SumTotal Hires Patricia Lughezzani as Vice President of Global Support

SumTotal Adds New Position to Ensure Customer Satisfaction Across Global Community

Mountain View, CA, August 19, 2008 — SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), the market leader and global provider of talent development solutions, today announced that Patricia Lughezzani has joined the company as Vice President of Global Support. This position was created to sustain SumTotal’s increased visibility and momentum internationally as the company continues to grow and support new customers across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Lughezzani has had a very successful career building, revitalizing and optimizing product support, service pack development, quality assurance and product development organizations. Most recently Lughezzani held the position of Vice President of Worldwide Sustaining Engineering for Business Objects, leading a global team of 225 employees including a 125-person offshore development organization.

“Patricia’s outstanding track record of building synergy among management teams, partners, and clients will support SumTotal’s strategic business objectives while enhancing overall customer satisfaction,” said Don Fowler, chief executive officer of SumTotal Systems. “We are excited to bring her on board at a time the company is experiencing growth and expansion of our customer base across the globe.”

Lughezzani’s distinguished career spans more than 15 years of executive positions at Business Objects, PeopleSoft and Vantive. Lughezzani has managed global product services and customer support organizations requiring a unique blend of expertise in strategic planning, process and procedures development, customer relationship management and team leadership. Lughezzani holds a bachelor of science in business administration with a concentration in computer science from Central Michigan University. She will be located in SumTotal’s Mountain View, California office.

“SumTotal is in the right place to expand its global initiatives, and I look forward to helping the company capitalize on market opportunities, including increasing customer satisfaction and maintaining the high standard of quality on a global scale,” said Lughezzani.

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT) is the market leader and global provider of talent development solutions. SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions designed to drive learning, 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.

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