SumTotal Launches New Version of its Talent Management Software Suite
Ease of Use, Configurability and “Workflows” Highlight Newly Released SumTotal Version 7.6
August 8, 2007 – SumTotal® Systems, a global provider of talent and learning management 解决方案, has released SumTotal Enterprise Suite™ 7.6. The newest version of SumTotal’s award-winning software helps executives find talent, identify and fill gaps in a workforce’s skill set and recognize and reward employee performance
“In this release we added a number of components of functionality based on customer feedback; however, the major areas of focus were ease of use and configurability,” said Dave Crussell, chief operating officer of SumTotal.
Usability enhancements to SumTotal 7.6 include an array of intuitively designed features for employees to tap as they “drive” their learning experience, including supercharged search, easy-to-use course registration panels and customer-designed displays. SumTotal 7.6 challenges the industry’s standards by giving users a more streamlined way to launch learning and measure performance when and how they need it.
By providing HR and training professionals with software that can be tailored to the way employees work, SumTotal’s executives feel the newly released software suite will become the foundation for managing workers through every stage of their career. SumTotal designed its new suite to give its customers what they said they needed to manage employee learning, performance and compensation.
SumTotal engineered its newest talent management software suite with hundreds of “workflows” (or methods, procedures and processes) that mirror the way its customers develop, assess and reward talent.
“For example, while most companies think about succession planning in the same way, they often have unique processes for identifying critical roles and searching their respective organizations for the right successors,” said Marcus Wasdin, SumTotal’s vice president of marketing and product management. “SumTotal 7.6 offers workflows that more closely match the way senior-level executives and their HR and training teams want to identify candidates and groom them for higher-level responsibilities.”
Highlights of SumTotal 7.6 include: 1) a variety of performance-management capabilities for evaluating employee goals and reviewing succession plans, 2) new workflows for assigning training based upon a 公司简介’s unique organizational structure, 3) a learning content management system that supports the latest edition of SCORM 2004, a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning, and 4) enhanced language capabilities to meet the needs of customers across Asia and Europe.
“We believe SumTotal 7.6 makes what many considered a leading talent management solution, even better,” added Wasdin. In a May 2007 Gartner report, titled “MarketScope for Employee Performance Management Software, 2007,” researchers wrote that “SumTotal now offers a talent management application suite that encompasses learning, performance, compensation, and succession management.” The report noted that SumTotal’s software had both solid and strong performance, compensation and succession management capabilities. Gartner’s research report stated, “Customers feel that SumTotal has been flexible in meeting their specific needs.”
In fact, many of the new capabilities users will find in SumTotal 7.6 are a result of SumTotal’s product management team taking customers’ top suggestions and building those into the new release.
“We took our customers’ top requests ranging from enhancements to the way companies deliver learning to supporting the latest technology,” said Wasdin, “and we built a solution that’s focused on they way our customers develop their employees, instead of creating software that attacks, in a very tactical way, an HR or training manager’s to-do list.”
Along with the addition of 250 workflows for managing performance and learning, SumTotal 7.6 also offers a number of technology enhancements, which include support for database platforms like Oracle 10g and SQL Server 2005.
“SumTotal 7.6 will give executives as well as HR and training teams a way to seamlessly assess employees’ skill sets and deliver the learning experiences that will increase job performance,” said Crussell. “Best of all for our customers, we feel we’ve designed our newest release in a way that reflects how they and their respective organizations prefer to work.”
About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. is a global provider of talent and learning management 解决方案. SumTotal deploys mission-critical 解决方案 designed to align goals, develop skills, assess performance, plan for succession and set compensation. SumTotal’s 解决方案 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 产品 and 服务, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.
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