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Intrepid Selects SumTotal as Technology Partner for Learning Outsourcing Offering

Seattle, Washington – April 26, 2007 – Intrepid Learning Solutions, a leading provider of training solutions, has selected the SumTotal® Enterprise Suite ™ as a partner to support its Learning Business Process Outsourcing (LBPO) offering. Intrepid offers its clients a way to outsource all aspects of their training functions, including the technology for distributing learning, managing classrooms, handling registrations and tracking instructors. Mountain View, Calif.-based SumTotal Systems’ award-winning Enterprise Suite is a software platform that delivers e-learning, assesses employees’ skills and aligns a workforce’s goals with an employer’s business aims.

Leading global corporations such as The Boeing Company, Microsoft Corporation, and Autodesk, Inc. have selected Intrepid as their training outsourcing partner to provide an array of services including strategy and analysis, courseware design and development, classroom instruction, learning administration and logistics, and training program evaluation.

"Combining Intrepid's training outsourcing capabilities with SumTotal's learning and performance management technology gives clients access to a solution that ties together the components necessary for developing workforce skills and talent," said Cushing Anderson, program director for market-research firm IDC.

“Our partnership with Intrepid is in keeping with our company’s strategy of accelerating sales by serving the market for business process outsourcing,” said Don Fowler, SumTotal’s chief executive. “We believe t he Intrepid-SumTotal partnership, while not exclusive for either company, represents a compelling combination for buyers of learning and talent management software.


“We feel Intrepid is nimble enough to respond quickly to requests ranging from course development to benchmarking,” added Fowler. “Intrepid also takes a strategic view of learning and development that looks to align an employer’s training with business goals.”

“We are partnering with SumTotal because they provide innovative, efficient technology solutions,” said Intrepid Learning Solution’s CEO Chris Hedrick. “Our clients ask us to provide the full range of training solutions and now we will be able to offer them access to the SumTotal platform in a seamless way. SumTotal’s technology builds upon our proven expertise in managing our clients’ learning technology infrastructure.”

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.

About Intrepid Learning Solutions
Intrepid Learning Solutions is a leading provider of training consulting, outsourcing, and research services to global companies. With industry-leading expertise in training management, business process outsourcing, learning research and consulting and a focus on business results, Intrepid delivers optimum value for its clients' training budgets. For more information about Intrepid, visit www.IntrepidLS.com.

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