MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2006--SumTotal(TM)
Systems (Nasdaq:SUMT), and its partner C&S signed a contract with
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. -- a leading global consulting and IT
services company -- to make SumTotal Enterprise Suite the backbone for
the Satyam Learning Center (SLC). SLC delivers nearly two million
hours of education each year to 28,000 IT professionals in 55
countries.
C&S is a joint venture between Computer Associates and Satyam
Computer Services. C&S has a strategic partnership with SumTotal to
resell and implement the SumTotal Enterprise Suite.
Satyam has identified knowledge management as an organization-wide
initiative to bridge the information and knowledge gaps among Satyam's
global associates.
Also, to keep pace with the opportunities in its industry, Satyam
has realized the importance of providing support services in a virtual
manner to its customer-facing units. To achieve this goal, Satyam has
"virtualized" an array of administrative, financial and HR processes
through an organization-wide portal named "eSupport."
The company sees SumTotal's software solution as a key enterprise
application to enable these two enterprise-wide initiatives. This will
enable associates to focus on what is critical: serving customers by
addressing their needs in a proactive manner.
Satyam will be implementing SumTotal's solution across all of the
global consulting and IT services firm's locations.
"SumTotal Enterprise Suite gives us superior capabilities to
deploy and administer these new learning initiatives with much more
scalability and flexibility," said Ed Cohen, senior vice president of
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. "The solution also provides the ability
to set up and run various domains, courses and audiences for a
globally distributed organization, such as ours, with operations
across six continents."
"We believe that SumTotal's solutions will align our
knowledge-sharing programs and spending with corporate initiatives for
future growth," added Cohen.
"We feel that Indian organizations in the financial services,
telecommunications, retail, IT services and ITES sectors, who are
expanding rapidly, will be able to differentiate themselves from the
competition by investing in SumTotal's solutions to improve employee
productivity," said Sudheer Koneru, managing director, India, SumTotal
Systems, Inc. "As a global leader in this marketplace, SumTotal stands
committed to bringing the best of breed talent and business
performance management solutions to India to cater to the need of
Indian organizations."
About Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE:SAY) is a global consulting
and IT services provider, offering a range of expertise aimed at
helping customers reengineer their businesses to compete successfully
in an ever-changing marketplace. Over 28,000(a) highly-skilled
professionals in Satyam work onsite, offsite, offshore, and nearshore
to provide customized IT solutions for companies in several industry
sectors. Satyam's ideas and products have resulted in
technology-intensive transformations that have met the most stringent
international quality standards. Satyam Development Centers in India,
the USA, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hungary, Malaysia, Singapore, China,
Japan and Australia serve 469(a) global companies, of which 156(a) are
Fortune Global 500 and Fortune US 500 corporations. Satyam's presence
spans 55 countries, across six continents. For more information,
please visit www.satyam.com
(a) As on March 31, 2006
About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUMT) is the largest provider of
talent, learning and business performance technologies and services.
SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions that align talent and
knowledge with business goals to spur bottom-line results. With more
than 17 million users worldwide, SumTotal has helped accelerate
performance and profits for more than 1,500 of the world's best-known
companies and government agencies including Accenture, Aetna, Cendant,
DaimlerChrysler, Delta Air Lines, Harley-Davidson, Microsoft,
Novartis, PNC Bank, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast
Guard, U.S. Bancorp, United Airlines, Vodafone, Wachovia and Wyeth.
SumTotal has offices throughout the United States, in London, Paris,
Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Hyderabad, India. For more
information about SumTotal's products and services, visit
www.sumtotalsystems.com.
SumTotal and the SumTotal logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SumTotal Systems, Inc. or its affiliates in the United
States or other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
Safe Harbor Statement/ Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These
statements represent SumTotal Systems' expectations or beliefs
concerning future events. These statements are not historical facts or
guarantees of future performance or events and are based on current
expectations, estimates, beliefs, assumptions, goals and objectives,
and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause actual results to be materially different from the
results expressed or implied by these statements. Readers of this
press release are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any
forward-looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual
results to differ include, but are not limited to (i) the ability to
successfully integrate and implement SumTotal Systems' solutions with
the Satyam Learning Center; (ii) the ability of SumTotal Systems'
solutions to increase employee productivity; (iii) the acceptance of
SumTotal Enterprise Suite and future product offerings; (iv) unknown
errors or bugs in SumTotal Enterprise Suite; (v) the inability to fix
in a timely fashion unanticipated bugs, errors or defects that
materially impact the functionality or usability of SumTotal
Enterprise Suite; (vi) the ability to successfully address
technological developments and standards; and (vii) other events and
other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in
SumTotal Systems' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including the annual report for fiscal year 2005 on Form 10-K filed
March 28, 2006, its quarterly report for the first quarter of fiscal
year 2006 on Form 10-Q filed May 10, 2005 and Form 8-Ks. The
forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of
May 18, 2006, and SumTotal does not assume any obligation to update
such statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the
date of this release.
CONTACT: SumTotal Systems
Bill Perry, 614-975-7538
bperry[at]sumtotalsystems.com