| SumTotalÂ(R) Systems (NASDAQ:SUMT), the | | | | SumTotal 7.2 lets employers smoothly follow |
| largest provider of talent, learning and | | | | the performance management process, |
| business performance technologies and | | | | integrating learning activities as part of a |
| services, said that KMWorld magazine has | | | | worker's development plan. The SumTotal |
| designated SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.2 as a | | | | platform also gives managers a way to spend |
| KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2006. | | | | less time writing appraisals and more time |
| KMWorld picked SumTotal's software because it | | | | pinpointing how to bulk up an employee's |
| "enhances the performance-management process | | | | skills. And SumTotal 7.2 offers employees |
| and integrates learning activities as part of | | | | instant access to development plans with |
| a worker's development plan." | | | | recommendations for the sort of learning that |
| | | | will help them meet their goals as well as |
| The magazine's list of trend-setting products | | | | their company's overall aims. |
| for 2006 appears in the September issue of | | | | |
| KMWorld as well as at SumTotal 7.2 is the | | | | About KMWorld |
| newest version of the company's award-winning | | | | |
| software suite. | | | | The leading information provider serving the |
| | | | knowledge management systems market, KMWorld |
| "Assembling the list of Trend-Setting | | | | covers the latest in content, document and |
| Products of 2006 is a year-long collaborative | | | | knowledge management and informs more than |
| effort with editorial colleagues, analysts | | | | 51,000 subscribers about the components and |
| and, especially, users," says Hugh McKellar, | | | | processes-and subsequent success stories-that |
| KMWorld editor in chief. "Roughly 1,500 | | | | together offer solutions for improving |
| products from some 300 vendors were | | | | business performance. |
| considered, and the ones listed here | | | | |
| demonstrate exquisite execution designed for, | | | | About SumTotal Systems, Inc. |
| and with input from, the most important | | | | |
| constituency of them all-customers." | | | | SumTotal Systems (NASDAQ:SUMT) is the largest |
| | | | provider of talent, learning and business |
| "The name of the game in learning today is | | | | performance technologies and services. |
| managing talent, not just training," said | | | | SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions |
| David Crussell, SumTotal chief operating | | | | that align talent and knowledge with business |
| officer. "When a magazine like KMWorld gives | | | | goals to generate significant bottom-line |
| our product's design such a special | | | | results. With more than 17 million users |
| recognition, it means we're doing the right | | | | worldwide, SumTotal has helped accelerate |
| thing for our customers." | | | | performance and profits for more than 1,500 |
| | | | of the world's best-known companies and |
| SumTotal's new platform is at the nexus of | | | | government agencies including Accenture, |
| what many industry analysts say is the | | | | Aetna, Cendant, DaimlerChrysler, Delta Air |
| "hottest segment" of the burgeoning market | | | | Lines, Harley-Davidson, Microsoft, Novartis, |
| for HR applications: the performance and | | | | PNC Bank, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. |
| talent management segment. In a January 2006 | | | | Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Bancorp, United |
| research report, Forrester noted that | | | | Airlines, Vodafone, Wachovia and Wyeth. |
| technologies for managing performance, talent | | | | SumTotal has offices throughout the United |
| and learning are among several strategic | | | | States, in London, Frankfurt, Paris, |
| applications leading the growth of the | | | | Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong and |
| $9-billion market for HR applications. | | | | Hyderabad, India. |
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