SumTotal Systems Announces Content Partnership with Fifth Business

13th July 2006: SumTotal™ Systems (NASDAQ: SUMT), the largest provider of talent, learning and business performance technologies and services, has today announced that training content specialist Fifth Business has become one of its certified content partners.

Fifth Business is an integrated communications, learning and digital media design company. With offices in Aberdeen, London, Dubai, and Houston, the Fifth Business has established an excellent reputation for exciting, engaging and creative communications, coaching and change initiatives focused around people.

SumTotal provides guidelines to its content partners to ensure that any training content they produce will run smoothly and effortlessly on SumTotal’s learning management system (LMS) platforms.

Joan Ingram, New Media Director at Fifth Business, said: “This announcement gives our joint SumTotal customers the assurances they need that they will benefit from the combination of world-class content running on a world-class LMS. We look forward to developing this relationship and continuing to exceed our customers’ expectations.”

Keith Smith, SumTotal VP of Sales, EMEA, said: “It’s vitally important to our customers that they know they will derive the maximum possible benefit from their investments in learning technologies and developing the potential of their staff. That is why partnerships with content providers like Fifth Business are an important part of how we develop our technology. The Fifth Business is an excellent company for us to be working with and we are proud to be making this announcement.”

About The Fifth Business
The Fifth Business is an integrated communications, learning and digital media design company. For more than a decade we have been developing an excellent reputation for exciting, engaging and creative communications, coaching and change initiatives focused around people.

We serve businesses, government and educational bodies in:
Communications strategy development and rigorous implementation
Creative digital media solutions for blended learning and communications
Corporate change coaching

http://www.fifthbusiness.co.uk

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 organizational processes and business goals to generate significant 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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