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Absorb LMS
What Is Absorb LMS?
Absorb LMS is an AI-based strategic learning system for all learners inside and outside an enterprise, serving customers globally across all industries. The platform is purpose-built for an engaging, personalized learner experience and administration. Employees, customers, partners, and members are empowered to discover, absorb, and apply the knowledge needed.
Who Uses Absorb LMS?
Designed for organizations providing employee, customer, partner, or member training.
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Reviews of Absorb LMS

Easy to use and highly customizable LMS
Comments: In an organization where the employee training process is very significant, it is necessary to have a robust tool that facilitates the planning and execution of staff professional improvement courses. This platform offers a very versatile set of tools.
Pros:
I really like that navigating through its functions is very easy. It allows you to design a personalized, interactive and very flexible learning experience. The tracking of participants' progress is very effective and offers very complete reports that provide detailed information for the improvement of the following courses. The electronic signature helps to confirm the fulfillment of the different training stages that are planned.
Cons:
I would like to see more integration options to strengthen corporate learning paths.
Why would I suggest Absorb?
Pros:
Robust reporting and Dashboards - Implementing robust reporting and dashboard features in Absorb LMS involved configuring custom reporting tools and dashboards to track learner progress, performance, and engagement metrics effectively. Customizing reporting for license usage and billing to meet specific organizational requirements has posed complexity, data integration, and usability challenges. Close collaboration between the Absorb billing and internal delivery teams was essential to define reporting requirements and configure custom reports accurately.
Cons:
e-Commerce - Business to Customer is one of our lead profit generation initiatives, and we want to create a unique learning experience for individuals interested in shaping their DEI learning journey. Challenges were introduced in secure payment processing, and outdated knowledge-based articles were found in Absorb. Extensive collaboration was required between the finance, IT, and Absorb LMS specialists to identify the payment issues. A temporary solution was enabled to capture the payments that still pose a risk. Integrations admin authorization - While Absorb has essential integrations on a button click, it has dependencies on the admin authorization between different systems. Admin within Absorb should also have admin privileges in other systems, which is not always the case within the organization.
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Comments: Top service provider experience, professional, flexible--felt like a partnership from the get go!
Pros:
The customer service was tops from purchase contract to implementation! Easy to set up, customizable for our needs.
Cons:
Some aspects a challenge to design to our needs. A little programming will help.
A bit clunky but in the end it does the job
Comments: Having to deliver training content for compliance purposes has been very easy and fast to setup thanks for the integrated content library. It is not complicated to use if the project is simple. Reporting can be s bit slow but it does its job.
Pros:
It does the job. The course creation feature is good, the authoring tool doesn't disappoint, and the free content library is perfect. This is very important for companies that need to deliver training in no time. The performance is good because it's cloud-based, so it scales well in case of need. The LMS could also be a source of revenue thanks to e-commerce tool. It comes with a lot of integrations so the system can communicate with external environments.
Cons:
The look and feel appears dated, despite constant improvements, and the administration tasks need to be done according to Absorb's logic and it could be very different from how other LMSs work.
Training Transformation
Comments: Absorb LMS revolutionizes digital marketing training from the traditional course approach and presents the most engaging style. While the simplicity and the flexible environment of the platform contribute to the ease of creating and sharing training materials, the variety of content management tools available on the platform contributes to the fun factor of the training itself.
Pros:
Out of the features described above, there are two exciting abilities that set Absorb LMS apart from the competition. While it adapts content based on team member performance, the choice of training content is particularly well suited to the creation of visually rich, highly engaging multimedia content, which enhances knowledge retention and reduces dictionary lookup interruptions in the actual work environment training.
Cons:
A few gamification strategies were incorporated in the design. Other basic and complex content translation features. Compared to the previous years, relatively few new advanced assessment tools and resources developed. Limited access to additions to the features on training modules to reflect the specific branding of a company or organization.