Cloud & Delivery

Gain the benefits of enterprise talent management delivered to you through the cloud. SumTotal’s cloud gives you a true enterprise-class strategic Human Capital Management solution and the scalability, speed, flexibility, and cost savings of the cloud. 

Massively Scalable Infrastructure

Cloud computing has pushed the evolution of data center and infrastructure services for consumer and business applications. SumTotal’s cloud solution provides a highly scalable talent management application combining an industry leading data center with a powerful virtualization technologies and a flexible n-tier architecture. This enables customers to scale dynamically to meet their needs while only paying for what they use. In addition, security, monitoring, and auditing at every level of the infrastructure and application ensures that your HR and talent data is completely secure.

Robust Data Center Service

SumTotal leverages Savvis (NASDAQ: SVVS) for data center operations and management. Savvis is a leading outsourcing provider of managed computing and network infrastructure for IT applications and was recognized in both 2008 and 2009 by IT research firm Gartner as a market leader. While SumTotal manages all aspects of the hosting arrangement, including the actual deployment, support, management, as well as the contractual aspects of the relationship, Savvis is leveraged for global data centers and operations.

Virtualized, Secure Environment

To provide maximum scalability, flexibility, and security to our customers, SumTotal’s cloud solution uses its own virtualization technology built into the software architecture. This technology allows the application processing to be shared across VMWare environments as well as physical machines simultaneously. Adding processing capacity to the environment only requires turning on a new machine and clicking a button. The SumTotal architecture can leverage massive amounts of commodity hardware which provides fault tolerance and scalability in the same way services such as Google and Facebook do. The solution also leverages virtual storage networks enabling SumTotal to do real-time scaling across hardware. In addition, SumTotal’s cloud solution ensures high availability through redundancy at all layers, where servers in the cloud provide scalability and instant provisioning. Rather than just rely on VMWare to take a single-tenant application and host it for a customer, SumTotal’s solution was built from the ground up as a multi-tenant application that runs in the cloud. All customers instantly take advantage of the built in fault tolerance and load balancing of the cloud.

Advanced Architecture

SumTotal employs a standards-based n-tier architecture designed to exceed the needs of the most demanding customers. The SumTotal platform is continually tested to meet customers’ current and future needs. SumTotal’s cloud solution is able to handle high transaction and user volumes and processing loads through virtualization that is able to distribute increased load across multiple servers. Load balancing is transparent to the customer. As a customer’s demand increases during heavy use periods, the cloud capacity expands automatically. SumTotal’s technology platform provides vertical and horizontal scalability. Horizontal scalability allows for adding additional back-end servers while vertical scalability offers the option to migrate to larger and faster servers.

Strong, Complete Security

Human Resources (HR) data is one of the most secure forms of information any organization maintains. At SumTotal, our cloud solution has best-in-class security integrated across physical, network, application, and data layers.

• Physical Security includes controlled access to data center space and a secure data center infrastructure that includes leading standards in data center infrastructure, including biometric readers, card-scanners, and person-traps as standard methods to validate legitimate access to our data center infrastructure.
• Network Security includes antivirus protection, network monitoring and availability reporting, and leading intrusion detection technologies.
• Application Security includes cutting edge patented and patent pending security to ensure separate computing environments for each client. From the application level to the database, the architecture ensures customer data stays separate at all times.
• Data Security includes secured database servers and separate physical databases for each client to ensure customer data is not comingled.

The Most Flexible Purchase and Delivery in the Market

SumTotal’s cloud lets you choose the right ownership and deployment option for your organization:

• Shared Cloud: Multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment; Subscription pricing
• Private Cloud: Dedicated virtualized customer-specific deployment; Subscription or perpetual license pricing
• On-Premise: Local deployment at customer site; Perpetual license pricing