HowNow vs Rise Up LXP

HowNow is an intelligent learning platform combining an LMS, LXP, skills capabilities, and content. It gives employees a personalized feed of learning opportunities, skills, and company knowledge related to current and future roles. Unified Search can search connected sources in one place, while an AI Skill Graph maps resources, pathways, and internal experts to organizational skills. Guru AI Coach can teach, coach, challenge, reinforce, and adapt using company knowledge. HowNow Plus adds curated material from providers such as Skillsoft and MindTools. Creators can build learning with text, images, video, GIFs, code snippets, quizzes, and SCORM files. Learning-management tools support session scheduling, attendance tracking, and virtual-classroom integration. Assessments and certificates are supported, along with personalized paths and AI recommendations. Integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workday, HiBob, Google Drive, Notion, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning. The service runs on web, Android, iOS, macOS, and a browser extension, with offline learning available. It supports SSO and provisioning through Azure, Google, Okta, OneLogin, and JumpCloud. HowNow states ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials credentials, GDPR support, and AES-256 full-disk encryption for data at rest. Pricing is paid and available on request.

Rise Up LXP is a learning experience platform designed to complement an LMS with personalised recommendations, aggregated content and mobile learning. Its AI uses learner skills, roles and development needs to suggest material, create adaptive journeys and produce knowledge-reinforcement activities. The platform supports virtual, classroom and e-learning formats, as well as mobile access with offline use for deskless teams. An AI-powered authoring tool supports content creation, automatic course translation in more than 45 languages, and video subtitle generation and translation. Integrations include API, LTI and webhooks, plus Microsoft Teams and Salesforce; the wider ecosystem connects with HRIS, training management systems and content providers. Rise Up lists ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance, and says its AI features are developed in line with the European Union AI Act. Platform data is hosted within the EU. The LXP plan is listed at £2 a month under an annual licensing model, primarily for organisations and training providers with more than 300 learners. Ecosystem pricing is custom; pricing is also available on request, with a 30-day trial.