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SumTotal Signs New Gold Implementation Partner in Austria

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

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