2025 LMS Awards: Celebrating the Best Enterprise Learning Systems

Welcome back to our annual celebration of learning systems excellence, the Talented Learning LMS Awards! After managing this process for over a decade, I’ve found each year brings its own special dynamics — and 2025 is no exception.

The learning tech market has never moved faster or been more diverse, with over 1000 platforms currently in play. And with AI constantly reshaping how we envision, build, and use instructional systems, innovation is intense and meaningful differentiation matters.

As a fiercely independent learning tech analyst and consultant, I believe it’s unrealistic to declare that one LMS is “the best” for all. However, there is a best fit for each organization’s unique needs.

So, for this edition of our LMS Awards, we have two goals — to recognize top-notch enterprise learning systems, and to help buyers find solutions that match their specific requirements.

What’s New With Our 2025 LMS Awards?

This year’s LMS Awards reveal how wildly fast learning technology continues to evolve. Among the hundreds of platforms we’ve reviewed, we’re showcasing 65 stellar solutions in 6 categories, including 20 new winners.

Clearly, AI is still racing to redefine the industry. We’re greeted with innovative features at every turn — intelligent agents for learners and administrators, generative tools for authoring and design, voice-driven analytics, deeper automation across the learning experience, and much more.

Skills management and microlearning are also advancing rapidly, with stronger emphasis on mentoring, knowledge sharing, and the ability to drive measurable business results.

But perhaps best of all, modern learning tech innovation no longer knows boundaries. Solutions from around the world now compete on equal footing with North America, bringing fresh ideas, regional perspective, and enterprise-ready capabilities to the learning systems landscape.

And of course, all these observations lead to the winners of this year’s LMS Awards…

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2025 LMS Awards Categories

This year, we have again selected the best business-oriented learning systems in 6 key categories:

1. Best Enterprise LMS Awards – Comprehensive all-purpose platforms that help large organizations meet diverse internal, external and professional education needs.

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

3. Best Customer/Partner LMS Awards – Focused on educating external audiences, including customers, channel partners, franchise employees and others, these platforms are critical in driving customer success, partner performance, and improved business outcomes.

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

5. Best Learning Operations Systems Awards – These solutions deserve special recognition as the unsung heroes of learning, because they ensure smooth virtual and instructor-led training by automating operational functions and streamlining administrative logistics.

6. Best Learning Tech Innovation Awards – Numerous tools are pushing traditional learning boundaries with novel ways to create, deliver, measure, and improve learning results. Winners of these LMS Awards represent the next wave of solutions that are transforming how organizations design, manage, and scale learning.

Our 2025 LMS Awards Winners

NOTE: We do not rank LMS Awards winners. Rankings aren’t helpful because every solution is ideal for at least one type of customer. Also, rankings tend to become obsolete soon after they’re published. So instead, we list systems alphabetically in each category.

1. BEST ENTERPRISE LMS AWARDS

Extended enterprise learning systems are a foundation for large-scale organizational education. They offer power and flexibility to support any combination of audiences, including employees, customers, partners, and others within a cohesive ecosystem.

This year’s winners underscore the value of global reach and the power of AI to transform how complex organizations create, deliver, and measure learning.

From generative tools that accelerate content development and intelligent agents that provide real-time support, to analytics that reveal actionable insights, these platforms demonstrate the expanding reach and sophistication of enterprise learning.

The versatility of these solutions positions them to compete effectively across every category in our LMS Awards, proving that the most advanced solutions can serve any audience with extraordinary impact.

Absorb LMS
This modern enterprise learning platform helps organizations deliver personalized, scalable training to employees, customers, partners, and members. Known for its intuitive design, strong customer support, and AI-powered automation, Absorb includes mentoring and social learning capabilities that connect learners with experts and peers to deepen engagement and skill development, along with advanced analytics to measure learning impact and business outcomes.

Cornerstone OnDemand
A leader in talent and learning technology, Cornerstone serves more than 7,000 organizations and 140 million users, worldwide. Its AI-powered Cornerstone Galaxy platform unifies learning, performance, and skills intelligence to help organizations develop talent, ensure compliance, and build workforce agility. With advanced analytics, immersive learning, and AI copilots, this platform offers a connected, data-driven approach to employee growth and organizational performance.

CYPHER Learning
CYPHER is rapidly gaining attention as a pioneer in advanced AI-driven LMS and authoring solutions, with leading-edge capabilities that are adding breadth and depth to the platform. Despite CYPHER’s relative sophistication, it is an affordable option for diverse organizations that develop, deliver, and manage learning among employees, customers, members, students, or a combination of audiences.

D2L
The D2L Brightspace platform is used across education and enterprise sectors where personalized, scalable learning experiences are valued. It incorporates adaptive learning paths, intelligent agents, accessibility features, robust analytics, and integrations with HR, CRM, and content systems. Brightspace also features D2L Lumi, an AI-powered layer that enhances content authoring and learning workflows.

Docebo
One of the fastest-growing learning platforms in the world, Docebo serves nearly 4,000 enterprise clients and more than 30 million users globally. Built on an AI-first foundation, it automates workflows, accelerates content creation, and delivers personalized learning and skill development experiences that help employees, customers, and partners measurably improve business results.

LearnUpon
LearnUpon is purpose-built as an extended enterprise and association learning platform. It empowers organizations to eliminate repetitive, manual tasks by making it possible to simultaneously build and deliver automated, dynamic, personalized learning for internal and external audiences.

Litmos
Litmos provides a simple yet powerful LMS that serves thousands of clients and over 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. All of this provides an infrastructure for high-impact skills-based enterprise learning.

Propelr
Propelr is a modern learning management platform designed for extended enterprise workforce onboarding, compliance, training, and development. This solution is ideal for business, HR, and learning leaders in skilled trades, hospitality, manufacturing and other industries who need to train, engage, grow, and retain internal frontline teams and beyond.

Schoox
Schoox combines a deep commitment to customer satisfaction and retention with an advanced solution that supports thousands of clients. This platform provider specializes in helping global franchise companies manage the unique complexities of delivering personalized, meaningful training experiences to internal teams, as well as franchisees and their employees.

Totara
A highly customizable enterprise learning and talent experience platform, Totara excels in supporting compliance training, continuing education, and employee development. This platform is distributed globally via certified providers and direct sales, with strong adoption by the U.S. federal government and regulated industries that prioritize large-scale organizational learning, upskilling, and performance management.

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2. BEST EMPLOYEE LMS AWARDS

Employee learning systems are the foundation of workforce development, helping organizations onboard new hires, build skills, ensure compliance, and support long-term career growth.

While these platforms can serve large enterprises, they are often chosen by small and mid-sized businesses for their high value, flexibility, and ease of use. With skills management again at the forefront of corporate learning strategy, these systems are playing a central role in helping organizations identify, track, and develop the capabilities that matter most.

This year’s LMS Awards winners lead the way in creating intelligent, connected, accessible learning environments that blend AI automation, analytics, and integration with business systems to make learning a seamless part of everyday work.

360Learning
360Learning is an innovative platform that fosters collaborative workforce learning. Through special AI-based tools and templates, this system helps organizations leverage subject matter experts to develop training that enhances engagement, while streamlining content creation and management.

ClearCompany
ClearCompany Learning (formerly Brainier LMS), is a full-featured AI-driven learning platform that works as a standalone solution or hand-in-hand with ClearCompany’s talent management suite. This means employee training, onboarding, and development are fully integrated with the vendor’s broader workforce recruiting, engagement, and analytics tools.

Continu
This modern, AI-powered learning platform centralizes training, automations, and analytics across employees, customers, and partners. Its unique conversational learning AI agent known as Eddy elevates engagement and productivity by leveraging an organization’s content to deliver instant, context-aware answers directly via SMS or in collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams.

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 ensure client success.

imc Learning Suite
Based in Germany, Scheer IMC is a global platform provider serving more than 1,300 enterprise and government training programs, worldwide. Its flagship learning suite combines technology, content, and strategy with advanced automation, personalization, and analytics that help clients align learning with business objectives for high-impact outcomes.

KREDO
KREDO by Tesseract Learning is a cloud-based, AI-driven platform that delivers engaging, trackable employee training. Its built-in authoring, microlearning, and gamification capabilities offer strong value at a lower price point. This makes it ideal for small and medium-sized businesses in any industry.

LemonadeLXP
LemonadeLXP is a digital adoption and learning platform built primarily for financial institutions and fintech companies. It combines gamified microlearning, AI-powered authoring, and interactive guidance to build digital fluency, reduce support costs, and accelerate product adoption among employees and customers alike.

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. The company also offers strong implementation, content development, and managed administrative services to ensure successful results.

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.

Sana Labs (Workday)
Sana is an AI-native learning and knowledge platform that unifies content creation, personalization, and automation to deliver intelligent, search-driven learning experiences for global enterprises. Recently, Workday announced its $1.2 billion acquisition of Sana to accelerate its AI strategy and strengthen Workday Learning with next-generation adaptive learning and knowledge management capabilities.

Tenneo
Tenneo 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.

Valamis
Combining user-centered design, data science, and application integration capabilities, Valamis offers multiple strengths as a learning platform. Highlights include a sophisticated content recommendation engine, predictive analytics, productized integrations, e-commerce functionality, and accessibility support.

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3. BEST CUSTOMER/PARTNER LMS AWARDS

Customer and partner learning systems help organizations educate the people who drive their business forward, including customers, partners and customer-facing employees. These platforms support onboarding, product adoption, certification, and continuous development to improve customer satisfaction, efficiency, and revenue growth.

This year’s LMS Awards winners excel at delivering scalable, branded learning experiences, enhanced by AI automation, intelligent agents, and CRM integration that make education a seamless part of 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 provides an innovative solution that elevates customer, partner and employee productivity through streamlined, high-impact software adoption training. Its strategy is built on a 3-pronged foundation that combines learning content development and distribution, targeted digital communications, and powerful data analytics.

Eurekos
A rapidly growing platform both in Europe and North America, Eurekos is a full-featured choice for customer, partner and association learning. This robust LMS offers advanced content authoring, audience segmentation, adaptive learning, and e-commerce capabilities at an extremely affordable price point.

Intellum
Backed by top-tier professional services, Intellum is a popular, versatile, LMS solution designed to support customers and partners as well as employees. Its impressive set of AI-driven tools add value by helping organizations deliver personalized, adaptive, skills-focused learning experiences with measurable business impact.

MeltingSpot
MeltingSpot is a customer education platform that boosts user onboarding and engagement by embedding personalized learning content directly within digital products. This dramatically reduces support tickets (and related costs) while boosting product adoption and driving customer success.

NetExam
NetExam is a proven, top-of-the line AI-powered LMS and authoring solution. It is designed for organizations that want to optimize business success by solving critical challenges associated with educating global channel partners, franchise organizations, and customers.

Pendo
Pendo is a product experience and digital adoption platform that helps organizations educate and guide customers directly within their software. By combining in-app walkthroughs, analytics, feedback, and AI-driven insights, Pendo helps companies onboard users faster, improve product adoption, and deliver personalized learning experiences that drive long-term customer success.

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

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

Trainn
Trainn revolutionizes customer education for B2B SaaS companies worldwide, with an all-in-one platform that helps training teams effortlessly create, distribute, and measure learning results. This platform features AI-based tools for building and managing courses, assessments, certifications, and academies, along with detailed analytics to monitor and improve business outcomes.

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 4. BEST PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LMS AWARDS

Professional education platforms power the business of learning for associations, continuing education providers, and entrepreneurial course creators. These systems are purpose-built for organizations that sell education as a product. Typically, they combine content creation tools with certification management, marketing, e-commerce, and analytics to deliver and monetize high-quality learning experiences.

This year’s LMS Awards winners stand out for helping education businesses expand their reach, drive recurring revenue, and deliver measurable value to members and learners. These benefits come primarily through seamless integrations, AI-enhanced authoring, and engaging, data-informed learning experiences.

Authentic Learning Labs
This highly adaptive, API-driven learning experience platform includes a full-featured LMS designed to handle business and operational complexities in highly regulated test preparation and continuing education. Authentic’s flexible architecture empowers organizations to create, syndicate, track, and analyze high-quality instructional content while ensuring compliance, scalability, and seamless integration across any LMS, website, or app.

BenchPrep
BenchPrep is a digital learning platform that supports continuing education, credentialing, and certification with scalable, data-driven solutions. Its capabilities focus on helping organizations develop, deliver. and monetize engaging, personalized learning experiences for professionals in healthcare, technology, and other industries.

BrainCert
BrainCert is an all-in-one, AI-powered learning platform that enables organizations and educators to create, deliver, and sell online training and certification programs. It combines course authoring, virtual classrooms, e-commerce, and an automation engine for marketing, sales funnel management, and learner engagement.

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 and professional networks that want to enhance member learning experiences. The platform fosters collaboration and knowledge-sharing through virtual events, social content tools, and other capabilities that build and expand relationships.

Kajabi
This all-in-one knowledge commerce platform helps educators and entrepreneurs build, market and sell online courses, memberships, coaching, and digital products. Kajabi combines content delivery, website and landing page builders, email marketing, sales funnels, payments, and analytics in a unified system, so people can launch and scale a learning business without juggling multiple tools.

LearningCart
LearningCart is an all-in-one e-commerce 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.

LearnWorlds
LearnWorlds is a cloud-based LMS designed for creators, educators and organizations who want to develop, market, and deliver interactive elearning under their own brand. It offers no-code site and mobile app builders, along with tools that make it easy to manage quizzes, social communities, and e-commerce.

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

Oasis LMS
Developed and managed by 360Factor Consulting, Oasis LMS is a cloud-based system designed for the complex educational and credentialing needs of medical societies, professional associations, and healthcare organizations. Based in Chicago, 360Factor brings over a decade of product innovation, implementation expertise, and dedicated client support to every Oasis LMS engagement.

Path LMS
Path LMS is now part of Momentive Software, following Momentive’s acquisition of Blue Sky eLearn. This award-winning cloud-based system helps associations and mission-driven organizations deliver online courses, certifications, and virtual events to foster member engagement and professional advancement.

TopClass LMS
TopClass LMS is designed specifically for professional associations. With features like certification tracking and continuing education management, this platform was acquired in 2021 by Advanced Solutions International (ASI), which further strengthened its capabilities and integration with association management systems.

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5. BEST LEARNING OPERATIONS SYSTEMS AWARDS

Learning operations platforms may not capture headlines, but they are transforming how organizations plan, deliver, and manage large-scale training.

Processes that previously relied on spreadsheets and manual coordination have evolved into a strategic layer of enterprise learning that connects complex people, resources, and performance data to drive efficiency and measurable impact.

Powered by AI and automation, today’s leading learning ops solutions help training providers, corporations, and educational institutions orchestrate learning logistics with speed and precision. From scheduling and instructor management to capacity planning, cost tracking, and ROI analysis, the systems featured in this LMS Awards category make training operations as intelligent and streamlined as the learning they support.

Accessplanit
This training management system enables training companies to improve operational efficiency while managing in-person, virtual, and hybrid learning programs. Accessplanit accomplishes this by automating common administrative tasks like course scheduling, enrollment, and reporting.

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

Arlo
This solution is built for training providers and internal training teams that want to develop and deliver elearning with the same platform they use to manage in-person, virtual, and blended training. Arlo makes it easy to create courses, automate communications, coordinate training schedules and presenters, manage registrations, accept payments, and more.

aXcelerate
aXcelerate is an all-in-one learning management, training management, and student management platform, with added finance, customer support, and skills management tools. As this Australian solution expands globally, it brings a proven model for vocational, workforce, and compliance education that helps organizations manage the full learner lifecycle from enrollment to certification.

Cloud Assess
This platform is designed to help organizations streamline training, assessment, and compliance with AI-driven automation that scales training faster, cuts admin time, and produces measurable results. It is an excellent choice for managing remote worker training, communications, and compliance, with integrated features for digital scheduling, real-time tracking, mobile SOPs, and a comprehensive library of CPD-accredited free courses.

Cognota
The Cognota LearnOps platform simplifies learning operations by aligning programs with business goals, centralizing resource management, and maximizing training ROI. Its state-of-the-art feature set enables organizations to manage and measure talent development initiatives efficiently and effectively.

Connecteam
This AI-based app is designed to coordinate deskless work teams by combining operations, communications, and HR hubs in a solution that includes training, documents, events, scheduling, and more. It’s designed for small businesses as well as enterprise-class organizations in industries like construction, healthcare, F&B, retail, cleaning, and field services.

SimpliTrain
SimpliTrain is a modern learning platform that consolidates LMS, TMS, and LXP capabilities within a single, unified solution that supports training programs of all types. This integrated platform helps organizations seamlessly design, deliver, monetize, manage and measure multiple courses, while streamlining repetitive administrative tasks.

Training Orchestra
This powerful training management system streamlines program planning, management, and delivery. It includes robust features for scheduling, resource allocation, and reporting, which work together to 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 (SOPs). This helps businesses effectively systemize training operations while enhancing employee learning experiences with accountability features and easy team access.

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6. BEST LEARNING TECH INNOVATION AWARDS

Innovation continues to redefine what’s possible in learning technology. Emerging solutions extend far beyond traditional LMS capabilities, with impressive new ways to create, deliver, and measure learning that are faster, smarter, and more immersive.

This year’s tech innovation LMS Awards winners highlight the industry’s cutting edge capabilities, from AI-powered authoring and automation to gamification, simulations, and hands-on learning experiences that bridge training, performance and customer engagement.

Each winner represents a breakthrough in how technology enhances learning impact and business value.

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

Clueso
This AI-powered platform turns simple screen recordings into polished videos and step-by-step guides in minutes — with little to no editing. It is designed for product, training, and support teams that need to quickly scale high-quality demos, tutorials, and customer education content.

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 in any one or more LMS platforms.

Evolve
Evolve is an AI-native corporate learning platform that automates course creation from any content. It personalizes learning paths and connects training to real-world performance with adaptive, auto-generated simulations, smart assessments, and analytics. Designed to move beyond traditional LMS limitations, it centralizes knowledge, delivers real-time feedback, and transforms workforce learning into measurable business results.

HubLMS
HubLMS is a fully hosted solution that leverages the power of the Hubspot CRM platform and its ecosystem to provide compelling customer-focused digital learning experiences. With easy access to thousands of integrated marketing, sales, and web tools and services that companies need for full-funnel engagement, HubLMS makes it easier to attract, win, and retain customers without requiring a staff of developers.

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

Incentli
Incentli augments LMS solutions with a gamified learner engagement platform that incentivizes partner training. Through rewards that drive higher course completion rates and foster brand advocacy, this powerful tool boosts channel partner education engagement and performance.

Instruqt
This browser-based hands-on labs platform lets software companies create interactive product demos, training, and workshops in real cloud environments. Instruct integrates learning directly with sales and marketing workflows — no setup required.

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

LearnExperts
LearnExperts is an AI-powered authoring platform designed for software and high-tech companies. It transforms product knowledge and documentation into structured, instructionally sound training through its LEAi engine, which accelerates course creation while enforcing proven learning design standards.

BONUS: MetaLark.ai
This solution is so new, you can’t buy it yet! MetaLark.ai by OnPoint Digital is an AI-powered content intelligence toolkit that works with any LMS to analyze and organize training materials and digital assets. It reviews PDFs, videos, and SCORM packages to tag skills, detect outdated language, and extract key insights. By classifying content within a searchable vector database, MetaLark.ai helps L&D teams repurpose materials and give legacy content new life.

Beyond LMS Awards: What’s Your Next Move? 

If you are a vendor featured in these LMS Awards, congratulations! I hope you’ll take a well-deserved bow.

But what if you’re a learning systems buyer? What if you want to build a better tech stack that will move your agenda forward at scale?

After reviewing hundreds of systems, we’re shining a spotlight on these 65 solutions because they’re proven to improve human skills development and business performance in meaningful ways. So, I encourage you to let this LMS Awards list shorten your search for solutions that match your use case.

And as always, if you need a set of fiercely independent eyes to find the best fit for your organization, schedule a brief consult below and we’ll help you turn LMS selection into success.

Thanks for reading!

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