To Accelerate Global Learning, SumTotal Introduces ToolBook Translation System

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – December 29, 2006 – SumTotal® Systems (NASDAQ: SUMT) has released ToolBook® Translation System (TTS) version 1.0 to enable customers to translate e-learning content for their global workforces.

ToolBook Translation System is software that reduces the cost, time and complexity of creating multilingual content. Using TTS in conjunction with either ToolBook Instructor or ToolBook Assistant – the two authoring solutions in SumTotal’s ToolBook product line – companies can create multilingual content for their global e-learning initiatives. TTS identifies what elements of an online course need to be translated, serves up these elements to a translation expert and preserves any format or design in the course for the pending translation.

“After an author creates a course using either ToolBook Instructor or ToolBook Assistant, he or she simply clicks a few buttons whereupon all the course elements to be translated are put in a digital package,” said Brad Crain, SumTotal’s vice president of ToolBook. “The ToolBook Translation System takes the digital package and delivers it to the person carrying out the translation from, say, English to German. As the translator prepares the German text, she can --- with a few keystrokes -- see how the course will look in German at any stage of the process.”

ToolBook and TTS give employers a way to divide work between experts. First, instructional designers can tap ToolBook to build training courses. Second, linguists can focus on translations without having to understand how to manipulate software for creating elearning content (i.e., ToolBook Instructor or ToolBook Assistant).

With ToolBook and TTS, staff can create multilingual simulations, tutorials, assessments, courseware and other interactive learning content. And if a manager must update the content of a course because of a change in policies or procedures, then translators can tap TTS to handle these revisions without disturbing the online course’s layout, hypertext information, pop-ups or any other data.

When a translator converts the text of an online course from one language into another, TTS remembers the exact context and formatting associated with the text and places the translated copy back into the original layout, mirroring such things as color schemes, simulations and graphics.

“TTS doesn't require that a translator know how to use ToolBook because the TTS application stands apart from ToolBook. This is a key benefit,” adds Crain, “because it enables translators to focus on what they do best --- translating content."

TTS works with numerous languages, including Afrikaans, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

About ToolBook
Since it was introduced in 1996, ToolBook has had more than nine major releases and has consistently helped organizations create knowledge assets to generate significant bottom-line results. Currently more than 10,000 corporations use ToolBook to address unique business and functional goals. Customers range from small start-ups to Global 1000 enterprises and span industries, including services, aerospace, manufacturing, finance, retail, military, government and education. ToolBook customers include: University Health System, Buckman Laboratories, AMP, Humana (NYSE: HUM), Telus, Resource Engineering, TRW (NYSE: TRW), Cornell University, Nielson Media Research, Professional Software Consortium, Performax3 and many others.

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems (NASDAQ: SUMT) is the largest provider of talent and learning solutions. SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions that align talent and knowledge with 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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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. 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) the ability to successfully implement the SumTotal ToolBook solutions, including ToolBook Translation System, ToolBook Instructor, and TookBook Assistant; (ii) unknown errors or bugs in the SumTotal ToolBook solutions; (iii) the inability to fix in a timely fashion unanticipated bugs, errors or defects that materially impact the functionality or usability of SumTotal’s ToolBook solutions software; (iv) the successful integration of ToolBook Translation System with ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant; (v) the ability to successfully address technological developments and standards; (vi) the acceptance of SumTotal’s software suite and future product offerings; and (vii) 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 company’s annual report on Form 10-K filed on March 28, 2006, its quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on November 9, 2006, its Form S-3/As filed on September 28, 2006, and October 2, 2006, and its Form 8-Ks. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of December 29, 2006, and SumTotal does not assume any obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.