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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SumTotal Closes Stellar Year with Continued Growth, Profitability, and Software Innovation Market Leader in Strategic Human Capital Management Positioned For Accelerated Growth in 2012 with Global Expansion and New Innovations GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 6, 2012 - SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the innovator in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today reported exceptional 2011 results with 90 percent overall booking growth and significant customer momentum across its global operations. SumTotal consistently accomplished positive expansion in bookings and new customer acquisition, and attributes this success to solid customer loyalty, operational efficiencies, and continued product advancement. The company achieved 110 percent booking growth in the second half of 2011, compared to same period the previous year, with 207 percent overall SaaS booking growth for the year as more customers joined SumTotal's Cloud offering. Recurring revenues were up 103 percent in the second half of 2011, and EBITDA grew 171 percent compared to previous year, representing 21 percent above plan. SumTotal has continued to develop a strong track record of operational excellence that has contributed to the company's impressive growth and profitability. Numerous new global customers joined SumTotal's fast-growing customer base including Gerber Life, Physicians Mutual, Young & Rubicam, Highmark, MD Physician Services, and Konica Minolta Business Technologies. In addition, SumTotal continued to innovate with numerous advancements for its flagship products and launched new capabilities in Mobile, Social Learning, Workforce Analytics, and end-to-end Talent Management. * Mobile: The fully rich media capable Mobile solution provides downloadable content for untethered support, as well as advanced tracking and reporting, and support for all mainstream devices and operating systems. * Social Learning: Improves knowledge retention across workfo

Mobile learning, applied to the right problem, in the right way, can deliver enormous efficiency and efficacy gains to an organization. But how do you justify the initial investment, and how do you ensure that learning is aligned with business goals? Look at e-learning from a business manager's perspective, learn about some of the ways it can improve your bottom line and build a compelling business case reaching out to your external audiences including customers, partners, channel or distributor networks, independent agents, suppliers, franchises/franchisees, association members, contractors or volunteers. This field guide will explore critical steps to ensure that you get the most out of your mobile learning investment.

GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb 27, 2012 - SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the innovator in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced it has surpassed 3,500 global customers on its best-in-class strategic HCM solution helping organizations around the world better manage their workforce business processes. SumTotal has shown rapid growth in all of its deployment models, including Cloud, Private-Cloud, and On-Premise, with 45 million global users. The company also has over 15 million users on its Cloud offering. This flexible deployment model allows the company to meet the growing needs of its customers with great flexibility and rapid deployment. The ability to support large numbers of customers and end users is testament to SumTotal's operational efficiencies and ability to scale on a global basis. With multiple data centers regionally focused around the globe, and 24/7 support infrastructure, the company is well positioned for additional growth and expansion. SumTotal has the largest implementation in China at Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, with over 60,000 employees and is deploying an additional 1 million users to support its third-party installers. SumTotal is one of the only vendors to offer an end-to-end strategic HCM solution that spans the complete employee lifecycle including talent management, learning and development, workforce management, expense management, core HR management, payroll and benefits, and strategic workforce analytics. Providing the deepest multinational domain expertise, including highly successful deployments to over 50% of the Fortune 500, the company offers best-practices for global HCM implementations helping organizations execute end-to-end HR processes more effectively and efficiently. "This is an extraordinary milestone and we are pleased to be the solution of choice for so many customers around the world," said SumTotal's CEO John Bo

SumTotal Solutions Architect David Borkin will host a lecture on "Driving Real Business Value through Fully Integrated Human Capital Management" where he will discuss the key pillars that make up integrated HCM: performance management, talent management, learning management and workforce management. Borkin will focus on the benefits of HCM and achieving maximum value from an integrated approach. By combining these elements, businesses will be able to use HCM as a strategic transformation tool and see ROI from taking an integrated approach. HRM Expo is one of the largest exhibitions for human resources management in Europe. SumTotal is taking part in the programme of lectures and panel discussions with Borkin's session taking place on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 9.30 a.m. in Practical Forum 2, Hall 11.2.

SumTotal will be involved in three key events in Australia. The company is exhibiting at HRIZON, one of Australia's largest HR trade shows, on stand number 107A at the Melbourne Conference & Exhibition Centre. SumTotal will then host industry breakfast briefings in Melbourne and Sydney to discuss the latest HR and talent management trends, best practices, and how to create a successful mobile learning strategy. There will be interactive demonstrations and insight into utilising workforce analytics to create successful business strategies. Michael Guazzarotto from Future Knowledge, one of Australia's leading learning, technology and business transformation consultancies, will be the keynote speaker at these briefings. He is an industry expert with over 15 years of experience.

About SumTotal Systems, Inc. SumTotal Systems, Inc. is the global leader in strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions that provide organizations with a new level of visibility to help make more informed business decisions and accelerate growth. Recognized by industry analysts as the most complete solution, SumTotal provides full employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, from a single provider for improved business intelligence. The company offers customers of all sizes and industries the most flexibility and choice with multiple purchase, configuration, and deployment options. We have increased the performance of the world's largest organizations including Sony Electronics (NYSE: SNE), AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN [ADR]; London: AZN), Amway (KUL:AMWAY), Seagate (NYSE: STX), Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG). For more information, or to request a demo, please call +1 (866) 768-6825 (US / Canada), +1 (352) 264-2800 (international) or visit http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/

SumTotal will demonstrate the benefits of automated expense management at the upcoming Global Business Travel Association's (GBTA) Annual Convention

With faster deployment times and lower risk meeting business needs, Cloud-based human capital management (HCM) is the new growing trend as more companies are adopting cloud-based solutions. Ventana Research finds that more than a quarter of companies are now adopting Cloud computing in direct response to overcome the pressures of retaining talent and increasing employee satisfaction. Join this webinar to learn the business benefits cloud computing can bring to your organization, and the formula for success with HCM in the cloud.

SumTotal Systems is the global leader in strategic human capital management (HCM) solutions that provide organizations with a new level of visibility to help make more informed business decisions and accelerate growth. Recognized by industry analysts as the most complete solution, SumTotal provides full employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, from a single vendor for improved business intelligence.

GAINESVILLE, FL, Oct. 18, 2011 -- SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the innovator in strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, announced today that it has been voted by customers in the HCM market as the winner for Best Talent Management System in the 2011 Best of Elearning! Awards. SumTotal also received Awards of Excellence for Best Learning Management System (software-as-a-service) and Best Learning Content Management System. "To be named a category winner is a true testament to the vendor's product and service excellence," said Catherine Upton, Elearning! Media Group publisher, in a recent release. And customers agree. SumTotal's Talent Management platform - a core element of its integrated and strategic HCM solution - dominated the award category for its "great depth of talent analysis that ensures career development," according to voters who nominated SumTotal for the award. This voter sentiment, along with findings of a recent HCM market report from MarketResearch.com, confirm SumTotal's strategy of fully integrating the various function of strategic Human Capital Management into a single solution that will provide the visibility its customers need to make smarter decisions and achieve greater success - from small businesses to global enterprises. "Organizations need a clear line of sight to their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for growth," said Christopher Faust, Vice President of Marketing for SumTotal. "SumTotal provides strategic human capital management software that enables better alignment of resources, rapid development of both internal and external audiences, and improved cost containment, all while providing greater visibility to help organizations better manage and grow their business." SumTotal's astounding growth and success has also been recognized by top industry analysts. Forrester Research named SumTotal a "Leader" in the categories of Learning, Performance and Integrated Learning and P

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SumTotal® Systems, Inc., a leader in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced the two newest members of its executive leadership team. Bill Shaheen, who recently served as Oracle's Group Vice President of HCM, joins as SumTotal's new Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Holly Rollo joins as SumTotal's newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer, coming from SuccessFactors where she recently served as Vice President of Global Marketing. Both executives report directly to the CEO, John Borgerding, and serve on SumTotal's newly expanded executive leadership team, which includes its new CFO, Jeff Laborde, formerly from Goldman, Sachs & Co. who joined in late August. Shaheen comes to SumTotal with two decades of experience in driving sales growth in the software industry. In addition to his work at Oracle, he led the large-enterprise sales group at Taleo and held senior sales-management positions with Unicru and Requisite Technology. Shaheen said he was attracted to SumTotal, in part, due to the breadth of the company's portfolio of HCM solutions and the depth of its customer base, which make the company well-positioned for growth. "HR buyers want to align with a partner that is focused on human capital management solutions, and SumTotal is the largest independent, dedicated strategic HCM provider in the world," Shaheen said. "With more than 3,500 customers and 45 million users around the globe, SumTotal has a solid customer base and is continuing to expand its global footprint. Moving forward, we will continue to focus on customer success and delivering deeper levels of value across the board." Rollo brings more than 20 years of experience in developing marketing strategies and leading global growth for technology companies. Prior to her executive role at SuccessFactors, she held senior marketing roles at Cisco, SAP, Sybase, Veritas and IBM and has over ten years' experience in cloud-based computing. Rollo

Company Recognized by Leading Analyst Firm for Breadth and Depth of Capabilities GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 26, 2012 - SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the global leader in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced that it is positioned as a Major Player in IDC's Integrated Talent Management MarketScape report (IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Talent Management 2012 Vendor Analysis, doc #234365, April 2012). "SumTotal's strengths are in the breadth of its suite and delivery model," said Lisa Rowan, IDC program director, HR and talent management services. SumTotal provides comprehensive employee lifecycle management, including a core HR system of record, in a single end-to-end solution to give organizations a new level of visibility to make informed business decisions and accelerate growth. SumTotal's integrated suite includes performance, compensation, succession, career development, social collaboration, recruiting and hiring, on-boarding, learning management, learning content management, mobile learning, workforce scheduling, time and attendance, absence and leave management, data collection devices, expense management, payroll and benefits administration, and workforce analytics.

Spencer Hyde, Director, Multimedia and Business Development, SkyWest Airlines, Mark Smith, President and Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research discuss how to leverage cloud-based HR technology to drive engagement and succeed with HCM in the cloud.

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