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SumTotal Systems is the global leader in complete learning and talent management software that enables organizations to more effectively drive business strategy. Recognized by industry analysts as the most comprehensive talent management solution, SumTotal provides full employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, from a single vendor for improved business intelligence.

SumTotal Product Offerings

Career Development

Many organizational development leaders are faced with severe budget constraints which have impacted their ability to implement new development programs and maintain existing ones. In today’s hyper-competitive world, actively developing employees and providing career advancement opportunities to them are essential because they both drive employee engagement and also ensure that your workforce is prepared to meet the challenges of the future.

SumTotal Career Development establishes competency-based employee and leadership development and career plans focused on both current and future positions. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Career Development enables you to: drive engagement and productivity by actively developing employees and providing career advancement opportunities to them, empower employees to take control over their own careers by providing them with guided tools that help them to improve in their current roles or develop for future roles and develop new leaders and eliminate leadership competency gaps by synchronizing and integrating development activities to established learning and training programs.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/career-development.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_career_development.pdf

360 Degree Feedback

Enabling a consistent and repeatable process for multisource assessments and feedback is challenging for many organizations. The process itself is complex because it can involve feedback from numerous constituents – internal peers as well as external sources such as partners and customers – that must be efficiently aggregated and analyzed. Additionally, many organizations tend to use 360s as a measure of employee performance and not competence and development, thus creating friction between management and employees.

SumTotal 360 Feedback automates the competency-based multisource assessment process to facilitate employee development planning. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal 360 Feedback enables you to: drive employee development and growth by triangulating competency feedback from multiple internal and external sources and linking it to development planning, reduce the time and effort of conducting multisource reviews by automating rater nominations, feedback forms, data collection and analysis, and report generation and improve employee engagement and productivity by providing development recommendations, identification of unrealized strengths, and year-over-year progress metrics.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/360-degree-feedback.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_360DegreeFeedback.pdf

Recruiting & Hiring Management

Recruiters and hiring managers face numerous challenges, including high volumes of candidates and resumes, an inefficient and time consuming hiring process, paper-based or manual requisitions and candidate assessments, and no overall global view of organizational hiring. The result is often slow time-to-hire and poor quality-of-hire, lack of visibility into the overall talent pipeline, and arduous regulatory compliance reporting.

SumTotal Recruiting & Hiring streamlines the entire hiring lifecycle from talent needs assessment, requisition creation, and sourcing to candidate selection and onboarding. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Recruiting & Hiring enables you to: eliminate talent assessment and sourcing bottlenecks by enabling recruiters and hiring managers to more efficiently search, filter, pre-screen, assess, and rank and score candidates, improve end-to-end process consistency and transparency by connecting all aspects of the hiring processes via configurable workflows and descriptive analytics and reduce reliance on costly and time-consuming external sourcing by establishing a talent mobility and rotation strategy which favors internal movement.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/recruiting-hiring.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_recruiting_hiring_management.pdf

Human Resource Management System

All organizations seek ways to more effectively plan their future staffing requirements based on their overall strategic plans and goals. Yet it can be challenging to align current talent pools to long-term growth objectives while increasing organizational flexibility to react to constantly changing business and economic conditions.

SumTotal Workforce Planning provides HR and business leaders with clear visibility into future workforce staffing needs to help them plan, source, and allocate talent more effectively. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Workforce Planning enables you to: improve workforce visibility and planning decisions by establishing a single and complete view of current and future workforce staffing needs, increase talent pool and bench strength depth by aligning existing talent pools to overall organizational workforce plans and objectives and react more quickly to changing business conditions by empowering managers to design and model future workforce scenarios.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/workforce-planning.html

Workforce Analytics

The typical global enterprise has numerous HR systems that are disconnected and therefore do not provide a truly integrated view of talent information. Data is often inconsistent and out-of-sync, and the tools for analysis and reporting are difficult to use, inaccessible, and too complex for the average user. This makes it difficult for HR leaders to move closer to metrics-based operations and management (like their Finance or Sales counterparts), improve transparency and accountability, and better align their efforts to that of the business.

SumTotal Workforce Analytics, powered by IBM Cognos, provides deep cross-functional analysis and reporting capabilities across the entire SumTotal talent platform to improve decision making. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Workforce Analytics enables you to: enable the HR organization to become a strategic resource by focusing on analysis and decision making in lieu of data collection and manipulation, empower non-technical users to conduct their own analyses by leveraging an easy-to-use, intuitive web-based interface and ensure proper user access rights and permissions to critical HR data by leveraging advanced role-based security.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/workforce-analytics.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_workforce_analytics.pdf

Core Platform Services

SumTotal Core Platform Services are a common set of centerpiece capabilities – Talent Profiles, Employee Records, Competencies, Job Profiles, and Reports – that are leveraged by all talent products within the SumTotal platform.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/core-platform-services.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_core_platform_services.pdf

Learning Content Management

Global enterprises with hundreds or even thousands of learning assets understand the need to reduce the cost of managing these assets while ensuring that content creators have the tools and capabilities to rapidly create innovative new programs and content. Yet many organizations find it difficult to effectively balance management efficiency with collaboration and creativity.

SumTotal Learning Content Management provides an innovative environment for developing, assembling, managing, and delivering personalized learning content. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Learning Content Management enables you to reduce content management costs by providing a large-scale, centralized learning content environment, increase content development productivity and creativity by enabling a collaborative, team-based content creation environment with built-in automation and workflows and decrease content authoring time by leveraging WYSIWYG tools and reusable assets, templates, and learning objects.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/learning-content-management-system.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_learning_content_management.pdf

Offline Learning

While modern web-based learning systems have accelerated the value of organizational learning programs by expanding their reach to new users and audiences, the drawback has been that users must always be connected to a network to take advantage of these programs. To further expand the reach of learning, it is therefore essential for organizations to create an identical user experience for both online and offline learning.

SumTotal Offline Learning expands the learning experience to remote or mobile users that are not connected to a network via multiple devices such as laptops, kiosks and handhelds. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Offline Learning enables you to improve learning accessibility by delivering courses and content to traveling users and those without consistent network access, increase employee productivity and time-to-proficiency by tailoring programs to specific mobile or remote user segments and drive learning consistency by providing an identical learning experience to users regardless of their location.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/learning-management-system-synchronization.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_Offline-Learning_datasheet.pdf

Content Versioning

When managing hundreds or even thousands of learning assets, effective version control is absolutely essential. Without it, organizations face inconsistencies in how learning programs are consumed by end users, not to mention the potential legal implications associated with out-of-date or inconsistent compliance-related content.

SumTotal Content Versioning automates and streamlines the time-consuming and costly administrative task of managing multiple versions of learning content. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Content Versioning enables you to reduce the cost of maintaining content by automating version control via content linking, workflow, version tracking, and automated learner notification, adhere to critical compliance and regulatory mandates by ensuring that your workforce is always trained on the most recent version of a learning activity and promote global consistency of learning content by centralizing all aspects of content versioning and control.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/learning-content-versioning.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_Content-Versioning_datasheet.pdf

SumTotal ToolBook

SumTotal ToolBook has been a recognizable name in e-learning authoring since the application first appeared in 1990. During the last 20 years, we have consistently performed updates and expansions in keeping with the evolution of computing environments and the changing demands of e-learning applications. This focus on adaptability has proved worthwhile, as ToolBook continues to be an industry standard for e-Learning.

SumTotal ToolBook empowers subject matter experts and learning professionals to rapidly create interactive content, quizzes, assessments, and software simulations. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal ToolBook enables you to easily create engaging learning experiences by providing templates and tools that make learning content, assessments, and quizzes impactful and intuitive, expand the reach of learning content to a greater user base by leveraging templates and tools for both mobile and desktop platforms and reduce the cost of learning content creation by enabling internal resources to easily create compelling, standardized content rather than rely on expensive external resources.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/toolbook-elearning-content.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_toolbook.pdf

e-Commerce

The SumTotal on-demand learning solution offers the industry's most robust e-commerce features to deliver your organization's training commerce goals. While being very full featured, SumTotal’s Web store solution is amazingly easy to deploy and maintain.

The e-commerce system features 24x7 on-demand access that enables learners to purchase online courses, instructor-led training and physical or electronic training materials (download delivery) via credit card or an account. The module also provides advanced e-commerce capabilities, including the administration of secure coupons and powerful pricing flexibility.

Managing the learner's shopping experience, learning asset management and cataloging, marketing and promotion, order processing and store management are robust and intuitive with SumTotal's comprehensive training commerce solution.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/learning-e-commerce.html

Mobile Learning

More and more leading organizations currently deliver some amount of distance learning content through mobile technologies. Organizations require a mobile learning solution that is far more than just using a browser on a mobile phone. They are looking for a complete software solution to provide a rich learning experience.

The SumTotal Mobile capability allows distance learning content and courseware to be viewed and accessed across a wide range of smartphones and mobile devices. SumTotal’s mobile applications support iPhone/iPod and iPad, HP (WebOS), Blackberry, and Google (Android) with native mobile LMS style sheet support for netbooks and other tablet and appliance devices. With an engaging application interface, easy-to-use functionality and enhanced mobile content performance, this solution delivers an impactful learning experience through rich media optimized for viewing and consumption on your mobile device.

With SumTotal’s mobile learning software solutions, customers can leverage the mobile design capabilities in the same SCORM conformant authoring tool they are already familiar with (such as Lectora or the SumTotal LCMS). In addition, they can also take advantage of the built-in mobile authoring utility within the SumTotal  LMS for fast mobile content delivery and distribution to users across these multiple mobile devices. This critical mobile learning platform allows more user-generated content to be mobile-accessible without requiring additional licenses to authoring tools or changes to the instructional design formatting of the course.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/learning-mobile.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_mobile_learning.pdf

Extended Enterprise

SumTotal is your one-stop-shop for business transformation tools including knowledge management software, communication and internal marketing and promotions when it comes to reaching audiences outside your organization.

Leveraging SumTotal learning management software, customers can create a unique user experience based on a unique domain, custom role and/or group. Whether your audience includes customers, partners or distributor channels, SumTotal can present information designed specifically for your users, enabling you to manage your knowledge assets effectively.

To support multiple external audiences, organizations can create an open site Web portal as a public entrance into your Learning Management System. No login is required for users to access a partial or complete online course catalog, making it easy for organizations to deliver online content to external audiences. Additionally, administrators can generate widget pages and HTML pages on-the-fly and easily add them into the system navigation. This provides a customized portal for specific segments of users, putting relevant information at their fingertips. And while each user experience can be unique, organizations can still manage knowledge assets, reporting and analytics across the entire system.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/learning-extended-enterprise.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_learning_extended_enterprise.pdf

Compensation Management

The typical global enterprise still relies on spreadsheets or outdated legacy systems to manage compensation, which leads to inconsistency in how compensation policies and plans are created, implemented, and measured. The fragmentation of compensation management within many organizations can result in poor decisions based on inaccurate or out-of-date information, inefficient and costly efforts for rollups and approvals, and an inability to align compensation decisions to the performance of individuals and groups.

SumTotal Compensation Management simplifies and standardizes the planning, modeling, budgeting, analysis, and execution of global compensation and reward policies. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Compensation Management enables you to achieve global compensation visibility by replacing spreadsheets and legacy systems with a flexible, centralized, and modern compensation system and build a culture of high performers by aligning performance, goals, and rewards across an entire organization
Reduce the cost and complexity of compensation administration by optimizing rollups, exception handling, and approvals.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/compensation-management.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_compensation_management.pdf

Performance Management

The performance process within many organizations is fragmented and inconsistent, time consuming and arduous for everyone involved, and often supported by outdated legacy systems and spreadsheets. This lack of standardization often results in reduced employee morale and engagement, ineffective communication at all levels of the organization, and severe misalignment between the workforce and the overall strategy of the organization.

SumTotal Performance Management automates, standardizes, and optimizes global performance processes and aligns employee goals to organizational objectives and strategies. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Performance Management enables you to drive efficiencies and reduce costs by automating, standardizing, and optimizing the global review process, ratings calibration, and goal setting, attract and retain high performers by recognizing and rewarding them commensurate with their performance, improve organizational alignment by aligning and cascading employee goals to organizational objectives and strategies.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/performance-management.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_performance_management.pdf

Goal Management

Establishing goals at all levels of a global organization can be a daunting task. Cascading, matrixing, and aligning goals across the organization can be even more challenging. Without alignment, employees and groups are disconnected from the vision, strategy, and objectives of the organization as a whole. This misalignment can have serious consequences on business plan execution, workforce productivity, and employee engagement.

SumTotal Goal Management establishes both performance and developmental goals for employees and ensures that individual and group objectives are aligned with the vision and strategy of the entire organization. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Goal Management enables you to improve organizational alignment by aligning and cascading employee goals to organizational objectives and strategies, consistently identify high performers by monitoring and reporting on goal achievement and progress in real time and efficiently cascade goals throughout the organization by establishing automated workflows, approval routing, and employee notifications.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/goal-management.html

Succession Planning

Succession planning within many organizations is characterized by manual, inefficient, and paper-based processes that do not interest with other key talent processes such as performance management, development, and learning. This often results in a lack of visibility into the talent pipeline, little to no bench strength, poor identification of at-risk positions, a predisposition to external hiring rather than internal talent mobility and rotation, and high performer churn and disengagement.

SumTotal Succession Planning manages business risk and ensures leadership and critical role continuity across all levels of an organization. Built on the industry’s most complete talent platform, SumTotal Succession Planning enables you to eliminate manual, paper-based succession efforts by implementing a systematic and technology-enabled process for global succession planning, establish dynamic talent pools and improve bench strength by empowering business leaders to efficiently search for and track critical talent continuously and retain high performers and increase internal job sourcing by establishing a consistent, repeatable, and global process for talent rotation.

Web Page: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/career-succession-planning.html
Product Datasheet: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/datasheets/sumt_succession_planning.pdf