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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

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

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

Stephan Millard, SumTotal Director of Product Marketing, will present the latest trends in mobile learning, social collaboration, and workforce analytics. In addition, SumTotal experts will be on hand to demonstrate the industry's most advanced end-to-end HCM solution.

SumTotal ready to assist German market overcome 'Fachkräftemangel' or a lack of skilled workers

It's very fulfilling to receive the Elearning! 2012 Awards recognition from our customers across multiple categories. We are dedicated to continuing to provide customers with unparalleled integration, innovation and excellence in solutions and customer care to remain a leader in the strategic human capital management market. -- SumTotal CEO John Borgerding

Telecommunications Provider Leverages Market Leading Learning Solution Enabling Real Time Learning For More Than 24,000 Employees SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the global leader in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, announced today that the MTN Group, Africa's leading Telecommunications provider, has successfully deployed their enterprise-wide Learning Management Solution (LMS) to replace paper-based processes, enable real-time measurement and tracking, and provide every MTN employee with access to world-class e-Learning.

"We are expanding our presence across Asia-Pacific as a part of our ongoing global growth initiative and maintaining our mission to provide the best human capital management solutions and support to our customers regionally," said Gregg Monastiero, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at SumTotal. "We are experiencing ever increasing demand from organizations and are dedicated to establishing a long-term presence in this key region."

SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the global leader in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced the availability of "TotalRegulation", a new solution to assist companies in complying with education planning and reporting capabilities mandated by governments in certain areas across the globe.