Human Resources: SumTotal Launches New Version of its Talent Management Software Suite

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2007--SumTotal(R)
Systems (NASDAQ:SUMT), a global provider of talent and learning
management solutions, has released SumTotal Enterprise Suite(TM) 7.6.
The newest version of SumTotal's award-winning software helps
executives find talent, identify and fill gaps in a workforce's skill
set and recognize and reward employee performance.

    "In this release we added a number of components of functionality
based on customer feedback; however, the major areas of focus were
ease of use and configurability," said Dave Crussell, chief operating
officer of SumTotal.

    Usability enhancements to SumTotal 7.6 include an array of
intuitively designed features for employees to tap as they "drive"
their learning experience, including supercharged search, easy-to-use
course registration panels and customer-designed displays. SumTotal
7.6 challenges the industry's standards by giving users a more
streamlined way to launch learning and measure performance when and
how they need it.

    By providing HR and training professionals with software that can
be tailored to the way employees work, SumTotal's executives feel the
newly released software suite will become the foundation for managing
workers through every stage of their career. SumTotal designed its new
suite to give its customers what they said they needed to manage
employee learning, performance and compensation.

    SumTotal engineered its newest talent management software suite
with hundreds of "workflows" (or methods, procedures and processes)
that mirror the way its customers develop, assess and reward talent.

    "For example, while most companies think about succession planning
in the same way, they often have unique processes for identifying
critical roles and searching their respective organizations for the
right successors," said Marcus Wasdin, SumTotal's vice president of
marketing and product management. "SumTotal 7.6 offers workflows that
more closely match the way senior-level executives and their HR and
training teams want to identify candidates and groom them for
higher-level responsibilities."

    Highlights of SumTotal 7.6 include: 1) a variety of
performance-management capabilities for evaluating employee goals and
reviewing succession plans, 2) new workflows for assigning training
based upon a company's unique organizational structure, 3) a learning
content management system that supports the latest edition of SCORM
2004, a collection of standards and specifications for web-based
e-learning, and 4) enhanced language capabilities to meet the needs of
customers across Asia and Europe.

    "We believe SumTotal 7.6 makes what many considered a leading
talent management solution, even better," added Wasdin. In a May 2007
Gartner report, titled "MarketScope for Employee Performance
Management Software, 2007," researchers wrote that "SumTotal now
offers a talent management application suite that encompasses
learning, performance, compensation, and succession management." The
report noted that SumTotal's software had both solid and strong
performance, compensation and succession management capabilities.
Gartner's research report stated, "Customers feel that SumTotal has
been flexible in meeting their specific needs."

    In fact, many of the new capabilities users will find in SumTotal
7.6 are a result of SumTotal's product management team taking
customers' top suggestions and building those into the new release.

    "We took our customers' top requests ranging from enhancements to
the way companies deliver learning to supporting the latest
technology," said Wasdin, "and we built a solution that's focused on
they way our customers develop their employees, instead of creating
software that attacks, in a very tactical way, an HR or training
manager's to-do list."

    Along with the addition of 250 workflows for managing performance
and learning, SumTotal 7.6 also offers a number of technology
enhancements, which include support for database platforms like Oracle
10g and SQL Server 2005.

    "SumTotal 7.6 will give executives as well as HR and training
teams a way to seamlessly assess employees' skill sets and deliver the
learning experiences that will increase job performance," said
Crussell. "Best of all for our customers, we feel we've designed our
newest release in a way that reflects how they and their respective
organizations prefer to work."

    About SumTotal Systems, Inc.

    SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUMT) is a global provider of
talent and learning management solutions. SumTotal deploys
mission-critical solutions designed to align goals, develop skills,
assess performance, plan for succession and set compensation.
SumTotal's solutions aim to accelerate performance and profits for
more than 1,500 companies and governments of all sizes, including six
of the world's 10 biggest pharmaceutical makers, six of the 10 largest
automotive companies in the world, four of the five branches of the
U.S. Armed Forces, three of the world's top five airlines, five of the
six largest U.S. commercial banks and two of the world's top five
specialty retailers. Mountain View, Calif.-based SumTotal has offices
across Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. For more information
about SumTotal's products and services, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.

    SumTotal, the SumTotal logo, TotalLMS, and Results-On-Demand are
registered trademarks or trademarks of SumTotal Systems, Inc. and/or
its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. Other
names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

    Safe Harbor Statement/ Forward-Looking Statements

    Information in 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
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forward-looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual
results to differ include, but are not limited to: (i) unknown errors
or bugs in SumTotal's software solutions, including without limitation
its recently launched SumTotal 7.6; (ii) the acceptance of SumTotal's
software suite and future product offerings; (iii) the ability to
successfully manage and increase growth, both within and outside of
the United States, significant current and expected additional
competition, and the need to continue to expand product distribution
and services offerings; (iv) the inability to fix in a timely fashion
unanticipated bugs, errors or defects that materially impact the
functionality or usability of SumTotal's software; (v) the ability to
successfully implement SumTotal Systems' solutions in the future; (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
company's annual report for fiscal year 2006 on Form 10-K filed on
March 16, 2007, its quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on May 9,
2007, its Prospectus Supplement filed on Form 424B2 filed on May 21,
2007, Form S-3/As filed on September 28, 2006, and October 2, 2006,
and its Form 8-Ks. The forward-looking statements contained in this
release are made as the date of this news release, 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, Inc.
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