SumTotal Systems Hires Erika Rottenberg to Head Worldwide Legal Operations

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (March 30, 2004) -- SumTotal Systems™ (NASDAQ:SUMT), the largest provider of business performance and learning technologies, processes and services, today announced the appointment of Erika Rottenberg as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary. Rottenberg will be responsible for SumTotal's worldwide legal operations. She will be a member of the company’s executive team and will report to Neil Laird, SumTotal's chief financial officer.

"We're delighted to have Erika join our team, and look forward to her partnering with our entire company," said Laird. "The combination of her broad legal experience and business acumen will serve us well as we grow the company."

"I am thrilled and honored to join SumTotal Systems at this exciting time in the company’s history, as I believe the company, post-merger, is firmly poised to exploit the business performance and learning technology market," said Rottenberg. "I'm looking forward to being integrally involved in all aspects of the company, and to working with the entire SumTotal Systems team to maintain a high standard of integrity in all areas of its business."

Prior to joining SumTotal Systems, Rottenberg was vice president, strategic development and general counsel of Creative Labs, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd., a publicly-traded company and worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for the personal computer and the Internet. Prior to Creative Labs, Rottenberg was associated with the law firm of Cooley Godward in its Silicon Valley offices, where she practiced corporate and employment law for technology companies.

Rottenberg received a juris doctor degree in 1992 from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor of science degree in education in 1984 from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.

SumTotal Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT) is the business performance and learning technology industry's largest single provider of 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 600 of the world's best-known companies, including Microsoft, Cingular Wireless, Vodafone, Lucent, Accenture, Cendant, Harley-Davidson, Wyeth, Wachovia and D & B. SumTotal Systems is headquartered in Mt. View, CA, with offices throughout the US, as well as London, Paris, Heidelberg, Sydney, Tokyo and Hyderabad, India.

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