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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

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Making Knowledge Management Strategic

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/

45 Million Users Leverage SumTotal Strategic HCM Solution with 15 Million Users on SumTotal Cloud

SumTotal Systems to Provide Flexible, Streamlined Solution for Learning and Development in a Complex, Highly-Regulated Field

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