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InPhonic Enhances Employee Training and Customer Experience With SumTotal Systems

Mountain View, CA – August 3, 2007 – SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), a global provider of talent and learning management solutions, announced that InPhonic, a leading online seller of wireless services and products, launched ResultsOnDemand™ to deliver training management tools for its call center agents, as well as track and manage their performance. ‘ResultsOnDemand’ is SumTotal’s subscription model for analyzing employee performance and delivering learning over the Internet.

“We saw SumTotal’s platform as an excellent addition to our customer experience initiatives, and also a great employee training product that could grow with our needs. We believe having better-trained and better-educated call center agents will improve our overall customer satisfaction,” said Brian Curran, InPhonic’s COO. “By tapping the SumTotal platform, InPhonic aims to ensure that the content and quality of its ongoing training and coaching programs are consistent across all teams within the organization.”

“We believe employers, like InPhonic, often choose our system because we can quickly deliver the education workers need to solve problems and delight customers,” said Dave Crussell, chief operating officer of SumTotal. “We feel our software strategically steers employees to what they need to learn about their employer’s products and services in order to deliver superior customer service.”

As part of the ResultsOnDemand package – and to provide an enterprise-wide learning platform for its call center employees – InPhonic engaged: TotalLMS™, SumTotal’s learning management system (LMS); TotalLCMS™, the software maker’s learning content management system (LCMS); and, Skills and Competencies™.

In implementing SumTotal’s system, InPhonic hopes to enhance the effectiveness of its call center operations as well as improve efficiencies between the sales and customer service call center teams. TotalLMS can provide InPhonic a way to deliver structured and consistent content during new-hire training and quickly disseminate information during product launches.

“With SumTotal’s platform, we believe we can fill a growing desire and need to track a call center agent’s training and performance from the time they are hired through their entire employment,” said Megan Nehr, Training & Communications for InPhonic. “We feel the SumTotal service will give us a better way to manage training content and communications that we send to our employees.”


About InPhonic
InPhonic is a leading online retailer of wireless devices and services recognized for its ingenuity and excellent customer service as well as for its phenomenal growth in recent years. The company creates and manages private-label wireless store web sites for online businesses, affinity organizations and national retailers and also sells wireless products through its own branded web sites, including Wirefly.com, A1 Wireless.com and VMCsatellite.com. In addition, InPhonic has developed a proprietary e-commerce platform that integrates merchandising, provisioning, procurement, customer care and billing operations into a single state-of-the-art system for activating wireless services and devices.

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, five of the six largest U.S. commercial banks 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, the SumTotal logo, TotalLMS, and Results-On-Demand are registered trademarks or 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.

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