SumTotal Systems Alliance Partners to Showcase Customer Solutions and Successes at ASTD 2004 Conference and Expo

Primedia, TalentKeepers, Vitesse Learning and Success Factors to demo content and technology solutions developed in conjunction with SumTotal

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (May 24, 2004) – As part of its participation in this year’s ASTD Conference and Expo, SumTotal Systems (NASDAQ: SUMT), the industry’s largest provider of learning and business performance technologies, services and processes, has invited a group of its alliance partners to present success stories of customers using solutions provided by SumTotal Systems in conjunction with its partners. Presenting partners include TalentKeepers, Primedia Workplace Learning, Vitesse and Success Factors.

TalentKeepers, leaders in workforce retention, will demo an employee retention solution that combines SumTotal technology with online content and assessments to increase employee satisfaction and reduce turnover. Highlighting TalentKeepers’ presentation will be a customer success story about AngloGoldAshanti, the worlds largest gold mining company, headquartered in South Africa. The company is empowering the historically disadvantaged population of its workforce through leadership development delivered by a combined TalentKeepers-SumTotal solution. The results have economic and cultural implications, not only for the workers, but also for gold mining and other industries, as well as for the country.

Global content provider, Primedia Workplace Learning, which integrates its content with SumTotal technology to deliver learning to the banking, industrial, healthcare and government sectors, will demo a solution designed to deliver “must-have” training for the banking industry. The solutions Primedia has developed in conjunction with SumTotal, serve more than 200,000 users in over 3,000 business units.

SuccessFactors, provider of performance management solutions, will showcase the workforce performance management solutions it has built for a wide variety of enterprise customers in conjunction with SumTotal’s TotalPerformance application.

Vitesse Learning uses the SumTotal platform to deliver specialized custom content to the financial, pharmaceutical and high-tech industries. The company will feature case studies from a variety of customers, including instances where it has leveraged SumTotal’s ResultsOnDemand ASP solution to deliver short-term, turn-key training for clients.

“SumTotal’s alliance partnerships are based on a shared commitment to customer satisfaction and to accelerating performance and profits for our clients,” said R. Andrew Eckert, SumTotal CEO. “We have developed the strongest active partner network in the industry and, as is evidenced by the presentations here at ASTD, we are constantly impressed by the innovative ways they are using SumTotal technology to create comprehensive solutions to real-world business problems. We continue to build and expand our relationships with leading content, technology and services organizations in order to make our solutions even more effective in meeting customers’ needs.”

For a full schedule of SumTotal partner, customer and executive presentations at ASTD, visit the SumTotal Systems booth (#1116) on the ASTD Expo floor.

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 Mountain View, CA, with offices throughout the US, as well as London, Paris, Heidelberg, Sydney, Tokyo and Hyderabad, India.

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