Buyers Guides for Learning

2026 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The ISG Buyers Guides for Learning are the distillation of continuous market and product research. They are an assessment of how well software providers’ offerings address enterprises’ requirements for platforms software. The Value Index methodology is structured to support a request for information (RFI) for a request for proposal (RFP) process by incorporating all criteria needed to evaluate, select, utilize and maintain relationships with software providers. The ISG Buyers Guide evaluates customer experience and the product experience in its capability and platform.

The 2026 ISG Buyers Guides™ for Learning evaluate leading software providers across three platform industry areas: Learning Platforms, Learning Content Platforms and Learning and Development Suites. Each guide delivers unique research, detailed ratings and rankings and in-depth analyses to help enterprises assess and select the human capital management software that best fits their requirements.

• The Learning Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates 26 software providers offering products that support formal learning administration, compliance management, learner experience and skills development. The guide assesses the following providers: 360Learning, Absorb, Acorn, Adobe, Anthology, BizLibrary, Cegid, Cornerstone, CYPHER, D2L, Dayforce, Docebo, HiBob, isolved, Learning Pool, LearnUpon, Litmos, Moodle, Oracle, PeopleFluent, Sana, SAP, Schoox, Skillsoft, Thrive and Workday.

• The Learning Content Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates eight software providers offering products that support content delivery, personalization, metadata management and analytics. The guide assesses the following providers: BizLibrary, Cornerstone, Coursera, ELB Learning, LinkedIn, Pluralsight, Skillsoft and Udemy.
  
  
• The Learning and Development Suites Buyers Guide evaluates nine software providers offering products supporting learning management, learner experience, skills intelligence and development workflows. The guide assesses the following providers: Acorn, Cegid, Cornerstone, Dayforce, Oracle, PeopleFluent, SAP, Schoox and Workday.
  
  

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