SumTotal ‘Ups the Ante’ with Latest Strategic Workforce Analytics Solution

October 3, 2011

Tools

SumTotal Enables Smarter Business Decision Making with Comprehensive and Closed Loop Actionable Analytics Across Strategic HCM Processes

GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the innovator in strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced the latest release of its strategic Workforce Analytics platform. This advanced business intelligence solution enables organizations to gain deeper insight into their business and operations by providing an integrated and actionable view of workforce information to help further identify and assess where a company stands today, and where they need to be in order to achieve strategic objectives.

With continuing pressure on cost cutting, significant changes in workforce demographics, and challenges inherent with growth agendas, organizations of all sizes are requiring more improved foresight into their workforce that can help them discover areas of strengths and weaknesses, and where to invest improvement initiatives. Leading organizations are now shifting strategies to better understand their workforce through real-time trend analysis, and how they can measure the business impact of learning and talent management initiatives, while realigning resource allocation to increase effectiveness and mitigate risks more proactively.

“Workforce analytics is an important strategic initiative for any organization,” said Josh Bersin, President and CEO Bersin & Associates. “With the vast amounts of workforce data now available to leaders, companies are now focusing heavily on finding analytics tools that help them make smarter decisions about their people. SumTotal’s new offering shows a major investment in this area and will help the company play a major role in this exploding marketplace.”

This latest software release advances strategic HCM with embedded analytics and empowers organizations to more effectively and efficiently access and analyze workforce information with easy to use and powerful dashboards, flexible ad-hoc reporting, configurable toolsets, and the ability to integrate external business data into any analysis. The solution integrates all workforce data into a single comprehensive analytics platform that provides prebuilt and extensible embedded analytics that can scale to the needs of any global organization.

SumTotal Strategic Workforce Analytics includes:

Complete and Integrated Strategic HCM-Talent Data Warehouse

A single, complete data model spanning talent and learning management data
Hundreds of interlinked and integrated business objects across the complete talent platform
Rationalized data and security across all processes

Flexible Pre-built and Ad-hoc Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Pre-built and expandable role based dashboards for all key roles in the organizations (e.g. Chief Learning Officer, Chief Talent Officer, HR Managers and Department Managers, etc.)
Out-of-box KPIs that are most critical to companies across industries that span across the different strategic HCM processes.

Dynamic Impact Analysis with External Business Data

Import external HCM or business data from any 3^rd party or legacy system for integrated reporting and analysis.
Measure strategic HCM processes based on impact to any business drivers with integrated analysis of external data such as financial, sales, customer satisfaction, etc.

Closed Loop Actionable Intelligence for Operational Excellence

Powerful and personalized dashboards enable users to filter, sort, group, drill-down and change the way information is visualized so they can gain insight into information that is relevant to them.
Drive closed loop execution and continuous improvement with integrated transactional processes and actions from reports.
Measure and monitor metrics against benchmarks and thresholds to proactively respond and align to business needs.

“Visibility is the new currency of effective business management, and today’s organizations have the opportunity to accelerate growth with an integrated approach to managing their workforce,” said John Borgerding, SumTotal CEO. “Deeper strategic analysis across all workforce information is now, more than ever, the critical component to improve business. Our vision is delivering the most complete, flexible, and advanced solutions available for customers to achieve a new level of visibility and greater insight into how to better manage their workforce.”

SumTotal’s Strategic Workforce Analytics solution is available today. For more information about SumTotal, visit the company’s website at www.sumtotalsystems.com.

About SumTotal Systems

SumTotal Systems, Inc. is the global leader in 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).

For more information, or to request a demo, please call +1 (866) 768-6825 (US / Canada), +1 (352) 264-2800 (international) or visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.

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