Web Learn Chooses SumTotal Systems' TotalDashBoard to measure Impact of Learning on Customer Success

SumTotal strategic partner to deploy SumTotal’s analytics solution to help its customers demonstrate quantifiable ROI from learning initiatives

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (September 8, 2004) – SumTotal Systems (NASDAQ: SUMT), the industry’s largest provider of learning and business performance technologies, services and processes, today announced that its Italian partner, Web Learn, has expanded its SumTotal implementation with the addition of TotalDashboard. WebLearn, which provides integrated content, methodologies and solutions to the European enterprise learning marketplace, will use the award-winning analytics solution to help its customers measure and report on the impact of their learning initiatives on company business and performance objectives.

Web Learn, a long-time SumTotal partner, offers an ASP-based learning solution built on the SumTotal Enterprise Suite, including TotalLMS, TotalLCMS and other modules. The company also has implemented the SumTotal Suite internally to manage its own learning initiatives. Initially, Web Learn will deploy TotalDashboard internally to measure its own corporate learning activities and to evaluate user data from the system. Going forward, the company also plans to make the application part of its learning solution offering to European corporations and government organizations. The company expects to expand the solution from 1100 to more than 10,000 users across Europe within the next year.

TotalDashboard is an end-to-end analytics solution that provides users with up-to-the-moment, actionable insight into the impact of learning on business results. TotalDashboard offers pre-built and fully configurable topical and industry specific analytic applications that incorporate best practices and address key functional areas across all SumTotal applications. These tightly integrated analytic applications quickly provide users with key business metrics in ready-to-use reports, set in context and tailored to business function and industry.

“SumTotal continues to be a strong partner for Web Learn in supporting our commitment to making our customers successful,” said Gaetano Fabiano, commercial director at Web Learn. “Today, companies are challenged more and more to demonstrate ROI from the infrastructure investments they make. TotalDashboard will be a key element in the solutions we provide, as it will enable our customers to analyze the results from every part of their learning initiatives and to gain clear visibility into the business value of learning in their organizations.”

According to Fabiano, SumTotal supports Web Learn’s strong focus on delivering courseware and application services that are fully compliant with guidelines specified by the European Social Fund (ESF). The ESF provides significant funding for European Union programs that enhance the development of vocational skills and bolster an individual’s employment potential. “SumTotal provides Web Learn with sophisticated tools for assessing and reporting competency levels based on ESF policies, allowing us to offer our customers a more valuable solution and giving us a competitive advantage in our marketplace.”

About Web Learn
Based in Milan, Italy, Web Learn delivers integrated content, methodologies and solutions for the enterprise learning marketplace in Europe. For more information on Web Learn’s comprehensive learning services portfolio, visit www.weblearn.it

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 in London, Paris, Heidelberg, Sydney, Tokyo and Hyderabad, India.

Safe Harbor Statement/ Forward-Looking Statements

Information in this press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about future business operations, industry leadership, financial performance and viability, customer benefits, timing and features of our product offerings, acceptance of our solutions, expected innovation, and other potential benefits and synergies to be derived from the transaction and other market conditions that include risks and uncertainties. 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 SumTotal Systems does not assume any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future results 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. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, (i) the challenges and costs of integration and restructuring and the ability to achieve anticipated synergies associated with the recent merger; (ii) an emerging and rapidly evolving market, (iii) market uncertainty with respect to the merger and acceptance of SumTotal Systems’ product offerings by customers and partners; (iv) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (v) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (vi) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (vii) intense competition in the marketplace and (viii) other events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in SumTotal Systems’ filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly report on Form 10Q filed on May 17, 2004.