cimoio

cimoio is training management and blended learning software made by STL GmbH, a German company. The homepage describes it as "Software für professionelles Trainingsmanagement und Blended Learning" (software for professional training management and blended learning), and the company says it sees cimoio "as a system that fully integrates TMS and LMS": the administrative side of training (catalog, events, bookings, trainers, costs, reporting) and the delivery of learning content in one product. It serves two kinds of training organization, which the site names explicitly: internal training units that train a company's own employees, and units that look after external participants, such as commercial training providers.

The site is in German and English. Pricing is not published; the route in is a contact form or one of the company's regular webinars for organizations looking for an LMS.

How the product is put together

cimoio is sold as a base module plus extensions rather than as fixed plans. The homepage says "Das cimoio Basismodul hat alles, was ihr Trainingsmanagement benötigt" (the cimoio base module has everything your training management needs). On top of it sit three kinds of addition:

• Functional modules (fachliche Module), which add functions for domain-specific tasks.
• Technical modules, which adapt cimoio to the specific needs of a company.
• Portals, which STL cuts together with the customer for each user group, so learners, trainers, managers and administrators each get a view built around their own tasks.

Interfaces connect cimoio to the other systems in a customer's IT landscape, and where modules are not enough, STL offers customizing to implement a customer's own requirements.

The product is also packaged into product lines, each listed in the site menu: cimoio compact, cimoio campus, cimoio academy, cimoio industry, cimoio certify, cimoio aero and cimoio custom. The names map onto the sectors the site's Solutions section covers: training providers, manufacturing, trade with banks and insurers, aviation, and other industries.

What it does in each sector

The homepage gives a short account of each target sector, and these are the clearest description of what the software does in practice.

Aviation (cimoio aero). Training for ground and maintenance staff is governed by regulation from the German Federal Aviation Office (Luftfahrt Bundesamt) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The site says cimoio maps the required qualifications and evaluates them before an employee is authorized for a maintenance job, so the rules are applied at the point of assigning work. This is the move from learning to doing: the system checks who holds the qualification before that person is cleared for the task. The company's blog shows cimoio exhibiting with qamaas at the EAMTC and EATS aviation training events in 2025.

Trade, banks and insurers. Mandatory training in this sector has to be repeated on a cycle: compliance, anti-money-laundering, and training on changes such as Basel III or the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The site says cimoio provides overviews and reporting processes so a training department can see whether its mandatory training targets are being met.

Manufacturing. Here training sits inside an IT landscape dominated by ERP systems. The site says training costs are either charged internally or billed to external customers through a quote, an order confirmation and an invoice, and that cimoio supports separate clients (Mandanten) so business units can be kept apart for data minimization and reporting.

Training providers. Education businesses usually have large portfolios with many specialist topics. The site says cimoio is used to present such a portfolio clearly to customers and to make digital content easy to reach.

The company's view of a TMS and an LMS

STL publishes long guides on what a training management system and a learning management system are, and they explain the thinking behind cimoio. The English TMS guide calls a TMS an "ERP for training providers" that covers the end-to-end process of a training business, and calls the TMS and the LMS "two sides of the same coin": what is created and managed in the TMS is delivered through the LMS. It argues that a TMS matters most where training is the core business, or where there are many training products, trainers, rooms, items of equipment or classroom sessions to manage.

The guide also sets out what STL considers the core functions of a TMS: catalog management, product management, event management, booking management, cost management, participant management, trainer management, communication and reporting. On top of that come functions that depend on use: an HR interface for internal training, qualification and authorization management for regulated training, and registration, revenue management and order processing for external training. As baseline requirements for any such software it lists a roles and rights concept, a data security concept including a deletion concept that customers can adapt for GDPR compliance, interfaces to other systems, and traceability. The German LMS guide looks at the same question from three sides, the organization paying for training, the learner, and the company buying training for its staff, and names the roles an LMS has to serve: learners, trainers, managers, the person who books, and administrators.

These are the company's own published criteria, and a buyer can use them as a checklist in a demo.

Training, support and community

STL runs training on cimoio for its own users. The homepage lists sessions for beginners, advanced users and experts, sessions for administrators managing part of a cimoio installation or all of it, regular webinars for organizations still deciding on an LMS, and a contact route for questions about a specific function. A blog post on the 2025/26 program mentions classroom training in Stuttgart and compact online webinars. Customers meet once a year at a cimoio user meeting; the September 2026 post describes the 18th meeting, with around 60 participants discussing how the product is developing.

The company says its customer base has grown steadily since STL GmbH was founded, and that its customer projects range from simple base installations to complex systems for groups operating worldwide. A Success Stories section collects customer case studies.

Who it suits

cimoio fits German-speaking organizations whose training is regulated or administratively heavy: an aviation maintenance business that has to prove qualifications before authorizing work, a bank or insurer running recurring mandatory training, a manufacturer that bills training internally or to customers through its ERP and needs separate clients for its business units, or a training provider with a large catalog. The modular build and the offer of customizing suit buyers who want the system shaped around their process.

It is less suited to a solo trainer or a small team that wants to sign up and start the same day. There is no published price, no self-service plan, and the product is configured with STL through modules, portals and interfaces, so a buyer should expect a sales conversation and a setup project.