What Is The Sumtotal Learning Management System?


SumTotal is a company that helps other companies build strong talent, strong teams, strong leadership and a strong business by purchasing their quality products such as the Sumtotal Learning Management System.

SumTotal was established in 2004 by a merger of the industry pioneers of Docent and Click2learn. The Sumtotal learning management system is focused on helping organizations and companies manage, motivate, develop, and maintain their workforce.

The Sumtotal learning management system has helped more than 1,500 of the world's biggest and best known companies such as Accenture, Aetna, Citigroup, DaimlerChrysler, Delta Air Lines, Ernst & Young, Harley-Davidson, Microsoft, Novartis, PNC Bank, U.S. Bancorp, United Airlines, Vodafone, Wachovia and Wyeth along with government agencies such as the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

The primary markets that the Sumtotal learning management system has been purchased for include energy and utilities, financial services, government, health care, high tech, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, professional services, retail, and telecommunications.

The Sumtotal suite includes Sumtotal learning management systems such as the TotalLMS which manages, tracks, and delivers learning. There is the TotalLCMS which creates and manages content, the TotalPerformance which helps to push business strategy through enterprise wide goal management and develops succession plans while identifying high performance workers and automates appraisals.

Other Sumtotal learning management systems include the TotalCompensation which streamlines accurate compensation and pay for performance decision making. The TotalVersioning pin points, updates, and manages revisions and changes to thousands of curricula, classes, and training manuals. The TotalVCS delivers real time or on demand training in a web based classroom on the internet. The TotalAccess Sumtotal learning management system connects employees that are always moving to a learning website through their laptops, kiosks, and hand held devices. The TotalInformation is equipped with tools for searching, browsing, and looking into informal information. The TotalCollaboration builds online communities though threaded discussion groups and instant messaging.

The Sumtotal learning management system can be a full service system to any organization or company or it can be customized to fit the specific needs of the companies environmental learning. The prosperity that the company can gain from integrating the Sumtotal learning management system is enormous. The Sumtotal company has some big name partners such as ACS, Adobe, Accenture, EDS, Hewitt, IBM, Microsoft, Skillsoft, and WebEx. These partnerships give them a winning advantage in the industry because these big companies are market leading companies in human resource consulting, business and human resource outsourcing, content development, and HR and training technology.