SumTotal Systems Names Bill Medved Senior Vice President, Engineering

Veteran technology strategist and innovator to drive global R&D initiatives for learning and business performance leader

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (February 16, 2005) - SumTotal Systems (NASDAQ: SUMT), the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies, services and processes, today announced that it has expanded its senior management team by appointing R&D veteran Bill Medved as its new senior vice president of engineering, the company’s top technical post. In his new position, Medved will join the SumTotal executive staff and will be responsible for all global R&D initiatives.

Medved has an extensive background in technology innovation and execution, overseeing the development and deployment of a wide variety of internationally distributed enterprise applications. Prior to joining SumTotal, Medved was vice president of engineering for PlaceWare (now Microsoft Office Live Meeting), where he was responsible for new development, maintenance and support of Placeware’s hosted real-time web conferencing solution for more than 3,000 customers. At Placeware, Medved led several significant efforts to improve the development process, ultimately shortening product delivery cycles by 30%. Medved also was the executive technology sponsor for the innovative Microsoft Windows-based meeting console, a key component in Microsoft’s eventual acquisition of PlaceWare.

Prior to Placeware, Medved held engineering leadership positions at global companies including McAfee, where he drove initiatives to improve IT management, quality assurance and program predictability; Rockwell Automation, where he developed the company’s first Windows-based interface application and built the first successful Q/A team for Windows-based products; and Corning, where he started his career as a lead software engineer and was responsible for designing and innovating software systems to support scientific research.

As founder of a successful consulting business, Medved also has significant experience as a high-level technical strategist and counselor to organizations needing systems architecture and application development assistance, including employee payroll and systems giant ADP.

“I am delighted to have the opportunity to grow and manage the considerable talent in SumTotal’s R&D teams and to continue to add to SumTotal’s long history of product innovation,” said Medved. “I look forward to building on the strong foundation of the SumTotal Enterprise Suite, introducing new products that serve both the immediate and future needs of our customers, and continuing to help drive SumTotal’s leadership in the learning and business performance marketplace.”

“Bill has a proven track record of successfully managing productive, international R&D teams and innovating new technologies to effectively solve real-world business problems for his customers,” said Andy Eckert, SumTotal CEO. “His ability to analyze an organization’s most critical objectives and to bring the right solutions to bear on those business goals, directly aligns with SumTotal’s fundamental value proposition and makes Bill an outstanding addition to our executive team.”

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 and federal and local government agencies, including Microsoft, AT&T, 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.

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 7.0. 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. Readers of this press release are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to (i) unknown errors or bugs in SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.0; (ii) unexpected shipment problems or delays of SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.0; (iii) customers or partners delaying purchasing decisions; (iv) the acceptance of SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.0 and future product offerings; (v) the ability to successfully implement SumTotal System’s solutions; (vi) the ability to successfully address technological developments and standards; (vii) ability to successfully manage growth, significant current and expected additional competition, and the need to continue to expand product distribution and services offerings; 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 the quarterly report filed on Form 10Q on November 15, 2004. SumTotal Systems assumes no obligation to update the information in this press release."