SumTotal(TM) Systems (Nasdaq:SUMTE), the largest provider of
learning and business performance technologies and services, today
announced the availability of the SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1,
the first update of the platform since its launch in December 2004.
The new version incorporates multiple new and enhanced
functionalities, including enhanced reporting management, new
standards support for SCORM 2004, broader offline access and
expanded localization capabilities. The hallmark of the SumTotal
Enterprise Suite is its unmatched flexibility and adaptability. The
SumTotal Suite enables organizations to "mold" the platform to the
specific characteristics of their business models. For the
workplace, it dynamically adapts to an organization's changing
needs, including business processes, terminology and workflow and
evolving organizational structures. For the learner, SumTotal
adapts to the personalized learning, certification and skills
development needs of the individual employee. For administrators,
the suite offers radically easier administration of learning
activities, user organizations, reporting and compliance, as well
as unprecedented interoperability and integration with other
technology applications and infrastructures -- all without the need
for programming and customization. Enhanced Reporting Management
Industry data has shown that the need to easily report on learning
and business data is the primary driver in learning management
purchases. The launch of the SumTotal Enterprise Suite marked the
first time a learning management system incorporated in-depth,
dynamic reporting capabilities and a unique, out-of-the-box
reporting framework that learning administrators can use directly
without requiring the help of database experts. TotalLMS' Report
Manager allows organizations to meet a critical need by easily and
securely creating a wide variety of reports from any LMS data,
effectively measuring the impact of learning activities on a wide
range of business metrics and objectives and facilitating strategic
decision-making. Building on this unique capability, SumTotal 7.1
has made it even easier for individual users to design custom
reports that fit their specific organizational structures and
processes without the need to call in IT resources. With a simple
drag and drop functionality, and more than 50 filter options in
each report, users can leverage TotalLMS' Report Manager -- which
comes standard with the product -- to configure and generate
detailed reports in seconds, with no programming or specialized
knowledge required, removing the complexity of traditional, time-
and resource-intensive reporting systems. The new release also has
expanded the range of ready-made report templates delivered with
the system, which include reports for certifications, learning
curricula, skills and competencies and content management, among
others. New Standards Support -- SCORM 2004 SumTotal 7.1 represents
a major milestone in the company's initiative toward compliance
with SCORM 2004, the latest version of the "Shareable Content
Object Reference Model," a major learning industry standard.
SumTotal 7.1 now enables organizations to deliver, track and report
on SCORM 2004 learning content through TotalLMS. Because it helps
streamline the flow and treatment of content within learning
technology infrastructures, SCORM allows enterprises to
dramatically reduce both the cost of content integration and the
time it takes to deliver content across their organizations.
SumTotal has long been involved in defining and advocating industry
standards such as SCORM. In fact, the Advanced Distributed Learning
Initiative (ADL), the original generator of SCORM, currently uses
the SumTotal platform to launch, demonstrate, test and evaluate
learning content in one of its Co-Laboratories, which houses
large-scale cooperative research, development, implementation and
assessment of learning technologies and related products. Broader
Offline Access SumTotal 7.1 fully leverages the capabilities of the
TotalAccess module, which enables offline delivery, interaction and
tracking of Web based content. Designed for organizations with
dispersed employee populations, traveling sales forces, or limited
connectivity, TotalAccess provides offline users with a similar
learning environment and experience to that of online users, with
learning progress, scores and certifications automatically recorded
and stored for later synchronization with the LMS database when the
user reconnects to the network. TotalAccess allows organizations to
increase employee proficiency, speed time to readiness and ensure
consistency in training and information regardless of employee
location or connectivity. Expanded Localization With a Single Click
Reflecting the increasing globalization of learning initiatives
across extended enterprises, SumTotal 7.1 has added support for
three new languages -- Canadian French, traditional Chinese and
simplified Chinese -- with support for several additional languages
in development. With a single mouse click, the SumTotal Suite
delivers native language interfaces and support for courseware and
information in multiple language, allowing organizations to deliver
consistent messaging, information and learning experiences to
employees, partners and customers across the globe. In addition to
the three new languages, the SumTotal platform is localized for US
English, UK English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian
Portuguese, Italian and German. Market Response Since its
introduction just over four months ago, SumTotal 7 has generated
significant market response. To-date, 33 new SumTotal customers
have purchased the platform, 18 existing customers are in the
process of upgrading from previous versions and more than 50
additional customers have expressed plans to upgrade to the
SumTotal 7 platform in the coming months. These include Vodafone,
Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Pfizer, Holland America Line, Group
Health Incorporated, Qualcomm, Bechtel, Textron, the US Army and
many other leading organizations. "SumTotal, a respected leader in
the industry, continues its legacy of establishing innovative
learning products and is in a good position to endure through the
ups and downs of the industry for many years to come," said Brandon
Hall, CEO of brandon-hall.com, a leading learning industry analyst
firm. In its evaluation of the SumTotal Suite in the "LMS
Knowledgebase: In-Depth Profiles of 50 Learning Management
Systems," brandon-hall.com commented, "This system is ideally
suited for large-scale, enterprise implementations, but is easy
enough to use for literally any setting. It is definitely worth
considering if you are planning a sophisticated back-office
integration using Web services. It should be strongly considered
for those with extensive HCM/performance management needs. It is
also one of only a few systems that offer LMS, LCMS, and virtual
classroom capabilities from a single vendor." "We are delighted to
build upon the positive customer response and significant market
momentum for the SumTotal platform with the launch of SumTotal
7.1," said R. Andrew Eckert, SumTotal CEO. "Our customers' global
learning and business goals evolve as they respond to economic,
competitive, industry and other pressures, and it is essential that
the SumTotal platform also evolve to meet those needs. SumTotal 7.1
is just the next phase in a product strategy that will continue to
produce innovative new capabilities that help strengthen our
customers' ability to meet business challenges and achieve
bottom-line success." At launch, SumTotal 7 immediately
differentiated itself in the marketplace with a wide range of
notable innovations that allow it to react fluidly to changes in
organizations and in the marketplace as a whole. Among these are:
Open Activity Architecture (OAA), which allows for streamlined
learning management by enabling the creation and maintenance of a
single learning curriculum that can dynamically adjust itself into
different learning activity combinations depending upon the group
or individual learner. OAA allows for seamless management of the
movement of those groups or individuals through the curriculum from
a single point rather than requiring the creation and management of
separate curricula for each discreet group of learners. Dynamic
Domains, which allows for grouping of individuals into a "domain,"
according to job role, corporate division or other characteristic,
in keeping with a company's organizational structure. Learning
administrators can easily prescribe and manage specific learning
activities based on group or audience membership. Prescribed
learning changes automatically and dynamically when individuals
change job roles or move to other groups, allowing the correct
training to "follow" the learner. Web Services, which provides
unparalleled interoperability with companies' existing,
technological environments, whether .Net, J2EE or other
environments, and integration with HRIS and ERP systems, content
and document management systems and other technology applications.
SumTotal also is the first provider in the industry to furnish
customers with a Web Services software developer kit (SDK),
exposing the majority of the LMS' capabilities to give customers
even greater freedom and flexibility to adapt the platform to their
organizations. For more information on the SumTotal Enterprise
Suite 7.1, please call 1-866-SMTOTAL or visit
www.sumtotalsystems.com. About SumTotal Systems SumTotal Systems
Inc. (Nasdaq:SUMTE) is the largest provider of learning and
business performance technologies, processes and services. Formed
by the merger of industry pioneers Docent and Click2learn, the
company is uniquely focused on helping organizations harness and
manage mission-critical intellectual power to solve real-world
business problems and produce significant bottom-line results.
SumTotal has helped accelerate performance and profit for more than
675 of the world's best-known companies and federal and local
government agencies, including Microsoft, United Airlines, US Army,
Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, Vodafone, Aetna, Accenture,
Cendant, Harley-Davidson, Wyeth, Wachovia and D & B. SumTotal
Systems is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices
throughout the US, as well as in London, Paris, Heidelberg, Sydney,
Tokyo and Hyderabad, India. For more information on SumTotal and
its solutions and services, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com. 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 and include statements, among others, regarding
SumTotal Systems' new product, SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1. 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)
unknown errors or bugs in SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1; (ii)
inability to fix in a timely fashion unanticipated bugs, errors or
defects that material impact the functionality or usability of
SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1, or unanticipated problems in
customer upgrades to SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1 from prior
SumTotal products (iii) unexpected shipment problems or delays of
SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1; (iv) customers or partners delaying
purchasing or upgrade decisions until there is widespread market
acceptance of SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1; (v) the acceptance of
SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1 and future product offerings; (vi)
the ability to successfully implement SumTotal Systems' solutions;
(vii) the ability to successfully address technological
developments and standards; (viii) ability to successfully manage
growth, significant current and expected additional competition,
and the need to continue to expand product distribution and
services offerings; and (ix) 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 quarterly report filed on Form 10Q on November 15,
2004 and its Form 8-Ks filed on February 2, March 8, 10 and 17, and
April 6, 20 and 28, 2005. SumTotal Systems assumes no obligation to
update the information in this press release."
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