Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Fuels Global Knowledge-Sharing Initiative with SumTotal Enterprise Suite

Mountain View, Calif. – May 18, 2006 – SumTotal™ Systems (Nasdaq: SUMT), and its partner C&S signed a contract with Satyam Computer Services Ltd. – a leading global consulting and IT services company – to make SumTotal Enterprise Suite the backbone for the Satyam Learning Center (SLC). SLC delivers nearly two million hours of education each year to 28,000 IT professionals in 55 countries.

C&S is a joint venture between Computer Associates and Satyam Computer Services. C&S has a strategic partnership with SumTotal to resell and implement the SumTotal Enterprise Suite.

Satyam has identified knowledge management as an organization-wide initiative to bridge the information and knowledge gaps among Satyam’s global associates.

Also, to keep pace with the opportunities in its industry, Satyam has realized the importance of providing support services in a virtual manner to its customer-facing units. To achieve this goal, Satyam has “virtualized” an array of administrative, financial and HR processes through an organization-wide portal named “eSupport.”

The company sees SumTotal’s software solution as a key enterprise application to enable these two enterprise-wide initiatives. This will enable associates to focus on what is critical: serving customers by addressing their needs in a proactive manner.

Satyam will be implementing SumTotal’s solution across all of the global consulting and IT services firm’s locations.

“SumTotal Enterprise Suite gives us superior capabilities to deploy and administer these new learning initiatives with much more scalability and flexibility,” said Ed Cohen, senior vice president of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. “The solution also provides the ability to set up and run various domains, courses and audiences for a globally distributed organization, such as ours, with operations across six continents.”

“We believe that SumTotal’s solutions will align our knowledge-sharing programs and spending with corporate initiatives for future growth,” added Cohen.

”We feel that Indian organizations in the financial services, telecommunications, retail, IT services and ITES sectors, who are expanding rapidly, will be able to differentiate themselves from the competition by investing in SumTotal’s solutions to improve employee productivity,” said Sudheer Koneru, managing director, India, SumTotal Systems, Inc. “As a global leader in this marketplace, SumTotal stands committed to bringing the best of breed talent and business performance management solutions to India to cater to the need of Indian organizations.”

About Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY) is a global consulting and IT services provider, offering a range of expertise aimed at helping customers reengineer their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace. Over 28,000* highly-skilled professionals in Satyam work onsite, offsite, offshore, and nearshore to provide customized IT solutions for companies in several industry sectors. Satyam’s ideas and products have resulted in technology-intensive transformations that have met the most stringent international quality standards. Satyam Development Centers in India, the USA, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hungary, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan and Australia serve 469* global companies, of which 156* are Fortune Global 500 and Fortune US 500 corporations. Satyam’s presence spans 55 countries, across six continents. For more information, please visit www.satyam.com.

*As on March 31, 2006

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT) is the largest provider of talent, learning and business performance technologies and services. SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions that align talent and knowledge with business goals to spur bottom-line results. With more than 17 million users worldwide, SumTotal has helped accelerate performance and profits for more than 1,500 of the world’s best-known companies and government agencies including Accenture, Aetna, Cendant, DaimlerChrysler, Delta Air Lines, Harley-Davidson, Microsoft, Novartis, PNC Bank, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Bancorp, United Airlines, Vodafone, Wachovia and Wyeth.  SumTotal has offices throughout the United States, in London, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Hyderabad, India. For more information about SumTotal's products and services, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.

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