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SumTotal(TM) Systems (Nasdaq:SUMTE), the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, today announced that global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney has chosen the SumTotal Enterprise Suite to expand and enhance A.T. Kearney's Global Professional Development program. The company will use the SumTotal solution to centralize learning across its worldwide organization and to drive readiness for consultants and other personnel. The SumTotal Enterprise Suite, including TotalLMS and TotalLCMS, will replace two legacy solutions, significantly decreasing the company's cost of ownership, and consolidating learning delivery, management and measurement into a single, streamlined resource that better meets A.T. Kearney's current and future organizational development needs. Powered by the SumTotal solution, A.T. Kearney's Global Professional Development program will provide centralized access to classroom courses, Web seminars, training and other learning activities and information, including pre-work, presentations, hand-outs, recorded Web seminars and links to external resources. "At A.T. Kearney, our entire focus is helping the world's leading corporations improve their products and services, business relationships and bottom line economics in order to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. And we do that by cultivating and supporting the best, most knowledgeable consulting professionals in the industry," said Al Morrison, A.T. Kearney's vice president of global professional development. "Using the SumTotal Suite will significantly boost our ability to give our employees the up-to-the-minute information and key professional development opportunities they need to maintain our company's reputation for outstanding counsel." According to Morrison, SumTotal will help A.T. Kearney achieve key goals, including: -- Driving greater employee ownership in personal and professional development. -- Creating a central repository for training and development resources and activities -- Providing a robust, but easy-to-use, reporting system to show learning impact by group and region -- Integrating with the company's HRIS solution to more closely align learning, performance and human resources data to provide a full view of each employee's skills, experience, etc. "We needed a solution that met all of our requirements -- not only on paper, but also in a realistic trial environment -- and one that would be highly configurable instead of requiring expensive customizations," said Morrison. "SumTotal met those usability requirements, and we were able to easily prototype and test what we envisioned for our LMS before we implemented it." "For management consulting firms like A.T. Kearney, industry knowledge and employee expertise are at the core of their ability to achieve success for their clients and for themselves as well. That makes it critical for these companies to be able to deliver, share and accelerate that knowledge and expertise among their employees as rapidly and efficiently as possible -- even across global organizations," said R. Andrew Eckert, SumTotal CEO. "SumTotal has worked with A.T. Kearney to create a more sophisticated learning infrastructure that ensures the daily readiness of its employees and helps them further develop the flexibility, creativity and innovative thinking to meet their clients' needs." About A.T. Kearney A.T. Kearney is one of the world's largest management consulting firms. With a global presence that includes offices in more than 55 business centers spanning major and emerging markets, A.T. Kearney provides strategic, operational, organizational and technology consulting and executive search services to the world's leading companies. A.T. Kearney is the high-value management consulting subsidiary of leading global technology services company EDS. 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. 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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 materially 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. 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