Thrive

Thrive

Comments: The overall experience has been amazing, from first initial meet up at the learning tech show, through onboarding and beyond launch, every step of the way they have been honest and helpful and always looking at ways to push us and themselves with their product

Pros:

i loved the fact that it looked fresh, new and completely different to the product my company and I were used to. We needed something different and we got it, some of the key features for me was the User Generated Content - being able to let other people in the business upload content is something I wanted to explore both from an L&D point of view and to help improve the Comms across the business.

Cons:

The only negative I think is the versioning of content being uploaded, so you cant version a new SCORM package (but this is in production at the moment so they listen to advice and suggestions!)

Alternatives Considered: Thinqi

Reasons for Choosing Thrive: Felt the old LMS was too traditional, and we needed to break away from the traditional LMS world to embrace digital learning

Switched From: LearnUpon

The benefits of an LXP that’s eaten an LMS...

Comments: We truly can’t shout loud enough about how great both the system and service from Thrive has been! We have seen such a significant increase in engagement with learning from our colleagues whilst also helping to streamline our processes for managing learning compliance. Without thrive we wouldn’t have been able to respond so effectively to the impact of COVID-19; the platform has enabled us to effectively induct and develop colleagues during lockdown and to promote colleague wellbeing through this time, as well as helping to create increased opportunities for social connection.

Pros:

We really wanted a hybrid learning system that combined the ability to manage corporate learning requirements with the social learning aspects gained from an LXP. Thrive manages to deliver on both and provided a great LMS integration tool that took the pain out of implementation. Our platform is easy to use, easy to manage and saved us money in the process.

Cons:

Thrive is a relatively new platform so there were a few little aspects of the system that didn’t quite work as we’d expected or are still being developed, however the teams vast knowledge of learning tech and their ability to listen and respond to feedback has been amazing and the support offered throughout our first year with them can’t be faulted. There roadmap for system development is exciting and I’m confident that the added functionality will help make life even easier for our system administrators over the next few months.

Alternatives Considered: SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite and Cornerstone LMS

Reasons for Choosing Thrive: Our previous system felt outdated and was unable to offer colleagues the level of social learning we were looking for as a business which had resulted in knowledge being shared (and lost due to the lack of search functionality) via workplace instead.

Switched From: SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite and Cornerstone LMS

Reasons for Switching to Thrive: Value for money and combined functionality

Homepage and section granulation

Comments: So far easy to get back into software design and administration it has been many years.

Pros:

Easy to use, great new features on there way. Great customer service quick and resolved each time.

Cons:

Inability to section our customer content, lot of messing about tagging and setting up custom fields to ensure customer sess learning content, this should get easier soon. Sections not being able to subsection to make pathway left hand side menu be slicker and easier for learner.

Thrive within The Gym Group

Comments: After bumping into the Thrive team at a learning and development event, we instantly recognised the value and quality of their content and were amazed by the variety within their course catalog. As the L&D team were getting ready to launch a brand new LMS within The Gym Group, the wide range of topics provided by Thrive really enabled our platform to be a one-stop-shop for company training and upskilling, especially during a time of the nationwide lockdown whereby remote learning and support was required with unprecedented importance for an unprecedented time. The content is visually pleasing, user friendly, interactively engaging and current. The team are always available for support and keep up to date with current affairs that has relevance to education within the workplace... best of all the price is unbeatable!

Pros:

Value for money Slick design Interactive engagement Innovative animations Variety of content

Cons:

We couldn't edit the content to our brand, although Thrive do offer a bespoke service when creating new content. We were unsure about the compliance courses being recognised by governing bodies.

Alternatives Considered: iHasco

Reasons for Switching to Thrive: We use ihasco for mandatory H+S courses but Thrive has a huge variety in their catalog which is much more engaging and current. The courses are also shorter which is a good thing for us.

Excellent Learning Platform - combining the features of a LMS & a LXP

Comments: Change to a more modern learning culture
Providing learning in the flow of work - access to content at the moment of need

Pros:

AI - recommendations, ease of use, constant improvements to functionality and new functionality

Cons:

The standard reporting but understand this is set to improve in the coming months

Alternatives Considered: Learning Pool Platform and Thinqi

Reasons for Choosing Thrive: To bring in LXP functionality and felt THRIVE were more up to date with modern learning techniques.

Switched From: Kallidus Learn

Reasons for Switching to Thrive: No other product met our requirements