SumTotal Expands Partnership with Adobe to Enhance Learning Platform with Virtual Classroom Integration

Integration with Acrobat Connect Pro Provides SumTotal Users Access to Launch and Manage Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting within the TotalLMS Platform

Mountain View, CA, October 29, 2008 — SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), the market leader and a global provider of talent development solutions, today announced a core integration between SumTotal’s industry leading learning management system and Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro, the company’s comprehensive Web Conferencing and eLearning solution.  With this integration, SumTotal customers will be able to launch and manage Connect Pro Virtual Classrooms from within the TotalLMS™ platform, taking advantage of the seamless workflows and singular interface to manage all corporate learning initiatives.  A joint webinar on November 12 will provide more details regarding the integration of SumTotal and Adobe and use case scenarios.

“We are excited to offer the benefit of a virtual classroom environment to HR administrators as a means of delivering instructional content to students online,” said Ray Villareal, senior vice president, field operations.  “Our combined efforts with Adobe allow our customers to buy one comprehensive learning system, in order to make the process of creating, deploying and tracking e-learning more efficient in a centralized location.”

TotalLMS combines best-of-breed functionality with simple configuration to help administer a variety of learning activities for both internal and external audiences.  The platform offers radically easier administration of learning activities, user organizations, e-commerce, reporting and compliance, as well as unique flexibility with its Open Activity Architecture.  TotalLMS is also the platform for capturing and managing informal learning, allowing users to collaborate and tap into expert communities via engaging Web 2.0 technologies.  New features from the enhanced Adobe Connect Pro integration include:

• Users can register for and launch Adobe Connect Pro Meetings from the SumTotal TotalLMS platform, in the same manner they currently launch a SumTotal web-based course


• Single sign-on from TotalLMS into Connect Pro Meeting for seamless workflow


• Training administrators continue to work in a single, familiar environment by creating Connect Pro Meetings from within TotalLMS


• Schedule recurring Connect Pro Meetings with reminders


• Specify training environment requirements for Connect Pro Meetings, such as maximum attendees, self-registration, waitlists, instructor details, and more


• Use TotalLMS reports to see Connect Pro Meeting attendance details for learners


• Mark users complete or incomplete after the completion of a Meeting or recording


• Connect Pro Meetings can be recorded, and made available for registration as learning activities in SumTotal

“We’re pleased to expand our partnership with SumTotal to offer our customers a single, integrated virtual classroom solution that is comprehensive and easy-to-use, at a low cost of ownership,” said Arun Anantharaman, vice president, Connect Pro, in Adobe’s Business Productivity Business Unit. “Our combined solution will make it possible for organizations to offer engaging experiences for learners while tracking the effectiveness of their eLearning initiatives.”

Pricing and Availability

SumTotal now ships the Adobe Connect Pro integration as patch available for installation on most TotalLMS 7.x product versions. With the next release of TotalLMS, Adobe Connect Pro will be integrated into the core product and will be provided as an out-of-the-box feature. No patches will be required to utilize this integration.

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT) is the market leader and global provider of talent development solutions. SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions designed to drive learning, align goals, develop skills, assess performance, plan for succession and set compensation. SumTotal’s solutions 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 products and services, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements, as defined under Federal Securities Laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the scope and anticipated benefits of the company’s partnership with Adobe and statements about the anticipated benefits and performance of the company’s products and solutions, such as TotalLMS, and integration with Adobe Connect Pro.  These statements represent the company’s expectations or beliefs concerning future events. These statements are not historical facts or guarantees of future performance or events and are based on current expectations, estimates, beliefs, assumptions, goals and objectives, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from the results expressed or implied by these statements. Readers of this press release are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to: (i) unknown errors, bugs or defects in the company’s software solutions or the inability to fix such errors, bugs and defects; (ii) the compatibility and integration of TotalLMS and Adobe Connect Pro; (iii) the acceptance of the company’s software suite and future product offerings; (iv) the ability to manage successfully and increase growth, both within and outside of the United States, significant current and expected additional competition, and the need to continue to expand product distribution and services offerings; (v) the actual demand and growth of the market for performance management products and services; (vi) the ability to implement successfully the Company’s solutions in the future; (vii) the ability to address successfully technological developments and standards; (viii) worsening of the general economic climate or reduced confidence in the economy and the company’s inability to timely respond to such changes and (ix) other events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company’s annual report for fiscal year 2007 on Form 10-K filed on March 13, 2008 and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed August 5, 2008, The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as the date of this news release, and the company does not assume any obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.