SumTotal Selects Akamai Technologies to Enhance ResultsOnDemand Offering

Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator Improves International Server Response Time for Content Delivery

Mountain View, Calif., May 26, 2010 — SumTotal® Systems, Inc., a market leader and a global provider of talent development solutions, today announced that it has selected Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator to enhance the SumTotal ResultsOnDemand® offering and allow for significant performance improvement through greater Web acceleration solutions.

“By improving our product performance, we can deliver an even greater user experience to our international customer base,” said Nadeem Syed, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Management and Engineering at SumTotal Systems. “We are continually looking for ways to enhance our products and services; by partnering with Akamai, we’re able to serve a greater customer need with a strong, proven vendor.”

SumTotal recently launched and implemented Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator globally. With increased delivery speed, users experience improved server responsiveness, providing real value for customers who are geographically distanced from main data centers. This seamless upgrade is achieved through a variety of transport, route optimization, and acceleration technologies which expedite back end transfer rates from the data center to the user.

“For companies to really embrace Software-as-a-Service, they need assurances that the application is going to be as available or as responsive as something they own and control,” said Willie Tejada, Vice President, Application and Site Acceleration, Akamai Technologies. “By offering companies the ability to offer an SLA to their customers on the availability of the Internet, we are doing our part to improve the adoption of Software-as-a-Service offerings like SumTotal.”

As content gets increasingly richer and more dynamic, Akamai's ability to accelerate dynamic content assists SumTotal in ensuring superior site performance and availability for all ResultsOnDemand users globally. Since leveraging Akamai, SumTotal has experienced significant performance improvement in average by more than 170 percent globally. SumTotal’s Software-as-a-Service talent development solution is helping organizations integrate performance, learning, and compensation management into one offering.

The Akamai Difference
Akamai® provides market-leading managed services for powering video, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai’s services have been adopted by the world’s most recognized brands across diverse industries. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai’s global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed online. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. To experience The Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. is the global leader of strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions that provide organizations with a new level of visibility to help make more informed business decisions and accelerate growth. Recognized by industry analysts as the most complete solution, SumTotal provides full employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, from a single provider for improved business intelligence. The company offers customers of all sizes and industries the most flexibility and choice with multiple purchase, configuration, and deployment options. We have increased the performance of the world’s largest organizations including Sony Electronics (NYSE: SNE), AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN [ADR]; London: AZN), Amway (KUL:AMWAY), Seagate (NYSE: STX), Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG).
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