 7000
No. of Cornerstone OnDemand Enterprise Applications Customers: 7000
No. of Cornerstone OnDemand Cloud Customers: 7000
No. of Cornerstone OnDemand Cloud Subscribers: 140 m
Cornerstone serves over 7,000 organizations and more than 140 million users across 180 countries, with services available in 50 languages.
Its client base includes organizations such as IKEA, USG Corp, Dresser-Rand, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the California Franchise Tax Board, the Maryland State Highway Administration, Bucknell University, Ohio Health Sciences, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Roche (Switzerland), BBVA (Spain), Bohler IT (Sweden), and Philips Electronics (Netherlands).
In Asia, Cornerstone's clients include Nissan (Japan), BESTSELLER (China), Commonwealth Bank (Australia), and Tata (India).
Cornerstone OnDemand Market Opportunities, M&A and Geo Expansions
Similar to other software companies, Cornerstone is gearing up for a new operating environment amid economic and geopolitical chaos. For example, government agencies such as USAID have been defunded by the current administration, having been a long-time user of Cornerstone for learning management and other HR training and workplace initiatives for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Cornerstone’s bundling announcement also comes on the heels of similar pricing tweaks from Salesforce on Agentforce in May, suggesting evolving user demands for adaptive and flexible licensing metrics. Karthik Suri, chief product officer of Cornerstone, emphasized that the bundles represent a significant upgrade opportunity as customers will be able to access a full range of products and services including Galaxy AI agents and the Skills library from its recent acquisition of Skyhive for a fraction of the price if they are bought separately.
Suri said another value add will become more pronounced as its customers can leverage the collective insights from its 140+ million users chalking up more than 30 million learning hours every month. The scaling out of a talent intelligence platform will usher in Cornerstone’s upcoming Strategic Workforce Planning analytics engine that could spit out at a moment’s notice best practices and recommendations, aligning one’s learning management strategies with what is available or needs to be backfilled in any organization’s skills repository.
Cornerstone OnDemand Risks and Challenges
Cornerstone faces near-term headwinds as learning and development needs to find a new voice in the minds of HR executives. While the push for diversity and inclusion will give way to more practical and tangible ways to boost one's skills, Cornerstone may also have to pivot by leveraging its agentic development work. One possibility includes solving task management requirements of its customers by providing them with real-time and virtual tools to achieve training objectives that would have been rote-based and time-consuming, not necessarily something a new generation of workers would gravitate.
Cornerstone OnDemand Ecosystem, Partners, Resellers and SI
Cornerstone OnDemand has an ecosystem of technology, services, and content partners that support its talent management platform. Cornerstone’s growing ecosystem is made up of close to 1,000 integration and content alliances including Amazon Web Services, Deloitte as well as partners such as Grupo Tress Internacional in Mexico, Maestra Consultoria in Brazil, and NIIT in India, all of which are committed to upgrading their legacy customers to take advantage of the latest training and learning capabilities to help them address shifting labor requirements around the world. Technology partners include Microsoft (Viva Learning), Easygenerator, and ADP. Services partners such as Deloitte, Capgemini, and Educe assist with implementation and optimization. Content partners like isEazy and CrossKnowledge provide specialized learning materials. The company also works with resellers like XpertLearning in the Middle East and Neospheres in Europe to expand its reach. This network supports Cornerstone’s platform across different industries and regions.
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