Mountain View, Calif. – April 11, 2007 – SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUMT), a global provider of talent and learning management solutions, has announced that LearnChamp, a Vienna, Austria-based consulting and technology services company, has become its latest Gold Implementation Partner.
Existing LearnChamp customers who are already benefiting from SumTotal technology include the German-based companies Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte AG, a leading European do-it-yourself home improvement retailer with about 270 discount stores across Central and Eastern Europe, and Freudenberg Simrit, a manufacturer of seals and vibration controls.
As a Gold Implementation Partner, LearnChamp offers planning, implementation and support services for the SumTotal Enterprise Suite™.
Michael Repnik, managing director of LearnChamp, said: “Our current project focus is on TotalLMS™ and TotalInformation™. We anticipate broadening our involvement in more SumTotal product areas eventually. In terms of LMS users, we believe we will be handling projects with between 1,000 and 75,000 users over the next years.”
LearnChamp is a leading consultancy for enterprise learning and talent management systems as well as virtual classroom and web conferencing solutions.
Repnik continued: “As a premium provider of talent management systems in Germany and Austria, we offer best-of-breed solutions and connect business strategy with enterprise learning and talent management. We are dedicated to helping organizations achieve higher performance as well as building the supporting technological infrastructure needed to create business value.”
Don Fowler, chief executive of SumTotal, said: “We believe our partnership with LearnChamp has helped to advance our business strategy by expanding our international base of business. Through LearnChamp, we feel we can reach customers in Germany and Austria as well as Eastern Europe.”
About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT) is a global provider of talent and learning management solutions. SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions designed to align goals, develop skills, assess performance, plan for succession and set compensation. SumTotal’s solutions aim to accelerate performance and profits for more than 1,500 companies and governments of all sizes, including six of the world’s 10 biggest pharmaceutical makers, six of the 10 largest automotive companies in the world, four of the five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, three of the world’s top five airlines, two of the five largest banks in the world and two of the world’s top five specialty retailers. Mountain View, Calif.-based SumTotal has offices across Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. For more information about SumTotal's products and services, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.
SumTotal and the SumTotal logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of SumTotal Systems Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
About LearnChamp
LearnChamp is one of the leading strategy and technology consultants supporting customers in planning, development and implementation of e-learning and web conferencing solutions.
LearnChamp provide solutions in integrated education management by means of enterprise learning solutions and in technology-based communication and cooperation by means of enterprise conferencing solutions, focussing on performance improvement. Managing directors are Christoph Gerhold and Michael Repnik. Among their customers are bauMax, Böhler-Uddeholm, Bundesrechenzentrum, Erste Bank, European Patent Office, Freudenberg Simrit, Generali, Mondi, OMV, Raiffeisen International, Praktiker Hardware and DIY-Stores, and Telekom Austria. LearnChamp Consulting GmbH has offices in Vienna and Munich.
www.learnchamp.com
Safe Harbor / Forward-Looking Statements
Information in this press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the scope and anticipated benefits of the Company’s partnership with LearnChamp. These statements represent SumTotal Systems' expectations or beliefs concerning future performance and 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 manage and increase growth outside of the United States, significant current and expected additional competition, and the need to continue to expand product distribution and services offerings; (ii) the acceptance of SumTotal’s software suite and future product offerings; (iii) unknown errors or bugs in SumTotal’s software suite; (iv) the inability to fix in a timely fashion unanticipated bugs, errors or defects that materially impact the functionality or usability of SumTotal’s software; (v) the ability to successfully work with LearnChamp to implement SumTotal Systems' solutions across EMEA; (vi) the ability to successfully address technological developments and standards; 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 16, 2007, 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 April 11, 2007, and SumTotal does not assume any obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.