SumTotal Systems Partners with IHRS to Integrate Healthcare Jobs and Competencies into Market-Leading Talent Development Suite

Integrated Solution Enables Healthcare Organizations to Comply with The Joint Commission Standards and Improve Performance for Human Resources Management

Mountain View, CA, March 24, 2009 – SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), the market leader and a global provider of talent development solutions, today announced a partnership with Integrated HR Solutions (IHRS) to integrate their healthcare-specific job and competency library into its Healthcare Solution Set for their Talent Development Suite. In this fast-growing industry, healthcare providers face pressures to do more with less, comply with Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies, and continue to focus on safety and quality of patient care.The Healthcare Solution Set for SumTotal Talent Development Suite is uniquely designed to help hospitals not only address the ever-present regulatory requirements, but also address the workforce issues they face in today’s competitive marketplace through content, streamlined workflows, and integrated functionality.

Meeting regulatory requirements is a good starting point to solve the larger issues of aligning workforce to measurable goals, providing career growth and development opportunities, and retaining the competent, conscientious, motivated caregivers healthcare organizations need. Joint Commission accredited hospitals have significantly improved their quality of care, saving lives and improving the health of thousands of patients¹. More than 85 percent of hospitals are accredited by The Joint Commission, and the Healthcare Solution Set for SumTotal Talent Development Suite helps these organizations comply with regular audits from the group.

“We are pleased to be able to partner with IHRS to integrate their healthcare competency library into our Talent Development Suite to provide a more streamlined process for managing jobs, assessing competencies and providing learning resources to meet regulatory standards,” said Ray Pitts, Vice President of Professional Services at SumTotal. “As the healthcare industry continues to face a shortage of talent, it is important for healthcare providers to have an optimized solution for developing their existing staff while meeting the demands of a regulated environment with a less labor-intensive and more streamlined process.”

Leading healthcare systems and hospitals use IHRS' job and competency library to enable best practice performance management as well as compliance with The Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies. Founded in 2002, IHRS provides customized competency management solutions for leading healthcare providers who employ over 300,000 healthcare professionals..

“SumTotal’s integrated Talent Development Suite addresses the need for a practical solution that meets the unique challenges of workforce management within the healthcare industry,” said Lisa Goodman, President and COO of IHRS. “Having a Talent Development Suite that is populated with IHRS’ healthcare specific job and competency library will enable hospitals to identify and close competency gaps while saving time and money, and more importantly allowing them to focus more time on delivery of quality patience care.”

To learn more about SumTotal Systems’ Healthcare Solution Set for Talent Development Suite, please visit: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/healthcare.

About Integrated HR Solutions (IHRS)
Integrated HR Solutions, Inc (IHRS) specializes in the development of competency management solutions designed by Healthcare professionals exclusively for Healthcare. Leading healthcare providers across the U.S. employing 300,000+ healthcare professionals have chosen IHRS’ Healthcare CompetencyManager™ to support hiring & staffing, training & development, performance feedback & evaluation, and compensation processes. For more information about Integrated HR Solutions, visit www.integratedhrs.com.

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT) is the market leader and a 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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¹ Source: The Joint Commission’s Annual Report on Quality and Safety, 2008

Forward-Looking Statements
Information in this press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the scope and anticipated benefits of SumTotal’s partnership with IHRS and statements about the anticipated benefits and performance of SumTotal’s solutions and integration with IHRS’ solutions. These statements represent SumTotal’s 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) unknown errors or bugs in SumTotal’s software products and solutions; (ii) the acceptance of SumTotal’s software suite and future product offerings; (iii) the ability to successfully manage and increase growth, both within and outside of the United States, significant current and expected additional competition, and the need to continue to expand product distribution and services offerings; (iv) the actual demand and growth of the market for performance management products and services; (v) the inability to fix in a timely fashion unanticipated bugs, errors or defects that materially impact the functionality or usability of SumTotal’s software and products; (vi) the ability to successfully implement SumTotal’s solutions in the future; (vii) the ability to successfully address technological developments and standards; (viii) worsening of the general economic climate or reduced confidence in the economy and SumTotal’s inability to timely respond to such changes and (ix) other events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in SumTotal’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including SumTotal’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 and its Form 8-Ks. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as the date of this release, and SumTotal does not assume any obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.